Life or Daniel Webster (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870. Excerpt: ... cepted any moment you please. I hope God, in His mercy, may preserve me, but His will be done "I have every thing right about me, and the weather is glorious. "I do not read the newspapers, but my wife sometimes reads to me the contents of some of them. "I fear things do not look very well for our side. "Yours, always truly, "Dast'l Websteb." At the request of Mr. Paige, Mr. Webster's brother-in-law, I went to Marslifield on Monday, the 18th, for the purpose of assisting Mr. Webster in the preparation of his will, and to be with him, for any purpose in which I could contribute to his comfort, through what we all now feared would be his last illness. I found him seated in one of the parlors, excessively emaciated and feeble, but he had a little writing-table before him, and appeared to have been using his pen, at least for signatures.1 When I greeted him, he held out his hand and said, with a smile: "I am very thankful to you for coming, for I have much to say to you. I hope you will become a transplanted tree, and take root at Marshfield; we set out trees here sometimes." I assured him I should remain as long as he needed me. In a short time he went to his chamber, supported between two of his strong farm laborers, who had learned to assist his movements with great gentleness. He was soon asleep under the influence of an anodyne. On the following day, Dr. Jeffries arrived with Mr. Paige. In the mean time, I had learned from Mr. Edward Curtis, of New York, a gentleman to whom Mr. Webster was strongly attached, and who was then staying in the house, that some days previously Mr. Webster had received a letter from several of his personal friends in New York, urgently requesting him to write a public letter in favor of the election of General Scott. The gentl...