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Excerpt from Webster as Man and Statesman
Most of us are tried on the spot and at the moment in our own day and generation, we having, in our bubble-like being on earth, a domestic and possibly biographic, but no historic Significance, only melting into the immense sea of humanity or general mass of mankind. But there are mountainous mcn, rare as the peaks of the Alps or the Andes, Moses, Socrates, Caesar, Bonaparte, - ever standing at the bar of the human mind; and, among ringing celebrations and contradic tions, the image formed of any one and all of these giants of genius and power concerns the virtue of every individual, so that I need no apology for my attempt at an estimate in the pulpit of the claim to honor and imitation of an extraor dinary man of the West, one of the chief Americans, since beiijamin Franklin in the civil sphere, New England's most distinguished son, of a permanent fame whose quality it may take some ages still of re?ection to decide, yet our opinion of whom has an interest for our character now, and to whom the Scripture figure of a tribunal of Judgment to appeal to is appropiiate on account of the diverse and opposwe pleas, one against him, another in his behalf, there never having been a case in a public career in these United States of a person in which plaiiititl' and defendant alike more required a Judge.
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