The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-01-21
wEnsrEa AND MoNIr,cuIEc


The Ur,hday OF Two Remark ,bIs Men.
IL is fac. WORTHY ~ ns;.cc tlst Monies
qnieu and Daniel Webster were born upon
The same dBy 81 the mon,L-,he 18Th OF
January. The first cf these. Whose fan
name vas Charles dc sgcnial Baron Be Ia
Brc'stct go Mouirsquisu. and abp gls one
of the most ctlUOra cd authors and points
cal philosophers ut France Was born OF "a
most distinguished AWuy 90 G4iguur, st
Brcde near Bordeaux, i1 trr wear ll>t
lie WAS hard student af jurisprudence.
literature and philosophy >n grray was
bis love for old classical authors.
that ut the rge at ~ he Composed
work showing the rteut mistake of con.
,ideriug them condemned Co eternal pun
l'hmcuL IT, l7H hr was appointed C1uu-
cillor. and l1lG was s.Cgied president OF the
/ pafllamcrt OF Bordeaux. lu l11i he pub
/ lished his "Lc'irts rsyauC, In which iu
| the capacity 90 Persian, writing from
/ France u Persia, he Utls,iCaliy sntrTrd
the religions, political amt social in,ljtu-
tlOns aud customs Of tbs French. His ut-
tscks upon religion in this WORK came very
near eye,udius him from the academy but
Notwithstanding them, he was admitted as
a member of that body b ll.,.
Muutosguiru spent two years u EuC-
land, where he wa, much i3oaaal bv thc
upper circles. especially by Lord Chester
field. The main WOra of MouJcsquicu. the
one jn which he has lived, hyrs to-day and
always will live Is hB treatise ttrurj
"Espri de Lois So great was tbo success
of this production that tLe public dt.
munded twcuty.tWo editions la eighteen
months, aui was Immediately translated
/, into several other European languages. II
was published 40 l5iS, and was wonder.
; fully cool boob TO be published q. such d
TINT. NoIxJrc praised B! mos. cSiraya
gnutly,
Questions oi civil liberty were treated Of
in 10 after new aud mos, enlightened man
ncr and lbs effect upon the world ia th,
promotion @! this blessing was almost meal
culablc, Moulesqueu died ia Paris iu
. 1850
Tho ccoud of the great men, the ann D.
vCr'ary of whose birth falls upon to-day, !,
p the tallrst tree IN the American tufp.t ul
orators the sturdest bulwafl which ON
! country has given 10 liberty. lie Is "a,
oae whose eagle eye has looked lHhpsI
into the may future of our republic, anr
has most clearly told what course our shin
2 must follow. He has looked back with tht
. tendercst eve upon all that we have OF
o. history, aud has cudpafel ID moro closely {,
r lie was the Daniel and Che lctuhod {,
/ many OF those who were conlempomr,
D with him. lie is not among the great. bu
, Is the greatest OF our orators, lawyers an,
3 statesmen
y Dnmcl Webster was born, the ercoiA soi
, Of farmer ualucd EhpuC2er Webs or, "A
;, Salisbury New Hampshire, on January Is
D l.S2 lleoutered Dartmouth collerem I7g1
q aud years attcrword, when ne had becomt
: tho lawyer OF lawyers, he pIcadc,
3 with tears In hisoyes the cause OF that in
{ stitution, his alma meter, ia the supreme
+ court, lie graduated In 1901, and acoepto,
b a position ~ prcceptor, with q salary o
t $3.50 year, at Fryburg. Maine. This no
. being sufficient Tor his support he paid 70
4 his board by copying deeds In 1904 he en-
. tered the law office of Mr. Gore lie wa
married IN 1893, and went 10 congress thu
! same year where he Immediately took rnul
e among tile Foremost men Of TINT body. H.
. was member Of the Massachusetts ronsti
r tutioual conyeuIionlu 1872, and ON q e ~,
& of December uf that year dehyerc,
, his famous Grafton on the AnlinJ
I jot the pilgrims. Ills Bunker Hi
4 Grafton was delivered in lSgi
> The death OF Thomas Jefferson aud join
4 Adams. on the tn %, July, lS.6. was th
Z themc of the next one of the most remark
! able speeches ut this orator I'm 1926 HI
f. was elected United States senator hv tht
Massachusetts legislature I'M 1880. ON Ga,
h question ul uuIAltaflOu, Webster WA
s opposcd TO liuynp, ui South Carolnl. ar,,
. ole oi the finest productions ni forensic or
It Htury was the result. Webster became see
b rotary of state under Harrison. and con
y inurd a. such uuuer his Successor. TYLER
ull 1871 In 1871, Clay amt Webster wrr
rival u'pltaus9 llliHU nomination ut urrsi