The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-10-03
DARrMoUTH's CELEBRATION.

The two days celebration of the Webster
Centennial came to close Wednesday,
Sept. 25th, with grand banquet in College
hall, attended by six hundred sons of old
Dartmouth. President Tucker officiated as
toastmaster and the following noted men
made speeches: Gov. Chester B. Jordan,
Edwin Weston Sanborn of New York !;
Prof. Francis Brown, LII. D., Hon. David
Cross, Al, of Manchester; DR.. VIM. Everett,
IL. D., Quincy, Mass. Rev. Edward
Everett Hale, Boston, Mass, US; Senator
George F. Hoar. Chief Justice Melville W.
Fuller of the u S. supreme court. Senator
Hoar said the following in regard to Web
Ster:
Daniel Webster died under cloud of
obloquy. He had deeply offended the
had offended his own State, which had so
honored and loved him. The ordinary polit-
ical antagonismS, always bitter, bitter
now, were bitter in his time to a degree we
can hardly comprehend now. He had pain
ed and grieved the conscience of his coun-
try He was held for time to be untrue to
liberty. | suppose the contemporary judg-
ment.when he died was that of Theodore
Parker rather than that of Choate or of
Everett.
But now few men can be found any,
where who think otherwise than kindly
and lovingly of this illustrious son of Dart
mouth. we have had 80 years to think of it.
If the Republic abide, his name and fame
will abide with it. If the Republic die, his
name and fame shall be inseperably inter-
twined with its memory. as the fame OF
PericleS is intertwined with that of Athens
The wiSeSt and best men are likely to
differ most sharply in applying what seem
the simplest ana cleareSt principles of NOR
ais and duty and political liberty to the con-
duet of States, as they differ most sharply
as to the creeds of religious sects, and the
man who is most positive is most likely to
be wrong.
The moral is not that good men should
abate in their zeal for righteousness or lib
erty, but only that they should abate in
their betterness of their Judgment of
others with whom they differ.
We have learned, nearly all of us, that
the things about which honest and brave
and patriotic men are most likely to differ,
and to impute bad motives and inconsistent
cies to each other, are those which seem to
them the plainest principles and the clear
est maxims of public liberty, or the most
express and unmistakable mandates of re-
ligiOn.
Each man has given to him his own light.
He is laggard or bastard if he does not
follow it. But he is nowhere commanded
to sit in Judgment on the motives of other
men, On the contrary the Divine command
| is, "judge not" and the punishment for
disObedieuce to that command is that you
are to be treated as you treat other men,
| and that the measure you mete shall be
measured to you again.
| In doing justice to him, let us do justice to
| the men who condemned him. Those OF us
who thought as l thought, and as L now
| think, the counsel he gave his countrymen
| in regard to the compromise measure IN
| conflict with great mandate OF Justice and
of constitutional liberty, and in conflict
| with the doctrine he had taught his coun-
trymen throughout his life, may still brig
their tribute of honor to his memory, as
Whittier, who had written lchabod, brought
| his imperishable tribute of affection and
honor, which, alas was never placed on
the brow of Webster, but only laid on his
| grave.
mouth college are as follows
Doctors of law, on Chester Bradley Jor-
dan, Governor of New Hampshire; Edgar
Aldrich, Judge of the United States Dis
trict Court William Eaton Chandler, ex-
Call of Massachusetts; Frank Sweet Black
Ex-Governor, New York Prof. Francis
Brown of New York DR.. William Everett
of Massachusetts; DR.. Edward Everett
Hale, Senator George Frisbie Hoar OF
Massachusetts Melville Weston Fuller
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
James Bryce of England, john Hay, secre.
tary of State of the United States, and
hooker L. Washington. 1t was also an
nounced that the trustees had voted to con
fer the degree upon Frank Palmer Gould
ing, deceased.
Master of arts-James W. Remick, Jude
of Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Wendell P. Stafford, Judge OF the Supreme
Court of Vermont Congressman Frank C.
Cnrrier of New Hampshire, Harry G. Sar-
gent, Mayor of Concord Samuel Appleton
| of ST Paul. Mimi.