The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-07
Dr. Eliot and His Assistance
 To The Websterian Society

house. There he was wont to receive his friends with . simple and generous hospitality, There he found refresh ment and repose after professional or oficial toll He loved his home with . warm and manly affection. That spot. once associated with his life and now hallowed by his grave. is visited by pilgrim feet from all parts of the country.
 Attachment to Mir webster's person. faith in his creed and gratitude for his services. from the bond of our un- ion. We cannot but feel . lively in- terest in society of young men in . distant state which. by taking his name. has shown such symptahy with us.
 The portrait recalls Mir. Webster to us, who remember him. to whom. in mental vision. his face and form are as distinctly visible as when he was in life. But to those who never saw him. this mute canvass Is hut an iIn- perfect transcript of what he was. As you have doubtless heard. hs was a man whose intellectual superiority was expressed in a stately presence and q him in the street turned to gaze upon him. and moments glance was enough to fix upon the memory an impressive image which never fad ed. No painter ever succeeded in catching the power of his eye. the ma sic of his smile. No portrait of him Is fully satisfactory to his friends. The form the outline. the dimensions. are there. but the light and life are gone.
 But his spirit lives. and his influence endures. His words of wisdom and eloquence, for he was one of those rare men who are at once wise and eloquent.-remain for our instruction and guidance. We hope that the young men of your college. the young men of the south generally. will study with will find in them the best expedition of the principles of liberty as regulated by the constitution and controlled by law. His speeches, like those of Burke. were not framed merely for the occasion which called them forth. but are for all the time. They abound tn political truths. the, value of which will endure so lonK<as States and Gov- ernments exist. No man had studied the institutions of our country more carefully. No man has explained and interpreted them with more ciearness and force.
 Mir. Webster was rema rkable for the breadth and comprehensiveness of his patriotism. The controlling forces, in his political life were love of the un- lon and the Constitution were in his mind as closely united as are body and spirit in the frame of man. A union without the constitution. un- ion of which the clements are force on the one side and sullen submission on the other. was not to him the un- ion of which our fathers framed and which he desired to transmit to those who came after him.
 The MarshAeld Club.
 Most of the members of the Marsh field club belong to the generation tha tis passing away and can have little infiuencs7over coming events. The destinies of this country are in the hands of it's young men. both of the south and the north. We cannot but feel that there are grave problems in the future. and we think the best so- lution of those problems Is to be found in the spirit and the teachings of MT. Webster. It is our hope and wish that the portrait of the illustrious man which we send to you may inspire the young men who may look upon 1t with the spirit which animated him. May 1t lead them to a more dfiigent study of his works. May 1t cause their pat riotism to burn with purer flame. May 1t teach them that 1t Is the duty or the patriotic statesman sometimes to postpone the wishes of those who are near and dear. to the claims Of those who are strangers and remote. May 1t give them a stronger sense Of the value of the Union. and make them ready, for the sake of that Union. to sacrifice sectional feeling. and incur. if need be, the coldness of friends and the heat of enemies.
 I remain, Dear Sir,
 Yours faithfully. Peter Harvey. Prof Alexander Hogg
 East Alabama College