The New York Herald Newspaper, October 27, 1852, Page 7

MEMORY OF DANIEL WEBSTER. Incidents and Bemioiscences of the Life of the Lamented Statesman. Trbutes to his Character, by Eminent Men. Beautiful and Touching Remarks of | General Pierce. The Elegy of Gray, and the Last Moments of the Great Man. MOURNING ATMARSHFIELD AND BOSTON. The Effect Throughout the Nation, &o. ko. &o. ‘The great man’s love for # country life, the simplo and ‘anaffected pleasure he derived from superintending his farm. the pride he took in the superiority of its produce, and of bis flocks and herds, and the deep interest he al- ‘ways manifested in the temporal and spiritaal welfare of Anis dependants, form traits in his character which are no lees worthy of commemoration and veneration than those Brillient talewts by which he is more emineatly known to the country, and to the world. He took the greatest ang purest delight in the healtbfal pleasures of a rural life, in @onversing with his farm laborers on tho cultivation of ‘he roll, the adoption of ruch plans a3 suggested them- selves to his educated mind, and on their own more im- Mediate interests; in discoursing freely with those of his weighbors whom he might ciance to meet in his walks, ‘end ip ministering to the pleasure and information of his transient guests, These wero tho chief charms of those days which he war able to snatch from the exacting daties of bis office and from his various literary and profes. sional engagemenia, to spend in the midst of his penates $m Marebield. The farm itself is somewhat character- etic of the great mind that placned and directed it, and fa wantby of being the resting place of its late illustrious owner, ‘The following graphic description of it will be read with mueh interest at the present moment: — It ia thielded by @ range of beautiful hills from the Bee of our northwesterly storms; x¢ has a distant ‘view of the ocean beyond the lowlands which every high tide overfiows On une side a wooded promontery juss {foto the rea, and on the other rises a sloping highland, am the brow of which, in the deep repose of nator», his Kindred rest 1m their long sleep. with no sounds above or around them but the murmurs of the wind through the foliage of the drooping trews. or the song of birds or the aolemn voice of the rea speaking eternally from its vast depths; the undulating surface sweeps up from the maarebes and forms a table land on which the house stander, then gevtly fails into @ smooth and spreading Jawn—then by « deeper slope, it ascends to the western vange (f hills, which. on toat ride, shut in the picture ana bound a scere of harmonious, yet richly varied and sweetly contrasted beauty. As you look down from these hills, your heart beats ‘with the unspeakable emotion that such objects inspire; Dut the charm is brightened by the reflectioa that the capabilities of nature have been unfolded by the skillaad taste of one whose fame fills tbe world; that an illustri ous existeneshas here blended its activity with the pro- eerresof the gevial earth, and breathed its power into the breath of heaven. and drawn its iaspiration from the air, the rea, end the rky, and around and above, Here. but atew weeks since. Mr. Webster was ac- tomed to drive the tran-ient guost over his estate visit- | ing bis fields, his ocean shore. his flocks and his herds, out the prospect. and spenking with tender emo- tion of the rad and happy memorios the varied views re- called ; converting with the rustic neighbors whom he ebsneed to meet. in kind and geniai tones. andon subjects which be and they understood alike ; uttering from time to time glorious thoughts +ugge+ted by the scene. in laa- gvege of massive beauty and grandeur, which made the moment memorable in the listener's life. In all his varied readings of ancient or modern poets, there was no piece that commended itvelf more to his taste, and harmonized more with his own sentiments, than Gray’s “ Elegy, wiitten in a country churchyard,” ‘That beautiful, though simple production, touched a sympathetic chord in the great man’s heart, andhe loved | to repeat from memory, some of ita most appropriate stanzas, He considered it worthy of being enshrined 4m that magnificent discourse delivered by him on the Jest snniversary of Washington's birthday before the Historical Society of this city. In alluding to some o the mort remarkable passages in the works of British poeta, on that cocasion, he said—“ The first three stanzas of Grey’s Elegy ins country churebyard, are also re- warkable for the power and accuracy with which rural im one picture.” Its beauties haunted him in his las: hour? on earth; and while the glories of the world were for him, beceming shrouded in eternal gloom, his mind still retained impressions of that simplo elegy, and almost his last request was—uttered more by signs than words— that he might have the pleasure of hearing it once more, before his ears were closed for ever. && will not be out of place here, as illustrative of Mr. Webster's tastes, and may be acceptable to most of our readers, to give the whole of that pathetic elogy, which was 40 highly esteem- ed by the refined and cultivated mind of our great: it statesman :-— ELEGY, WKITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD. ‘The curfew toils the knell of parting day, Tho lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, ‘The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness end to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness hoids, Bave where the beetle whecls bis drozing flight, And drowsy tinklings loll the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower ‘The moping ow! does t0 the moon complain Of such as wandering wear her seeret bower, ‘Molests her ancient solitary reign Beneath those rugged olms, that yew-tree’s shade, Where beaves the turf in many @ mouldering heap, Each in bis narrow cell for ever Laid, ‘The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. ‘The breezy call of incense breathing morn, ‘The swallow twittering from the straw: built shed, ‘The cock’s shrill clarion. or the echoiag horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bura, ‘Or bury housewife ply her evenirg care ; No ebildren run te lisp their rire’s return, Or climb bis knees the envied kiss to share, Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield | How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their nsetul toil, ‘Their homely joysand destiny obseare : Nor grandeur hear with a disdainfol smile ‘The short and simple annals of the poor. ‘The boast of heraldry, the pomp cf power, And «il that beauty, ofl that wealth, o'er give, Await slike the ivevitabls hour : ‘The paths of glory lead but to the grave Nor you, yo proud! impute to these the fault, If ‘memory o'er theirtomb Do tropbies raiso, ‘Where thro’ the long drawn aisle and fretted ‘The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. ~ Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath * Can honor's voice-provoke the silent dust. Or flattery sooth the dull cold ear of death t Perbsps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire, Hanae that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstacy the living lyr But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, coast ‘with the hae bene h ne'er unroll ; yh ary reprease:| their noble rage, ‘aos irsee the genial current of the soul. Poll many s gem of purest ray rarene ‘The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear ; Full many « flower is born to blush unseen, And waste ite sweets om the desert ar, Bome villoge-Hampden. thet with dauntiess breast The litle tyravt ot his fields withstood, Bome mute inglorions Milton. here may rost, Bome Cromwell, guiltiess of his country’s blood. ‘The applause of Ietening eenates to command, ‘The t. reats ot pain and ruin to derpise, ‘To reatter plenty o'er o smiling land, ‘And read their history in @ nation’s oyes, ‘Their lot forbade ; nor olrcumecrib’d alone Their growing virtues, but their erimes confined ; Porbede to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gatos of mercy on mankind ; ‘Tho struggling pavgs of conscious trath to hide, ‘To queush the blushes of ingenuone rhame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and prido Wi'b incetiee kindled at the muso’s flame. Par from the madding crom ‘Phoir sober wishes Dever lcmetoven Along the conreqnesterud le of tifa ‘They kept tho noiretew tonor of their way. ‘Yet e’en these bones. from insult te protect we frat momorial om srooted vneouth rhymes and shaprless sculpture deo! Implores the passing tribute of w bt ‘Their name. their years. spelt by the unlettore ‘Tee place of fanve nd elogy supply, eames And many 8 holy text wrouad rhe etrows, ‘That teach the rustic moralist to die. For whe to dumb forgetfulness a prey This ph asing anxious being e’er resigned. ‘Lett the warm precincts of the cheerful day. Nor cast one longing lingering look bebima * On rome + em se = eee out bien Bome yp’ rope the closing eye requires ; Wan trem the tornd the volee of mature cries, ‘Wen in our ashe» live thelr wonted flrar, | attainments, his services. would be to discourse of mat- | as hourebola words. Besides, this muat be left to vigoror scenery is presented, by grouping together many objects | pens and eloquent tongues, atter the first gush of gricf, | Avorber came; nor yat beside che rill For thee, who, mtndfal of th’ unhowored dead, Dort im there Hines their artless tal relate, Ifebavoe by lonely con*emptation led Some kindred spirit rhall toquire thy fate, Haply rome hoary beaded swain may ray, Of bat e-ecn him at the peap of dawn, Brurbing with hasty atop: the devs away, To meee the sun upon the upland law 5, ‘There at the foot of yonder noddiog beach, ‘That wrea hs its old fantastic root ro high, Dis listless length at noon tide would he streteh, Avd pore upon the brook that habbles by. 5 as in reorn, 4 fancies. he would rove ; Now droeng wotal wan! itis one forlorn Or erased with care. or crossed in hopeless love, “One morn I misred dim on the aceustomed bill, Along the beath, and pear his fav'rite tree ; Nor vp the lawn, nor es tue wood was he, “The next. with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the ohurchway path we sw him Boras ; hand read (for thoucanst rewl) the ley d ow the st ne benesth yon aged thorn”? Mr, Webster himself enteriaived just ruch sentiments | as the euthor so beantifaity depicts in this poom, is instruction with regard to his obsequies were, that they thould be condueted without any pomp or dirplay, that his ashes should be borne by his friends and neighbors imto the little village church io which he hsd loved to worebip, that its bell should alone toll his requiem that ite pastor eheutd perform the last rolomn ceremony over the coffin which contained “all that was mortal of Daniel Webster,” and that im his eternal sleep he should repove | within that domain which benceforth shall be sanctified by hia memory, and shall be considered, by all fature pil grime to it, as “boly ground,”’ The Remarks of General Pierce on the Cha- Favter of Mr, Webster. In Concord, N. -H., om Monday, at ten o'clock, mort of the stores and offices were closed, and busine! was rurpended ; and foon after, the Representatives Hali was crowded fall of citizens, a large number of ladies being present. A series of resolutions were offered and read; afer which the Chairman called upon General Yierce to ad dress the meeting. The crowded hall became as atiil as @+ath as General Pierce rose to comply ; and with deep emotion, which at times slmost overcame him, and ia acalm and imprersive manner suited to the cocasioa, he spoke a8 follows :— Mr Chairman—Ilow deep'y have all hearts been im- preseed by the fervent appeal to that Power in which our fothers put their trust in the hour of their weakaess and trials! And how has that solemn impression been en- hanced by the last words of the truly great man, just read by the Rev, Dr. Bouton! But a few weeks have passed rince a deep gloom was cast over our country by the death of the great states- man of the West. Ic had losg been understood that this light was flickering in its socket and must soon go oat, Still, the announcement, when it came, was laden with faders; and we have all since then been disposed to look with warmer affection and more glowing gratitude to his great compeer and associate, the in'elligence of whose sudden decease will full like a faneral pall upon the pab- lec mind thronghout that Union to which he gave bis | best affections aud noblest efforts. 1 bad met Mr Webster repeatedly prior to 1833, but my personal acqusintance with him may be said to have ecmmenced with my first winter at Washington His attachment to our State was singularly strong, and this circumstance. perhaps, led to a series of kiniacts and courtesies toward me, duting the session of 1833-4, and afterward, the grateful reoollection of which will never be effaced. I mourn for him, as for a friend for whose per- eonal regard wy own heart has given back a true and fall response. Among eminent citizens of commanding power and in- fluence, while I was in the Senate, he stood perhaps pro- eminent. In his rich combination of qualities as an ora: tor, lawyer, and statesman, it mey safely be said he had no rival. How forcibly and sadly are we reminded of the great men with whom he was associate’ in the Senate chember, and who preceded him In his transit through the dark valley! White, Grundy, Forsyth, Southard, Wall, Linn, Sevier, Silas Wright, Hill, Woodbary, Cal- houn, Clay—men who left their impress upom the age— names indiseolubly connected with the fame and history of their couutry—all like him whose death we are now called upow to deplore, were links in the chain which bound the past generation to the present; and all like him, are now on the other side of that narrow fiae which divides time from ¢ternity. Upon whom have their man- ties fallen? Who are to take their places ia the perils through which our country may be called to pass? Wao, with patriotic courage and statesmanlike forecast, are to guide in the storms that will at times, inevitebly threaten us, in Our unexampled development of resouress as a na- tion, our almost fearful progress. our position of amazing responribility as the great, Cisetagetaren felf governing, power of the globe? These are questions which will press themse'v+s upon all minds; but who, alas! cam satis- | R OC. Winebrop | eo to relate the following anecdote of Mr. Webster, | ba te Thero will be military and civic pomp, too, in the Bt factorily answer them ? ‘To speak of Mr. Webeter’s genius, his various and solid | ters as familiar even to the cbildren of his native State, ‘and the oppressive sem ¢ of loss. shall to some extent have It is, and long has been, my firm convie- ‘Webster hada hold upon the minds and hearts of his countrymen which will fail to be justly oa- timated only pecaure there has been no fall opportunity to measure it. You, Mr. Chairman, have truly sali thet Mr. Webster’s greatness was ef that rare character which no earthly position could exalt. He came to official sta- tions, as he approsched all subjects presented to his | wind, their superior and their master. He hes reared for himeif @ vast pillar of renown, which will stand in undi- minished strength and grandeur, when the works of man’s hands erected to his honor, will be like Nineveh; and, I fear, when this Union may have shared the fate which was the dread of his later yours. A few yours ago, when | the distinguished brother of the deceased was calied in an instant from timetocternity in the court room in tuis | place, with the last words of a pe:fect sentence lingering ‘upon’his lips, another citizen, most eminent and beloved, the late lamented George Sullivan ) exclaimed — shadows we are, what shadows we pursue!” How th emphstic words come back to us here. asif by an © iow mere earthly nonora and distinctions fade amid a gloom like this—Aow politcal asperivies ere chastencd! what alesson to the living ;—what an admonition to personal malev dence, now awed and subdued, as the great heart of the n throbs heavily at the portals of his grave! T have no heart to speak, or to contemplate the extent of the Ices wo have sustained. Asa personal friend—as a son of New Hampshire—as au American citizen, I ehall be, with thousands, # sincere mourner at his ebsequies. Interesting Sketch and Reminiscences of Me. Webstermincidents of his Life, &e. [Prom the Journal of Commoree. Oct. 26 } The death of Mr. Webstor was unexpected to the | dlic, and even to many of hia familiar friends ‘hough somewhat feeble daring the past twelve or fifteen months, and especially sincs he was thrown violently from bis carriage and much bruised, he was not considored as having any constitational ailment, nor aslaboring under any organic disease, nor as being in a fatal dociine. For the greater part of the last year, he was in good spirits and in his usual heaith So far from expecting doath, he was engaged in deliberate preparations for protracted life. Had he been nominated as a candidate for tho Presidency, it was his avowed purpose to resign his present office, and take # tour to the Souta this fall and winter. Had Mr. Fillmore been nominated, ho hos been heard to soy, that he would resign and | take the political fiold as the advocate of Mr. Pill- | Of the conyontion, nor even any deop interest in it, nore’s election. So far from having been mortified and heart-bro- ken, as some have said, by tho loss of the nomina- | | tion, he expressed to his friends much satisfaction that he bad. theroby, escaped from anxiety. trouble, and detraction, and perhaps a defeat. While the | ballotings were going on, and, especially during the | time of their suspension, Mr. Webster's converst- tion, as mapy can attest, turaod entirely on literary | and general topics, among his familiar friends, and ‘Was oxpressive ot no anxtety concerning the rosult It is true, however, that ho exprossed some chagrin, in his address to the Mississippi delogation, that the * record of the convention did not coincide with the warm expressions of respect, confidence and grati- tude, which ho received from some of the Southern delegations. Not expecting that death would 0 soon knock at his door, Mr. Webster was engagod in preparin; for a quict and dignified rotiremont from publio an professional pursuits, after tho expiration of the term of the present administration Devoted from youth to rural employments and amusements, he was always happy when allowod leisure from pab- Jie labors to enjoy them. He had tho rural tastes of an English country gentleman; and, at the same tinhe, ag much inolination to literary pursuits, as apy scholar or lellow of an University. To ha “Jeieure to be wiso”—to be able to ramble whea- | ever he pleased in tho paths of literature and tolence--to become better acquainted with God and himeelf—-to meditate on death and eternity-—shese wero among the objects which he had in view in secking a retirement. He had rosently tuken care that his works should be compiled and published in acorrect form, and they area rich legacy to his country, and a monumeat more durablo than bras to his own memory. Those volumes ombraco bis diplomatio correepondouce, and his chief parlia- | mentary, forensic, and occasional orations. But it | isknown that thoy do not embrace all the works | which it was hie wish, at some time, to give to the public. Ho has left treatives of an intercating and original character on rubjocts political, histori and philoeopbical, What directions ho las given fn regard to them is not known; but, of course, they will seo the light undor the auspices of some i and literary friends) Had lived, he would, no doubt, have given much of hi leisure to a record of his thoughts on religious, phi Joropbicat and petition cutgosre, One can hardly roalize that Daniol Webster is no more. His sudden departnre, while yet hia intel- Joot was bright, uneloaded and vigorous, and while bio mind wae etill retentive of it# accumulated trea- | i} | | hand on a copy. of the S Thi | important cauge in the court thon in session. sures, and still eaprcions of more, produces the im- preesion of a death rather by aooident, than ia the ord’ course of nature—like the foundering of @ tbip av sea in ovlm weather, or the aeath that en- counters the traveller in collisions and explosions Todeed, it appears that his death was caused by tome unforeseen Organiv disease, Mere regretted is the deuth of Mr. Webster. at follo vo soon the depsriure of the two tilas trious patriots and ftatesmen whom the country still mourns Mr Webster's laet servives, in the year 1860, were among bis greatest; and if ae had revdercd bo other, he would hive been entitled to the perpetual gratitude of his eountey, His esun- xela wad example will not de ten, and never soccersfully resisted ; and bis countrymen will ever cherish bis high and well-earned fame. Aboat the year 1820, Mr. Wenster was agsnstom- ed to spend the summer mouths at Dorchester, Mara , occupying the mansion now owned by Hon Upoo his becouing au inhabitant of the town, he called upon the lave Dr. Godman, with whom be held similar religious opinions, and Tewarket—" Sir, 1 am come to be one of your pa- risbionrrs not one of your fashionable ones, bat you will fod me in my seat both ia the moraiog and ia the afternoon’ He was true to bis word, and a friendebip commenced between him and his pastor whicb continued till the death of tho latter, a few years since, acd to which Mr Webster alluded, shortly before his own departure, in terms of affuc- tiova‘e remembrance. Dr Codman was ascustom- which rhows, in a singular degree, the wouderful power of fascination which the great orator possess: ed—the uorpoken cloquence, if it may so be termed, of bis commanding appearance One Sunday afternoon, the services of the church were to be conducted by 2 young student from An- Gover, who was, for the first time, to address @ large assembly. He commenced reading the opening bymn, bot as be proseeded, his voice faltered, and be concluded with difficuity. He eat down, pleaded inabshty to proceed with the other exercises, which the Doctor sere y conducted in his siead. , When questioned after church a8 to the cause of his strange Q¢ havior, ho replied that he felt ashamed to acknowledge the truth; but it’ was, to use his Own expression, * those great, black, piercing eyes in the broad aisle, that frightened every idea fcom my bead.” And be knew not till he was then told, that Daniel Webster was ® member of the coagre- ation i [From the Qourier and Enquirer, Ost, 26 } Wellington and Webster! The mightiest man of the old worldand the mightiest man of new. It has inceed been stravgely ordered that they both should be lying simultereously, on the opposite shores of that great sea which divides the two homispheres, dead’ and yet unsombed It would seem as if it were meant to teach mankind some new lesson of their kindred blood and their common destiny—that bumanity thould be made to look upon ti sad throujed eye” and ‘chill changeless brow’ of her regal children, and tha‘, deep auswering to deep, all nature sbould teke up her wild lament and joia ia one universal wail of sorrow. I: is the hand of Him “*who bringeth the prinocs to nothing, who maketh the judges of the earth aa vanity.” The Jast sad rites of both are approaching. The lifeless form of each is about to be borne to the tomb. But howdifferent the scone! At Marehfivid the small circle of villagers wil! aasemble, simple in garb and grave in mien, and yet with boarts that they could pour ous like water for him they loved. The village pastor will, with broken utterance, put ah one child-like, heart-felt supplication to Him who doeth all things well; meek voices will uaite in the singing of some sweet village hymn; the village bell will toll from the old weather stained belfry; and all that on earth remains of Dantol Webstor will be carried out onthe shoulders of men, and amid a silence, broken only by soba that will not be repressed. and the low murmur of the neighboring waves, will be lowered into the nar- tow hbvase which is to be their everla resting place. At Walmer Castle, august deputies from the throne will take the body trom its bier of and convey it in well-plamed hearse, stately and slow, to the mighty metropolis of the empire. Ita entry will be the triumphal entry of a conqueror, like to those coronation pomps which erst were wit- nessed at Westminster or at Roeims. [t will bs a epectac'e most dazzliog to the eye and most impos- ing to the imagination. Nothing which the present, or the past can contribute toits magnificence, will bo wanting. Westminster Abbey, the metropolitan temple of all that is great and glorious of Britisn history for a thousand years, will be the seat of the funeral service And never have itsatoried wiadows looked upon a more gorg:ous spectacle than will be presented by the Queen in her royal robes: the peers in golo and ermine; the judges in their vest- ments of state; the belted knightw in their stalls; and all the array of genius, and rank, and beauty, gathered from all partsof the mighty British realm 1p one dense mass about the sarcophagus of Arthur, Duke of Wellington. And never has that embowed root echoed, from ae organ and full voiced choir, strains of loftier beauty, sublimity, and triumph, than will then wave throagh the sable reots, such as England has not often witnos- sed. From Westminster to St. Paul’s will move a procession, glittering in the sun like one broad stream of martial glory. It will be like the page- ant that bore Monk to the tomb in the seventeenth, Marlborough inthe eighteenth, and Nelson in the nineteenth contury—and yet more magnificent than they all It will be a great national solemnity, in which evory service, every officer of the state, every institution of the nation, every remnant of ancient | chivalry, will act its part. Amid the booming of | cunnon, the tolling of bells, the olangor of trampeta, the}tramping of squadrons, and the wild tumultuous beating of millions of hearts, the illustrious dead will enter his mausoleum like a recognized emperor of his race. . [from the Commercial Advertiser, Ost 25 | Mr. Webster, we believe, was not at the time of his death, a member of any religious denomination. In the early part of his life, he was in connection with the Presbyterian Church. We know that he had high regard for a public profession of religion in others, and rejoiced when such showed their fidel- ity to their professions by a corresponding life. Some years ago, we had the pleasure of spending teveral days incompany with Mr. Webstor. at thy residence of a mutual friend, Harvey Ely, Esq, at Rochester. During that intercourse, we had moro than one opportunity of conversing on religious sub- jects—sometimes on doctrinal points, but more gene- rally on the importance of the Holy Scriptures, a8 containing the plan of man’s salvation, through the atoncment of Christ. Sofar as our knowledge of | the subject extends, Mr. Webster was as orthodox as Any We evor conversed with. | On one occasion, when seated in the drawiug- room with Mr and Mrs. Ely, Mr. Webster laid his salen with groat empbasia, ‘* is tke book!’ This led to a con- yereation on the importance ef the Ssriptares, and the too frequent negloct of the study of tho Bible by gentlemen of the legal profession, their pursuits in life lending them to the almost exclusive study of works baving reference to their profession. Mr. Webster enid, “I have read chrough the entire Bible many times. J now make a practice to go through it oneo a year. It is the book of all others for law- yers ag well as for divines; and I pity the man that cannot find in it a rich supply of thought, and of rules for his conduct; it fits man for life—it pre pares him for death.” The conversation then turned upon sudden deaths; and Mr. Webster adverted to the then resent death of his brother, who expired saddgnly at Concori, N. H. ‘My brother,” he continued, ‘‘knew the im- portance of Bible truths The Bible led him to prayer, and prayer was his communion with (iod. On the day on which he died, he was engaged ee at this cause, important as it was, did not keep him from his duty to his God ; he found time for prayor, | for on the desk which he had just left, was fouod paper written by himon that day, which, for fer- yent piety, a devotedness to his Hosyenly Master, and for expressions of humility, | think was never | | excelled.” Mr. Webster then mentioned the satisfaction he had dorived from the preaching of certain clergy- men, observing that ‘*mon were 89 constitutod that we could not sllexpect the samo spiritual benefit under the ministry cf the same clergymon”’ He rs- grotted that there was not more harmony of fooling among professors genorally, who bolioved in the great truths of our common Christianity. Difference | of opinion, he admitted, was proper; but yot, with that diffidenco, the main objects should be love to God--love to our fellow creatures. In all Mr Web- ster’s conversations he maintained true catholicity of fecling This briof ekotoh of Mr. Webster's religious viows we givo from memory ; we know that it is correct in substance, for his remarks made an imprcasion upon our mind that cannot be effaced. | Toasters of all The Effect of Me. W HomemArrangemes ster’ Death at his 4 for the Obsequics AT MARSHFIELD, | Marshfield, the residence of Mr. Webster, is about, thirty miles south-east of Boston, in the couaty of Plymouth, Some time before his death, Mr. Webster ex- pressed his wish that his remains should ba deposi- ted in a tomb on the soil of Marshfield ; and such & receptacle be prepared for himsolf and family, a! @ cost of atleast one thousand dollars. It ocoupica the summit of a commanding bill, overlooking the ocean and the site of the first church over built iv Marebfield. and is cuclosed with an iron paling [y | wae stated by a gentleman who visited this eacrod spot in soapeny with Mr. Webster, that the only words which he uttered during the visit wore ut tored while pointing to the tomb and the green | sward, and were as follows :-— ‘This will be my home, and here three monuments will | foon be erected; one for the mother of my children; one. | each, for Julis and Edward; and there will be pleuty of room Jn front for the little ones that mnst follow them. MR. WEBRTER’S DIBRASE We received lnat evening, says the Boston Courier | | gether in their death as in their life. Mr. Webster's physiol va :-- Monpay Apreasoow. 53g P.M. Ont 25, 1862, Eprrons oF vie Counien :—Geatlom you for pndjiestion the result of the post maiem exarnt- wationof the body of lion. Daniel Webster, mide this day at MarshGeld. Respetfally your abtivat servaa’, JOUN JERR RUBS, THK Post MORTEM | Tt was found that Mr Webster died of disease of the li The immediate eruse of death beworrhsge from the srcomach and bowels, owing to a morbid stare of the blood, ooasequan’ upon the above disease. Daere was also tropsy on tha abdo- men. The Courier says that Mr. Webster’s faneral will | take place on lriday next at 12 o'clock §=©Noswith standing the wish expressed by the deceased for a private interment, it is probable re will bo avery crowded attendance on tha owasion. A prasite knowledge of the facilities for proseadivg to Marsh field may save much insenveniense to many indi viduals who pnrpove attending at tho faveral Tho Old Coleny Railroad, from Boston to Plymouth, throogh Kingston, paesos about ten miles frou Mr Webster's house; but the moans of conveyauce from the railroad to Marshfield are ecanty and uncertain The sates: method will be to proceed by wher! oar- riage at once to Marshfield on Thorsday. Visivers will undoubtedly be able to obtain lodgings with the hospitable farmers of Marsbfivid and Daxbary The Effect Elsewhere, AT BOBTON BOARD OF ALDERMEN, Agrecably to a call from the Mayer, a meeting of the Board of Aldermen was held this moruing. at 9 o'clock, in the City Hall, wheo the Mayor calied the Board ro order and addrosged them as fuilows : Gentlemen of the Board of Aldermen:—i bave called this special weetieg of the Board to porfora the painful duty of officially anuouncing to you the death of the Honorable Daniel Webatur, Secretary of Stare of the United States. He died calmly and Pescefally at bis residence in Marshfield, yesterday Pandey) morning, between the bours of two aud three o’clock, aud the country is overwhelmed with sorrow at this mournfni event. There are seasoas, gentlemen, when the heart ia too full for uttertace, and this is eminently one of them. [ shall aot, therefore, attempt to obtrude upon this solemn occa sion any poor words of my own, but leave to your Oe rere to adopt such measures as may be efitting, to testify the deep sense eatertained by the Board, and the isen8 Joss which has been sustained by this afflictive dis penration. As early as practicable after the aad in- telligence was received here, I caused tho bells of the churches to he tolled. to announce the event to the people. The Chair is now ready to receive any proposition that may be made. Alderman John P. Ober then arose and said :— Mr Mayor:—1 rise in conformity with the prompt ings of wy beart, to offer an order for tae appoint- ment of a» committee to report such measures as eball be appropriate to testify tho great respect and attachment we all of us feel for him whose loss wo now lsement—him whom we have ever regarded a4 tho pillar of our constitutional jiberty, aud as the friend of the oppressed in every nation—whose opinions aud sentiments will ever shed upou his name & lustre which cannot be obliterated. ee serrata Ober then offered the following resolu- PB: Whereas, His Honor the Mayor bas annouvced to this Board the death of che Hon Daniel Webster, Secretary of Btate of the United States therefore— Resolved, That this information is received by us with the most profound feelings of respect and veneration for the illustrious character of the deceased, and with the deepest griet fer the lores whieh bas bern sustained by the caure of Dumanity and true constitutional liberty through- out the werld. Retolved. That while in common with thy whole Ame- rican people we feel the death of Mc, Webster to be a great nations] calamity, we cannot but also feel that the inhabitants of this city of his early adoption, and with whom for nearly halfe century hie name and fame have deem s0 closely identified and fondly cherisned, this na. tional calamity is also a rad dome-tic bereavement. Revolved. That the City Council ina body will attend the funeral of Mr. Webster, wear crape on the left arm for the space of thirty days and that tho same badge of mourning for the illustrious deceased and for the same length of time be recommended to the citizens generally, Kesolved, That a joint rpectal comuitten be now ap- pointed to conelder and report forthwith what measures it ia expedient for the City Couseil to adept in further teatimony of tbat profeund respect and vemeration for the Memory of Mr. Webster which the whole commuuity £0 deeply fel. and derire publicly to express. Resolved, That the City Council, as the representatives of the people of Boston, tender to the fami'iy vs Mr, Web- ster their most eincere amd hesrtfcls rympstby in this Fearon of their deep sorrow and afiliction, and that « copy of there resolutions, under the seal of the cily, be trans- mitted to Mra. Webster and also to the President of the United States Alderman Sampson Reap seconded the resolu- tions, as follows—Tvere seems to be little occasion for any remarke at the present time from any mom- ber of this Board) The news of the death of Mr. Webster is now rapidly flying to the remotest ex- | tremity of the country, and the heart of this nation is at this moment filled with the same feelings and | thoughts with which our own minis are oosu and these may perhaps be as well oxproesed by si- lence as by words. It seems to me to have been among the most fortunate events of the present mu- nicipal year that Mr. Webster received the unani- mous invitation of the City Council to address his | fellow-citizens in Faneuil Hall, and that this iovi- tation was accepted by We have reason to think that tbis occurrence was highly grate- ful to bis own feclings, as it was honorable to the City Council and acceptable to the citizens. The opportunity then afforded to tho members of this Board of presenting their respects to him finally, will always remain among their most cherished recollections ; and the citizens who were present at Faneuil Hali wil) tel! their children, and their child- ren’s children, that they then saw acd heard Dan- iel Webster. Could we at that time have furosven how soon he would leave us, what solemnity, whatin- | tensity of interest, would have been given to the oc- casion. The death, as well asthe birth, of distin- guished individuals forms an epoch in the history of nations, and of the world; and I have sometimes thought that there was a tendency in the providen- tial course of events for great mon to cluster to- However this may be, the presen’ year will be forever memorable in the annala of history for the death of distingaished men—men whose death caused a profound rensa- tion, not only throughout their owa country, but | I_ need only mention the | names of Henry Clay, the Duke of Wellington, and | throogbout the world Daniel Webster The resolutions were unanimously adopted. COMMON COUNCIL, Special meeting, the President, Mr. Gardoor, in | the chair. A message was received from the Mayor, accorpanyirg 4 action and resolutions of the Board of Aldermen. Mr. Gardner then made the follow- ing remarke:— Chis speciul meeting of the Council has been convened on a most solemn oozasion. The letter I hold in wy hand, from his Honor the May or, contains the offisial announcement that Duaiel Webster is no more. A great light is oxtinguished, and the world is the darker for it. There were three, differing in their intellectual tendencies, but tower- ing amid and above the great men of our land. And now the last und mightiest has left us Since most of us came upon the sphere of manhood, we bave looked to him in his meridian splendor, with Jove, and admiration, and devotion. Wo have lise tened to bis words of power; have studied his com- prehensive writings; and turned to him, not in vain, when doubt and darkness overshadowed the future But it is not we—not a State, or section, or party, whore loss alons is irreparable; our country weeps her ablest son; the Constitution its expouent and defend- er; the Upion, for which he perilled hopes and friends, esteem and love—the Union mourns its warmest ad- vocate. It was but yesterday, agit wero, that we asa body, him and heard him—heard that elo- uence which lives now but in memory, and ina few short years will be historic oniy. The words of the world’s groat poet apply to him — “That when he speaks, ‘The sir, a chartered libertine, is atill, And tbe mute wonder lurking iu mea’s ears ‘To steal his sweet and honied sentences.” The joins special committee of the City Counc’ who were authorized by an order of this date to con- sider and report what further mesures should be adopted to testify the love this city and our country has svstained, in the recent decease of the Hon. Daniel Webster, having attended to that duty, sub- mit the following report:— First, That in addition to the measures suggested in the resolutions already adopted, the committee recom- mend that the balls of both branches of the city govern- ment, together with Faneuil (Tall, be shrouded with om- blems of mourning, such emblems to remain for the space of three months. Second, That the American flag be immodiately dis. played at belt mast upon City Hall, on Faneuil flail, and upon the flog staff on the Common, and remain auring the day time every day until after the faneral of Mr, Webster shail have taken place and that morchants end ‘ls in port he requested to display their o- at half mast ducing the same time. ‘hird, That on the day set apart for the faneral, all public business be suspended, that the citizens be re- quested to close theif pluces of business during the day. that signal guns be tired on the Common ani on Biar stone rquare every fifteen minutes. commencing at sun- Tie and coutinuiog until the hour xed for the perform. | gpce of the ceremonies, when minute guns be fired for one hour, and during that hour all the bells in the city to ‘be tolled Fourth, That an evlogy on the life, character, and public kervices of Mr. Webster be pronounced before the government and city of Boston in Fanon!) Hall by such Individual, et euch time and attended by such ceremonies asthe committes hereinetter recommended to be op pointed rball determine Fitth, That a committee convicting of the Board ot Mayor and Aldermen, the President of the Uommon Council and one member of the Uounell from each ward, bo appointed as a committers of arrangements with fuli power to carry into effrot the foragoing recommendation. und to take euch other aytion in tho premises as anid | committee sball deem expedient and proper COURT OF COMMON FLEAS. At the opening of the Court of Common Pleas this morpirg, Hon JobnC Park, County Attorney, rore and epoke follows jay it ar Honor, I rise with your permission to mal nouncement apd offer a motion. 1 do this partly at x 4 I enatose to | euerally. of the great | of yesterday, the following communication from | the request of my friends of tho bar, partly be | cause is is my duty, holding ths offies, for the time being, of Attorney fer the Commo alch ia these Courts, to notice ar occasion, on whion the | wealth, aa auch, has suffered an irreparable | ment. Daniel Webster; the patriot, rhe ja atesman, is no.more. | rise Go pronounce o | gorie, no eulogy! ‘This ix neisber tho t sion -nor am Piro man. Whea the avat | fallen from the mountain top—whea the hott bas cleft the forest oak—deep silence suc the shock, avd now the puslic pulse bar coased ita throbbings, and boly, silent awe it the bh tory when we shail awak t, and thea elog pour forth a nation’s feoliogs How « tands sympathize in the emotions of this hour! Tae Time will b news, lightning winged, has already pervaded the | ‘ continent. The fisherman on the backs pauses in his toil to echo back tho wail which reacaes hia | from the shore. ‘fhe trapper in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains catches 1t a is rolls asross tho poe Tho industry of the nation foela that # a3 Jost its best friend; and even on the thrones of | Barope, the monarche of tho old world tremble as | they fearn that that mastor spirit, which hus wield- | ed & moral power over the destinies of pa ious, more potent than their armed legions or their diplom stic machinery, now etands with prophets of old and aposties of truth, in bumble adoration before the throne of Omuipotence. Around us—in oar very midet--how everything speaks to us of him. Yonder monuments to Liberiy, baprized in the floods of his cloquenco—yonder Pil- gcim rock, consecrated by his lips, in the spirit of Puritan truth,—the very landmarks and to the sultry south west, are established ander his | wise, far seeing guidance Not a waterfall or cata. ract in all Now England, rendered useful to man- kind by those discreet measures which always met his cordial support, that did not seem oa yesterday’s holy morn to bave rolled its course seaward with @ more subdued and plaintive murmur Tae Indian, when hia chief goes on his lie pilgrimage to the spirit land, buries with him his war implements, his tomahawk and arrows. We, of a Unristain faith, bury far away from our chief the barbed ar- rows of political strife and party raveor, ani gaze with mournful gratitude en the couutless benstits which ho bas conferred upon us. Three-core years and ten be has been spared tous Thirty, at fest, of the number he has been leaving the impress of bis gigantic intellect upon every prominent measure which has conduced to our country’s advancement and prosperity. But I forbear ‘Tue glorious sua has tet. Unelouded to the last, its latent beans were of meridian splendor, and the twilight of good influences which it leaves wiil enture forever. May it please your Honor—I feel sure that the Court will concur with the bar in believing that there Halls of Justice, from whica we are to miss those eloquent tones, that impressive form, should for s time be loft to meditative silence Tho old, who bave met him in the arena of forensic wur- fare; the middle-aged, who have lost in him a kind friend and willing counsellor; the young, who have tat at his foot and drunk in lessons of deep wisdom from hia lips; and even the youog struggling stu- dent, who, while ho fully realises the picvure of the et, Poel rraud fuclle emergunt quonum vestutibus obstat Ren angusta domi,” ‘et revived his drooping spirits with the remem- rance of the perseverance and eventual success of the New Hampehire farmer's boy. All, all unite to mourn our loss. I now move the Coar:, that this Court be sdjourned for suoh interval as the propor discharge of our public duties may permit Judge Perkins very briefly responded, remarking that ag it was understood further proceedings re- lating to Mr. Webster's death would tae plase in the Cirouit Court to-morrow, he would add nothing to what had been said, and in acvordance with the wishes of the bar, he would adjourn tho Court to TREY The Boston Bee of Mister phic despatch was received last evening, by Mr. Dasara: from the Hon. C Conrad, acting Becretary of S:ate, to the effect that the President regrets that his public engagemeats qiil not allow him to be present at the obse quies of tho illustrious deceased bs ; having: been auputed pV et Ball Hughes, the rculptor, having been nie for i i i af ovsvon, by some, distinguished ities atch of the Hon. o Weer, Yor the purpose of executing a full aay : statue of the late fluttrious statesman, During the meeting of the Webster executi vs com- mittee, a proposition was made that the Webster men recommend a dollar subscription, to defray tho expense of a colorsal atatue of the Defender of the Constitution, to be placed on the Common, or some other suitable and public locality, | ‘ A public meeting will be held in Fanouil Hall, Boston, to-day, to take mearures for the erection of says that a tele Mr. Webster. NEW YORK. MUETING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BAR, Alarge and highly influential meeting of the mem- ders of the New York bar, embracing men of all po- litical feelings, assembled in the United States Circuit Court room yesterday brief to express their regret at the loss the country and Pp by the death of Daniel Webster. The whig. the demociat, and free soiler, ure alike sensible of the hich morits of the departed statesman, and vie with each other in the ex- protsion of their admiration of the transcendent genius that is now from among them. The Hon. ’Samuel Jones, ex-Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court, was called on to preside. ‘Meners. B. W. Bonney ond K. C. Benedict were re- ted to act as recretaries. "Mir, Braruse raid—L believe, Mr. Chairman, that some 4 by & committee of the resolutions have been prepare par, which I wieb may be read at this tims I believe | they are in the bands of Mr. William Evarts. If they are in his poseession, he wil be good enough to read | them. At the request of the President, Mr. William Evarts then read the following resolutions:— Resolved, That the bar of New York have heard with profoundest grief of tho death of Daniet Websier, aud re- | apeetfully offer their condolence to the family of ime de- ceased upon this sad event | of his intellect, in the aulture and discipline of those pow- | ers inthe highest «phere of humsen action snd tatluenge, in the fortune of great opportunities and the success of great achievemen's, Daniel Webster stands first among the men of bis day and generation, and his name and his fame will be a treasured possession to his country forever. Resolved, That while the great abilitjes, thorough und extensive learning. powerful and splendid eloquence, of Mr, Webster, oal) forth our highest admiration, the vast | public lebors and eminent public rervices to whioh, for | half a century he bas devoted those noble gifce aud largo | acquirements, from @ love of country so pure aud enthu- siastic, Lave imposed a great debt of gratituas upon his counts ymen, which they and their posterity, to the latest generation can never, by the fullest tribute of affection, respect and honor to his memory, tco deaply acknowledge Kerolved. That we feel a juss pride ia the Kaowledye that the foundations of Mr. Webster's atness were laid in the learning and di-cipline of the profession of the that the first triamphs of bis fame were gaiaed in its arena, and that throughout along life he ever ooaored | it and its votaries; and that we esteem his uniform sup rt of the constituiion and the laws ofthe land, his Pabitual reverence to the judicial tribunals, and bis per. | petual efforts to surtatn, extend, iluminate and defend | the administration of justice among men in the sevecal epheres of murscipal. constitutional and international | law, one of the chief glories of his character, and ous of | the most lasting elements of his renown Resolved, Thut. to the glory of bis life, the manner of his death Was a fit and majestic close. amd jeaves no | ground of lamentation for his sake who has departed, but for his country only, and the cause of constitutional lib- arty. to which he is lost forever ; Resolved, That in testimony of respect for his memory, such of eur number as may be £0 deputed by the cher. | man of this meeting, do attend his faneral. as reprewnta- tives of our body, and that fo all wear the usual badge | of mourning. ‘J.W Staruessald—Mr President, I move the adoption | of there resclutions. | go into an examination or pronotnse & eulogy apon the eharacter of Mr. Webster, andif it were, Lam not the , Baptodoit J cannot but temark, however. sir, that a grevt man has failen among us—a “ great man has fallen in Israel’ in this republic. Ue was great, eir, in his intellec- tual powers; he was great in bis moral and physical powors; he was gifted by nature beyond most men; but, fir, this was only the foundation of the cnarnotor waich he finally reared. He bad not only great tateltigence, bat great industry; and Jet it be remombered by all, that the gifts of nature are of very little importance unless he who possesees them gives to them a right direction, and follows up that direciion with industry. The differs: between men {4 principally the difference im thelr ind try and the direction of their efforts, Lknew Mr We ster, sir, very early in Jifo, At the commence the Jate war with Gres# Britain, I wasin the Legislature of Connecticut; and be appeared from the Kastern port of the Union on that same subject It led me, | tir, to investigate the conree he was pursu- ing, and led me to an intimate knowledge of his character and his virtues, which I might otherwise not have had. 1 have been from that time to the present his warm, hix devoted, his attached filend—but not his blind friend or mipion. ‘J often consulted with him, and never ‘without being greatly ealightened, and greatly strengtls ened in every valuable purpore I have only to remark that the time will come when his obaracter will be se forth, I trast. ro this nation. wnd ict him who undertakes it remember that he is to esudy most profoundly the chs racter of that man before he enters upon che duties of a | historian. Then his character may be se; forsi in such a manner as to be of lastiag benedt to all who may be pre- vent to read it, and & lasting benefit to posterity I will not longer trerpass upon the time of thin mooring Mr Thinaat Keronum ssid —E beliewe, sir. tust che offices this day belong loss to grfef and vorrow than to cougta lation and joy, Jt is true, wir. that our flastri uy coun tryman, Daniel Webster, is no more among tna livlog: Dut it is & subject of copgratula!ion that he was peruittud to paes the ordinary period of human life—toat he was permiited to die as he bad for thirsy years lived, in the service of bis country. That be was permitted to dio in Lis own home, and ‘on bis own bed, turroanded by bis family and bi nde, I think it is a eabjese of congeat- ulation to us that Mr. Webster lived long enoush to nd enperviro his own works aud give taom to v Othe: grest mon of our country, perhaps, lived rather in tradition; but Daniel Webster lives ona record prepared by bimself—s reeord whiob discloses cloar as light hie political, his moral and hts religious priasi- ples; aod that record contalos mo word which dying he | might wish to blot out. nor any of his frieads might wish tonee (raged He bus lived, sir, to propare his owo mont | ment, There it stands, and there it will stand forever. | The rock upon which the pilgrims of New-Faelacd first | kopremed thelr footsteps is destined to long remem. boundaries of our land, from the bleak north east | @ monumont or statue, or geome similar memorial, of | rofeasion have suxiained | Resolved. That in the large onpacities and varied powers | I¢ is not fliting timo or occasion to | mt of | brance among men, but nr \ which was pronoa te “ > hundred yours aft which shows the spot revolution was fough | granite ever stood but obliternted will the one! of laying the corner ste a. whlet was dels ++ 1 Web © fo tell Chat mush «+ 0f Joba Adams. soe long aad the Inet teooeds | wese (hem kaown a vet they weee the fo att hope, wad sous station of oar hoow that the sad ecommen- “ long a the vooa earth, Mr. tor bit ge 8 I ory ~L mj for bs euntey—C might 6 thall be « Pp not Apenk | might refer to the enplral«t | torvery Important instivuti v refer to every great pam ° ouatey Gane e | living or the dead. aud ray that tt m-tication aad neme have been embatmed ts (o~+toquenceot Daniel Webter, Mr, President. [ srsit \ cuvy che attention of this meeting but a very few moves in speaking of what I know of tue pertsusl character of Mr. Webster. I have lorg bro sw qualoted with | him, and from ail thas f aod from al) thet T have reen sad head | wee testimony here today that Daniel Webster, a+ « gublic man, wase man Of the highest integrity 1" «1 #«y« seamed to meas | it be acted under the imu» « ovtotion, that what. | (ner Ee SE Wat Bet Only lo be Kav ee to biy Own genera tion but to posterity. He regu-ied v at toal power im his own hands asa trust and thoush « weys willicg amd de- rirour to gratify his friends. tt o» suld, he never felt bimeelf at foerty for an in-ianr y private means, to violate his great trust ib. kvowa “ir. Webster in | private cireles, and in domest's ite and ( bear teatimony | bere today that though | ha: rec-ived muititudes | of letters from bim, whioh + n id @ born destroyed by bi ort confidential and friend y a had the pleasure of nd at the festive bow en long—I benr testy 10 dey, that never | im my life did I hear an improper (nought or profane ex- presiom come from the lip Wel Webster; and I bear further testimony, tuwt \ tn writing or in my hearing. did he ever » private character. | No man was ever slandered—n + wes over spoken il) ot by Daniel Weleter A ( tov bar bear testimony, that never in my life bave ration was uniformly #0 unex) upiformly #0 edifying in i | Mr, Chairman, I muy say further, that no powesved greater ton- Gerneen of feeling fe aw * bad an hse ony we vil can bear witness that he b: che most malignant character—but he if he came to him be would nvr v yet had ap enemy thet Webster was without thew which was untrue; but the, public again and ngain, and uo friend of his cap Tegret the fect if they hav boon ex: Mr. President. it was one of 4. > sesolerisdos of Mr ‘Webster. that he abhorred all «it-s1otn Leake ploasure in saying here to-day, that th» uit eration which fs Loa fersed by many profesional yo srg i-u, of saying things without preparation, and rpeskin. ou the spur of the Cccarion, without previous thougnt 456 an affectation of all others which Mr Web-ter uvs)tod tle never spoke witheut previous thought. (4 n-vee spoke without laborious preparation, and his venerable friend who | early knew him, has said tout o- ea: iadastrious to the lastextreme In early life wheo or Webster first came from college. when he had fir-t a-sumed the part of the rincipal of an academy in New Kugisod. it was predicted & intelligent men of that pase v4, t+ qould be even~ tually the first maninthocoun'ry hea he mee his first important ¢) hat ths bar f hi native Stat judge. on returning home sald. “I "se beard an arg ent from a young man to-day, who «ill be the first man in America.” Although thon» yredistions were early and confident—not that be would be = great maa, not that he would be a distinguish-a na, for the prediction always was that he would be the first mun {a the eountry —nlthough those prediction» were uumerous, and early and constant, yet Mr. Webster always devoted great attention to’ what he bid t nay to the puplic. I beve often thought, from my «+ .tutance with Mr. ‘Webster, that, it other men could think #0 long, and think so closely and 80 profuuouly ss he did, thet their yubl.¢ efforta would be equal to his, for I have never own in my lifea man who mid+ rush preparation for to say before @ cour: the Senate. or the Daniel Webster. Ge oid ot ching he head any ‘offer cavemnporaneous thunu7's bfore ® multi- jude, no matter who they were ‘4 though: that he was to drece bimrelf in his best garmen «. that he was to ap- ar and deliver his best thoughts if men wouldsit tohear 1d hence it happened 1+ ‘Le course ef Mr, Web- rey ey ry len pele Gave -noughts which wera istemed to, On trad | Wan eee eee could Pasi, wowt be did aay Wes reed more than the documents of any wsa woo was his com- peer, Itseems to me proper to maxe there comarks in this time and place, for the broetis of all my hear- ers, and copectally for the beanas of the young. | It must be admitted. whether tt 1s vo bo reckoned his virtues or his weaknerses that varicl Webster was ‘an ambitious men, He wasa very om nitions man tothe | | last hour of bis life. He destied « high poettion. and his ambition was to surpass crery #tber man who had been in the same tion, He Inbored to accompiith that event. i with great metduity to ec- ‘complith result; aud eherher he has Deen successful, posterity sil dec'de, That he | labored to fill the bighert porition im thie coum- , iv @ fact not to be dented. Cost bs thought that tition worthy of his ambition is «t,ot mt to be denied. | That be thought he bad carved a claim to that | is @ fact not to be denied, and it denied, that becaure that ciaim | days were shortened. Mr Pre-isent I came not here | blame or to censure, but I esma & speak Lilian pa | are. Whether what has beem aon+ has been wail done not for me to ray, or what bas b- omitted. bas been well omitted, it is not for meto ony. Mr Uhsirman, | I take my seat, may I be peru ted to ray, that Lam nota man worshipper, I have ivepiy sympathized | im that destre which be bad to be first ‘in political | station im the United States - | thought, in word. and inact. [ | thy into the Ist hour of hin e: honor in it, I desire that honor | may come after me; if there ix ling that dirgrace should be vini | Mr. P. B. Cortixe then roe fow words expressive of my +! eloquent manifestations of rerp: Daniel Webster which we have hard this morning Une of the great lights of this worig bax been extinguished. | and this community, ag well as ths res: of the republic | stand awe stricken by the sudd-ouss and greatness of the bereavement. AS a lawyer, «+ all c moode Mr. Web- | ster to buve been the first among the first; ae an eloquent and great debater upou grest constitutional | questions, he stood unrivalled, «s # ripe, sound, and accomplished scholar. upsurpayed : as a statesman, | we must accord to him the med of the loftiest patriot. | ism, which rose with emcrgoncies aud was always oqaal | to exigencles, regardless of tow 1 fluence or effeot thes it might have produced—and most ewrtaoly did produce— | upon bis own private prosorers =f ‘biuk toast he mast possess something Jees than the Aus ican heart, who, when an evil like this has transpired. can hesitate to give to Mr. Webster the tribute of the very highest resovet that words can announce. It fs not my purpose, Mr. Chairman to prolong this mer'ing —L may simply. how. ever. be permitted to aay, that it must ov a soures of com— gratulation to all bis friends and co all munity, that during bis lat dytog throes, the apgui-h and agony of » we should find exhibited duriog tho: fame traits of a lofty spirit that he has community The digai dignity of his death | this community wh by party prejaclice | or by political bins that will not give their fallest, their most entire, and their most rincere concurrence in sentiments of profound reapoct that this vast meeting of his tellow members of the bar Lure aesembled this morn- tog have expressed. r. Kerenum then offered the following : Resolved, That every member of the bar. andl every student at law, be respectfully req sted to joia im such ceremony as may be ordered by th» corporate sathorities | of this city to testify thetc respect to the memory of the | late Mr. Webster. ‘The chairman put the question and the resolutions | were carried anan The meeting then | PROCREDINGS OF THLE tring Dature, that lent moments the pollosophy aad a Christian hibitedy «o frequently t» this nulled by the t there ia no one im WEBSTER GENERAL NEW YORK. Committees Boosts, ) New York. October 26, 1853. f At & moeting of the Webster General Committee of New York, held at thelr rooms in this city. at tbe Stuyvesant Tos fiute, on Monday evening. the 2sth inst., the follow. | ing resolves were unanimously adopted :— ‘The death of Daniel Webster is :o us an occasion of | apeechlesa sorrow, and the tribute das to his to be rendered rather by the veiling thaa the expression of | emotions. Our tears are mingird with thove of a nation | who loved him more then t koew, and leaned uy is true, unvanquisbed arsa. sh a trust of whieh were unconscious till its removal. The national loss is fel. to be one which Ompi-cienes alone cam measure, When perilons distensions atice wichin, of rumors of ware disquiet us from without, we shell hereafcer feel that Webster is gone. upen whom we were wont to repose the whole burden cf patriotic anxinty, 21 up 8 god—one | eoven times tried. and never found wanting. COMMITTEE oF t 4 | In one renee the stupendons calamity fails alike upon ry inbabitant of the republic, which has owed ite | vonse it fays upon the fai | ing @ light that cheered & dawn of real jiberty. jm distant macions. under the whole heaven Bul to those who knew aod loved him, | snd rejoiced in bis glory—who hav been assustomed through life to look to bis lips for poiities! wisdom, and | to rely on his unfathowed reson ces fur assurance in every public emergeucy—who bad o'rished his mages. nimous character a9 their ideal of excellense ant stood by him as the foremost of maokiat. regaroless of party, interest or obloquy, to the lat -to these. to as the lose of Daniel Webster ina personal dervarement, similar to | no other aud attended by cvnsiderations ot moaraful re | gret, mottiptied and peouliar But ie becomes the mournera of our tilasteions friend to contemplate bis death ta the light with witch bis owe subline example has invested It aod co thxok God, who made bim in His own image that bis transceadaat quall- thes were preserved to crown bis life with © dying #0 ‘worthy of 1t~ so satisfastory to the dearest wishes of the friend, the pat in ane surance ofa better re-urrection him forget render thanks thet 1 way gracted him throvgh his owa rast racritics and labor to reatisn own memorable prayer, and with bi last feeble and lim aa ensign of the repubtie gering glance behold the gorgeo - till Toll advanced Ifa acmeaed trop! atroami in their ot eioal latte et one atripe erased or ted, nor & single star obect tt beeen Te eith bamitlation to implore, and in the strepgth of truth to hope. that the counsels aad charac- ter of the great departed may now be effvetuaity pondered by bis people. That delusion end corruption may recsive more fatal overthrow from bis death bed than qromall the sels of bis fame, abd that, elthough we may to