St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-13
AMBLES IN NEW ENGLAND.
Three Days Passed In and About
Boston Among the Bostonese.
What Was Seen and What Was Suggested
By the Vision.
Faneui1 Ha1l-The Old South and Eevolu-
tionary "Reminiscences.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe.

Hall would be worse than the play of Hamlet
with Hamlet left out, or still worse, to go to
dinner and have no dinner to eat, or super
latively worse to eat the dinner and have no
money to pay for it or back door to escape
by 1t might even be worse than to go
to Boston and not eat beans and fish,
Hence, though in my record,I place my visit
to Faneuil Hall in ebay No. 81 for con-
venience sake, because my EBAY No. ~
grew too lengthy, l want to confess right
here that it was the first place I visited after
got my bearings. This is the cradle OF
our liberties, and this cradle was rocked so
vigorously in the century now gone that it
will forever be regarded lis historic spot.
Peter Faneul first erected the building for q
market and town hall and gave it ito the
town OF Boston in 1740. 1t was burned in
l16l, but two years later the city replaced
similar building on the same site. 1t is a
plain brick building, with no attempt at Or
nament or decoration. The building is
nearly square, being 1O0xS0, and the lower
portion entirely occupied by market stalls.
entered what supposed to be the front of
the building from the fact that it had the
cupola or steeple, and wandered around
among the dressed chickens and fresh beef
to find the entrance to the hall. didn't ask
Intercepted up to that time had been so I'M
civil that concluded could work the town
independent of Boston 'sculchaw'' or
society. AS I turned corner around
a quarter of beef I espied a back
door and. making my exit found the stairway
on the back side of the building This did
not surprise me, for it was in keeping with
the general obscurity and mixture of things
in Boston. So l made my way up the two
flights of stairs, one a short flight, and then
| was in the famous historic hail. was dis
appointed. had not expected anything
ornamental or gorgeous, but had expected
to find hall that was spacious. 1t is a per-
fectly plain square room, seventy-four feet aud
three inches by seventy-five feet and three
inches. There was gentle covering of sand
on the floor that reminded me of Milwau-
kee beer store-I allude to a place where
they do naval business in the way
OF selling schooners. Upon either side
is plain gallery, supported by pillars or
posts. The gallery might be termed, for
better description, like those in vogue in old
style New England churches. They are not
slopng galleries, but the ceiling underneath
the gallery is perfectly level. Beneath the
galleries are raised steps without rails or any
distractions other than the gallery support
ing posts, to separate that portion of the hall
from no Of hou hat T
the pit. The stage is at the front of the
building, and that, l suppose, is the reason
why the entrance is in the rear, so that as
the audience comes in it faces the stage
without having to reverse ends, as audiences
were formerly obliged to do, in the old
st. Paul Opera house. Hence, what 1 term
the pit or level floor of the hall, bounded on
the front by the stage or platform, on the
sides by the raised steps and ON the rear by
the doors for exit or entrance, occupies a
space about fifty feet square. understand
that at their great gatherings the sign
standing room only" can be hung up early
in the exercises, as they have no seats in the
body of the hall and but few in the galleries
Back of the platform is a mammo 9th painting
by Healy, 16x30 feet, showing Webster de-
livering his famous reply to Hayne, of South
Carolina, in the senate in 1880. The artist
has essayed to depict the moment when the
distinguished orator uttered the following
peroration:
"When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for
the last time the sun in heaven may not see
him shining ON the broken and dishonered frag-
ments of a once glorious Union; on states dis
severed, discordant, belligerent; on land rent
with civil feuds, or drenchcd, it may be, In fra
ternal blood Let their last feeble and lingering
glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the
republic, now known and honored throughout
the earth, still full high advanced, its arms
and trophies streaming in their original
lnstre, not stripe erased polluted, not a
single star obscured, bearing for its motto no
such miserable interrogatory as What is all this
worth? Nor, those other words of delusion and
folly, Liberty first and Union afterwards but
everywhere, spread all over in characters of llv-
ing light blazing on all its ample folds, as they
float over the sea and over the land, and in
every wind under the whole heavens, that other
sentiment, dear to every true American heart
Liberty and Union, now and forever one and
ihseparabef'
The painting gives view of the entire old
ssnate chamber and the galleries with their
occupants. If Il remember right the OLD his
toric senate chamber where the memora-
BILE speech was delivered is now one of the
corridors of the capitol at Washington and
used as picture gallery. There are many
historic men presented in this painting
Among them John Tyler of Virginia,
elected vice president in 1910, and serving as
president nearly four years, owing to the
death of Harrison James K. Polk, of Ten
nessee, who was elected president in 1874.
Gen. Cass, of Michigan, who was the Demo
cratic nominee for president in 1S4S. Thos
Fl. Benton, john c. Calhoun, j. NJ. Clayton
Robert Y. Hayne, Edward Everett. r. NJ
johnson, Judge Story, Samuel Bell, and
many other noted men. In the gallery there
was John Quincy Adams, Gen. Winfield
Scott, Samuel Appleton, Vim. H.
Prescott De TocqueYille, George
Ticknor, Nathan Appleton, Mrs. Webster,
Mrs. Polk, Mrs. LoriDg, Mrs. Mclean, Mrs.
Seaton, and numerous others. Intellectu-
ally, it was one of the most brilliant audi
ences which this country has ever seen, and
still, as l looked at the painting and thought
of the intellectual giant standing there life
size, could not but contrast the almost
limtless opportunities afforded to-day for
his genius and fame, as compared with the
contracted field which lay before him fifty
four years ago. 1t was ten years before the
first word had ever clicked over telegraph
line and the chief means of transit was by
stage and canal, with occasional steamboat.
but no railroad luxury for travel. Daniel
Webster literally spoke to the small audience
reproduced in the painting have described.
while to-day, he could have talked to the en-
tire world at substantially the same moment.
It is true his words have lived and been
handed down for future generations, but, as
T stood concentrating the picture 7 felt