The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-13
ANRcporK OF DAN'L WEBSTER
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 Every one who has read Mir. George Tickuor Curtis Life of Daniel Web sfer" will remember John Baylor. Mir. Webster's tenant and factotum at Frank lin, N. H., and Robert Wise, the old revolutionary soldier who came home from the war with Captain Ebenezer Webster, Mir. Webster's father, and built for himself little cottage on one corner of the Webster farm, where he lived and died. Skirting the Webster property, and passing by where Robert Wise took up his humble abode, there had long been ferryway, leading to ferry across the Menimac river. The ferry was established during the last century, and after Robert Wise had lived there for some time it came to be called Wise's Ferry. The ferry was originally fenced on both sides, and it ran between the Webster farm and farm belonging, at the time of which we are about to speak, to Deacon Farley. The fence on Web ster's side of the ferryway had been allowed to fall into decay, but the fence on the Farley side had been well kept up. In the year I84S, after bridge had been built across the river, the town voted to discontinue the fesryvay and the ferry, and the land reverted, of course, to the original owner. Deacon Farley, assuming that the land belongod to him self, removed all traces of the fence on his own side, and included the whole of the land in his own territory up to the line where the Webster fence formerly stood.
 Mir. Webster came up to FrAnklin soon after this had been done and was greatly incensed by what he saw. He ordered John Taylor into his sitting.room and said to him sternly, John Taylor, how come you to stand by and let Deacon Farley steal my land ?" Mir. Webster was in one of his blackest moods. Poor Taylor was terribly frightened, for in all his life he had never seen his great friend in such 2 passion. Mir Webster ordered him, in tones of thunder, to go and bring Deacon Farley.
 The deacon came, and he, too, was saluted with a burst of wrath that made him tremble. He modestly replied that he believed the land was his; but Mir. Webster could no, be paci6ed.
 Thereupon the deacon and John Tay- Tor jumped into wagon and drove in grea, alarm to sec a young lawyer of the name of Pike (now senator in congress from New Hampshire), who lived two and half miles up the river. They told Pike that he must go down and sec Mir Webster and endeavor to explain the matter.
 Pike went, but as soon as he was in Mir. Webster's presence the latter roared out, Young man, did you advise Deacon Farley to steal my land r'
 No, sir" said Pike; "I did not. Bat if the statements that were laid before me are true, the land belongs to the deacon.'
 .Well, sir" replied Webster, "if can ind lawyer in this county, shall bring an action"
 ster," said Pike. :" will get the proper documents and submit them to you, if you will hear me, and believe you will be convinced that the land is not yours."
 "You are bold man, sir, if you pro- pose to leave the case to me,s said Mir. Webster. But do as you please. give you fair warning that consider this land mine, and will fight for every inch of my fathers property"
 Pike went away and procured a copy of the record which showed the laying out of the ferTyway, and that all the land was taken from the property of Farley's grantor, and none of it from the Webster property, copy of the vote of the town discontinuing the ferry, and an affidavit of former tenant of Webster's showing that the fence on the Webster side had been removed, and the whole ferryway taken into the Webster field. The strip of land which the discontinuance of the ferryway took of from what Mir. Webster had always regarded as his own property extended the whole length of one of his best fields.
 When Pike submitted the documents to MT. Webster, the latter read them very carefully, and then said, "Mr. Pike, in half an hour the jury will be ready to render their verdict. Go and get Deacon Farley, that he may hear it.r
 In half an hour Pike returned with the deacon, who expected nothing but repe- tition of what he had met before.
 Gentlemen" said Mir. Webster, "hearken to the verdict. The jury ind that the land is Deacon Farley's and is not the land of Daniel Webster. So says the foreman, so say all the jury. And now, Deacon Farley, have an apology to make to you for having treated you very roughly. But l never dreamed that this land was not part ot my fathers farm, and you know what my affection for this property is. was very angry, but hope you will excuse me.s
 Goethe's Apotherms.