Daily Republican., 1882-06-30
BAYARD ON WEBSTER
The Delaware Senator's Address
aa.DartmOuthC College On w ednes.

The Delaware Senator's Address
a'.DartnOuth College On Wednes
day.
The centennial birthday Of DAME
Webster was appropriately celebrated
at Dartmouth college, Hanover, New
Hampshire, on Wednesday. Mr.. Bay.
ard on being introduced said
1t has been hundred years since in
humble house in the town of Sails
bury, in Hillsboro!county, jim this State
Daniel Webster was born. There firsl
he learned from pious mothers lips
the letters of the language that ia later
days, by speech and writing, he waa
destined to adOrn. The history of his
intellectual and physical growth amid
the hardships and distractions OF pov.
ty, obscurity and embarrassment has
been given SO often heretofore by the
hands of many biographers that l do
not pause to repeat it. Suffice it to say
that the profound principle of growth
against d. hculiies and because of diff.
llculties of reaction which il instig gated
by pressure, OF the excellence that is de
veloped in battling with the counter
currents of life were strikingly ilustra-
ted in this case, and that graded in adj
versity, he learned to cope with and
overthrow it; that, Spnrred by necessity
he was taught to outruu It's torrents,
and that thus his weak ness was educa.
ted into strength-n)ral, intellectual
mental and physical.
Leaving, as l say the detailed history
of his earlier life, come with him to
the door of Dartmouth College, the
nursing mother of his great faculties,
for whom, we are told, twice he wept
once in early childhood when riding
along with his father he vas informed
that here he would receive collegiate
and then laying his head
upon the shoulder of his strong parent
he shed tears OF joy in anticipation of
Dartmouth: AID another day long af-
ter, when, standing in the Supreme
Court of the United States in the prime
Of his intellsc ual manhood to plead
the cause, to champion the privileges
10 sustain the rights Of Dartmouth, after
be had shattered the pretepsions of her
had vindicated her claims
and carried her cause in all the triumph
If law and logic of argument and per-
'uasion, before wondering and capti-
Vated court, he paused for q moment,
'oldink the wings OF mighty mind, aud
istening to tho beatings of a loving
leart he once again mingled his tears
With the name and memories of the |
'little college" with words: "But sir,
here are those who love it,"
As this is also the season of your
aud from your classes |
,oung graduates are passing forth to-
lay to join in the active duties and |
Of American citizenship, a
may not be unwelcome to
hem nor uninstructive as to what por-
ion of his life's labor an American
itizen should bestow upon the political
ystem under whose laws he expe ts to
ind security for the protection Of the
esults OF his exertions, az we'll as per-
onal liberty and safety. Under our
arrangement Of society We have no
elect class upon whom we cast the re
and invest with che privi-
sge of governing the rest. OF heredi-
ary powers we have none, at least 80
" as individuals are concerned, to say
othing of those artificial persons"
,yled corporations, and no individuals
nd no class are charged with the i'm
ortant duties of maintaining law and
rder on a basis of civil and religious {
berty essential to all civilized commu. !
tiles of men.
Mr.. Webster was remarkable not :
lily for the eloqueuce and power of his f
'eeches, but for the candor and honor 9
de frankness with which he expressed
rs self. The intent is transparent in
| that he ever said or wrote that he /
ways felt him"elf bound to give his t
al opinions, and these we'll considered, d
his Gountrymen. the fidelity and u
rnestness of his character are made
Q more apparent by the study of his l.
orks, and there is scarcely public
esion of his day in regard to which 7
will be we'll for his countrymen to
Eur.
Mr.. Bayard at considerable length '
'elt upon tie leading characteristics y
Webster's life, and urged upon the n
sduates to emulate his character. Is,