The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-01-29

MIR. Barney, into whose family Chrysop
married when he possessed . tolerably fair
character, 10 ono ofthe most highly esteemed
citizens OF Pike county, and in this difficulty
he 10 justified by and has the support and
sympathy Of the entire community.
Cci4Arasion Of the Birrh nay ~
Nanics WsbsseE N ssOston.
At the Revere House, Boston, the seventy
seventh Anniversary Of the birth day OF DAN
iel Webster, was celebrated Tuesday evening.
MIR. Caleb Gushing presided, and made .
speech in his usual gnudy style.
MIR. Choute made one Of his disxy orations,
from which We extract . few of the most
characteristic passages:
GRIEF ovER rRxsH GRAVE.
While our hearts were YET bleeding with
the sense Of our recent loss, and he lay new
~ dead in his chamber, and the bells were
tolling, and his grave was open, and the sun
light Of en- autumn day was falling on that
long funeral train, do not say it was tit only,
it was unavoidable, that No all, 10 some
choked utterancc, and some imperfect sin
cere expression, should, il We could not
praise the patriot, lament the man.
THR RACE RUN.
The race Of honor and duty is
for him oil run. The high endesvor is made
and it is finished. The monument 10 builded.
He is entered into his glory. The day OF
hope, Of pride, Of grief--has been followed
by the long rest; and the scnsiments Of grief,
pride and hope are oil merged in the senti-
ment Of calm and implicit veneration. =
THE MOUNTAIN ALoSz.
II is not enough that We stand silent on the
deck Of the bark fast flying from the shore,
and turn and see how, rs the line Of coast
disappears, and the headland and hills and
all the lands 60 down, and the islands are
swallowed up, there tho great mountain
standing alone in its majesty, supreme and
still; to sec how il swells away up from the
subject and fading vals; to SOC that, though
clouds, and tempests, and tho noise Of waves,
and the yelping Of ours may be 1t his feet,
eternal sunshine has settled upon his head.
wKBsrER's LlrH WELL DxFKxD.
II docs not happen that the influence OF his
whole public life and position was 80 pro-
n0uncsd. 20 to speak 80 dsfned, sharp, So
liens; the spifit Of his mind-ths toae Oh his
mind was 20 unmistakAbls and 90 peculiar !;
the nature Of the public man was 20 transpa-
rent and % recognised everywhere, that ynu
cannot speak OF him without seeming to grow
polemioal; without seeming TO make an At
s0vA 0FOhA Se0NSs IVA 0POo kN0h1OeA40o
upon policy; upon tendencies. You cannot
say Of him Whist ID true, snA Whist you know
to be true bus what you are thought to be
disparaging or rsfuting somebody else.
Mr.. Choats was eloquent on Webstsr's
carser = : lawyer and statesman, and told
how Easy Is Wa 70 cay and 10 see, that he
would have besn great IN any age, in IN SKI
gency.l
nm VnnsfHnIANlsn or ynnsfnR.
He did not favor . premature and unprin-
oipled expansion of territory--thongh be saw
and rsjoised TO see thatif America continued
just md continued brave, and the Union last
cd, how widely-to what Pacific and what
tr0pic seas shs must spread ont before her.
But whsn the annsxation was made, and the
line drawn and treaty signed, then be vent
for her, however ssbutted and bounded. !" then
BIO kept stssdy TO the compact Of AnnsxAtion
then thers vas no date 30 small, no lineso
remote, thAt hs would not plant on Il the en-
sign al sadiant shat no foreign aggression
might oone! Here you have tho Msbstsri-
anism 81 Webster.
HIS Lows or NEW ENGLAND.
They cay, TOO, be loved New England He
loved New Haapshire that ola granite
lMosld the crystai hills, gray and cloud top
| - NE river, whose murm0r lulled his ora
dc; 10 old ,hsAsfh-etons the grave Of faith
q - imesAsF. he loved Massachusetts,
Ntf 1optsd and honoYsd him that sound
in pfs, thst charmed elm tree seat,
thSt bed farm, that choice hard, that
snsll a kth, that dear library, those dear
bic sras ess Dearly be loved you. for
you vsiSe1 trangsr and ssns him out
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