, 1889-03-19
weesreR,s sraoNo PERSONALITY.
The Deep Impression He Left on an Old
Bostonian's Mind.

The Deep Impression He Left on an Old
Bostonian's Mind.
Though there are thousands, doubt
less, who have seen this great man
and heard him speak ESPECIALLY in
Faneuil hall, where he was grand
beyond descriptionl, yet there are
thousands of others, OF n later
generation, who have never had
this privilege, and 10 whom, therefore,
a few words of description may be &c
ceptable; though, of course, it is TO be
presumed they have seen many pic
lures of Mr.. Webster. He was rather
above the average height stoutly
formed, with small hands and feet
(Choate had large ones), large head,
swarthy complexion, large, black,
deeply sunken owl like V very
heavy eye brows and n mouthful Of
teeth white as the driven snow. And
his smile, playing upon his swarthy
countenance and exposing these SPLEEN
did teeth, seemed at times like the sun
bursting through n dark cloud. 1t
was said Of him that he looked greater
than any man ever was, and, the jolly
Rev. Sydney Smith, l think it was, de
clarcd, when he was in England, hat
he reminded him of n steam engine in
trousers. The comparison, though,
was not only coarse, but there were no
points of resemblance except 1t may
have been the suggestion OF power.
There was none of the fuss or the
snort of the team engine about him.
He was quiet rcpose and dignity il
Illustrated. Ills bearing was grand
and his carriage gentleman like and
statcly-somctimes majestic.
The occasion, above all others, on
which Mr.. Webster appeared TO mo
so far as his appearance and bearing
were concernedLto be absolutely ma
jestic was one evening at the Revere
house, where the lawyers Of the Mas
sachusctts bar hnd assembled from all
parts of the state TO take counsel to-
gether as 10 the methods by which
they might meet oftener and become
better acquainted with each other.
Chief Justice Shaw and the other
judges Of the supreme our stood to-
gethcr mt the end of the large dining
room, and as the lawyers n after an
other came in, they proceeded toward
them to pay them their respects. And
rs one leader of distinction after an
other did so each received his due
share of respectful salutation and def
GIfIlte lIOIl MS DTtlllftn us llt DtAhStu
along on his way.
The great secret of his power was
his clearncss and force of statement,
and thnt he made everything so plain
to his auditors, no matter whether he
addressed farmers or financiers, u
popular a~ssemblage or n senate. lie
always seemed to say what it appears
TO us we should have said under SINH
Inr Trsgf HffNgfnnn prAn1 nApN nAnn cnpgn
in fact
When ! heard him, l would say TO
myself would naturally think TO
myself, and SO would every one
"Well, that's just what / think
That's common sense" That's so.n
Very well. We all agree with Ham
let when he says, What a piece of
work is mani How noble in reason,
how infinite in faculties, in form and
moving how express and admirable,
in action how like an angel and APP
prchension how like a Godr' etc, but
in some way or other Master William
Shakespeare seems TO have cotton the
start of us in saying it, just as he did
in intimating that gentle, sweet, low
voice is IAN excellent thing in wo
man"
What Clay was to kentucky, Web
ster was TO Massachusetts,, and in his
quiet and peaceful grave ut Marsh
field, down by the borders of the sea,
whose waves utter their mournful re-
quicm over ii by day, and where
the stars, like angels eyes, look down
from heaven, and watch over it by
night,
After lfo's Gtfl fever he sleeps we'll
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