Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-03-30
Books and Periodicals.


7ht Life, Speeches dnd Memories Of Dan
ieE lVebStcr.-Ihs handsome and valuable
work from the publishing house Of Duane
Rulison has been received, and fully comes
up to what the publisher promised. The
life of the illustrious Statesmen is from
the pen of Samuel NJ. Smueker A. NJ. o.
4 gentleman who has won for himself dis.
tinguished position among the literary
men Of the country for the beauty of his
style and the extent of his researches AS n
historian. The speeches are tho most
celebrated Of tho wonderful effusions of
the great mind whose genius they will
perpetuate while the English language is
remembered; the reply to Hayne, the
speech in the U. s. Senate in 1850 on the
compromise bill, speech on the Greek revo-
lutionin the national II ouse of Representa-
tives in 1928; speech on the trial of Knapp
for murder at Salem Mass. and others
To which is added the eloquent tributes
poured out upon the bier of the great
man, by the spirits who had known and
appreciated his mighty intellect, while in
life, when the nation was called upon to
mourn his decease.
1t is aninstructive book, and as n reposi-
tory of the greatest of the labors of so
great man, this work is unsurpassed,
and it should be in tho library of every
American citizen no matter in what light
he views the political sentiments of a
Statenan who his most nvoterate enemy
would not deny the merit of exalted
patriotism.
1t is perhaps TO be regretted that the
/ author in his biography of the great
stateman has allowed his political bias to
appear too strongly in deincating the
character and recording triumphs of his
hero. TrumphS that were moro the re-
suit of the gigantic intellect of the cham
pion which seldom found an antagonist
who could withstand the shock Of his
charge, than of the intrinsic merit of the
cause or the inherent truth of his doc
tr:nes. But let it only be remembered by
Americans that he gave his wondrous
powers in aid 9th of compromise measures
of 1850 and all the rest may be forgotten.
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