Daniel Webster Classic Reprint

Author : C. van Rensselaer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331143710
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Eulogy, Daniel Webster (Classic Reprint) written by C. van Rensselaer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Eulogy, Daniel Webster New Jersey, with her sisters of the Confederacy, stricken in Providence, mourns at the grave of Daniel Webster. As one of the "Old Thirteen," - ever dear to the departed statesman, - New Jersey claims to participate in his obsequies. The achievements on our soil were often the theme of his glowing praise. Trenton, and Princeton, and Monmouth, were fields, whose memories of renown were cherished by him as dearly as those of Lexington, and Concord, and Bunker Hill. Our own honoured Richard Stockton, too, was his intimate, personal friend; and the equally distinguished son, New Jersey's high-souled Senator in Congress; and Frelinghuysen, gracing literature with the laurels won in the halls of legislation. Nor can it be forgotten that the last cause at the bar, * argued by the giant lawyer-statesman, was in our own Capital, on the banks of the Delaware, in the presence of our great men, and in sight of the records, the statutes, and the heraldry of New Jersey. In the town of Marshfield is a sepulchre, inscribed with the name of Daniel Webster. Death, like truth, is severe in its simplicity. A few letters tell its triumph; a little dust is its victory. That noble form, lately animated with life, lies in silence amidst earth and graves. Quenched is the full eye which delighted in the researches of knowledge, in the glance of the stars of heaven, in the woods, and fields, and streams, and sea, in the countenances of listening men, and in the pleasant charms of a rural home. He has gone. With his friendship, his learning, his eloquence, his love of country, his genius, his wealth of public service, Webster has gone down to the grave. At this season of national bereavement, it is a duty and a privilege to attempt to gather up some of the materials which make his memory a precious inheritance of our own and of future generations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.