sist him in a very important case then pending, and Burr stated the case. Webster astonished him by his learning upon the question-it was his old will case over again. Burr rose in amazement and asked if he was retained in the case, etc. He received from Burr the warmest praise and a very large fee.”—Harvey's Rem, p. 75.

Refused Due Credit to Judge Story.

"After Judge Story's death, Mr. Webster not only declined to allow the publication by the Judge's son and biographer of Story's letters to himself, but he refused to permit even the publication of extracts from his own letters, intended merely to show the nature of the services rendered to him by Story."— Henry Cabot Lodge's Life of Webster, p. 108.

Not a Creative Mind.

"Webster had not a strongly original or creative legal mind. He disliked investigation and inquiry, although entirely capable of intense and protracted exertion. Mr. Webster's powers were not of the class of Mansfield's and Marshall's, who not only declared what the law was, but who made it; but, except in these highest and rarest qualities, he stands in the front of the lawyers of his country and his age. Without extraordinary profundity of thought or depth of learning, he had a wide, sure and ready knowledge of principles and cases. Add to this, quick apprehension, unerring sagacity for vital and essen

tial points, a perfect sense of proportion, an almost unequalled power of statement, backed by reasoning at once close and lucid, and we may fairly say that Mr. Webster, who possessed all these qualities, need fear comparison with but very few among the great lawyers of that period either at home or abroad."Lodge's Life of Webster, p. 109.

Immortality.

"What a man does for others, not what they do for him, give him immortality."

The Sabbath.

"The longer I live the more highly I estimate the Christian Sabbath, and the more grateful do I feel towards those who impress its importance upon the community."

The Dirty Hand at School.

When a boy at school the teacher called him up to be feruled for some offense. Daniel put out his hand, which was so dirty that the teacher said, "If you can find another hand in the school-room as dirty as that, I'll not punish you." Daniel immediately thrust his other hand out, and was allowed to go free.

Scholars-How Made.

"Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets have no magical power to make scholars. In all circumstances, as a man is, under God, the master of his own

fortune, so is he the maker of his own mind. The Creater has so constituted the human intellect that it can only grow by its own action; and by its own action and free will, it will certainly and necessarily grow. Every man must therefore educate himself. His book and teacher are but helps; the work is his. A man is not educated until he has the ability to summon in an emergency, all his mental powers in vigorous exercise to effect its proposed object. It is not the man who has seen most, or read most, who can do this; such a man is in danger of being borne down, like a beast of burden, by an overwhelming mass of other men's thoughts. Nor is it the man who can boast of native vigor and capacity. The greatest of all warriors in the siege of Troy had not the pre-eminence because nature had given strength and he carried the largest bow, but because self-discipline had taught him how to bend it."

While Senator Carried on Large Law Practice.

"He was the only man in his time, who successfully sat in the Senate of the United States and at the same time carried on a large practice before the United States Supreme and other courts."-Flower's Life of M. H. Carpenter, p. 83.

His Birth-place Humble.

"It did not happen to me, gentlemen, to be born in a log cabin, but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin and raised amidst the snowdrifts

of New Hampshire, at a period so early that when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney and curled over the frozen hills there was no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada."-From one of his later Addresses.

Did Not Like Work and Could Not Save Money.

Two anecdotes illustrate his character. Daniel and Ezekiel were one day playing in the barn. Their father called out: "What are you doing, Daniel?" His reply was, "Nothing." "And what are you doing, Ezekiel?" "Helping Daniel." On another occasion the two returned from a fair. Daniel was full of anisilent. Their mother

mal spirits, and Ezekiel was finally asked Daniel what he had done with his money. "Spent it," was the reply. "And what did you do with yours, Ezekiel?" "Lent it to Daniel,"

At one time he com

was the elder brother's reply. plained to his father that the scythe did not hang right. The father told him to hang it as he pleased, and he hung it on the fence.

His Outburst of Oratory in the Dartmouth College Case.

In closing the Dartmouth College case, he said: "Sir, you may destroy this little institution; it is weak; it is in your hands. I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out, but if you do so, you must carry

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through your work. You must extinguish, one after another, all those great lights of science which for more than a century have thrown their radiance over our land. It is, sir, as I have said a small college, and yet there are those who love it." ("Here,” says Professor Goodrich, "the feeling he had thus far succeeded in keeping down broke forth. His lips quivered; his firm cheeks trembled with emotion; his eyes were filled with tears; his voice choked and he seemed struggling to the utmost to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an unmanly burst of feeling. * * The whole seemed min

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gled throughout with the recollection of father, mother, brother, and all the privations and trials through which he had made his way into life. Everyone saw that it was wholly unpremeditated, a pressure on his heart, which sought relief in words and tears.") "Sir, I know not how others may feel," he proceeded, glancing at the opponents of the college before him, "but for myself, when I see my Alma Mater surrounded, like Caesar in the Senatehouse, by those who are reiterating stab after stab, I would not for this right hand have her turn to me, and say Et tuquoque, mi fili. And thou, too, my son."

Admitted Forgery, but Denied Utterance.

"Mr. Webster never permitted the minds of jurors to be diverted from the real question. I was struck with this the first time I heard him before a jury. He was defending a man for forgery. To con