St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-18
DANIEL WEBSTER.
The Statue of the Great Statesman
Unveiled at Concord, N. II.
Thirty Thousand People Present.
DR.. Bart1ett's Address.

CONCORD, N. H, June 1.-THE statue
of Daniel Webster, presented to the state
by Mr.. Benjamin P. Cheney of Boston.
was dedicated to-day with imposing civic
and military ceremonies. The statue has
been erected in State House park, about 100
yards east of the capitol. 1t cost $12, 900
and was cast at Munich. The
weather, although warm, was all that
could be desired. From early morning
people continued to arrive from the sur
rounding towns in carriages, and the regu-
lar and special trains on all the roads were
densely crowded. The number of visitors
is estimated at 10000, and it was by far
the largest gathering ever seen here. Gov.
Robinson of Massachusetts and staff and
Gov. Hill of New York arrived by special
train. Among the other distinguished
guests were Gen. Daniel E. Sickles of New
York, Hon. John A. Bingham of Ohio, ex-
minister to Japan. Hon. William NJ. Evarts
of New York, Hon. John Wentworth of
Chicago, Hon. William E. Chandler of
Concord, Gov. Samuel E. Pingree and staff
of Vermont Gov. Robe of Maine, Lieut..
Gov. Oliver Ames of Massachusetts, Hon.
E. B. Washburn of Illinois, ex-Gov. Rice
of Boston, B. f. Aver of Chicago, Senator
Mitchell of Oregon, eX-Gov. Berry, Messrs.
Smythe. Watson. Bell. Prescott and Hale,
cambridge, Wadleigh and Gen. n. P.
Banks. The donor made the presentation
speech and Gov. Currier responded appro-
priately. Samuel CoIcord Bartlett, DID,,
LII. D., then delivered the Grafton of the
day, saying:
Daniel Webster comes home to-day to the
heart Of his native state. For here we stand
in the very center of his earlier sphere of life
end labor. the home of his birth, his growth
and maturity. On every side are the places
(which will be forever associated with his
name and history. A few miles to the north
Of US still waves the old elm that swung near
his cradle and still sparkles the water of the
well that quenched the thirst of his child
hoods sports, of his manhood's pilgrimages.
x Rack
among the hills of Salisbury in sight of old
Kearsage is the church in which, at the age
of %, he stood alone before the congregation
to profess his Christian faith, and where in
later years, saw him sit a reverent wor-
shipper joining the sacred song with his burly
voice, hard by is the spot where vision Of
loneliness first dawned upon his sight and
just across the way from the house in which
his lot was united with that of Grace Fletcher,
whose name to the end Of his days he could
not write without tears" 4
A generation has elapsed since his death.
Political and personal aninositieS have
passed to the tomb. The smoke and dust Of
conflict have cleared away, and as we look
back upon the scene Of half century ago,
brilliant with great names at the bar, on the
bench, in the cabinet and the forum, as we
gaze on those struggles, and often
BATTLES OF THE GIANTS,
there stands out on that arena no figure more
colossal than Daniel Webster.
To the watchful guardianship of the vast in
terests garnered up in this federal govern
ment, he gave in the house. the senate and
cabinet fhirtV-thfpA
self-sacrificing toll and patriotism hampered
by no sectional or party ties, but as
broad as the nations boundaries
and as high as her destinies. MIR.
Choate, after some pages of outline breaks
Off by declaring that it demands a volume"
Some of those services were
conspicuous enough to arrest the eyes of the
nation and the world. When, in his reply to
Hayne, he strangled the doctrine Of nullifi-
cation, it is the testimony of the Southerner
Bayard and the Northerner Winthrop that he
deferred the bloody conflict thirty years,
and when the conflict came, the long echoes
of that speech were the reverberating call
that summoned and cheered the friends of
the Union to the rescne, its solid principles
the impregnable rock on which O million
This was the man whom we COM
memorate this day. The living
recollection of his majestic presence
will soon have passed away. But so long as
English literature shall last the work that he
did will stand enbalmed in the works that he
left and when the distant historian shall
pass in review the illustrious men of the ma
ton, between Washington and Lincoln what
figure among them all will loom up so clear
and grand upon the vision of posterity? He
was one whom the presidency of these
United States could hardly have no nored, but
who could have honored the presidency. 1t
is as well that he did not. No title is 80 great
as the name Daniel Webster.