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Show 134 gate, that opening nnrrowly up scrapes s~ unmercifully the backs of moan penitents, squcezmg under it into tho pale, swings high and clear for greater sinners ; nay, there are those, for the sake of whose glory and honor, gate-posts and wa.lls shall be cleared away, and the acquisition, at such cost, be tho standing boast of the church ever after-wards. Webster had outlived his three score years and ton, and by the intensity of his activities and experiences exhausted a vitality, that might have outworn four score. Dut be died in the midst of his worldly plans- farming at Marshfield, farm· ing at Franklin_ wi.th convivial courtesies on no stinted scale to receive and to repay. His cases stood on the dockets of the courts ; his fees had been paid that were yet to be earned, earned tbnt were yet to be paid. Literary societies waited to inaugurate a new season with the announcement of his namo. At tho head of Foreign Relations, ghosts of abortive wars bad scarce ceased to haunt W.J.:BSTJo:n. 185 the precincts of tho St.·tto Department, and shadows of futuro ones not yet confronted with the skill of his diplomacy loomed on th(j ncar hol'izon. His statesman's word, as good 38 , , the faith of a king," stood pledged to tho execution of tho Fugitwo Slave Act, while its victims run tho streets of Boston and Syracuse, and tho largo meshes of his net of treason swept forma\] y through the halls of court.s, and took notlting by the motion. Slavery was sooa.lthily spreading ovor " the table lands" whero tho " laws of God and of physical geography," as thundered from his Sinai, by a fiat unnecessary to be re--enacted, had forever prohibited it. Thirty ships, under authority of custom papers and his official letter' were buffeting tho angry meeting of tho waoors of tho Atlantic and Pacific on an errand of commerce, while swift steamers woro dashing along under the shadows of the Andes with his other qfficial letter' to head them off and p ronounce t h em pi. ratical. Surely |