The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-24
TODAY IN HISTORY
MONDAY, OCTOBER "a. 1910.
peatI, of Daniel Webster,

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Daniel Webster ono OF the greatest
lawyers and statesmen the world has
| ever seen, after an active political life
covering period Of moro than fifty
| ,Vtn year of his age Al the unc Of his
death he was secretary OF state III the
cabinet OF Millard Fillmore.
Being broken In health ihrouGh hard
word during the summer OF 1857, Web
ster retired, in September. 10 Marshfield,
ms beautiful estate, at which place he
always found so much rest and comfort
from his arduous iabors. The thought
probably never occurred to hym that he
haa but = few weeks to live. bu, he vas
only at Marshfeld few days when he
AS he lay there, looking out on small
pond. he requested that a lantern be
lighted and holsted at night TO the mast
head OF a little boat that rode In the
II. This WAS done, and when free from
pain he lay. looking with great pleasure
at them.
81 want 10 keep my nag flying and nay
light burning until die he said One
Of the last objects his eyes fell on were
this nag, lighted by his masthead Ian
Webster still lives IN the minds OF
the people as the nations greatest ora
tor, who first gave adequate expression
10 the patriotic fcrvor of his people. He
telt the pulse OF maturing life, and he
gave expression TO the higher thoughts
which the rough old patriots who pre-
ceded him could not express. but had
ton as no other man could.
Webster was a lawyer-onc Of the
greatest the world has ever seen-and
statesman. but first Of all he WAS man
OF heart, who felt in his bosom the ten
derest emotions. through the gift of SYM
pethy and golden speech, He could move
men 10 tears at will, and so responsive
was his own nature he sometimes wept
with those whose sympathies he aroused.
As lawyer Webster was the stu
dents hero. As a statesman he belongs
an orator nc ranks with the inspired
sages Of ancient Greece. AS man he
was human and vibrant AS an Ameri-
can he was noble type.
Of Webster. in Boston, January u, 1859.
seven years after his death, the orator
OF the day was Rufus Choatc. 1t was
ono of his most brilliant efforts. 81
have read that in some hard battle. when
the tide was running against him, and
his ranks were breaking some one in the
ship, exclaimed. 20, for an hour
one more roll OF iha, thunder nimita-
bic! One more peal Of that clarion! One
moro grave and bold counsel OF moder-
alton, One moro throb OF American feel
ing, One more farewell address. And
then might me ascend unhindered to
the bosom OF his Father and his God
Al tnc ono nundfe0tn anniversary OF
his birthday AT the Marshneld club. on
January Is, 1882, the orator was Robert
6. Winthrop. OF the great eNpounder
he used the following eloquent language:
'Hc was a man OF his own type, as
and unique intellectually and
as the great Napoleon. or as
our own Franklin. east In mold OF
which there has been no other impress
sion In our part OF the land, and of whom
Il might almost he said. as Byron said
of Sheridan. that nature broke the die
N moldInc ono such man His name has
been written on the mountains. where 1t
The erandest mountains OF
MS native stste. There it will endure.
adamses and JefferSons and Madisons, |
md with Washington, I'm the clear up
oer sky. above them all. And until
hose mountains shall depart and those |
lills be removed his name VIII be ac-
'epted and recognized as The very |
synonym Of the most powerful Ameri- |
.3u mind. as we'll as the most impressive |
american presence of the age in which |
Ie lived and acted
On October %, 1852, William Penn ar
lived in America: the Erie canal was
opened between Utica and Rome I'm 1909 |
states in 1920. Today is the birthday !
# Sir James Macintosh, the miscellan
'ous writer N765); John Sartain, the |
rtist and eneraver US0S); and John M. |
Daniel the Virginia editor and diplo-
nat .OS25). Today is the death day OF
Iugh Capct. king of France (99O: Jane
seymour. wife OF Henry VIII. U527). |
charles Manners. the English statesman
i7s7l, and Joe Doc" and Richard