{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3536", "width": "2012", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "/.C^^ ^^o\\nv^\\\\.i\\nrt\\nVa^. A^ .*^1^\\\\ ;^55sS\u00c2\u00a3^^.\\n^h^\\nV^-rr;-*\\n9^^\\no .5\u00c2\u00bb^rv o\\na5\u00c2\u00bb^\\ni\u00c2\u00bb ^o \u00c2\u00abJ* t^\\nLk u\\nay A.\\n/.C^^^^^o\\nc^ ^m^^^ ^o^^ i ^^0^", "height": "3359", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "iV c\\no^^.c:^^ ^o\\n1^\\nH-.^ A*- A\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i-^ 6 o\\nV AT\\n^P I\\nrvV\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2o A\\nv- TV\\n9r\\n^o\\nA\\n.^1^\\\\^% rP^.C^.\\n,*^\u00c2\u00b0Xv\\n^o\\nt\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2o A^\\nv^\\n=u.", "height": "3348", "width": "1976", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3359", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "DANIEL WEBSTER.\\nOn the Receiving of the Statues of Webster and Stark.\\nSPEECH\\nOP\\nHon. GEORGE F. HOAR,\\nOF XIASSACHUSHiXXS,\\nIN THE\\nSENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.\\nDecember 20, 1894.\\nWASHINGTON.\\n1894.", "height": "3348", "width": "1976", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "V\\n6Gf)4\\nDaniel Webster.\\nSPEECH\\nOF\\nHON. GEORGE E. HOAE,\\nof massachusetts,\\nIn the Senate of the United States,\\nThursday, December SO, 1894,\\nOn the receiving of the statues of Webster and Stark.\\nMr. HOAR said:\\nMr. President: There are few faithful portraits of human faces\\nor faithful representations of human figures which take their place\\nby the side of the ideal creations of art, such as the Jove of\\nPhidias, or the Apollo Belvidere, or the Venus of Melos, as exam-\\nples of consummate beauty, or as expressing great moral qualities,\\nor as types of nations or races. The face of George Washington,\\nmisrepresented by Stuart; the portrait of the yoiing Augustus, where\\nin the innocent face of unstainedyouth appears already the promise\\nof an imperial cliaracter; some Greek and Roman busts; some\\nrepresentatieas of the youthful Napoleon; the head of Alexander\\nHumboldt; the glorious forehead of Coleridge; the lips of Julius\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Caesar are almost the only examples that I now recall. The figure\\nand head of Daniel Webster I think we shall all agree to include\\nin the same list.\\nNo man ever looked upon him and forgot him. His stately per-\\nsonal ijresence was the chief ornament of Boston and of Washing-\\nton for a generation. When he walked, a stranger, through the\\nstreets of London, the draymen turned to gaze after him as he\\npcissed. Sidney Smith said of him, He is a cathedral by him-\\nself; and at another time, in homelier phrase, A steam engine\\nin breeches. Carlyle wrote to Emerson of him:\\nThe tanned complexion; that amorphoiis, crag-like face; the dull black eyes\\nunder the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to bo\\nblown: the mastiff mouth, accurately closed; I have not traced so much of\\nsilent Berserkir rage that I remember of in any man.\\nThe qualities of one of the greatest races of men which the\\nworld has seen in its greatest age and fullest development appeared\\nin that majestic countenance and looked out in the gaze of those\\nmagnificent eyes. Command, courage, steadfastness, intellect, the\\nIV pose of conscious strength, the capacity for tenderness or for\\nburning i^assion, are all there.\\n2 1703", "height": "3359", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "3\\nMr. Webster s family, as is the case with very many of our emi-\\nnent men, both living and dead, is of Scotch origin, though they\\ndwelt for some time in England before they came to this country.\\nThat element, whether it came originally from Scotland itself, or\\nindirectly from Ireland or England, has contributed some of the\\nbest citizens to New England, as to other parts of the country.\\nThe shrewd sense, the active intellect, the undaunted persever-\\nance, the indomitable courage, the deep religious faith, the ten-\\nderness of family affection, the stanch patriotism for which the\\nScotch are so distinguished, have never sutfered in the trans-\\nplanting. Wherever an\\\\ thing good is to be had or to be done m\\nthis country, you are apt to tind a Scotchman on the front seat\\ntr ang to see ii he can get it ar do it.\\nHe touched New England at every point. He was born a\\nfrontiersman. He tells us that when the smoke rose from hia\\nfather s chimney, there was no similar evidence of a white man a\\nhabitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada.\\nHe was bred a farmer. He knew well the history of the growth\\nof every crop, the chemistry of the soil, the procession of the\\nseasons. He knew, too, the simple and tender history of the country\\nfireside, and what the farmer was thinking of as he gtuded his\\nplow in the furrow in April or pitched the hay into the cart m\\nmidsummer. He was a fisherman in the mountain brooks and off\\nthe shore. He never forgot his origin, and he never was ashamed\\nof it. Amid all the care and honor of his great place here he was\\nhomesick for the companv of his old neighbors and friends.\\nWhether he stood in Washington, the unchallenged prince and\\nchief in the Senate, or in foreign lands, the kingliest man of his,\\ntime in the presence of kings, his heart was m New England.\\nWhen the spring came he heard far off the fife bird and the bobo-\\nlink calling him to his New Ham])shire mountains, or the plash-\\ning of the waves on the shtn-e at Marslifield alluring hira with a.\\nsweeter than siren s voice to Ids home by the summer sea.\\nThat Mr. Webster w^s the foremost American lawyer of hisf\\ntime, as well in the capacity to conduct jury trials as to argue\\nquestions of law before the full court, will not, I think, be seriously\\nquestioned by anybody who has read the reports of his legal argu-\\nments, or who has studied the history of his encounters before\\njuries ^^^th antagonists like Choate or Pinckney.\\nThat he was foremost in that field which is almost peculiar to\\nthis country, where the orator utters the emotions of the people\\non great occasions of joy or sorrow, or of national pride, the\\nreader of the orations at Plymouth Rock and on the occasion of\\nthe foundation and completion of the monument at Bunker Hill,\\nthe eulogies on Adams and Jefferson, on Story and Mason, will\\nnot question. There has been nothing of the kind to surpass\\nthem or to equal them since the funeral oration of Pericles.\\nThat he was a great diplomatist, able to conduct difficult nego-\\ntiations to successful issue or to debate with the representatives\\nof foreign governments questions in dispute between nations, was\\nabundantly shown in his brief terms of service in the Department\\nof State.\\nBut the place of his achievement and renown was here in the\\nSenate Chamber. He was every inch a Senator\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an American\\nSenator. He needed no robe, no gilded chair, no pageant, no cere-\\n1702", "height": "3348", "width": "1976", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Anony, no fasces, no herald making proclamation to add to the\\n/dignity and to the authority with which his majestic presence, his\\nconsummate reason, his weighty eloquence, his lofty bearing in-\\nl^vested the Senatorial character. His statue will stand in yonder\\nchamber to be the first object of admiration to every visitor for\\ncenturies to come. But no work of art can do justice to the image\\nof Webster which dwells in the hearts of his countr\\\\^nen and\\nthere shall abide when the walls of this Capitol shall have\\ncrumbled and the columns of the Memorial Hall shall lie pros-\\ntrate. That image will abide, one and inseparable, with the\\nUnion which he defended and the liberty which he loved.\\nI do not think Mr. Webster s style is maintained at its highest\\nexcellence throughout his speeches, as they come down to us in\\nprint. The thought is never tame or mean. You never doubt\\nthat a great mind is at work. But it often seems to be working\\nsluggishly. The expression sometimes seems that of a man half\\nasleep. This may largely be due to the imperfection of reporting.\\nHis masterpieces of English are a few passages where his faculties\\nseem to have been at a white heat. It is a common mistake to speak\\nof Mr. Webster s as a nervous Saxon style. Except in a few sen-\\ntences, the characteristic of Mr. Webster s style is a somewhat pon-\\nderous Latinity. There is more of Dr. Johnson than of Shakespeare\\nin it. I think that for his purposes he was discreet in the choice of\\na vehicle for his thoughts, for which the resources of that part of\\nour language which is of Saxon origin would often have been in-\\nadequate.\\nThe Saxon is tough, sinewy, racy. It is the fittest speech for\\ncommon life. It is not without resources for the utterance of\\nlofty emotion, as witness many passages in the Bible Avhich we\\nknow by heart. But still there is something lacking in it. When\\nthe intellect would express its profoundest meaning, or clothe\\nitself in state or splendor, it seeks in the Latin what it does not\\nfind elsewhere. If we were to endow the animals with the gift of\\nspeech, we should give the Saxon to the otter, to the ferret, to the\\nbull dog, and even to the eagle. But I think we would need\\nsomething else for the lion. Indeed, in Campbell s matchless\\ncouplet, even in describing the eagle s flight, with what a fine in-\\nstinct he touches both chords. The Saxon will do for the swift\\nflight, like a bullet to its mark. But the lofty, unapproachable\\nsolitude must be described in the majestic Latin:\\nLo! the death-shot of foemen outspeeding he rode,\\nCompauionless, bearing destruction abroad.\\nThe Saxon is a safe tongue for persons who are in danger of\\nspoiling their English style by the use of little pomposities. The\\nattempt to give dignity to a mean or common thought, or to a\\nthought which should be uttered simply, directly, and plainly, by\\nclothing it in a certain affected stateliness of phrase, is the ^ruin\\nof many writers and of more speakers. The Saxon is not likely\\nto be used by a writer who has no thought at all.\\nBut on every occasion he knew liow to convev his weighty mean-\\ning to any tribunal he had to address, whether court or Senate,\\nalike to the understanding of the people and the apprehension of\\nany antagonist. Thegi-andeur of Mr. Webster s speech was alwaA s\\nmingled with moral tenderness and beauty. But his passion is a\\nrestrained and contained passion. He belonged to a race, he spako\\nir(i-3", "height": "3359", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "to auditors of a race, not in the habit of uncovering the springs of\\nemotion to everv observer. The few incidents where he gave way\\nand seemed to have lost command of himself in deep personal\\nfeeling, as in liis Dartmouth College argument, are handed dow^n\\nto us by tradition onlv. He did not prepare them beforehand, and\\nhe has left no record of them himself. There is in all Mr. Web-\\nster s speeches the appearance of reserved power, of avoidance of\\nextremes, which adds so much to their impressiveness.\\nHalf his strength he put not forth.\\nIt was said of him by a gi-eat philosopher of New England, the\\nonly man of his time whose influence as a great public teacher\\nequaled his own:\\nHis weight was like the falling of a planet, his discretion the return of its\\ndue and perfect curve.\\nHe was not more distinguished from other public speakers by his\\nsevere reason, his sound sense, and his lofty eloquence than by\\nhis moderation and restraint. He was master of every emotion\\nbut one\u00e2\u0080\u0094 love of country. That alone he allowed to obtain mas-\\ntery of him.\\nIt was hard for him to argue the wrong side. His genius was\\nless the genius of the advocate than of the judge. His style was\\nthe fit vehicle for truth onlv. His clear logic could never be at\\nthe command of error. Calhoun, in his dying hours, said, when\\nMr. Webster s name was mentioned to him:\\nMr. Webster has as high a standard of truth as any statesman I have met\\nin debate. Convince him, and he can not reply; he is silenced; he can not\\nlook truth in the face and oppose it by argiiment. I think that it could be\\nreadUy perceived when he felt the force of an unanswerable reply.\\nIt is scarcely too much to say that Daniel Webster first taught\\n/Jiis country her ovn\\\\ greatness There can be found no utterance\\nof his, whether he speak of his country or in behalf of his coun-\\ntry, which is not in a manner befitting a first-class power among\\nthe nations of the world. There is no vanity or pettiness or boast-\\ning. There is no deference or beseeching in his tone. The con-\\ntrast in this particular between Mr. Webster s state papers and\\nmany of those that preceded his time and some, I am sorry to say,\\nof a time later than his is quite marked. This lofty and dignified\\ntone marks all his speeches from his first entrance upon public\\nview. No Englishman, no Greek, no Roman ever felt a loftier\\npride in the character of his country, in his country s proudest\\ndav. than Daniel Webster felt in his.\\nFrom the time of his first public speech which arrested the atten-\\ntion of his countr^-men until to-dav. his speeches are the literature\\n1 of American nationalitv. No other orator or statesman divides\\nI with him this honor. Mothers teach their children the love of\\n^country in his words. The schoolboy knows them by heart. On\\nevery patriotic anniversarv the orators repeat them. They are\\ninscribed on the walls of banquet halls and on triumphal banners.\\nThey wiU never be forgotten. Thev are to the American what the\\nPsalms of David were to the Hebrew, what the songs of Burns\\nare to the Scotchman.\\nIf Mr. Webster had died when General Taylor was nominated for\\nthe Presidency in 1848 he would have gone down in our history\\nas its chief historical figure, save Washington and Lincoln alone.\\nThe estimate in which the people of New England would have\\n1703", "height": "3348", "width": "1976", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "6\\nheld him would, I think, have been accepted by the whole country,\\nand would have scarcely fallen short of idolatry. There would\\nhave been perhaps a little complaint that in his last years he had\\nbeen slow and unready in taking his place as the foremost leader\\nand champion of liberty and in marshaling her liosts for the great\\nstriTggle for dominion over the vast territory between the Missis-\\nsippi and the Pacific. But the judgment of the countrj^ would\\nhave been that such hesitation was only the deliberation due to\\nthe gravity of the question and the importance of his own rela-\\ntion to it.\\nUntil the 7th of March, 1850, he was the oracle of New Eng-\\nland. His portrait was upon the farmers walls. He seemed to\\ndwell at every fireside, not so much a guest, as at home, in an\\nalmost bodily presence, mingling with every discussion where the\\npower, the giory, or the autliority of the country was in question.\\nBefore 1850 Daniel Webster had never come off defeated from any\\nintellectual encounter or lowered his spear before any antagonist.\\nIn the strifes of party politics his side had often been defeated.\\nBut his arguments of fundamental questions had sunk deep into\\nthe heart and had convinced the reason of the vast majority of\\nhis countrymen of all parties.\\nBut in 1850, for the first time, he encountered quite another\\nantagonist. He put himself in opposition to the conscience of the\\nNorth. The voice of law, as he interpreted it, and the voice of\\nGod, speaking to the individual soul, for the first time in our na-\\ntional history seemed to be in conflict. I suppose the time has\\nnot yet come for a sound and dispassionate judgment of Mr. Web-\\nster s motives in choosing his side. It is possible that, like so\\nmany other and ordinary men, he hardly knew them himself. A\\nman conscious of great powers, the object of a worship amount-\\ning almost to idolatry, not merely from common men but from the\\nablest, wisest, and most illustrious of his contemporaries, know-\\ning well his own fitness for the highest public service, and know-\\ning also his own purpose to employ supreme power, if intrusted\\nwith it, solely for the public advantage, can hardly measure the\\ninfluence of ambition as afi:ecting his judgment.\\nMr. Webster was doubtless sincere when he stated his appre-\\nhension of a dissolution of the Union and of the vast mischief to\\nhiamanity if that dissolution should be accomplished. Subseqr.ent\\nevents and calmer reflection have shown that in this respect it\\nwas he, and not his opponents, who was right. But no language\\ncan fitly describe the condition of mind with which the report of\\nMr. Webster s speech of the 7th of March, 1850, was heard. Noth-\\ning could have resisted the dominion of Daniel Webster over New\\nEngland until he provoked an encounter with the inexorable\\nconscience of the Puritan. The shock of amazement, of con-\\nsternation, and of grief which went through the North has had\\nno parallel save that which attended the assassination of Lincoln.\\nIs it you, Daniel Webster, that are giving iis this counsel? _ Do\\nyou tell us that when the fugitive slave girl lays her suppliant\\nhands on the horns of the altar, that it is oiir duty to send her\\nback to be scourged, to be outraged, to be denied the right to read\\nher Bible, to be the mother of a progeny for whom, for count-\\nless generations, these things shall be the connnon and relentless\\ndoom? Is it you, the orator of Plymouth Rock, of Bunker Hill,\\n1702", "height": "3359", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a27\\ndefender of the Constitution, from whose volcanic lips came those\\nwords of molten lava. Lilaerty and Union, now and forever, one\\nand inseparable Has the intellect that wrought out the mas-\\nsive logic of the reply to Hayne descended to this pitiful argu-\\nment?\\nDo we\\nAsk for this great Deliverer now, and find him\\nEyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves?\\nIs it slavery and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable?\\nDo you, who erected in imperishable granite the eternal monument\\nof Nathan Dane, amcyig the massive columns of your great argu-\\nment, tell us now that natural conditions are to determine the\\nquestion of slavery, and that an ordinance of freedom is an affront\\nto the South, and that we must not reenact the law of God? Is\\nthe great territory between the Mississippi and the Pacific to be\\nleft to its fate? Do you. who came to the side of Andrew Jackson\\nin 1832, counsel that the lawful authority of this nation shall yield\\nto the threats of revolution and secession? Is it from you that we\\nhear that there is no higher law? Even if you are right m yoiir\\ninterpretation of the Constitution, when did you discover that it\\nwas greater than the law of God?\\nWere not the mandates of Laud, which the Puritans resisted\\nand from which they fled, founded upon English law? Was not the\\nrevocation of the edict of Nantes from the same lawful authority\\nas that which enacted it? Were not the doings of St. Bartholo-\\nmew s Eve by command of a lawful king? Did not the Enghsh\\njudges determine the question of the right to impose ship money\\nin the King s favor? Were Hampden and Russell mere traitors\\nand agitators? Your doctrine condemns in one breath the cham-\\npions and the martyrs of English liberty and of our own.\\nMr. Webster, for the first time in his life, failed to comprehend\\nthe temper of the people among whom he was born and bred. He\\nmet this expostulation with arrogance and contempt. It was\\nperhaps not unnatural. He was grov/ing old. He had been ted on\\nadulation. He had found no antagonists fit to cope with him, or\\nwho dared to cope with him. He had failed\\nOnlv when he tried\\nThe adamant of the righteous side.\\nHe had an old man s dread of a new order of things. He had a\\nnot ungenerous ambition. He was right in his estimate of public\\ndanger His constitutional arguments remained unanswered.\\nWebster died wliile the storm of this mighty conflict was still\\nraging. He was disappointed in the hope that it would be given to\\nhim to compose it. The compromises which he had hoped would\\nsettle forever the questions growing out of slavery were never ob-\\nserved by either side. In the national convention of his own party,\\nas its candidate for the Presidency in 1853, out of 293 votes he\\nreceived but 30. He counseled his friends to cast their votes tor\\nthe candidate of the Democracy, and went home to Marshfield to\\ndie prematurely, and\\nFoiled in aim and hope, bereaved\\nOf old friends, by the new deceived,\\nBeside the lonely Northern sea,\\nWhere long and low the marsh lands spread,\\nLaid wearily down his august head.\\niro2", "height": "3348", "width": "1976", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8\\nIt would have been fortunate for Mr. Webster s happiness and\\nfor his fame if he had died before 1850. Bnt what would have\\nbeen his fame and what would have been his happiness if his life\\ncould have been spared till 18(15? He would have seen the tran-\\nscendent issue on which the fate of the country hung made up as\\nhe had framed it in 1830. Union and liberty, the law of man and\\nthe law of God, the Constitution and natiiral justice, the aiigust\\nvoice of patriotism and the august voices of the men who settled the\\ncountry and of the men who framed the Constitution are all speak-\\ning on the same side. He would have lived to see the time for con-\\ncession all gone by; the flag falling from Sumter s walls caught as it\\nfell liy the splendid youth of 1861 the armed hosts pressing upon the\\nCapitol beaten back, everj-thing which he had loved, everything\\nwLich he had worked for in the prime of his years and in the strength\\nof his manhood, ralhnng upon one side patriotism, national au-\\nthority, law, conscience, duty, all speaking together and all speak-\\ning through his lips and repeating his maxims. He would have\\nseen his great arguments in the reply to Hayne, in the debates\\nwith Calhoun, inspiring, guiding, commanding, strengthening.\\nThe judge in the court is citing them. The orator in the Senate\\nis repeating them. The soldier by the camp fire is meditating\\nthem. The Union cannon is shotted with them. They are\\nflashing from the muzzle of the rifle. They are gleaming in\\nthe stroke of the saber. They are heard in the roar of the artil-\\nlery. They shine on the advancing banner. They mingle with\\nthe shoiit of victory. They conquer in the surrender of Appo-\\nmattox. They abide forever and forever in the returning reason\\nof an estranged section and the returning loj-alty of a united\\npeople. Oh, if he could but have lived if he could but have lived,\\nhow the hearts of his countrymtrii would have come back to him!\\nWhat will be the final verdict of mankind upon the last three\\nyears of the life of Daniel Webster it would be arrogance and pre-\\nsumption here to declare. But whether, as manj^ men think, they\\nwill be held to have been but another instance of human frailty,\\ngiving way before a supreme temptation, to be pitied, to be par-\\ndoned, to be forgotten; or whether those years Avill be held to have\\nbeen years of a supreme and noble sacrifice of self to patriotism and\\nfor the safety of the country it is too early, although nearly half\\na century has gone by, to pronounce with confidence. May none\\nof us in our humbler public career be subjected to such a test or be\\nbrought to the bar of history to receive its sentence after such a\\ntrial.\\nThe bitterest enemy, the most austere judge, must grant to Dan-\\niel Webster a place with the great intellects of the world. He was\\namong the greatest. Of all the men who have rendered great serv-\\nices to America and to the cause of constitiitional liberty, there\\nare Init two or three names worthy to be placed by the side of his.\\nOf all the lovers of his country, no man ever loved her with a\\ngreater love. In all the attributes of a mighty and splendid man-\\nhood he never had a superior on earth. Master of English speech,\\nmaster of the loftiest emotions that stirred the hearts of his couu;\\ntrymen, comprehending better than any other man^^save Marshall)\\nthe principles of lier Constitution, he is tlie one foremost figure ill\\nour history between the day when Washington died and the day\\nwhen Lincoln took the oath of office.\\n1702\\nO\\n^i^\\n39\\nW", "height": "3359", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3348", "width": "1976", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "-^oV\\nn^\\nI H a\\n,0- -o^--^V^ \\\\/W^\\\\o^ -i^^^;^^\\n-o\\nO M\\nO", "height": "3359", "width": "1991", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "s\\no\\n.L^\\n/.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i.;/^-\\\\ c\u00c2\u00b0*.5^^.,% /.-i-^^-^\\nV V*^ V^^\\\\*^\\nii\\no o\\no a\\nI\\n4-^\\n.0^ ^o,\\ne N\\nWBftTBOOKBfNOJ^O*\\n?aie.\\ne M\\nt o.", "height": "3348", "width": "1976", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3483", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "danielwebsteronr00hoar_0016.jp2"}}