St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-01-24


- notification doctrines, in his "Rep
rt to Havne" in the United Stat
=, Senate. Webster crystallized Il
thoughts and feelings of the peoI
which they were unable to express,
d words and speeches which gave the
5, living force and magnetism the
e and today; hence his speeches wi
J. live and are quoted; he representa-
J. the heart of the nation, which sent
e ment has grown and increased wit
: the expansion of the country. Hi
belief in the greatness of the natio
was his dominant thought. He &C
mired great empires and felt an
dreaded the breaking up of the Unio
with personal grief, which led t,
the 7th OF March speech. He wa
willing to make sacrifices, when th
Union was threatened in order t.
save it, with his passionate love O
country. Whatever else he has done
he, more than any one else, called
forth public sentiment, which saved
the nation, vixen he uttered those
well-known words in the Senate,
Liberty and Union, now and for
ever, one and inseparable."
A public wave of appreciation fol-
lowed the conclusion of the address,
which was taken up again by the
whole house, until Senator Lodge
rose and bowed his recognition of
thanks. Carriages conveyed many
to the statue, where the flags were
drawn at II noon by Jerome Bone.
parte, the great grandson of Daniel
Webster, when the Marine band
played America" The full length
statue of Webster in bronze with his
Roman toga, gives him majestic
mien, while below on either side are
the two bas.reliefs representing the
Reply to Hayne" in the Senate and
his address at Bunker Hill; under
the last the words "Our Country,
Our Whole Country and Nothing but
Our Country. Trentanore, the
Italian sculptor, is from Florence,
" here the statue was cast, and is
best known there by his Marquette
statue and the bust of Bryan.
amongst the company who fingered
at the statue in the drilling rain
were some old neighbors and friends
Of the Webster's from New Hamp
shire and Massachusetts, who wish.
"a that they bad been privileged to
rave ATTENDED the exercises at the
opera House, but having read in the
papers that the committee had given
'ut a OF the tickets to Consressmen
md friends and Dublio men. did rot
now that there were many ~
eats which they could have occuu..
led, ii the committee of arrange
rents had only intimated to that
feet instead of that the public could
anticipate in the exercises at the
tatue.
To the question who was the
lother of Webster and what was
er name, no one was able to reply:
ne New Hampshire woman said
you have caught US there" This
us of similar incident a
w years since, when lady had an
say on Daniel Webster before a
terary society of seventy ladies and
he president was lawyer; some of
lem were good writers and literary
omen from many different states,
ct none of them knew the name of
le mother nor two wives of Daniel
'ebster. This is true of many of
lr prominent men. In olden times.
le women were inscribed as relicts
men on their tombstones and
aptized as Mary - on church
cords and we know many persons,
no have paid out large sums of
oney to find out the names of
'andmothers and great-grand- :
Others. Abigail Eastman, the
other of Daniel Webster, was a true n
val woman, inheriting strong traits II
character from the Eastman an -
stors; one was the pioneer and
under of the beautiful city of Con-
rd, N. H. She manifested her self
crlhcing spirit like many another
Nv England pioneer, when she said
her husband, Ezekiel Webster,
ter they had mortgaged the farm
educate their boys, II will trust
e bows for support in old age".
aniel Webster always honored and
spected her and insisted upon cul.
Tatlng after her death the old.
flowers that were her
vorltes. He often referred to the
lcyon days after his marriage to
e beautiful Grace Fletcher, his first
lie.
The Daughters of the American
and Colonial Danes have
solved to rescue the names of the
trlots from oblivion, for they argue -
ose pioneer women as well as men
We claim upon posterity today; Y
nee they give their names to chap. T
rs to honor their memory. We
We heard of many Dolly Madisons, f.