"How lonesome the world seems;" and of whom his nearest friend said, when he died:
"From these conversations of friendship no man--no man, old or young--went away to remember one word of profanity, one allusion of indelicacy, one impure thought, one unbelieving suggestion, one doubt cast on the reality of virtue, of patriotism, of enthusiasm, of the progress of man--one doubt cast on righteousness, or temperance, or judgment to come."
Edward Everett. See Life of Webster prefixed to his works.
Article in _North American Review_, October, 1830, Vol. 31, p. 463.
Article in _North American Review_, July, 1835, Vol. 41, p. 231.
Article in _Littell's Living Age_, 1859, Vol. 63.
Eulogy, "Daniel Webster Speeches," Vol. 4, p. 186.
Robert C. Winthrop, SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, January, 1894, Vol. xv., p. 118. "Speeches," Vol 4, p. 377.
Edwin P. Whipple. "Webster's Great Speeches," Introduction, _North American Review_, July, 1844.
Mellen Chamberlain, in _Century Magazine_, September, 1893, p. 709.
Henry Cabot Lodge, in _Atlantic Monthly_, Vol. 49, February, 1882.
Julius H. Ward, in _International Review_, February, 1882, p, 124.
General S. P. Lyman, "Daniel Webster," 2 Vols., D. Appleton & Co., 1853.
James Parton, in _North American Review_, January, 1867, Vol. 104, p. 65.
J. H. B. Latrobe, in _Harper's Magazine_, February, 1882, Vol. 64, p. 428.
Charles W. March, "Reminiscences of Congress."
[3] SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, 1894, Vol. xv., p. 118.
[4] When I came into the House of Representatives in 1869, one of the reporters told me that he had the manuscript of Mr. Webster's 7th of March speech, which Mr. Webster gave him. It contained a few sentences carefully composed, but which were spoken almost exactly as they were written. But the larger part of the speech, according to this reporter, seemed to be extempore.
Perhaps, however, I ought to say that I told this story to Mr. Winthrop, who told me he thought it could not be accurate, because he called at Mr. Webster's house the evening before the 7th of March, and as he went in heard Mr. Webster reading aloud to his son, Fletcher, parts of the speech which he delivered the next day, and when he was shown into the room he found Mr. Webster with a considerable pile of manuscript before him, which he had no doubt was the speech for the next day.