Fourteenth Amendment.

"The Fourteenth Amendment does not add to the privileges and immunities of American citizens, but simply adds guarantees for the protection of privileges theretofore existing.”—Minor's case, 1874.

The Period When Chief Justice.

"The period of service covered by Judge Waite's term was more fraught with difficulties, more full of new responsibilities, and demanded more labor, learning and ability than in any previous period of our history. He was a true gentleman, an upright citizen, a sincere patriot, and a Christian judge." -John Randolph Tucker, upon the death of Judge Waite, 1888.

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Estimate of as a Judge.

"Mr. Waite was trained in the ways of the law and of the courts; his opinions do not convey the impression of a commanding intellect, but they are clear, terse, vigorous and judicial. He was absorbed in the obligations and responsibilities of his office, having no ambition beyond it. He was in manner plain, unattractive and unostentatious; his genial and social nature combined with admirable courtesy, endeared him to the members of the bar. He was an upright and impartial judge, a good man and a pious Christian.”—Extract from address: The Supreme Court of the United States, by Thomas J. Semmes,

DANIEL WEBSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

(1782-1852.)

Next to Hamilton, the most prominent political genius in the Nation's history. For thirty years the dictator of his party and the acknowledged leader of the American bar. Born at Salisbury, New Hampshire January 18, 1782, died at Marshfield, Massachusetts, October 24, 1852, aged seventy. He was the son of a poor farmer, educated at Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College, where he graduated at nineteen. Admitted at twenty-three, he settled at Bos cawen, New Hampshire. Removed to Portsmouth at twenty-five; member of Congress at thirty; moved to Boston at thirty-four, where his practice reached $20,000 a year. Re-elected to Congress at forty; United States Senator at forty-five; Secretary of State under Harrison, 1841, and under Fillmore in 1850. Was thrice disappointed for the Presidency.

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His genius shone on questions of finance, the development of American industries, and in defense of the Constitution. The Ashburton Treaty, saving us from an entangling war, was his most masterly diplo

matic act; his replies to Hayne and Calhoun in the Senate, his greatest oratorical, Constitutional efforts —the former rivaling Demosthenes "On the Crown;" the Dartmouth College case, 1818 (4 Wheat. 578), dur ing the argument of which all the judges were said to be in tears, Ogden v. Saunders, 1827 (12 Wheat., 213), United States Bank v. Primrose, 1839 (13 Pet., 519), the Girard Will case, 1844 (2 How., 127), Luther v. Borden, 1848 (7 How., 1), and the Knapp murder case in 1830, in the Massachusetts Supreme Court, were his greatest efforts in a court of justice.

Says Lodge: "Without extraordinary profundity of thought or depth of learning, he had a wide, sure, and ready knowledge of principles and cases, quick apprehension, unerring sagacity for vital and essential points, a perfect sense of proportion, and an almost unequalled power of statement, backed by reasoning at once close and lucid." He had great indifference to pecuniary obligations, like Pitt, Fox, and Sheridan, but this was overbalanced by his simplicity of manners, contempt of shams, courtesy to opponents, kindness to the poor, and profound religious instincts,

Justice.

"Justice is the great interest of man on this earth. Whoever labors on this edifice with usefulness and distinction, whoever clears its foundations, strengthens its pillars, adorns its entablatures, or contributes to raise its august dome still higher in the skies, connects himself in name and fame, and character, with that which is and must be as durable as the frame of human society."-Remarks on death of Judge Story.

A Dissevered Union.

"When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood."-Second speech on Foote's resolution, Jan. 26, 1830.

The British Empire.

"A power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts; whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."-Speech, May 7, 1834.

(Webster said he got that impression as he stood on the walls of Quebec for the first time and cast an imaginary glance over the broad extent of that domain.)

Charity Lending a Mantle.

"If this bill becomes a law" (just at this time he brought his hand down violently striking the desk, and the blood trickled down his fingers; taking out his handkerchief and quietly winding it around them, he added) "charity will have to lend a mantle to wrap, the pale corpse of a Nation's credit."-Speech against A Financial Bill.

Law and Politics.

"I have given my life to law and politics. Law is uncertain, and politics are utterly vain."—Said in 1852 to Professor Silliman: Lodge's Life of Webster, p. 346.

Fox-like Tread of Van Buren.

"The Buffalo Platform of 1848 is so rickety that it will hardly bear the fox-like tread of Mr. Van Bu As he said "fox-like tread," he played his fingers along his left arm down to the open palm of the

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Great Speech Must Be Prepared.

"No man not inspired can make a great speech without preparation.”

Fluency of Speech.

"Fluency of speech is like the departure of churchgoers; the fewer in the house the faster they come out."