The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-27

also the supporters OF the triumnh-
ant Hayne, except the latter were
confident. As early as O'Clock the
moving crowds began to pour into the
capitol, eager TO obtain place to stand
When the session began so great was the
crowd that there was no room for another
person. The House OF Representatives was
carly deserted, the members almost in a
body rushing 10 hear Mr., Webster. Dixon
II. Lewis, man Of immense size. then repre-
sentative from Alabama, was one of the
crowd behind the Vice Presidents chair,
and there was no moving at all He could
hear little but see nothing. Deter
mined TO see Webster, with a knife he made
hole IN one Of the panes of glass that
formed part OF the petition which re-
manned years afterwerd as a proof OF the
Alebamian's persistence.
CONFIDENT IN HIMSELF.
Mr.. Webster was all himself. He had all
the soldier seeks in opportunity. His spirits
rose with the occasion. Confident in his
resources" says a chronicle, "springing
from no vain estimate Of his powers,
but the legitimate offspring Of previous
severe mental scipline sustained and ex-
cited him. He had gagged his opponent his
subject and himself" When he rose he was
the embodiment of confidence, his superior
strength. he showed is in his bearing, coun-
tenance and every motion. He was even
defiant. His exOrdium is familiar to the
great body OF intelligent persons Of the past
generation. To the present generation it
PROBABLY is less known. He began b. say
Ing: hen the mariner has been tossed
Tor many days in thick weather and on an
unknown sea, he naturally avails himself
OF the first pause in the storm, the earliest
gieam OF the sun to take his latitude and as
certain how far he elements have driven
him from his true course" and then, after
few more words, he called for the reading
OF the resolution which had given rise to
the debate.
As Mr.. Webster proceeded the feelings of
bis friends began TO change. Confidence
took the place of apr ehension, and they
began to show it in their looks. This was
followed by another feeling, and they egan
TO whisper among themselves, " Would he
be able to keep up to the end the same power
OF thought and incompatible grandeur or
would he break down-would there be an
lcsrian fall" There was at timesn says a
chronicler, scarcely dry eye in the Sen
ate. All hearts were overcome. Grave
judges. men grown old in dignifed life,
turned aside their heads to conceal the evil
dences Of their emotion"
In one corner of the gallery were clustered
q group OF Massachusetts men. They had
listened to Mr.. Webster's words with indie
scribable emotions and were greatly excited
but when he alluded to their state, its early
history, to what its sons had done in the
revolution and to the famo Of the land OF
their birth, at the same time turning, in
tentionally or otherwise, his burning es
fell upon this group, they shed tears like
girls!
WONDERFUL EFFECT OF THE SPEECH.
The speech was over. No one has ever
undertaken to describe the excitement of
the occasion or the effect of the speech. The
New England men, who that morning made
their way to the capitol in a doubling frame
OF mind were now triumphant. They
walked down Pennsylvania avenue with
heads up, firm steps and with the air of
couquerors They looked one in the face
they met, fearing no contradiction. They
we're defiant and swarmed the streets, hav-
ing become miraculously multitudious,"
SAYS q writer
In the evening Gen. jackson held a re-
ception at the white house, which, it was
known, Mr.. Webster would attend. Gen,
jackson was on such occasions usually the
observed of all observers but that night
Mr.. Webster had this distinction, more
especially with his friends; Hayne also was
there, and it is related that As he approached
to tender his congratulations Mr.. Webster
accosted him with the usual courtesy How
are you this evening, Col. Haynem to which
the latter replied good humoredly: "None
the better for you, sir"
1t is due to the truth of hietory to-day
that the friends Of Hayne at the time did
not seriously dispute the claim by Webster's
friends TO a victory, and the lstter's reply
to hayne" has ever since been referred to az
the greatest specimen of American oratory
we have produced.
As speaker Mr.. Webster was ponderous
rather than sprightly and rapid, and he
held the listener by his intellectual power
rather than by flights Of fancy. Two more
exact opposites than Webster aud Hayne it
would have been difficult to imagine. When
/ listened to Webster | felt that he was
putting forth only Just so much OF his
power as was requisite TO 40 his work-like
the noble horse that walked off with what
would have overburdened another animal.
No one could feel sure what he might not
do. Listeners forgot to cheer Webster
and with them time passed almost without
note.
Some Of Mr.. Webster's speeches In the
Senate, reported in the National Intelligent
Ger, read better than they appeared to those
who heard them at the time they were pro-
nounced. He seldom or never wrote out or
even made more than the merest notes of
what he intended TO say. 1t is said that the
speech In reply to Hayne was printed SUD
etantially as it was reported by Joseph Gales
of the hltelLigencer. The speech at Albany,
to which l have referred in the beginning OF
this sketch was never reported, nor was
there any attempt make at it. At that time
was rarely attempted, and there
was only one shorthand reporter in
Albany at that time-Sherman Cros-
well-who was one of the few competent
shorthand men in the country. He was not
present. because the night before he had re-
ported a speech for the Albany Argus made
by MIR. Webster at the Congress Hall Ian
quat, and that exhausted him for the next
day. / am assured that some of the best
things about Mr.. Webster ever uttered were
never reported for this or some similar rea-
son. Sure | am that no one that ever heard
Mr.. Webster on an occasion that called for
q display Of his power will say that the i'm
preston made by his personal presence,
notably those eyes Of his, ever faded from
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