Litchfield enquirer., 1867-02-14

1 ister's circle, and to nosone more than to the minister himself, who, among other services. taught him the art of preserving his health. The young man, like the old clergyman, was an early riser. up with the ! dawn In summer, and long before the dawn
 In winter; and both were out of doors with the sun, each at one end of long saw, cut [ ting wood for an appetite.1 The joyous, uncouth singing and shouting of the new
 conner aroused the late sleepers. Then in to breakfast, where the homely, captivating humor of the young lawyer kept the table in roar, and. detained every inmate. Never was there such an actor lost to the stage, Jeremiah Mason, his only rival at the New Hamphire bar, used to say, 'as he would have made. E. A~a. sa4
 HIS COLLISION WITH RANDOLPH.
 'sOne of the minor triumphs of MT.
 Webster's earlier Congressional life was his conquest of the heart of John Randolph. ] In the course of the debate on the sugar tax, in 1916, MT. Webster had the very common fortune of offending the irascible member from Viginia, and Mir. Randolph, as his custom was, demanded an explana- tion of the offensive words. Explanation was refused by the member from Massa- chusetts whereupon MT. Randolph de- 1 handed "the satisfaction which his in suited feelings required. '' Mr. Webster's reply to this preposterous demand was eve ry thing that it ought to have been, He told MT. Randolph that he had no right to 1 an explanation, and that the temper and style of the demand were such as to ] forbid it's being conceded as a matter of courtesy. He denied, too, the right of any man to call him to the field for what he , might please to consider an insult to his feelings, although he should be always | prepared to repel in suitable manner the | aggression of any man who may presume upon such refusal The eccentric Vir- ginian was so much pleased with Mr, Web ster's bearing upon this occasion, that he manifested @ particular regard for him pand pronounced him Q. very able man for a Yankee" .......... ..,.<.. s.....,.,.,., | WEBSTER IN BOSTON. |
 "When he appeared in State street, slow ly pacing, with an arm behind him. busi- f ness was brought to an absolute standsti1. As the whisper passed along the windows filled with clerks, pen in mouth, peering out to catch glimpse of the man whom they had seen fifty times before; while the bankers and merchants hastened forth to | give him salutation, or exchange passing word, happy if they could but catch his eye. v-ra. 4nd ealo- .5.@s4' ,<4.j HOW HE LOOKED IN THE HAYNE DEBATE
 "But even the artist was apparent in all that he did, and particularly in the dress which he wore. At that time, in his forty eighth year, his hair was still as black as an Indians, and it lay in considerable masses about. the spacious dome of his forehead. l His form had neither the slenderness of his 1 youth nor the elephantine magnitude of 1 his later year; it was fully, but finely de | veloped, imposing and, stately, yet not wanting in alertness and grace. No cos tune could have been better suited to it l than his blue coat and glittering gilt but tons, his ample yellow waistcoat, his black l trousers and snowy cravat. It was in some | degree, perhaps, owing to the elegance ard | daintiness of his dress that, while the New England men among his hearers were nov ed to tears, many Southern members, like Colonel Benton, regarded the speech mere ly as Fourth -of-July oration delivered on the 9th of January 3. .a.. .-- .
 a1 DECAY. -.2a. -- -... .-
 "We heard one of his last out-of-door speeches. It was near Philadelphia, in 1844, when he was 'stumping the state for Henry Clay, and when our youthful feel ings were warmly with the object of his speech. What a disappointment How poor and pompous and pointless it seemed! Nor could we resist the impression that he I was playing part, nor help saying to our selves, as we turned to leave the scere,
 This man is not sincere in this: he is & l humbug.' And when, some years later, we saw him present himself before large au- hence in a state not far removed from in- toxication, and humble incoherence for ten minutes, and when, in the course of the evening, we saw him make great show l of approval whenever the clergy were com- plimented, the impression was renewed l that the man had expended his sincerity, 1 and that nothing was real to him any more l except wine and office. And even then, l such were the might and majesty of his l presence, that he seemed to fill and satisfy ] the people by merely sitting there. in an 1 armchair, like Jupriter, in a spacious vel low waistcoat with two bottles of Madeira | under it. '' -4-.-T4, i1 's--- s-.; r:4 -ts. et
 HIS RELIGION.
 "He had no religion the least tine tr1re of it; and he seemed at last in his dealings with individuals, to have no con- science. What be called his religion had no effect whatever. upon the conduct of his life; it made him go to church, talk pious- ", pun tAc GacISy, aUN pakToulHe ErOV1- | dence'-no more. He would accept retain ing fees, and never look into the bundles l of papers which accompanied them, in which were enclosed the hopes and the fortunes of anxious Households. He would | receive gifts of nnohey, and toss into his waste-paper basket the list of the Agiyers, ! without having glanced at it's contents; thus defrauding them of the, only recon pense in his power to. grant, and the only | one they wished. It shocked him if his | secretary came to the dinner-table in a ] frock coat, and he would himself appear drunk before three thousand people. And l yet, such was the power of his genius. such was the charm of, his manner, such the af- fectionateness of his nature, such, the. TO- bust heartiness of his enjoyment of life, l that honorable men who knew his faults 1 best, loved himlto the last-11 in spite oi them, but partly in. consequence of them. What in another man they would have pro- nounced atrocious, appeared in him a kind | of graceful rohcking 4helplessness to rel sist.' yj 1sl<ic4.5l s-u .-V-es.e.'@
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