Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-11-09
EXTRACTS FROM DANIEL WEBSTER.

their effects overcome. If disastrous -,
should sweep our commerce frc, =, tha
ocean, another generation may ea.,s.w #
if it exhaust our treasury, f. <,rs industry
may replenish it; if it ,os soist ' anI l.!
waste orr fields, still, ,ndsr u nav '' cn1tixa.
ton, they will grow grs;n arain, and RI
per. to future p .a u, i were bnt a
rifle, even if lie walls of yonder Capitol
were to cruz .lble, fits lofty pillars should
fall, and 5 gorgeous decorations be ali
covered ny the dust of the valley. all
these ri ght be rebuilt. But who shall re-
construct the fabric of demolished govern
ment? Who shall rear again the we'll
proportional columns of Constitutional
1iberty2 Who shall frame together the
skilful architecture which unites national
sovereignty with State rights, individual
security, and public prosperity? No, Gem
tlemen, if these columns fall, they will be
raised not again. Like the Coliseum and
the Parthenon, they Gill be destined to a
mourntul, 4 melancholy immortality. Bit
terer tears, however, will how over them,
than were ever shed over the monuments
of Roman or Grecian art for they will
be the remnant Of more glorious edifice
than Greece or Rome ever saw-the e,ti-
fee of Constitutional American liberty J.
Websters Eulogiuns on Washington
The secession of Virginia! The seces-
sion of Virginia, whether alone or in COM
pany, is most improbable, the greatest of
all improbabiities. Virginia, to her ever
lasting honor, acted great part in franz
ing and establishing the present Constitu-
ton. She has had her reward and her
Extinction. Seven OF her noble sons have
each fllel the Presidency, and enjoyed
tM,ighest honors Of the country. Dolo.
rousstflplaints come up to us from the
Sou1l, MAT old Virginia will not head the
mare 81 secession, and lead the other
lytiern States out Of the Union. This
If itShould happen, would be something
Of marvel. certainly, considering how
much pains Virginia took to lead these
same States into the Union, and consider
ing, too, that she has partaken as largely
of its benefits and its government as any
other State.
And we men Of the Southern States
members of the Old Thirteen; yes, mem
bers of the Old Thirteen; that always
touches my regard and my sympathies
North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina
What page in your history, Or in the his
tory of any one of you, is brighter thar
those which have been recorded since thu
Union was formed? Or through wha
period has your prosperity been greater
or yonr peace and happiness better Sc
cured! What names even has South Car
DINA, now so much dissatisfied, wha
names has she of which her intelligen
sons are more proud than those which
have been connected with the government
of the United States? In Revolutionar,
times, and in the earliest days of this Con
= stitution, there was no State more honored
or more deserving of honor. Where i
she now? And what. fall is there, m,
conntrymen! But leave her to her owl
reflections, commencing to her, with al
my heart, the due consideration Of he
own example in times now gone by.
Fellow-c citizens, there are some disease
of the mind as we'll as OF the body, di:
eases of communities as we'll as diseases q
individuals, that must be left to their ow
cure; at least it is wise to leave them S
until the last critical moment shall arrive
hope it is not irTeyerent, and certainl
it is not intended as repseach, when say
that know no stronger expression in on
language than that which describes tn
restoration Of the hayward son; /" he cam
10 himself" He had broken away fro,
all the ties of love, family, and friendship
lie had forsaken everything which he ha
once regarded in his fathers house. Ii
had torsworn his natural sympathies, atfe
lions, and habits, and taken his journe
into a lar country. He had gone ava
from himself and out Of himself. B,
gisfortunes overlook him, and tamir
threatened him with starvation and deaf
no entreatles from home followed him
osckon HIM back; no admonition fro
o'herS warned HIM of his fate. But Il
houI q reelection had come, and natu