The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-18
TODAY IN HISTORY
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1s.

most distinguished OF ali American
statesmen and orators, was born today
one hundred and twenty eight years ago.
in humble littlo farmhouse at Sails
bury. New Hampshire. 1T docs. not
happen TO me-: gentlemen, to be born
| In n log cabin said Webster In one OF
his political speeches. but my elder
| brothers and sisters were, born IN a log
| cabin. raised amid the snowdrIftS at n
period so early that. when the smoke
FIRST rose from It's rude chimney and
curled over the frozen hills. there was
no similar evidence OF white mans habi-
tGtion tat between IT ] and the settlements on On
ashamed of it. il ever fail in affec-
| tionate Nencration from him who reared
| II and defended 1t against savage vio,,
| lcncc and destruction. may my name ana
the name OF my posterity be blotted
forever from the memory of mankind. -
Webster. as a youth. was sIckly, and
was spared the early labor common on
the New England farm, iIe soon devel-
oped love for books. and when set at
light, work, such as watching the saw
In his fathers mill, he read during the
minutes the saw was making It's pas
sage through n log,
When Webster was 10 there came to
his fathers house n member of the
gone. his father said to Daniel; My
son. that is a worthy man. he Is a mem
and gets s6 n day, while / toll here. 1t
Is because he had an education and /
had none. / was not able to give your
elder brothers tho advantages Of ltnowl-
edge, but l can do something for you.
Exert yourself, improve your opportuni-
ties, Learn, learn, and when I am gone
you WIFI not need TO go through the same
hardships which ] have undergone, and
which haVo made me an old man before
my time
The following year he WAS sent to Ex-
eter. He was n quick Scholar, but the
great gift that was 10 make him famous
was not thus early revealed. Many years
after he had become great orator he
said to a friend. II could not speak be-
fore the school, Many piece did COM
NIT to memory and rchenrsc i'm my room
over and over again. but when the day
came. and the seboolmaStcr called my
name, and ! saw all eyes turned on my
seat, / could not raise myself from it,"
This circumstance is all the more re-
New Hampshire youth. who was outdone
by almost all his school fellows. should
finally develop Into one OF the greatest
orators this country has ever produced
Webster lives in the minds of the peo-
pie as the nations greatest orator. who
first gave adequate expression TO the pa
triotic fervor of his people. His ora
tions form n literature breathing the
sentiments of a nation In ifs youth. He
eXpoundcd the Constitution as no other
man could. AS Il lawyer, he was one OF
the greatest the world has seen. and
eta tesman. but first of all he was man
Of heart. who felt in his bosom the ten
derest emotions. and who was able to
arouse In the hearts of others the same
emotion through the gift of sympathy
was the noblest type.
On January Is. 1871. the German en-
plre was re-established and 1t was on
This day that Richard G.. Taylor. the first
maker of geographical maps. was born
IN 1889, and the gag law was adopted
by congress in 1887.