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with faltering voice, sometimes im the presence of t-atvemblies, where the tide of general emotion made it 'ul, to express his “ affectionate vere- ration of him who reared aud defended the log | cabin in which his elder brothers and sisters were born, against savage violence and destruction ; cherished all the domestic virtues bencath its roof, aud through the fire and blood of some years of reyo- tionary war, shrank from po danger. no toil, no sacrifice, to serve h's country, and to raise his chil dren to a condition better than his own.” Equally beautiful was bis love of all his kindred. When I hear him accused of seldzhness, and a cold, bad nature, I recall him lyiag sleepless all night, not without tears of boyhood, conferring with E2s- kiel how the darling devire of both hearta should be compassed, and be too admitted to the precious pri- vileges of education, courageously pleading the cause of both brothers in tae morning, by the wise and discerning affection of the mother, suspending his stugies of the law, and registering deeds and teaching school to earn the means of avail- ing themeelves of the opportunity che parental self- | pacrifice had placed within their reach--loving him through life, mouruing him when dead, with a love aud a sorrow very wonderfil—passing the sorrow of woman. I recall the husband, the father of the living and the early departed, the friend, the counsellor of many years. and my heart grows too full and liquid for the refutution of words. #schines, thundering against his great rival— vulnerable here, exclaimed—‘‘It is imposible that the unvatural father—the hater of his own blood— should be an able, faithful leader of his country—that the mind which is insensible to the intimate and aegis influence of domestic affection, should be alive to the remote inflaence of patri- otic feeling—that private depravity should subsist with public virtue” But our Demosthenes was unassailiuble by such denunciation. *Well might he be strennona im his oo Who owned the charities for whose That eonntry, if at el!, mnst he helo His affectionate nature, craving ever friendship, a8 cause, well as the preeence of kindred blood, diffused itself j through all his private life, gave sincerity to all his bespitalities, kindness to his eye, Warmth to the pres- sure of his hand, made his greatness and genius un- bend themselves to the playfulness of childhood, flowed out in graceiul’ memories indulged of the past or the dead, incidents when jife was young and promised to be happy, gave enerous sketches of rivals, the high ‘conten- nm now hidden by the handful of earth, hours pasced fifty years ago with great authors, recalled vow for the vernal emotions which then they made to live and revel in the soul. And from these con- versations of friendship, n0 man—no man, old or joung—-went away to remember one word of pro- faneness, one allusion of indelicacy, one impure thought, ene uabelieving suggestion, one doubt cist on the reality of virtue, of patriotism, of enthusiasm. of the progress of man—one duubt cast on righte- ousness, or Le araR Cy or judgment to come. Every one of his tastes and recreations announced same type of character. His love of agricul- ture, cf sports in the open air, of the outward world in starlight and storms, and sea and bound- less wilderness—partly a result of the influ- ence of the past fourteen years of his life, perpetuated like its other affections and its otber lessons of @ mother’s love, the psalms, the Bi- ble, the stories of the wars, partly the retarn of an unsophisticated and healthful and genial nature, tiring, tor a space, of the idle business of political life, its distinctions, its artiticialities, to eraloy ea to sensations which interest without agitating the universal race alike, as God has framed it, in which one feels himself only a man fashioned from the earth, set to till it, appointed to return to it, yet made in the image of his Maker, and with a spirit that shall not die. Lhave learned, by evidence the most satisfactory and precive, that, in the Jast months of his life, the whole affectionatencss of his nature, his considera- tion of others, his gent'eness, his desire to make them happy and to see them edi py, seemed to come oat in more and more beautiful and habitual ex- restion than ever before. ‘The long day's public ks were felt to be doue—the cares, the uncertain- ties, the mental conflicts of high place, were ended, and he came home to recover himself for the few we which he might still expect would be his efore he should zo hence to be here no more; and there I am assured and fully believe no unbecoming | Nee pursued Lim, no discontent, as for injustice | fered or expectations unfulfilled; no self-reproach | for. anything done or anything omitted by him-elf; no irritation, no peevistnees unworthy of his noble nature, but instead love and hope tor his country, when she became the subject of conversation, and for | all around him, the dearest and tbe most Indifferent, , for all breathing things about him the overfiow constant growing in geutleness aud benevolence of | the kindest heart, parental, patriarchal affections, seeming to become move natural, warm, and comma- | nicative. Softer aud yet brighter grew the tints on | the eky of parting day, and the last lingering rays, Irore even than the glories of noon, announced how divine was the source from which they proceeded, | how ineapable to be quenched, how certain to rise | on a morving which no vight should follow. Such a character was made to be loved. It was loved. ‘Those who knew and saw it in its hour of | calm—those who could repose on that soft green, | Joved him. His plain neighbors loved him; and one | gaid, when he was laid in bis grave, ‘ How lone- | some the world seems!” Educated young men loved him. ,The ministers of the gospel, gentle- | men of intelligence of the country, the masses afar off, loved him. True, they had aot found in his speeches, read by imitlions, so much adulation | of the people; so much of the music which robs the | public reason of itself; so many phrases of humanity | and pi end some had told them he | was lofty and ,cold—solitary in his greatness; but every year they came nearer and nearer to him, aud | as they came nearer they loved him better; they , beard how tender the son hed been, tae husband, the brother, the father, and the friend and neighbor ; that he was plain, imple, natural, generous, hospi- table—the heart larger than the brain ; that he loved | little children and reverenced God, the Scriptures, the Sxbbath day, the constitution and law—aud their hearts clave unto him. More truly of him than even of the great naval darling of England might it be said, thas “his presence would set the church- bells ringing, and give school-boys a holiday—would | brine children from school avd old men trom the cbimney corner, to gaze on him ere he died.” The Lied ané unavailing lamentation first revealed the leep place he had in the hearts of his countrymen. ‘ou are now to add to this hisextraordinary pow- er of influence the convictions and actions of others by specch, and you have completed the surve; of the means of his greatness. And here again begin by admiring and aggregate, made up of excel- leucies and triumphs, ordinari y deemed incompati- bie. He spoke with consummate ability to the bench, | and yet etd as, according to every sound canon | of tarte and ethics, the bench ought to be addressed. He spoke with consummate ability to the jury, and | yet exartly as, recording to every sound canon, that | tally different tribunal ought to be addressed. In the halls of Congress, befure the people assembled | for political discussion, in masses, before audiences smaller and more select, assembled for some solemn | commemoration of the past or dead; in each of these, again, his speech, of the first form of ability, was | exactly adapted also to the critical proprieties of the , lace. Each achieved, when delivered, the most lustant and specific success of eloquence, some of | them in aa tttal and remarkable degree, aud yet | stranger still, when reduced to writing as they fell | from his lips, they compose ® body of reading, in | many volumes, solid, clear, rich, and full of harmony, | a claesical and permanent political literature. | And yet all these modes of his eloquence, exactly | adapted exch to its stage and its end, were stamped , with his image and auperscription—identified by characteristics incapable to be counterfeited, aud | importible to be mistaken, The same high power | of reason, intent in every one to explore snd display | some truth—some truth of judicial, or historical, or biographical fact—some truth of law, deduced by | cepstruction, perhaps, or by illation—some truth of , policy, for want whereof nation, generations, may | te worse ; reason seeking and unfolding truth ; the same tone in all of deep carnestness, expros- | sive of strong desire that that which ho felt te | be important should be aceepted as true, and spring up to action—the same transparent, plain, | forcible and direct speech, conveying his exact | thought to the mind, not something less or more— the same sovereignty of form, of brow, and eye, | aud tove, and manner, everywhere the intellectual kiog of men, standing before you—that same m.: vellousness of qualities and resulta, resid i know not where, in words, in picture the ordering of ideas, in felicities indeceribi''!» >y means whereof, coming from his tongue, al) ‘iia seemed mended; trath reemed more true; probe \\ 7 more plausible; greatness more grand; g 88 1 116 awful; every affection more tender than when coming from other tongues,—these are in ail his eloquence. But sometimes it became individualized, and dis- eriminated even from himself; sometimes place aud circumstances, great interests at stake, a stage, an audience fitted for the highest historic action, a crisis, personal or national, upon him, stirred the depths of that emotional nature as the anger of the | goddess stirs the sea on which the great epic is be- | ginning; etrong "peat themselves kindled to in- | sity, quickened every Sacalty to a new life; the | #timulated associations of ideas bronght all treasures | of thought and pore within command, the | spell which often held his imagination fast dissolved, | and she arore and gave him to choose of her urn of | gold; earnestness became yehemence, the simple | Perspicuons; measured and direct har etn became | a headlong, full, and burning tide of speech; the dissourve of reason, wisdom, gravity, and beauty, ebanged to that deinotes, that rarest consummate elo- quence, grand, rapid, pathetic, terrible; the aliquid | tmmensum infinitumgue that Cicero might have re. cCognized: the master triumph of manin the rarest Opportunity of his noble power. uch elevation above himself, in congressional | debate, was most uncommon, Some such there | were in the great discursions of executive power following the removal of the deposits, whieh they who heard them will vever forget, and some of which rest in the tradition of hearers only. But there were other fields of oratory on which, under the influence of more uncommon springs of in- epiretion, he exemplified, in still other forms, an eloquence in which I do not know that he has had & tuperior among men. Addressing musses by tens of thousands in the open air, on the urgent po- litical qvertions of the day, or designated to lead the meditations of an hour devoted to the com- wemoration of some netional era, or some in- cident marking the progress of the na;ion, and lifting him up to @ view of what is and what is part. und some indistinct revelation of the glory thet lies in the futnre, or the death of some great historical name, just borne by the nation to his ic mb, we have learned that then and there, at the base of Bunker Hill, before the corner stone was laid, and again when from the finished column the centuries Jooked on him; in Fancuill Hall, mourning for those with whose spoken or written eloquence of freedom its arches so often resounded; on the rock of Plymouth; before the capitol, of which there ehall not be ore stone left on another, before his memcry shall have ceased to live—in such scenes, unfettered by the laws of furensic or parliamentary debate, multitudes uncounted lifting up their eyes to him; some great historical scenes of America around him, sll symbols of her glory aud art and power nd fortune there, voices of the past, not unheard; pes heckoning from the future, not unseen; some- tiwes that mighty intellect, borne upwards to a height and kindled to an Illumination which we shall see bo more, wrought out, as it were, in an instant, a p'cture of a vision, warping, prediction; the pro- gress of a nation; the contrasts of its eras; the he- roic deaths; the motives to putrioti-m; the maxims and arts imperial by which the glory has been gath- ered and may be heightened, wrought out, in an in- stant, a picture to fade only when all record of our mind shall die. 1 have reserved, until I could treat it as a separate and final topic, the consideration of the morality of Mr. Webster's public character and life. To his true fame, to the kind and degree of influence which that large series of great actions, and those embodied thoughts of great intellect are to exert on the future ~this is the all-important consideration. In the la-tspeech which he made in the Sevate—the last of those which he made, as he said, for the Constitu- tion and the Union, and which he might have com- mended. as Bacon his name and memory, ‘‘ to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and the next ages,” yet with a better hope he asserted—“ The ends I aim at shall be those of my country, my God, and troth.” Is that praise his? ; Until the 7th day of March, 1850, I think it would have been accorded to him by a universal acclaim, #8 general, and es expressive of profound and intel- ligeut conviction, and of euthasiasm, love, and trust, as ever saluted conspicuous stateamanship, tried by | many crises of affairs in a great nation, agitated ever by parties, and whelly free. ‘That he had admitted a desire to win, by deserv- ing them, the highest forms of public honor, maay would have said, and they who loved him most fondly, and felt the truest solicitude that he should cary @ good conscience and pure fame brightening to the end, would not have feared to eoncede. For he was not ignorant of himself, and he therefore knew that there was nothing within the Union, Constitution and law, too bigh, or too large, or too difficult for him. He believed that his natural or his acquired abilities, and his policy of administra- tion, would contribute to the true glory of America ; and he held no theory of ethics which required him to disparage, to suppress, to ignore vast capacities of public service merely because they were his own. If the fleets of Greece were assembling, and her tribes buckiing on their arms from Laconia to Mount Thrace, from the Cape of Sunium to the west- ervmost isle, and the great epic action was opening, it was not for him to feign iusanity or aay to ea- cape the perils and the honorof command. Butthat all this in him bad been ever in subordination to a principled ond beantiful public virtue; that every sectional bias, every party tie, as well as every per- soral aspiring, hud been uniformly held by aim for nothing against the claims of country; that nothing lower than country seemed worthy enough—nothing smaller large enough—for that great heart, would not have been questioned by a whisper. Ah! {fat any hour before that day he had died, how would then the great procession of the people of America—the greet triumphal procession of the dead—have moved onward to his grave—the sublimity of national sor- row, not contrasted, not outraged by one feeble voice of calumny! In that’ antecedent public life, embracing from 1812 to 1850—a period of thirty-eight years—I find grandest proofs of the genuineness and comprehen- | siveness of his patriotism, and the boldness and man- Tiness of his public virtue. He began his career of poe aa a federalist. Such was his father—so be- | loved and revered; such his literary and provessions! \ companions; such, although by no very decisive or certain preponderance, the community in which he ‘wes bred and was to live. Under that name of party he entered Congress, personally, avd by connection, opposed to the war, which was thoughi to bear with h extreme sectional severity upon the North and st. And yet, one might almost say that the only thing he imbibed from federalist or federalism, wa love and admiration for the constitution as the means of union. That poet he did from them inherit— that he cherished. He came into Congress, opposed, as I have said to the war—and behold him, if you woul] jadge of the quality of bis political ethics, in Ui ae Did thore eloquent lips, at a time of life when vehemence and imprudence aie expected, if ever, and not un- graceful, let fall even one word of faction? Did he ever deny one power to tie general government, which the soundest expositors of all creeds have allowed it? Did he ever breathe a syllable which conld excite a region, a Nader of States, | sgains; the Union—which could hold out hope or aid to the enemy?--which sought to turn or tended to check the tide of a new and intense na- tionality, then bursting up, to flow and burn till all things appointed to America to do shall be fulfilled? These questions,in their substance, he put to Mr. | Calhoun, in 1838, in the Senate, and that great | , Toan—sone of the authors of the war—jast then, only then, in relation to Mr. Webster, and who had just in- sinuated a reproach on his conduct inthe war, was silent. Did Mr. Webster content himself even | with objecting to the details of the mode in which the administration waged the war? No, indeed. | Taught by his constitutional studies that the Union was made in part for commerce, familiar with the habits of our long line of coast, knowing well how | many sailors and fishermen, driven from every sea by emburgo and war, burned to go to the gun-deck and avenge the Jong wrongs of England on the element where she bad inflicted them, his opposition to the war manifested itself by teaching the nation that the deck was her field of fame. Non illi imperium pelagi saccum que tridentum, sed nobis, sorte datum. But I might recall other evidence of the sterling aod unusval qualities of his public virtue. Look in how manly a sort he not merely conducted a parti- culer argument ora particular speech, but in how manly a rort, in how high a moral tone, be uniformly deult with the mind of his country, Politicians gct an advantage of him for this while he lived; let the dead have just praise today. (ur public life is a long electioneering, andeven Burke tells you that at popular elections the most rigorous casuists would remit something of their severity. But wherever do you find him flattering his Ciel dl indirectly er directly, for a yote? On what did he ever place him- | eelf but good counsels andgnseful service ? His arta | were manly arts, and he never saw a day of tempta- | tion when be would not rather fall than stand on any other. Who ever heard that voice cheering the peo- ple on to rapacity, to hcl to a vain Gud guilty | glory? Who ever saw that pencil of light hold up a picture of manifest destiny to dazzle the fancy? | tiow anxiously rather, in season and ont, by the en- ergetic eloquence of his youth, by his counsels be queathed on the eeircs a timely grave, he preferred to teach that by all possible acquired sobriety 0” mind, by Ltt gh ly ot the past, be Ad ath og to the law, by habits of patient and legitimate labor, by the cultivation of the mind, by the fear and wor- thip of God, we educate ourselves for the future that is revealing. Mon said he did not sympathise with the masses, because his phraseology was rather of an old and simple school, rejecting the nauseous and vain repetitions of hamanity and philanthropy, ‘and progress and brotherhood, in which may lurk hercsies 80 dreadful, of socialism or anti-socialism, or disunion or propagandism, in which @ selfish, hollow, and shallow ambition masks itself—the syren song which would lure the pilot from his couree. But I say that he did sympathise with them; and veeause he did he came to them not with adula- ‘oa, but with truth; not with words to please, but ith measures to serve them; not that Po dtd vinpathies were leas, but that his personal and in- aaa dignity and his public morality were | grenter. And on the 7th day of March, and down to the final scene, might we not still say asever before, that‘ all the ends he aimed at were his country’s, his God's, and truth’s.”” He declared, ‘I speak to day for the preservation of the Union. Hear me, for my cause. to-day out of a solicitous and anxious heart for the restoration to the country of that quiet and harmony which make the blessings of this Union so rich and so dear tous all. These are the motives and the sole motives that influence me.” If in that declaration he was sincere, was he not hound in conscience to give the counsels of that day? What were they ? hat was tho single one for which his politi aoe was called in ques- tion? Only that a provision of the federal constitu- tion, ordaining’ the restitution of fugitive slaves, should be executed according to its true meaning. This only. And might he notin good conscience keep the constitution in this part, and in all, for the preservation of the Union? Under his oath to support it, and to sae (a it all, and with his opinions of thet ge #0 long held, pro- | claimed unifcrmly, in whose vindication, on some great days, he lied found the opportunity of his per- | sonal glory, might he not, in good conscience, aup- eae it, and all of it, even if he could not, and if no | homen intelligence eould certainly know that the extreme evil would follow, in immediate eonse- | qnenee, its violation? Was it so recent a doctrine of bis, that the Constitution was oblij upon ‘he national ‘and individual consciences, you thould ascribe it to eudden and irresistibie tempta tion? Why, what had he, clear down to the 7th of March, that more truly individualized him—what bed be more cheracteristically his owa—where- withal bad be to glory more or other than all beside, than this very doctrine of the sacred and permanent obhgation to bupport each end all parts of that great conypact of union acd justice? Had not thia been his distinction, bis speciality—almost the foible of hie greatneae—the darling and master passion ever ? Consider that that was @ sentiment which had been part of bis conscious nature for more than sixty yearr—that from the time be bought his first copy of the Constitution on the handkerchief, and revered parents! lips had commended it to him, with all other holy and beautiful things, along with leasons of reverence to God, and the belief and love of His Scriptures, aiong with the doctrine of the catechism, the unequalled music of Watts, the name of Washing- ton —there had never been an hour that he had not held it the master-work ot man,—just in its ethics, consummate in its practical wisdom, paramount in its “injunctions that every year of life had deep- ered the original impression that as his mind spend, and his associations widened, he found that every one for whom he felt respect, instructors, theological and moral teachers, his entire party con- nection, the opposite party, and the whole coactry, £0 held it, too, that its fruits of more than half s cen- tury of union, of happiness, of renown, bore con- stant and clear witess to it in his mind, and that it chanced that certuin emergent and rare occasions bad devolved on him to stand forth to maintain it, to vindicate its interpretation, to vindieate its authority, to unfold its workings and uses—that he had go ac- uitted himeelf of that opportunity as to have won the title of its Expounder and De/ender, so that his proadets memories, bis most prized renown, referred 'o it, and were entwined with it, and say whether, with such antecedents, readiness to execute, or dis- position to evade, would have been the hardest to explain, likeliest to suggest, the surmise of a new temptation! He who knows anything of man, knows thut his vote for beginning the restoration of harmo- ny by keeping the whole constitution, was deter- mined, was necessitated, by the great law of se- quences—a great law of cause and effect, running back to his mother’s aris, as resistiess asthe law which moves the system about the san—and that he must have given it, although it had been opened to him in visicn, that within the next natural day his “eyes should be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven.” But it is time this eulogy were brought to its con- clusion. My heart goes back into the coffin there with him, ard I would pause. I went—it isa day or two since—alone, to see again the house which he £0 passionately loved, the chamber where he died, the grave in which they laid him down—all habited as when “ His look drew audience still as night, Or summer's noontide air”? till the heavens be no more. In all that spacious and calm scene all things to the eye looked at first un- changed. The books in the library, the portraits, the table at which he wrote, the scientific culture of the land, the course of agricultural occupation, the coming in of harvests, fruit of the seed his own hend had scattered, the animals and implements of husbandry, the trees planted by him in lines, in cop- ses, in orchards. by thousands, the seat under the noble elm on which he used to sit to feel the south- west wind at evening. or Lear the breathings of the tea, or the not lees audible music of the starry heavens, all seemed at firet unchanged. The sun of a bright day, from which, however, screen of the fervors of midsummer were wanting, fell temperately on them all, filled the air on all sides with the utterance of life, and gleamed on the long line of ocean. Some of those whom on earth he loved best, still were there. The great mind still seemed to preside, the great presence to be with you. You might ex- pect to hear again the rich aud playful tones of the voice of the old Leaps . Yet @ moment mere and all the scene took on the aspect of one great mo- pument, inscribed with his name, and sacred ta his memory. And such it shall be in all the fature of America! The sensation of desolateness, and lone- | liness, and darkness, with which you ree it now, will | pass away. The tee grief of love and friendship will become soothed. Men will repair thither, as they commemorate the great days of history. The same glance thal] take, and the same emotions shall | greet and bless the Harbor of the Pilgrims, and the | Tomb of Webster. Hanover, N. H., July 28, 1853. Mr. Cheate’s Chirography—How His Speech was Reported—Reminiscence of the Writer Respecting Mr. Choate—Interesting Incident Connected with Mr. Webster's Seventh of March Speech. Mr. Choate’s eufacy J have seat you already. The other commencement exercises ‘were not of nausuul jnterest. On Tuesday evening the Rev. Richard 5. Storrs addressed the theological students oa the subject of the sources of the power of Romanisman, and the means of meeting them. OmWednesday the Hon. Ogden Hoffman, of New York, delivered an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa. I did not hear it; but those amongst my azquaintances who did, seemed to think that it was like the dinuer of which a guest said, “It was well enough, but | nothing to invite a man to.” To-day the degrees were conferred. The following is a list of the graduating class :— GRADUATING CLASS, A.O, Blairdell Hauover, Hf. W. Moore, Gillisonville, J. C. Brown, Candia. ¢ M.D. Brown, Carmel, Me. N. J. Morrison, Franklin CL. Burnet, ‘Teonderoge Morse, Hanover. co 5 JH Morse, Brookfleld, Vt HN, Burton, Washington, V.B 1 W.8. I Onkex Ssngerville Me. t. Palmer, Orfordvilie, G. W. Caboon. Lynden, Vt. N. F. Csrter, Henniker, A Parker, Weedstock, Vt. C.M. Chase, Lyndon, Vt, = C. P_ Parsoma, Gilmauten. A. B. Crosby, Hanover. D. Perrin, Northmoreland, J. M. Dicksom, Ryegate, Pa. Vt. A. Reed, Reedeville, Pa. J.D _Emerron, Candia. ; C.F, Remick, Brownington, H. Fairbenks, St. Johns- “Vt bury, Vt. I, Robinson. Newport, Me. J. B Farnsworth, Wood- M. T. Runnells, Jatfrey stock, Vt. D'J'B Sergent Tamworth. §. Hayward, Gileum. G. L. Soesions, Weat Wood- C.G. Hollenbush, New Ber- _‘ntoek. Ct. lin, Pa H. E. Stanton, Manshester. W. W. Howard, Jamaica, F. C. Statham, Greene: t. boro’, Ga. ©, B. Hulbert, EastSheldon, 1, M. Stewart, Corriva, Me. vt ‘W.C. Thompson, Worees- J. Hutehinson, West Ran- — ter, Mass. dolp», Vt. W. 8 Thorwpson, Wilmot. J. Kendall, Washington, N. 1. Upham, Coneord. D.C. J.8. Wasbbarn, Ludlow, Vt. J. A. Lamson, Topsfield, GP Whitcomb, Siow, Mass. Mass. J. F. Wight, Sheloy o0., Ky. 3. D, Lovering, Chester. E J Wood, Marrianna, Fia. F. MeDuffee, Rochester. C. A. Young, Hanover. ‘The degree of A. M. was conferred, in conree, upon J.D. Philbrick, Allen Hazen, H. 8. Bartlett, J. B Upham, Geo. Walker, J. H. Watterbury,J.8. Stearns, J.8. Kimball, J. Stevens, Nelson Clarke, Altred Rus- ell, M. E. Wright, J. C. Barrett, H. Chase, J. Or. dronaux. That of M. D. was conferred upon Milton Berry, Wm. M. Chamberlain, A. R. Cammings, C. B. | ‘ifin, A. C. Hall, R. 9, | Dunbar, 8. J. Glines, 8. D. Harlow, E. G. Judkins, E.8. Lewis, G. B. Page, E+ Phelps, 8. W. Roberts, C. C. Smith, G. B. Stevens, E. Rowell. The honorary degree of A. M. was con- ferred upon Mores G. Farmer, Boston; Josiah Crosby, M. D. Manchester. Honorary M.D. upon Edward Lazarus. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon Ieracl W. Putnam, Middleborough, Mass.; David Thurston, Winthrop, Me.; Robert Brydon, Fre Church of Scotland. LL. D. upon Geo. C, Shattuck M. D. Boston. The manner in which a copy of Mr. Choate's eulogy was obtained, may possess some interest t> our readers, To report him,’ verbatim, is an utter jena 3 moreover, he wanted hia address, if nblished at all, printed as it was written, and not as e spoke it, and in delivering he does not follow hi notes very closely. But to read his notes, to deci- pher his hyerogliphics, was just as impracticable as to report him correctly. It was ascertaiued that 4 young gentleman in Boston, Mr. Felton, a student ia Mr. Choate’s office, had studied his handwriting, until at last, incredible as it would seem, he had suc- ceeded in learning to reaq it. A to lt Crit brought Mr. Felton to Hanover, and thus the thing was accomplished. 1am reminded, both A? orator and his subject, of my first introduction to Mr. Choate, by Mr. Web- ster, some years ago. It was in Concord, Mass. whither I had gone in fulfilment of a professional appointment with Mr. Webster. Heand Mr. Choate were both there, as counsel, engaged in the defence of Wyman, charged with defrauding a bank in Charlestown, of a large sum of money. Mr. Web- ster was nearly sick; but he received me into his room in the evening, and entered heartily into the consultation which was the object of my visit. Soon one of the jonior counsel inthe Wyman case came in to inform Mr. W., who had been absent from the court room through the afternoon, that the testimony in the case was closed. I remember weil the expression of his face, as Mr. Webster said: “Well! how is Cuoate? Is he prepared to go ahead like a sTxamBoat?” The next morning I went iato Court and heard Mr. Choate’s address to the jury, one of the most masterly, in point of ability, and most ingenious, that I ever listened to; , spangled and da with the gems of the imagination, and bathed in the deepest and tenderest pathos. The er himself was much interested and excited. is eyes finshed, his band trembled, like that of a man with the palsy, the Kod of perspiration glis- tened like dew in e curls of bis beautiful hair, and he tpoke like a man whose whole soul waa absorbed in his subject. The case was one which had been tried two or three times before, and the ae of the connrel had become warmly enlisted for their elient. I recollect distinctly how the eyes of the jurors moistened as Mr. Choate dwelt, in a deserip | | the furniture, ve between Brid, Gold stree on the 27th inst. The dérector, b; COCHRAN’S, 298 Fulton street, Breeklyu, will receive the above reward. $7 REWARD.—LOST, ON MONDAY, THE 2TH IN ry ry poll pam tion worthy of William Wirt, upon the wife and child who, if the prisoner should be convicted, would sbare in his ignominy ahd disgrace. “ The defendant,” said he, * may have erred, he may have | gone widely astray from the path of rectitude and | duty ; we do not deny that he has committed great errors, which now weigh him down with peni- tence, and will through life. But of the crime for which he stands indicted he cannot be legally con- victed, and against an illegal conviction, more for others even than for himseli—for the sake of the wife who loves him with ail tie passion and devotion of a | trve and ncble woman, for the sake of the child | whose futher, whether in honor or dishonor he still | is—I appeal to you to permit him to take with him, | as, if acquitted, he intends to do, his little, family, away to the West beyond the Greai Father of waters, where in a new home he may commence a new life.” Mr. Webster sat within the bar, partiy hehind Mrt Choate, dressed tn a suit which looked as though he might have brought it with him whea he first came from New Hampshire, wrapped in a gray over- coat, the arms of which hung loosely from nis shoul- ders. He was black asa thundercloud. Occasion- ally, a8 Mr Choate fivished a sentence, le would in- terpose a suggestive remark, which Mr. Choate would seize upon, and, with a master’s skill, turn to the beat account. The trial terminated in a disagreement of the pee Mr. Choate has made the motives which ac’mated Mr. Webster in his public life, and miore especially in hia seventh of March epeech, a prominent topic of comment and of argument in his eulocy. It hap- pened to the writer to oe ths Sunday evening pre- ceding the reventh of March, 1560, alone with Mr. Webster, at his house in Washington. My sympa- thies were not with him in that speech, and there- fore the testimony which I bear on the subject, so far as his motives are concerned, is perhaps all the stronger; and I give it willingly, from u sense of justice, as well as gratefully, in sad remembrance of ‘the almost fatherly kindness which I always experi- enced at his hands, Our conversation was long and free. He spoke earnestly upon the condition of the country, and said that he could see but oae way to do, and that was to maintain the government as it was. Atlength the Presideniw! question was re- ferred tc—his own prospects were spoken of, He alluded to the many appeals which were made to him irem one side and the other, and of the great pumber of persons who were coming daily to see him. I shall never forget how his great eyes glowed, and the very lightning seemed to be flashing from his face, as he exclaimed, ‘“ Mr.-——, J would not swerve A HAIR for the PRESIDENCY.” B. ADVERTISEMENTS RENEWED EVERY DAY. WATCHES, JEWELRY, dx. ATCHRS AND J) selling al) descriptions of COLD AND SILVER WATCHES, JEWELRY AMD GILYAR WARR, at retail, at much less thar the usual prices. JURGENSEN WATCHES. eeu watehen recvived by every arrival, rom him with each wateb, warranted per- COOPER WATCHES. Duplex and levers im hurting and macic cases, perfoet INDEPENDENT #Z00XD r-sovend watches for timing horse, and gold and ou: 4. rs, which rua withous TOMES. ENAMEL WATCHES for ladies, seme im bunting cases DIAMOND WATCHES for ladies, some im magic cases. MAGIC WATOMES, whieh ehange into three diferer ht ssenst 2283583 a fi lookets, earri le ks, oharing, shatslaina, pe, forks, penkaives, napkin vos, ko., ke. Wai ts, bresstpine. end pi pestacles, gold toothpic ailver spoons. eu tags, fruls kniven, weadin cleaned and repaired ia at mueh lees thaa the 1 prises, Importer of wateh Th Wall street, second floor. near Broadway. HOMESTEADS. NLY TWO DAYS LS?IT.—FIFTEEN DOLLARS wily for ® beaut. ‘ul eountry residence in the pleasant i w church been erae- ery kind may be near the much aduirod desirable buildin; distributed among 600 shareholders sm thi ier, for only $15, will receive a warcae: ing lots. 25 by 100 fect enol 2 lots, aud 80 farms will bo August, or a farm portunity to gat eying enormous rents in this sity, and owning a wards can now bu bad if apylied foi ) to $30 per acre, and as it reg ‘which wae made at t mecting of the Fari and withont any i: he soil, joan Tn- ‘SEE SECOND, THIRD AND FIFTH PAGES. OZZENS' WEST POINT HOTEL per Hudson river railroad. Coreus’ station, froin Cham 620 P. er ates is Skiddy, New ington, eping line, Alida, 4 P. M., Rebini Amerion, 5 P. M., Harrisoy M PARK HOUSE, Newark Bay.—Th e to the magnificent plage for the ree ert and lons of jr STATEN ISLAND, OPPOSITE a making it 01 rts for wartiee within » hondred m leave Now York at pier No. 1, N. Kichmond, which’ is about & B. RUGERS, AKE MAHOPAC—GREGORY' tel is new open for visiters. Lake Mahopae. ing about fifteen acres is on che form the Hightands of our Sta al nd river and about fifty lizbtfal, cool and health become insects. The lake Fishing and beati ‘the margi OSTON PIANOS.—T. GILBERT & CO, THE brated manufacturers of pisnoy and owners of the an Patent Right, in order to better accommodate the rens of New York aad viciait ern cortongrs, F fo supply nand Fotail, at faetory peloce Co.'s pianos are too woll known to need an* com: wendation. The subseriber has the largost assortment of pianos with ard without the olinn to be found ‘u the city. I. G. & Co bave just made ® new carved seals to their pia- nos, Which is superior in power and depth of tone, to any thing that bas ever before heen presented to the public very intrument warranted to give entire aatisfaction, or the p woney refunded — & nd pinaos at g ont Parenin from $40 to $10 HORACE WATERS 835 Broadway, corner of Jisber of Music, wnd Dealer in Musi kinds, j pee QUICKEST PERMAN ever made, from tho plain aqu rand. Seea specimen at the Crys ‘be top of the Billiard table. ‘The full ps ef there pixnos recummend them to ail wishing te purehase room (03 Broadway, near Houston street, fashionabie Cheap for eash. JANOFORTES.—VISITERS TO TUE CRYSTAL PA Jace will of be attracted by the very aplendid pir anofortes exhibited by GROVESTEEN & CU. nd persons bont to purchase will do well to oall at their warereom 481 Broadway, and examine their beantifal assortment of pianos of (4 to Ty 0¢ whieh, for brilliancy of tone and quality of Fials, cannot be excelled by aay SUPERIOR MELODEONS.—THESE MELO et tl y lian pI ‘and organs, INSURANCE, ¥ ROTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.—OFFICE NO. Wall ‘Cash capital, $250,000, | This ital paid in, will be prepare insnre buildings, merohan sin port aad their loss or damage by fi perty, again Ravigation. pIRKCTORG : Walter R. Jones, John Ward, jenry K. Bogert, Potor Edes, Benjamin Ht. Field, ‘Tbeodore Polhemus, Jr., Kiisha & Morgan, William Ww. ¢ Thomas 8. Ne! hb Torrey, Thomas Scott, Rufus 2 Graves, C,H. Lilienthal, Zab Henry Davis, JOH 4 C. RYA year eee en es 10 REWARD —STOLEN FROM THE REFORMED 2 Duteh Chureb at Borg N. J, on the night of the 22d instant, if id the pulpit Bitle, & te 2 on N THE MORNING OF TURS- f July, the banking how Jorsey City, war brok foMowing de. i ir. $1,500 in bil's of other banks. A reward of onc thoveand dollars will be paid for the re- covery of the money and property taken, and » propcriiea- ate roward will be paid fer the be 4 el ig Aa f 1b. By order of the Board. PRTER BENTLBY, Presi THB Ota eae INS’ TUTTO Dt i nity: wi d placed in the safe ef a eorey City, and stolen 2th July twt. THOMAS W. JAMES, Treasurer. AQ REWARD 1s OFFERED FOR TWO GOLD > watebes, oe fre the store of the subseribor oe Mon mount they motlse t 1 REWARD.—STOLEN, A GOLD LEVER WATEH, No, 20,281, from t Boarding. he f ‘treet, Brooklyn, 1k the sament Lr: at leay! stant, at 2 e’cloek. a | brindle steer, markod> @ right hip 4 an aay | infor loin with tar, Any person MATRIMONY. RAN eet GENTLEMAN, WITH ABOUT $15 000, pet ears of age, is ith rome desirous of A rim oounec- ne of form! agomate i w it wi must be gentecl, good a liber Referers ert. P 1 tio! ire ; ieratd ome giving rors Jewelry tore, Merald office, @ aTioularn, P a et of ‘sendy soil,’ leman has from o1 He has this year grewn cres, beets tight acr ty cente per bus harein these totsand farms, will be closed in afew days} ely to CHARLES pamphlets can be ation should’ be D206 Lresdway, Wi .--GENTLEMAN WILL DO iege in Fraok- OR SALE—LARGE HOTEL PROPERTY IN THE Gettysburg, Adams count Pa. known er! 70 feet deep. built of brick, in the most The lot is 200 fees by 300. I House con! it] oven vend smoke house attached. . fruit trees. &e., all Directly opposite the hotel in % large frame that could be turmed into « dwolli.g, feet by 60. Six lines of stages stort from the door dai for York, Baltimore, Hegersto o durg and Harrisburg. A railroad is now being built from to come out at the back of the Half of more This sold ner, whose widow, M. Emmitsburg, Chacab property. The whole will ean remain on bond on aceount of thi sh of thi Thos. B Greswold, will giveevery rarticular. old, Manhiem Square, Germantown, Peansylvai vingston, Chatham Square Post Office, N. £. WELRY.7HE SUBSCRI ut ASTHOLOGT. OWNED IN RUROPE FOR AER rived, and will | of life. gtade-al farnish intelligence » terprets dreams, law matters and love, ‘and seienee, ond tells to Indien aud of ber visitors. | co Freuch, and daa YR, FROM PHILADELPHIA, TENDERS vices to the ladies sud gentlemen of this elty Pomme. and law matters, rADAME MORKOW, SEVENTIC DAUGHTER OF A seventh daughter. and a dercendart of line of astro logers reaching back four centurios will cive ladios private Madame Morrow is, with out exception, the most wonderful astrologist in the world orthat baeever been known. She during her travels in Enrope wonderful science #6 as to te show their futended bi the evente of life. jehed thousands invoking the powars of hex thoughts, and ends through i all her visiters sho will rei the great. astoni-bment a Residence No. 76 froun in the city but « fow days lonver. | street bebwecn Cannon and Columbia, Goutlemen not ad- mi On HOW TO WIN 4 ry of Low tT oh care and dalicavy that dete Address Profesor Lawton, Mare feom the Peat Office unless the postace ie Neo letters taken paid. PROFESsOR ROBACK T0 THE CITIZENS OF BOS- on — hours from 9 e’cloek, A. M. to 9 o'clock, P. M. ARE FERRIES. ‘ATEN ISLAND FER! ton trips te Btaten Is! ery hour, from 6 A. M. York’ at 84 and KEYPORT FERRY, FOOT OF CHAM- eet. —Beats leave New Jere, for the Union .; Union dock rule; 1y where, direst ly oppor: ye the m WM i. STOWE! EDWaRD E. D in New York—-EDWARD E, BUNDAR Feet. eflee of Homer will attend to any DE. DUNBAR. New York, July 5,188. IP AGENTS AND COMMISSION RICHARDSON, AVOWSTVE Lemesaa, Reforences. a. Bailie Peyton. eo , Homonway & Co. Frits, &Co., Goodhue & Co, ‘son & @o., Thomas J. Bam FRAvoIs00—Movers. Fi & Co., Mussoy, Bond & Hale, Charles ey OME FOR THR SAL 118 Bouth business of Rersei olicited by the : i iy Aer INAMELLED AND COTTAGE FURNITURE..-SE7S $i, ‘The largest assortment zee | { the city of New rk, represented in 1558. the State ot N be alty for such vi Rar at, be just amd ter. titled *'An set for vieg at the city of it be amended 90 we Prior te provided for {a the ur + Poe eS MOUSES, ROOMS, EIC., WANTED. PARTMENTS WANTED—B' e with board for the |: —WANTFPD TO IRE, IN THE LL, & two-ator: URNISHED ROOM WANTED —a LADY WISHES ‘8 furnished room in = ge ne. sibuated dw eb Jhambers ati not higher up than Feurth 3. ddressed te Oscar, Herald PLAIN, OL’ ; if seooud-hand. ne o! seunabdie,) A, B., ED —A CYLINDER Let addressed Printi table neighborhood, fora IN THE NREIGRROR@OOD OF jandt, or Dey etrouts ith shree or four wanted about the box 66, Broadway Post Oikos, 7ANTED—THE LOWER PaRT OF A nd Thirtietb strauts neer the oad Kent not to exceed $300. Poses- Address J., Herald ofive hin twelve or twenty coil y Of Mosese to the city, Addvess ANTED—A COTTAGE, OR SMALL HOUSE, good condition for msmall, r-spoctuble far moderate rent, The location must he « plonat thin very easy roach of Now York. & _ Address I. 25 Herild office, stating accemsmods. tion and rent, TANTED—10 RENT, A ¥i en Fourteenth and Thi MALL HOUSE, OR PART -r part of the eity, darn . , Herald, office, for four days. and Kighth streets, Ai ret, up stairs, for three HORSES, CARRIAGES, &o, SALE AND EXCHANGE Sta 35 Amos atrect, between Mudson 187 and 130 Thompson street, be ining seventy stalls, te and horses A BAOWN, Pre \ARRIAGES FOR SALE.—A GOOD SECOND HAND / phieten, with slid physt- «i Z—A PAIR OF BAY Hoses, ind kind in allharness, also, be erld cheap, for cash. ' A oe, Brondway, near Twenti+th street. R SALB—A SADDLE HORSE, YOUNG, and bind im all harness: bas been ridoom b) perfeetly safe, and thoroughly trained fer the Address box 1,908 Post ORco. OR SALB—A COACH, HORSES, HARNESS, OR SALE—AN ABDALLAH MARE, st eld, warranted kind ai ound, rixteey hands OR RALE—A VERY SUPERIOR G1G HARNESS, BUT litsle weed. Inquire at No. 26 Cherry street A LIGHT, SHIFTING TOP WAGON, CITY lo. Inquire at Phom) t Third avenue, er 196 \HRAP BAY KXCURSION /) The superior steamer af vion every day, exept Sunda . ISHING AND COTILLON SBXCOR URE cree the week. —The sea steamer © ‘ort Bamilten, on the last trip ever night, junday morning, July Sl, at hy 8 f Barclay otrset at 9 o'clock, above; returning leaves Ocean Port att P.M. Pare: river at Shy” Gre t om beard at ll o'eloeh