Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-09-24
LYNChBURG SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER a. 1885,
2ailg Sireinian.
Mr.. Everett on Danie, Webster.

Mr., Everett on Danie. Webster
At tho inauguration Of the Webster statue in
Nu 10 Hall Boston. op Saturday last, Mr.. Everett
delivered the ornton. II is very long aud exceed.
ingly interesting. We can only find room to-day
for the following extracts, which we copy from tho
Boston Traveller. of Monday:
His frs, words in Congress, when he came unan-
nounccd from his native hills in 1918, proclaimed
his mastery Of the perpexed web OF European
politics, in which the United States were then but
too deeply entanged and from that time till his
death think We NIL felt. those who Differed from
him IA we'll ns those who agreed with him. that
he WAS in no degree below the standard of his
time; that il Providence Ind cast his lot in the
field where the great destinies of Europe are do
cded, this poor New Hampshire youth would
have carried his lead high among tho Met
ternchs, the Nesserodes tho llardcnbergs. the
Tnlleyrnnds. the Cnstrreaghs of the day, nd
surely among their SUCCESSORS, who now occupy
the stage, MS he did among his contemporaries Mt
home"
lie then nnsscl To consideration This conten,-
pornrics and the questions discussed in his time.
aud then proceeded to speak Of his
CAREER AS STATESMAN.
without passing through the preliminary stage
Of the State Legislature and elected to Congress
in six years from the time Of his admission 10 the
Superior Court of New Hampshire, hc was ON his
first entrance into the House of Representatives
placed by Mr.. Sneaker Clay on the Committee of
Foreign Affairs, and took rank forthwith rs ono of
the leadig statesman of the day. Ills first speech
had reference to those famous Berlin mud Milan
dccrees and orders in Council to which hayo nj.
ready alluded, and the imrr .>sion produced by il
was such n t. lead the venerable Chief Ju, tice
Marshall eighteen years afcrw"rds, in writing To-
Mr.. Justice Story, Ia say--'At the timc when this
speech wns delivered did not know Mr. Webster,
but was so much struck with it that did not
hesitate then t".tatc, that was II very able man,
and would brcomc OF the very first statesmen
in America, perhaps the very first
The Revolution Of Greece had from its onthrcnk
attracted much Of the attention ol the civilized
world. a people, whose ancestors had originally
taught letters and arts to mankind, struggling to
regain place in the great family Of independent
states; the convulsiye efforts Of Christian people,
the inuudnion of whose churches by the apostles
in person is recorded in the New Tcstment, to
shake of the yoke Of Mahommedun despotsnn,
p"ssos,,, strange interest for the friends II Chris
tian LIBERTY throughout Europe and Americn.--
Preji lent Monroe had called the attention Of Con-
grcss To this most interesting struggle in Dccenl.
Der. ls23. and Mr Webster returning to Congress
after retirement Of eight years, rs the Reorcscn-
tativc of Boston. made the Greek Revolution tho
lject Of motion and speech In this speech
he treated what he called the great question Of tho
day, the question between absolute and regulated
governments He engaged in II searching erit-
ci4m 4 the doctlines Of the Holy Alliance aud
maintained the dny Of the United Statcs IA
great tree power TO protect against them That
speech remains in my judgment tn this day tho
ab,cst and most effective rcmOnstrancc against the
principles If tie allied military powers of Cont
mental Europe Mr. .Jc 'cmiah Mason pronounced
it the best >umplcof Parliamentary rloqucnce and
stAtc-nankc reasoning which our country had
Sen.' His indignant protest against the spirit of
a',nlu'i~m and his words of svmhuihy with nm
i,ri.'nt People struggling f'r Independence, were
lurrc ON the wings of the wind throughout Chris
trnd They were read in every language ut
c'crv Court, III every cabinet, in every reading
r0,in, ou evcr} market ,lace. hv the Republican,.
# Mexico and s. mi-l. South America, by the Re
frn,crs OF ltaly, the Patriots If Poland: ON the
Ingus on th" D,nutr, ~ well at the head Of
tie little armies pt Revolutionary Greece. The
hractica imp,e.si n made ON the American mind
was seen il the liberality with which cargoes oi
food and clothing year or too aiterwari~, were
Giopatehcd to the relief oi tho Greeks No legis-
lati,c measure ndnlfod mt that time in consc-
qnrnre If Mr. NebsicrS motion and speech; pro.
hlbly none MAS anticipated hy him; but no one
vii considers how much the march of events in
such cases Is influenced by the moral sentiments,
with doubt that great word like this, spokcn IN
the American Congress, must have had no slight
effect in cheering the heart II Greece 70 perseyere
IN their unequal but finally succeislul strug-
Gle
The greatest rarliamcntary eifurt made by Mr.
Webster was his second speech on Fuotc's rcsolu-
ton the question AT issue being nothing less than
this: is the Constitution of the United States II
compact without common umpire between
federated soverciguties, or is it government of
the People of the Uni,el States, sovereign within
the sphere Of its delegated powers, but reserving
great mass Of undecgated rights to the separate
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