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Show 130 TUE Lll.IERTY DELL. ly ambitious. The artist Webster was mean cwnrds of his art, 'fid with the r ' should be sabs e . fruit and fame of his hobr with tho and tho sc f literary or creative art N department o studies. ... 0 ' b ·tantial, or more ·mrocdinte, more su s bas more 1 It charms tho rudest cwnrds than oratory. . ample r ld ever apprecmtc a poem Men who won n minds. ' . . or statuary, can be . ceo in pamtmg or a. maaterpl b . c power of eloquent . madness by t e mngt shrred to f t goes often to an Thus while the ar LS . speech. . h h 0 of an immortality avo only w•th t o op . obscure gr h . at orator recmvcs d his works, t o grc for himself an . the very . bin in his lifetime ; nay' m . bLS good t gs bt Ilowors are loslung b his full-wrong moment, w 00 d d and tho clcc- . an enrapture crow ' to ontbusJasm d lightens upon . enius thunders an tricity of biB g " billow of the turned faces, every " a sea of up t . to bis own henrl . h he excites, retlec s m passion wbiC . All tho honors of ol .. . b" d ineffable JOY· d a rav1s mg an h ·r not alren Y . h' Webster's reac '1 quencc were wtt m . h d communication attained. Ho bad cstabhs c a WJmSTI::Jt, 131 with the people, who rushed together at the mere sound of his voice. Senates and comts turned to him with deference and delight. Both hemispheres rung with tho echo of his name. Witlt all thL<; ancl a complete consciousness of it, he wished, nay, absolutely panted to be Prcsidcnt,-to be nominal head of tho nation, indeed, but to be also the head lackey of fifty ' tl10usand lackeys, of a jealous and jesuitical party-mechanism, that promised only the chance of four years tenure of pitiful salaries, for dirty scn•ices. That l10 wished this is evident from the restless zeal with which, by letters and speeches, he followed up the demonstration of tho Seventh of Marclt, intruding himself upon the privacy of every man's thoughts, intent upon creating for himself a prominence of whatsoever character, and more than once plainly soliciting a place among tho candidates. It is evident, too, from the desperate efforts made by men in his immediate counsels to dragoon him through the Bnltimoro Convention, |