The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-11-08

tensely American and by the cosmopol-
itans would now be designated as lingo"
wEBsTER's MAJESTY OF INTELLECT.
Goodwin Smith does not deny Daniel
Webster the qualities that have made his
name a household word:
His character was cast in the Puritan
mold and formed by the New England
school system, under which he had been
teacher as well az pupil. He was grave,
staid, and in the cast of his character moral
and devout In his later years be was given
to running carelessly into deSt, and like
many other men of his day too fond of
wine. As an orator of reason he has no SUI
perior, if he has an equal, in the English
language. 1t is difficult at least to say
what political speech can vie in logical
force and impressiveness with his speech
defending the Union in reply to the south
ern separatist Hayne, or what forensic
speech excels in the same qualities his
speech for the prosecution in the murder
case of White
Ellis style has been compared to the
strokes of n trip hammer, which his SEN
fences resembled in measured force, but
not in monotony The majesty of intellect
| sat on his beetling brow, and he had the look
and port of Jove. He was and felt himself
a king 1t is told of him that when one of
his notes had fallen due he majestically
waved his hand and said, Let it be paid.
| All men bowed down to him; all men
crowded to hear him. He swayed the opin-
ions of all men, but he did not, like Clay,
win their hearts. He never was a great
party leader, nor was he ever hopeful
candidate for the presidency. 1t must be
added that his moral strength was not
equal to his power of mind"
THE BLOOD RED STAR" OF JACKSON
| What Goodwin Smith picturesquely calls
''the blood red star of Andrew jackson
was now in the ascendant:
jackson, though he had once been in
congress. as we have seen, and had vented
| his jealous spleen on Washington, was a
| fighter, with an iron will and great powers
of command, i'll educated, destitute of the
knowledge and the habits of a statesman,
with an uncontrolled temper and almost as
much swayed by passion as any Indian
chief, though, like many an Indian chief,
he could bear himself when he pleased with
dignity and even with grace That he had
beaten the British at New Orleans was his
title to the headship of the nation, and he
had not lessened his popularity by the law
less execution of two Englishmen, Ambris
ter and Arbuthnot, or by some acts of
equally lawless aggression on Spanish ter
| ritory--outrages against which moral
minority in congress had protested in vain,
while John Quincy Adams, swayed prob
ably by his dislike of England, had for once
deviated from his moral course and helped
to whitewash the man who was destined to
| GUST him from the presidential chair"
| LINCOLN A MARVEL OF HISTORY.
Professor smith now comes down to more
| contemporaneous times, and here he paints
his portrait of Abraham Lincoln:
| Abraham Lincoln is assuredly one of
the marvels OF history. holland but Amer
lea has produced his like. This destined
chief of nation in its most perllous hour
was the son OF thriftless and wandering
settler, bred in the most sordid poverty.
He had received only the rudiments of edu-
cation, and though he afterward read eager
ly such works as were within his reach 1t
| Is wonderful that he should have attained
as speaker and writer mastery of Ian
guage and pure as well as effective style.
He could look back smiling on the day
when his long shanks appeared bare below
the shrunken leather breeches which were
his only neither garment His frame was
gaunt and groteseue, but mighty He
| stood feet and was said to have lifted a
cask full of beer ard TO have drunk out OF
the bunghole. This made him hero with
the Clary Grove boys
| He had strong and eminently fair I'M
derstanding, with great powers OF patient
thought, which he cultivated by the study
OF Euclid. In all his views there was a
simplicity which had its source in the sim
pliclty OF his character. bis local popular
lty was due largely To his humor ana the
stock or good stories, always pointed,
though not always delicate, which through
life 1t was his delight to collect and
repeat. At the same time he was melan-
choly, touched with the pathos of human
life, fond OF mournful poetry, religious,
though not orthodox, with strong sense
of an overrulinS Providence, which, when
he was out OF spirits sometimes, took the
shape OF fatalism. His melancholy was
probably deepened by his gloomy surround
ings and by mlSadventures In love
LINCOLN WORSHIP.
Admiration has risen to worship, and
Lincoln has, IN the minds OF some Of his
eulogists become the greatest statesman
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