effect of human actions, or the intricate, combined, and complicated influence of every movement, social, political, or personal. He could define and determine the very destiny of influence.

5. This is the key to the problem of his greatness, an explanation to the miracle of his power. We are proud of his greatness, because it is American, — wholly American. The very impulses of his heart were American. The spirit of American institutions had infused itself into his life; had become a part of his being. He was proud of his country; proud of her commerce; proud of her manufactures; proud of her agriculture; proud of her institutions of art and science; and proud of her wealth, her resources, and her labor. And all, in turn, were proud of him. His patriotism was not bounded by the narrow limits of sectional interest; not hemmed in by State lines, nor regulated and biased by local policies. It was as broad as his country. He knew a North and a South, an East and a West; but he knew them only as one, ONE AND INSEPARABLE."

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6. As a DIPLOMATIST, the world has never seen his equal. He wielded the pen of the nation with a power, a dignity, and a grandeur, wholly unparalleled in the annals of diplomacy. When clouds and darkness gloomed the heavens; when the storm had gathered, ready to burst in fury; when the whole Republic every moment feared the mighty convulsive shock which should mar and shatter the fabric of their hopes,-then, standing on the summit of the trembling Acropolis', the Angel of Deliverance, he threw his burning chain over the cloud, and drew the lightning in safety from the heavens!

7. But it is as SENATOR, in that grand forum of the nation's congregated wisdom, power, and eloquence, we

see him towering in all the majesty and supremacy of his greatness, the mighty bulwark of the nation's hope, the august arbiter of the nation's destiny. How grand! how sublime! how imperial! how god-like! It was here that he occupied the uncontested throne of human greatness; exhibited himself to the world in all his grand and magnificent proportions; wore a crown studded with gems that an emperor might covet; won an immortality of envied honor; and covered himself with a glory, brighter, and purer, and higher than a conqueror has ever been permitted to achieve.

8. ELOQUENCE was his panoply, his very stepping-stone to fame. She twined upon his brow a wreath which antiquity might covet, inspired his soul with a divinity which shaped his lofty destiny, and threw a light upon his track of glory which no fortune could obscure. She bore him up to the Pisgah* of renown, where he sat solitary and alone, the monarch of a realm whose conqueror wears no bloody laurels, whose fair domain no carnage can despoil, and in whose bright crown no pillaged pearls are

set.

9. As a forensic ORATOR, I know of no age, past or present, which can boast his superior. He united the boldness and energy of the Grecian, and the grandeur and strength of the Roman, to an original, sublime simplicity, which neither Grecian nor Roman possessed. He did not deal in idle declamation and lofty expression; his ideas were not embalmed in rhetorical embellishments, nor buried up in the superfluous tinselry of metaphor and trope. He clothed them for the occasion; and, if the crisis demanded, they stood forth naked, in all their native majesty, armed with a power which would not bend to the *See Deut., 3d chap., 27th verse.

passion, but only stooped to conquer the reason. Sublime, indeed, it was to see that giant mind, when roused in all its grandeur, sweep over the fields of reason and imagination, bearing down all opposition, as with the steady and resistless power of the ocean billows,-to see the eye, the brow, the gesture, the whole man, speaking with an utterance too sublime for language, a logic too lofty for speech.

10. He needs no marble column or sculptured urn to perpetuate his memory, or tell his worth to rising generations. His fame shall outlive marble; for when time shall efface every letter from the crumbling stone, yea, when the marble itself shall dissolve to dust, his memory shall' be more deeply incased in the hearts of unborn millions, and from his tomb shall arise a sacred incense which shall garnish the concave of his native sky with the brightest galaxy of posthumous fame; and on its broad arch of studded magnificence shall be braided, in "characters of living light," DANIEL WEBSTER, THe great DefenDER OF THE CONSTITUTION.

11. Trite and insipid would it be in me to trace anew that mighty genius through his wonderful career. There are his acts, noble, lofty, god-like! They They are their own historians. There are his thoughts, high, heroic, and sublime. They stand alone, unequaled, unalloyed, imperishable. They are the world's legacy. His fame has taken the pinions of ubiquity; it is already inchased deep in the hearts of grateful millions, "AND THERE IT WILL REMAIN FOREVER.'

12. The nation mourns, and well it may. He has left a void which none can fill. Laid forever at rest in the humble grave, by the side of the sea, the wild waves sing his requiem. With Mount Vernon and Ashland,* his

* The residence of Henry Clay, and where he was buried.

tomb will be a place where men in all coming time will resort, to bring away memorials from the sanctuary of the mighty dead. Patriotism, when it desponds, will go there, look, and live; factional strife and sectional jealousy will feel rebuked when they visit the last resting-place of him whose labors of a life-time were to transmit the blessings of life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which God ordained should first be made manifest in America.

13. The beams of the setting sun will fall with a mellowed light on the spot where the majestic form of WEBSTER molders back to dust, and where the anthem of the Puritan was heard as he came to build an altar to his God, and find a quiet tomb. May the worshiper of after-years approach that hallowed shrine with no empty offering of idle curiosity, no vain and soulless orison; but with grateful and devout homage may the pilgrim of another age journey with reverent adoration to that consecrated spot, and, arched upon its humble tablet, read, in that simple but significant epitaph, "I STILL LIVE!"*- the high, prophetic record of the last and sublimest victory of his life that of the unblenching spirit over death.

14. The sun that illumined that planet of clay

Had sunk in the west of an unclouded day;

And the cold dews of death stood like diamonds of
light,

Thickly set in the pale, dusky forehead of Night:
From each gleamed a ray of that fetterless soul,
Which had bursted its prison, despising control,
And, careering above, o'er earth's darkness and
gloom,

Inscribed, 'I STILL LIVE,' on the arch of the tomb!

Last words of Daniel Webster.

15. The gleam of that promise shall brighten the page Of the prophet and statesman through each rolling

age.

He lives! prince and peasant shall join the acclaim:
No fortune can make him the martyr of Fame.
He lives! from the grave of the patriot Greek
Comes the voice of the dead, which, though silent.
shall speak;

Light leaps from the cloud which has deepened the
gloom,

And flashes its glance on the arch of his tomb!

16. HE LIVES, ever lives, in the hearts of the free;

The wing of his fame spreads across the broad sea;
He lives where the banner of Freedom's unfurled;
The pride of New England, - the wealth of the
world!

Thou land of the pilgrim! how hallowed the bed
Where thy patriot sleeps, and thy heroes have bled!
Let age after age in perennial bloom

BRAID THE LIGHT OF THY STARS ON THE ARCH

SPRING

LESSON CXLVI.

SCENERY OF PALESTINE.

REV. J. P. NEWMAN.

PRING is the most delightful season of the year in the Holy Land, whether to enjoy the pleasures of the climate, or to behold the magnificence of the scenery. Then the skies are bright, the air balmy, and the vernal sun lights up the landscape with a thousand forms of beauty.