After-Dinner and Other Speeches (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from After-Dinner and Other Speeches It is but a poor tribute that even the most eloquent voice, least of all mine, can pay for Massachusetts to the memory of her mightiest man of state and her greatest orator. Among her sons he towers like the massive shaft on Bunker Hill, upon the base and crest of which his name is emblazoned clearer than if chiseled deep in its granite cubes. For years he was her synonym. Among the states he sustained her at that proud height which Winthrop and Sam Adams gave her in the colonial and provincial days. With what matchless grandeur he defended her! With what overwhelming power he impressed her convictions upon the national life! God seems to appoint men to special work, and, that done, the very effort of its achievement exhausts them, and they rise not again to the summit of their meridian. So it was with Webster. He knows little of written constitutions and frames of government who does not know that they exist less in the letter than in the interpretation and construction of the letter. In this light it is not too much to say that the constitution of the United States, as it existed when it sustained our country through the recent and greatest peril that ever tested it, and as it reflected the popular sense, was the crystallization of the mind of Webster. 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.