Herald Of The Times

DANIEL WEBSTER.

The following tribute of respect to
Daniel Webster, is taken from a speech
delivered recently by the Hon. Francis
Baylies, of Massachusetts, formerly one
of the most distinguished Jackson men in
that State:

On the deck of the ship of State, there
is one man—a veteran mariner, inured to
storms and tempests,—the breakers are
around—the shore is on the lee—the
waves are rising on the watery waste,
like the Pyramids on the waste of the
desert sands,—the thunder and the winds
are roaring in concert, each rising over
each, in mastery of sound,—in these moments of appalling peril, when the offi-
cers are skulking, he seizes the helm—the ship shoots through the spray, and
the foam, and the spindrift, and soon
finds safety and sea room.

Amidst the dim and wild uproar of dis-
cordant passions, the voice of one man
is heard, like the clang of the trumpet—a voice that is not only heard, but felt.
In the deepest fountains of his heart, the
political sinner feels it. Like electricity,
it touches the living wickedness—the
nest of serpents which are brooding there,
and they die.
Yes, there is one man, who can trace
the exact line between factiousness and
liberty—between constitutional power
and incipient usurpation, and can sustain
with a giant's strength, the just authority
of the government, and the rights of the
people.
If contending factions should under-
mine the temple of Liberty—when it
falls, one man will be found waving the
banner of the Constitution over the ruins,
and like the last of the Romans, the
name of Daniel Webster will be left for
the veneration of unborn Nations! And
what a name!! In far distant lands have
I heard it. In lands, upon which the
star of the North, has never shone under
the clouds of Magellan, under the cross
of the South, that name like the name of
Washington, came like a sunbeam into
the darkness.