White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-10-13
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
s Webster Replying to Hayne

it and it will fall at last if fall it must, amidst
the proudest monuments OF its own glory ana Cd
the very spot of it's origin"
Then followed this perOration:
.'When my eyes shall have turned to behold for
the last time the sun in heaven, may not see
him shining on the broken and dishonored frag-
ments of a once-glorious Union; on states dis
severed discordant beligerent; on land rent
with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be-. In ira
ternal blood Let their last feeble and lingering
glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the
Republic, now known and honored through the
earth, still full-high advanced, its arms and
trophies streaming in their original luster, not
q stripe erased or polluted, single star OBJ
scured, bearing for it's motto no such miserable
interrogatory as What is all this worth? nor
those other words of deluson and folly Liberty
first and Union afterwards but everywhere,
spread all over in characters of living light,
blazing on all it's ample folds as they float over
the sea and over the land, and in every wind
under the whole heavens, that other sentiment,
dear to every true American heart-Liberty and
Union now and forever, one and inseparable"
Webster was born on New Hampshire farm
January 10, 1880 this year is the one hun
bred and fifth anniversary of his birth as well
as the SEVENTEEN anniversary of his famous
speech His parents were poor, but they were
determined their son should have an education.
Accordingly Webster was entered first at Ike
ter and then, in 1897, at Dartmouth college.
After winning his degree he served briefly as
schoolmaster at Fryeburg, Maine. But In 1914
he took the decisive step and went to Boston,
where he entered the law Office of Christopher
Gore an excellent lawyer who saw in Webster
qualifications far beyond those of an ordinary
law clerk.
Dgent in his studies, the dark noble-brOwed,
handsome young Webster not long in being
admitted to the Boston bar and shortly after his
father died he assumed the elder Websters debts,
removed to Boscawan, N. H.. and then trans
ferred his law business to his brother, Ezekiel.
He himself went to Portsmouth, where he came
in contact among Others with jeremiah Mason,
one of the outstanding lawyers of the time. On
opposing sides, Mason and Webster were to
make legal history. People came miles to hear
them argue their cases.
Webster attained his first fame shortly there
after when he expressed most clearly the views
of a large section of the people against the War
of 1912 1t was Webster as delegate to
convention held in August of 1912 by the citizens
of Rockingham county to oppose the war against
England, who wrote the famous Rockingham
Memorial
Massachusetts rewarded him for this service
nv sending him to congress in 1918 and there
although he was only thirty-one years Of age
his legal reputation was so great that Henry
Clay. who was speaker of the house, made him
a member Of the committee on foreign relations
He was reelected but at the conclusion of his
second term in 1917 he left congress to return to
his law practice.
In 1922 he was returned to congress, where
he became supporter of that tariff of abomin
ations' which so outraged Calhoun. and in 1872
he was prevailed upon to accept the United
States senatorship from Massachusetts.
From that time his fame increased con
stantly. becoming international in its scope. Blu
although ambition turned his eyes toward tn.
White House. he never to realize the at
tainment of that goal When the Whtg part!
was organized, Webster became one of its lead
ers but, just as that party failed to offer tn
Presidency to its other great leader, Henry Clay
so 1t failed to offer 1t to Webster. He coul,
have had the Vice Presidency but refused it
he was. however. secretary of state under A>''
Harrison and Tyler.
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