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 BRONZE STATUE OF DANIEL WEBSTER 
 
 ERECTED IN CENTRAL PARK. NEW YORK, JULY 41" 1876 
 
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 INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE 
 
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 DANIEL WEBSTEE, 
 
 ERECTED IN THE CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK 
 
 JULY FOURTH, 1876, 
 
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 By GORDON W. BTIRNHAM, 
 
 AND BY HIM PRESENTED TO THE CITY, NOVEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH, 1876. 
 
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THE "WEBSTER STATUE. 
 
 Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hamp- 
 shire, on the 18th day of January, 1782, and died in 
 Marshfield, Massachusetts, on the 24th day of October, 
 1852. 
 
 His life was devoted to the public service, and no 
 man's service was greater. He was the expounder and 
 defender of the Constitution of the United States. His 
 ability and eloquence postponed the conflict which threat- 
 ened its ruin ; and he, more than any other man, may 
 be said to have created the sentiment of affectionate 
 attachment to the Constitution and the Union it estab- 
 lished, which carried the nation safely through that ter- 
 
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 rible trial of its strength and power. First in that war 
 of opinion out of which the true principles of the 
 American Government came, as though tried by fire — 
 tirst in the peaceful triumphs of the cabinet, the Senate, 
 and the forum, those victories of peace no less renowned 
 than war — if any man's name and memory deserve to 
 be cherished and honored by every American citizen, 
 they are those of Daniel Webster. 
 
 Sharing in this estimate of the great statesman's 
 character, and his relation to the history of the whole 
 country, Mr. Gordon Webster Burkham, a native of 
 New England, and a citizen of New York, conceived the 
 idea of a statue, to be erected in the chief city of 
 America, which should preserve and transmit to future 
 generations the characteristic form and features of the 
 man, and stand as a lasting memorial of his work. 
 
 Mr. Burnham's suggestions and offers to those who 
 were most likely to promote such a design, although 
 cordially approved and gratefully recognized, produced 
 
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 no substantial result during many years ; and, in 1873, 
 
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 he determined to cany out his original purpose in his 
 own way, and at his own expense. 
 
 After some preliminary conferences* with the Depart- 
 ment of Public Parks, in which he indicated his desire 
 to secure an appropriate site for the statue in the Cen- 
 tral Park, he addressed the following letter to the Presi- 
 dent of the Board : 
 
 Hexry G. Stebbixs, Esq., 
 
 President of the Department of Public Parks. 
 
 Dear Sir : In accordance with the suggestions heretofore made in 
 conversation with your predecessor, Mr. Wales, and yourself, I respect- 
 fully offer for the Central Park a bronze statue of Daxiel Webster, of 
 colossal size, with an appropriate granite pedestal, the whole work to 
 be executed by the best artist in a manner altogether worthy the 
 grandeur of the subject and the conspicuous position it is designed to 
 occupy at the lower entrance to the Mall. 
 
 This position, proposed by Mr. President Wales, and cordially ap- 
 proved by yourself and other gentlemen of no less exceUent taste and 
 judgment, will exactly suit my purpose in devoting so large a sum 
 of money as will be required to adorn the Park, and to honor the 
 
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 memory of one of America's noblest sons; whose patriotic eloquence, 
 devoted to the defence of her institutions during his life, will continue 
 to animate and inspire to the latest time that sentiment of "Liberty 
 and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable/' which has saved 
 the nation, and will continue to protect it. 
 
 I trust that my offer to place this statue on the site proposed will 
 meet the speedy accej)tance of your Department, in order that the 
 work may be duly completed by the Fourth of July, 1876 — the Cen- 
 tennial of American Independence. 
 
 I have the honor to be, with great respect, 
 
 Your obedient servant, 
 
 Gordon W. Burnham. 
 
 No. 128 Fifth Avenue, New York, July 25, 1874. 
 
 This letter found its way to the press, and was copied 
 and applauded with enthusiasm all over the country, as 
 well as in the city of New York. The public opinion 
 thus warmly expressed finally silenced all doubts, re- 
 moved all technical and official objections, and left Mr. 
 Burnham free to complete his work. 
 
 He immediately gave the order for the statue to Mr. 
 
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 Thomas Ball, of Florence, Italy, an artist of distinguished 
 merit, whose previous representations of Mr. Webster in 
 painting and sculpture had won for their author an ex- 
 alted reputation. Mr. Burnham has not been disappointed 
 in his expectation that Mr. Ball would crown the labors 
 and studies of a lifetime in a portrait-statue worthy of 
 its noble subject, alike in person and character one of 
 the greatest of the sons of men. 
 
 It was intended that the statue should be completed 
 in time for its inauguration on the National Birthday, 
 the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Inde- 
 pendence, Fourth of July, 1876, and the contracts were 
 framed accordingly with all the parties engaged in the 
 work ; but the delays and disappointments incident to all 
 such operations compelled postponements, from time to 
 time, until the 25th of November, the great local anni- 
 versary of New York, Evacuation-Day. 
 
 The ceremony of inauguration took place on that day, 
 at two o'clock. The assembly was called to order by 
 President William R. Maetix, who spoke as follows : 
 
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 " To-day, in the chief city of his country, we place 
 on a pedestal of granite, standing on the basic rock, the 
 statue of the man whose learning and eloquence did so 
 much to establish the principles of the Constitution on 
 enduring foundations — did so much to fix in every heart 
 that love for and faith in the Union which, like love and 
 faith always, in the crisis, were our salvation. 
 
 " Surmounting all discord of interests and opinions, 
 through the blood of the Revolution, a century ago, our 
 fathers laid the foundations of the Republic. 
 
 " In the middle of the century these foundations were 
 opened, fundamental principles were agitated anew, were 
 resettled, and planted in the hearts of the people. In 
 our day, they have survived the severest tests to which 
 Liberty and Union could have been subjected. They 
 have proved the strongest of all the forces, natural and 
 moral, by which we are surrounded. 
 
 " Through this course of our history there was room, 
 there' was need, for a man — for many men, but for one 
 supremely eminent — for the duty of standing between 
 
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 the past and the future, between the two wars — the first 
 successful to build up, the second failing to overthrow ; 
 need of a man with heart large enough to embrace all, 
 mind large enough to comprehend all, and, upon all 
 principles and all duties of our pride and our hopes, to 
 build the temple and within it the altar of the country, 
 before which all hearts are one, and all discordant in- 
 terests disappear. 
 
 " It is the noble acts of such a man that we to-day 
 commemorate." 
 
 Mr. Gordon W. Burj^ham was then introduced, and 
 thus addressed the Mayor : 
 
 " Mr. Mayor : Having always been a great admirer 
 of Mr. Webster, and having a strong desire that some- 
 thing should be done to perpetuate his memory, I have 
 caused this statue to be erected, which I trust may be 
 as enduring as his fame, and the granite upon which it 
 stands. I now have the pleasure, through you, of pre- 
 
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 senting this statue of Daniel Webster, with its pedestal, 
 to the city of New York. I commit it to your guar- 
 dianship, trusting that it may be faithfully cared for and 
 protected in all time to come." 
 
 The statue was then unveiled by Thomas Brownell 
 Burnham, the donor's youngest son. 
 
 Mayor Wickiiam, in accepting the gift, said : 
 
 " Mr. Burnham and Gentlemen : The city of New 
 York accepts this statue with many acknowledgments 
 for the munificence and public spirit which are shown 
 now, not for the first time, by the donor, and with pro- 
 found regard and reverence for the remarkable man 
 whose features and figure it so admirably reproduces. 
 The time is well chosen for reminding the people of all 
 these United States, as this image does, of the greatness 
 of the intellect and resources of Daniel Webster, and of 
 the glorious use to which he put them in the public 
 service. In the midst of the confusion made by con- 
 
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 tending parties, who struggle now for power in the Re- 
 public, this monument to the most illustrious of the sons 
 of lew England is eloquent of the moderation, the 
 wisdom, and the abounding patriotism of his counsels, 
 which helped to guide the country through so many 
 dangers now happily passed. And, in the new perils to 
 which constitutional government is to-day exposed, to 
 turn the thoughts of men again to the great expounder 
 of the Constitution himself, as these impressive proceed- 
 ings will turn them, cannot but be productive of good 
 influences. The city will guard and keep this noble gift 
 with watchful care, that generations yet to come may 
 learn the lessons taught by Webster." 
 
 President Martin then introduced Hon. William M. 
 Evarts, who delivered the following address : 
 
 " Mr. Mayor aid Fellow-Citizexs : I congratulate 
 you, Mr. Burnham, upon the prosperous execution of a 
 noble purpose. You did me the honor, in meditating 
 
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 this grand gift to the city and to the country, to ask 
 my concurrence in this munificent act. I know that it 
 proceeded, in your intention, from nothing but admiration 
 of Mr. Webster, because he was a great servant of his 
 country, and from your patriotism, that desired to per- 
 petuate his influence in a form that should be as endur- 
 ing and as eloquent as any preservation of his memory 
 to his countrymen could possibly be. I congratulate you, 
 Mr. Mayor, and the city of New York, for the grateful 
 and graceful performance of a duty now for the second 
 and third time of receiving noble monuments to the 
 fame of great citizens of this country, and the acceptance 
 of permanent and impressive decorations of our public 
 places. And you, fellow-citizens, I congratulate upon the 
 benignant sky and the genial air that in these last days 
 of November, so apt to be the saddest of the year, have 
 for this occasion given us the brightness and the joy of 
 opening spring. I congratulate you more deeply, that 
 you and your children, from generation to generation, 
 are here to renew the lessons of patriotism and of duty 
 
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 which Mr. Webster in his lifetime taught so wisely and 
 so well. I congratulate you upon this evidence that 
 public spirit does not fail in a republic. It has been 
 the reproach of equal society that it bred selfishness, 
 and it has been a maxim that munificence belonged to 
 kings and to nobles, and that splendor and elegance and 
 magnificence flowed downward, and could never be the 
 growth of an equal society ; but our history has in this, 
 as in so many other things, falsified these maxims of our 
 race. Where will you find wider and better, more nu- 
 merous or more noble, instances of charity, of public spirit, 
 and of contributions to the public taste and public en- 
 joyment, than this Republic of ours presents everywhere ? 
 And where will you find in other lands instances worthy 
 to be recorded with this of Mr. Burnham, where a 
 single citizen, doing his share as one of the people, for 
 the good of the nation, has made and planned as great 
 and noble a gift % 
 
 "Mr. Mayor, on this occasion we find no need of dis- 
 tinct eulogy. Whoever speaks to any of our countrymen 
 
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 of Mr. Webster, of his life, of his public services, of his 
 genius, and of his fame, can tell them nothing new, nor 
 can he hope to enlarge or deepen their admiring homage 
 which attended him through a whole generation in his 
 lifetime, and in the quarter of a century that has passed 
 since his death has hallowed his memory. Nor, were it 
 otherwise, would anything but the briefest commemora- 
 tion and the "simplest eulogy befit the occasion. This noble 
 restoration of his imposing presence, and the solemn echo 
 which arises in every mind, of the last words which passed 
 his lips, L I still live ! ' — these speak to us to-day ; and all 
 other oratory is superfluous. There he stands, as he 
 stood for a whole lifetime of assured fame, in the full blaze 
 of a Avhole people's attention, crowned by his Maker with 
 glory and honor — as he stood in the courts, in the Senate, 
 in the popular assemblies, at the helm of state, amid the 
 crowds that followed his steps in every public concourse. 
 And yet I could not but yield, Mr. Burnham, to your 
 request that I should share with Mr. Webster's friend, 
 and our friend, Mr. Winthrop, in bringing to attention some 
 
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 of the principal traits of Mr. Webster's character, some 
 of the prominent instances of his great public services. 
 
 "My first knowledge of Mr. Webster, in the way of 
 personal association with him, occurred just as I was 
 leaving college, and he, in 1837, was making that re- 
 markable progress from the Capitol at Washington to his 
 home in the East, on which his steps were delayed in 
 every city by the instant demands of the people that 
 they should see him and that he should speak to them. 
 I had, as a schoolboy in Boston, been familiar with his 
 person as that of the principal citizen of that place, but 
 in after-life it came to be mv fortune to be associated 
 with him in public relations only during the last few 
 years of his life. I can bear testimony that, without ar- 
 rogance, yet full of dignity, he never sought to enhance, 
 but always to lessen, the imposing influence which his 
 mien and his fame impressed on every one. The kindli- 
 ness of his manner and his affectionate attention to every 
 claim made upon his duty or his favor, none who knew 
 him will ever forget; and if my voice now can for a 
 
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 moment recall more nearly than the general recollection 
 of his countrymen might do, what was great and valu- 
 able in his character and in his public service, it is an 
 office both of affection and duty that I should so do. 
 
 " No one brings to his thoughts the life of Mr. Web- 
 ster without instantly dwelling upon the three principal 
 great departments of highest influence in which he moved, 
 and where he showed his power, and shed in a shower 
 of beneficence upon his countrymen and their institutions 
 the great effulgence of his intellect and the warmth of 
 his patriotism. I mean, of course, as a lawyer, as a 
 statesman, and as an orator. No doubt, in the history 
 of the country, names can be recalled which, considered 
 singly and simply in relation to what makes up the char- 
 acter and authority of the lawyer, may compete with or 
 may surpass Mr. Webster. No one can divide with 
 Chief- Justice Marshall the immense power of judicial 
 penetration which he maintained through a life length- 
 ened beyond eighty years ; and eminent men of learning, 
 of weight, of authority with the profession and with the 
 
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 public, may be named that at least occupy, in the simple 
 character of lawyers, for learning and judgment, as ele- 
 vated a place as Mr. Webster. But I am quite sure 
 that there is not, in the general judgment of the profes- 
 sion, nor in the conforming opinion of his countrymen, 
 any lawyer that, in the magnitude of his causes, in the 
 greatness of their public character, in the immensity of 
 their influence upon the fortunes of the country, or in 
 the authority which his manner of forensic eloquence pro- 
 duced in courts and over courts, can be placed in the 
 same rank with Mr. Webster. As a statesman, we must 
 include in our mention as well the character and the 
 part of the party leader, as that of the guide and guar- 
 dian of the public interests in the more elevated plane 
 of the councils of the country. And in this, whatever 
 we may say of the great men who, at the birth of the 
 nation and in the framing of the Constitution, and then, 
 with lives prolonged, attending the first steps of the prog- 
 ress of the new-born nation, established their own fame 
 and contributed to the greatness and the safety of the 
 
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 country, we shall find no man in our generation — no man 
 coming down to our generation from that preceding one 
 — who has held such a share of influence in the popular 
 assemblies, in the counsels of the party, in the State, or 
 in the Senate, or in the discharge of the duties of a 
 Minister of State, who can at all contest with Mr. W eb- 
 ster the preeminent position of the statesman of the 
 whole country, for the whole country, and in results 
 which the whole country has felt. And then, when we 
 come to oratory, he combined the intellectual, the moral, 
 and the personal traits which make up that power in the 
 nation, which gave to one Grecian above all others of 
 his countrymen — Pericles — the title of Olympian. Who 
 so much in our time and in our nation has combined 
 all those traits so often severed as Mr. Webster ? 
 Whether he lifted his voice, mirum spargens sonant, in 
 the court, or in the Senate, or at the hustings, or in the 
 oratory of public occasions, and to select audiences, he 
 spoke as one having authority with his people ; and that 
 authority was always recognized and always obeyed. 
 
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 " To these three recognized and familiar departments 
 of his preeminence we must add a fourth — his clear 
 title in the sphere of literature to be held as one of the 
 greatest authors and writers of our mother-tongue that 
 America has produced. We all recognize the great dis- 
 tinction in this regard of Burke and of Macaulay. In 
 the flow of their eloquence as writers, and in the splen- 
 dors of their diction, Mr. Webster did not approach 
 them, nor would he have desired to imitate them. But 
 I propose to the most competent critics of the nation, 
 that they can find nowhere six octavo volumes of printed 
 literary production of an American, that contains as 
 much noble and as much beautiful imagery, as much 
 warmth of rhetoric, and of magnetic impression upon the 
 reader, as are to be found in the collected writings and 
 speeches of Daniel Webster. 
 
 "But, fellow-citizens, as a citizen and as a patriot, Mr. 
 Webster was greatest in the opinion of his countrymen 
 in his life, and greatest in the judgment of posterity since 
 his death. What are all those mere gifts of intellect, 
 
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 however vast; what these advantages of person, of educa- 
 tion, of position, and of power in the country, if their 
 possessor fails or falls short in his devotion to his coun- 
 try, and in his service to the State? And he that will 
 look through the preserved, recorded evidence of Mr. 
 Webster's life, will see at once that, from his youth to 
 his death, he was as full of public spirit and as full of 
 public labors, as if his life had not been busy and im- 
 portant in its private, professional, and personal relations. 
 He served the State, and labored for and loved it from 
 boyhood up. He withheld no service, he shrunk from 
 no labor, he drew no nice distinctions as to opportunities 
 or occasions. Whenever a word was to be spoken, and 
 could be usefully spoken, to the American people, in the 
 lecture-room, on the anniversary occasion, in the public 
 assemblies, in the cities and in the country, on excursions 
 and progresses through large stretches of our territory, 
 North and South, East and West, always on an elevated 
 stage, and in a conspicuous cause, he gave his great 
 powers to this service of the people. 
 
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 "What could exceed the breadth and generosity of 
 his views, the comprehensiveness, the nationality, of his 
 relations to the people ! Born in the Northeastern cor- 
 ner of New England, the Northeastern corner of the 
 country, seated for the practice of his profession and for 
 his domestic life in the city of Boston, on the very out- 
 side rim of our countrv's territory — I defv any one to find, 
 from the moment he left his provincial college at Dart- 
 mouth, to the time that he was buried on the shore of 
 Marshfield, a time when that great heart did not beat, 
 and that great intellect did not work, for the service 
 equally of all the American people, North and South, 
 East and West. We do not find all the great men of 
 this country thus large and liberal in the comprehension 
 of their public spirit, thus constant and warm in the ex- 
 ercise of patriotic feeling. I cannot even allude to the 
 immense and the frequent public services that Mr. Web- 
 ster performed; but I have this to say, that I would 
 rather that the men and the youth of this country should 
 read the peroration of Mr. Webster's speech in reply to 
 
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 Hayne, and the peroration of his speech for the country 
 and its peace on the 7th of March, 1850, than any equal 
 passages in all the text-books and all the oratory of our 
 politics from the time he died until now. I would like 
 to have anybody that has been instructed by the last 
 twenty-five years see if he could portray the evils, the 
 weaknesses, the woes of nullification under the Constitu- 
 tion, the wretchedness and the falsity of the claims and 
 schemes of peaceful secession, better than Webster could 
 do and did do in advance. I would like to see one 
 touch of art, one word of eloquence, one proof or reason 
 that can be added under this stern teaching of a quarter 
 of a century, that is not found in those great speeches 
 now. His countrymen questioned him, his countrymen 
 maligned him ; but it was his country that he loved, 
 and he would not curse it for anybody's cursing him. 
 
 " On Boston Common, in July, 1852, just before his 
 death, when he stood in the face of Boston people, 
 whom he had served for thirty years, he used these 
 words: 'My. manner of political life is known to you 
 
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 all. I leave it to my country, to posterity, and to the 
 world, to see whether it will or will not stand the test 
 of time and truth.' Twenty-five years of our history 
 have shed a flood of light upon the past, and emblazoned 
 anew the records of Mr. Webster's public life. I shall • 
 not rehearse them, but I say this to you, and I chal- 
 lenge contradiction, that from the beginning to the end 
 that record is true to the great principle that presided 
 over the birth of the nation, and found voice in the 
 Declaration of Independence ; that Avas wrought into the 
 very fabric of the Constitution; that carried us, with 
 unmutilated territory, and undefiled Constitution, and 
 unbroken authority of the Government, through the sac- 
 rifices and the terrors and the woes of civil war ; that 
 will sustain us through all the heats and agues which 
 attend the steps of the nation to perfect health and 
 strength. The great principle embossed in enduring 
 granite on this pedestal, and from the time it was an- 
 nounced from those eloquent lips, is firmly fixed in the 
 consciences and hearts of this people : ' Liberty and 
 
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 union, now and forever, one and inseparable.' The great 
 names of our Revolutionary history — the signers of the 
 Declaration of Independence, the framers of the Consti- 
 tution, the wise men who, surviving from that generation, 
 confirmed the progress of the country under its Consti- 
 tution and its new liberties — no American will allow 
 their fame to be disparaged or divided ; and of the men 
 that followed them up to your time, how many do 3^011 
 owe great obligations to ! How much to Clay and 
 Adams ! How much to Jackson and Wright ! How 
 much to Seward and Chase, and all their contemporaries ! 
 But if I were to name two men whose services were 
 incomparably above that of all others in making this 
 new experiment of free government and of paper con- 
 stitutions a living power to a great and strenuous nation — 
 two that could not have been spared, though all others 
 remained — I should say that to the great Chief-Justice 
 Marshall, and to the great forensic, popular, parliamentary 
 defender and expounder of the Constitution, Daniel 
 Webster, Ave most owe what we now enjoy. Who shall 
 
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 deny to him the title, ' Of our constituted liberties the 
 greatest defender ? ' 
 
 "And now, what shall we say of this great man in 
 the personal and private traits of his character ? I should 
 say of Mr. Webster that, if there were one single trait 
 conspicuous in him and preeminent as compared with 
 others who have made for themselves great names in 
 history, it would be the abundant charity of his nature. 
 He never assumed for himself in private intercourse, or 
 in public speech, any superiority. He never tolerated in 
 his presence, and he never practised, either evil speech 
 or evil surmise. His frown followed even their casual 
 introduction about the table and in public discussions, 
 and he never tolerated any confusion between intellectual 
 dissection of an argument and moral inculpation of the 
 reasoner. I do not know that one should question am- 
 bition, for it is the public passion by which great public 
 talents are made useful to a people. But I will say of 
 Mr. Webster, that he seemed to me never to have any 
 ambition but that which is an inseparable part of the 
 
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 possession of great powers of public usefulness, but that 
 which is sanctioned by the injunction that great talents 
 are not to be buried in the earth, and by the require- 
 ment that the light which God has given that it should 
 shine before men is to be placed on a candlestick. 
 
 "And now within the narrower circle, not ill-repre- 
 sented here in the crowd before me, and on this stand, 
 of those who enjoyed close and friendly intercourse with 
 Mr. Webster; who knew, better than the world knew, 
 the greatness of his powers and the nobleness of his 
 nature — shall we be guilty of any disrespect to the 
 living, shall it not be pardoned to affection,' if we say 
 that the associations with those who survive seem to 
 us but little, compared with the memory of him whose 
 friendship we remember, and whose fame we rehearse? 
 1 Eheu ! quanta minus cum reliquis versari, quam tui memi- 
 nisse. 1 " 
 
 The Hon. Robert C. Winthkop, of Boston, was then 
 introduced. He spoke as follows : 
 
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 "I am here, Mr. Mayor, fellow-countrymen, and friends, 
 with no purpose of trespassing very long on your atten- 
 tion. I was doubtful almost to the last moment whether 
 I should be able to be here at all to-day, and I am 
 afraid that I have neither yoice nor strength for many 
 words in the open air. 
 
 " But, indeed, the address of this occasion has been 
 made. It has been made by one to whom it was most 
 appropriately assigned, and who had every title and every 
 talent for making it. It was peculiarly fit that this 
 grand gift to your magnificent Park should be acknowl- 
 edged and welcomed by a citizen of New York — one 
 of whom you are all justly proud, an eminent advocate 
 and jurist, a distinguished statesman and public speaker, 
 with the laurels of the Centennial oration at Philadel- 
 phia still fresh on his brow. The utterances of this hour 
 might well have ended with him. 
 
 " I could not, however, find it in my heart to refuse 
 altogether the repeated and urgent request of your 
 munificent fellow-citizen, Mr. Burnham, that I would be 
 
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 here on the platform with Mr. Evarts and himself, to-day, 
 to witness the unveiling of this noble statue, and to add 
 a few words in commemoration of him whom it so 
 vividly and so impressively portrays. 
 
 "Mr. Burnham has done me the honor to call me to 
 his assistance on this occasion, as one who had enjoyed 
 some peculiar opportunities for knowing the illustrious 
 statesman to whose memory he is paying these large 
 and sumptuous honors. And it is true, my friends, that 
 my personal associations with Mr. Webster reach back 
 to a distant day. I recall him as a familiar visitor in 
 the homes of more than one of those with whom I was 
 most nearly connected, when I was but a schoolboy, on 
 his first removal to Boston, in 1817. I recall the deep 
 impressions produced on all who heard him, and com- 
 municated to all who did not hear him, by his great 
 efforts in the Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts, 
 and, soon afterward, by his noble discourse at Plymouth 
 llock, in 1820. I was myself in the crowd which gazed 
 at him, and listened to him with admiration, when he 
 
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 laid the corner-stone of the Monument on Bunker Hill, 
 in presence of Lafayette, in 1824. I was myself in the 
 throng which hung with rapture on his lips as he pro- 
 nounced that splendid eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, 
 in Faneuil Hall, in 1826. Entering his office as a law- 
 student in 1828, I was under his personal tuition during 
 three of the busiest and proudest years of his life. 
 From 1840 to 1850, I was associated with him in the 
 Congress of the United States ; and I may be pardoned 
 for not forgetting that it was then my privilege and nry 
 pride to succeed him in the Senate, when he was last 
 called into the Cabinet, as Secretary of State, by Presi- 
 dent Fillmore. 
 
 " I have thus no excuse, my friends, for not knowing 
 something, for not knowing much, of Daniel Webster. 
 Of those who knew him longer or better than I did, 
 few, certainly, remain among the living; and I could 
 hardly have reconciled it with what is due to his mem- 
 ory, or with what is due to my own position, if I had 
 refused — I will not sav to bear testimony to his wonder- 
 
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 ful powers and his great public services, for all such 
 testimony would be as superfluous as to bear testimony 
 to the light of the sun in the skies above us — but if I 
 had declined to give expression to the gratification and 
 delight with which the sons of New England, and the 
 sons of Massachusetts and of Boston especially, and I, 
 as one of them, cannot fail to regard this most signal 
 commemoration of one, whose name and fame were so 
 long and so peculiarly dear to us. 
 
 " Neither Mr. Evarts nor I have come here to-day, 
 my friends, to hold up Mr. Webster — much as we may 
 have admired or loved him — as one with whom we have 
 always agreed, as one whose course we have uniformly 
 approved, or in whose career we have seen nothing to 
 regret. Our testimony is all the more trustworthy — my 
 own certainly is — that we have sometimes differed from 
 him. But we are here to recognize him as one of the 
 greatest men our country has ever produced; as one of 
 the grandest figures in our whole national history; as 
 one who, for intellectual power, had no superior, and 
 
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 hardly an equal, in our own land or in any other land, 
 during his day and generation; as one whose written 
 and spoken words, so fitly embalmed 'for a life beyond 
 life' in the six noble volumes edited by Edward Everett, 
 are among the choicest treasures of our language and 
 literature ; and, still more and above all, as one who 
 rendered inestimable services to his country — at one 
 period, vindicating its rights and preserving its peace 
 with foreign nations by the most skilful and masterly 
 diplomacy ; at another period, rescuing its Constitution 
 from overthrow, and repelling triumphantly the assaults 
 of nullification and disunion, by overpowering argument 
 and matchless eloquence. 
 
 " Mr. Webster made many marvellous manifestations 
 of himself in his busy life of threescore years and ten. 
 Convincing arguments in the courts of law, brilliant ap- 
 peals to popular assemblies, triumphant speeches in the 
 Halls of Legislation, magnificent orations and discourses 
 of commemoration or ceremony — are thickly scattered 
 along his whole career. I rejoice to remember how 
 
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 many of them I have heard from his own lips, and how 
 much inspiration and instruction I have derived from 
 them. To have seen and heard him on one of his field- 
 days, was a privilege which no one will undervalue who 
 ever enjoyed it. There was a power, a breadth, a beauty, 
 a perfection, in some of his efforts, when he was at his 
 best, which distanced all approach and rendered rivalry 
 ridiculous. 
 
 "And if the style and tone and temper of our polit- 
 ical discussions are to be once more elevated, refined, 
 and purified — and we all know how much room there 
 is for elevation and refinement — we must go back, for 
 our examples and models, at least as far as the days 
 of that great Senatorial Triumvirate — Clay, Calhoun, and 
 Webster. There were giants in those days ; but none 
 of them forgot that, though 'it is excellent to have a 
 giant's strength, it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.' 
 
 " Among those who have been celebrated as orators 
 or public speakers, in our own days or in other days, 
 there have been many diversities of gifts, and many 
 
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 diversities of operations. There have been those who 
 were listened to wholly for their intellectual qualities, 
 for the wit or the wisdom, the learning or the philoso- 
 phy, which characterized their efforts. There have been 
 those whose main attraction was a curious felicity and 
 facility of illustration and description, adorned by the 
 richest gems which could be gathered by historical 
 research or classical study. There have been those to 
 whom the charms of maimer and the graces of elocu- 
 tion and the melody of voice were the all-sufficient rec- 
 ommendations to attention and applause. And there have 
 been those who owed their success more to opportunity 
 and occasion, to some stirring theme or some exciting 
 emergency, than to any peculiar attributes of their own. 
 But Webster combined everything. No thoughts more 
 profound and weighty. No style more terse and telling. 
 No illustrations more vivid and clear-cut. No occasions 
 more august and momentous. No voice more deep and 
 thrilling. No manner more impressive and admirable. 
 No presence so grand and majestic, as his. 
 
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 " That great brain of his, as [ have seen it work- 
 ing, whether in public debate or in private converse, 
 seemed to me often like some mighty machine — always 
 ready for action, and almost always in action, evolving 
 much material from its own resources and researches, 
 and eagerly appropriating and assimilating whatever was 
 brought within its reach, producing and reproducing the 
 richest fabrics with the ease and certainty, the precision 
 and £he condensing energy, of a perfect Corliss engine — 
 such a one as many of us have just seen presiding so 
 magically and so majestically over the Exposition at 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 " And he put his own crown-stamp on almost every- 
 thing he uttered. There was no mistaking one of Web- 
 ster's great efforts. There is no mistaking them now. 
 They will be distinguished, in all time to come, like 
 pieces of old gold or silver plate, by an unmistakable 
 mint-mark. He knew, like the casters or forgers of 
 yonder statue, not only how to pour forth burning words 
 and blazing thoughts, but so to blend and fuse and weld 
 
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 together his facts and figures, his illustrations and argu- 
 ments, his metaphors and subject-matter, as to bring 
 them all out at last into one massive and enduring im- 
 age of his own great mind! 
 
 " He was by no means wanting in labor and study ; 
 and he often anticipated the earliest dawn in his prepa- 
 rations for an immediate effort. I remember how hu- 
 morously he told me once, that the cocks in his own 
 yard often mistook his morning candle for the break of 
 day, and began to crow lustily as he entered his office, 
 though it were two hours before sunrise. Yet he fre- 
 quently did wonderful things off-hand; and one might 
 often say of him, in the words of an old poet : 
 
 'His noble negligences teach 
 What others' toils despair to reach.' 
 
 " Not in our own land, only, Mr. Mayor and fellow- 
 countrymen, were the preeminent powers of Mr. Webster 
 recognized and appreciated. Brougham, and Lyndhurst, 
 
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 and the late Lord Derby, as I had abundant opportunity 
 of knowing, were no underraters of his intellectual grasp 
 and grandeur. I remember well, too, the casual testi- 
 mony of a venerable prelate of the English Church — the 
 late Dr. Harcourt, then Archbishop of York — who said 
 to me thirty years ago in London : i I met your wonder- 
 ful friend, Mr. Webster, for only five minutes ; but in 
 those five minutes I learned more of American institu- 
 tions, and of the peculiar working of the American Con- 
 stitution, than in all that I had ever heard or read from 
 any or all other sources.' 
 
 " Of his discourse on the Second Centennial Anni- 
 versary of the Landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth 
 Rock, John Adams wrote, in acknowledging a copy of 
 it, 'Mr. Burke is no longer entitled to the praise of 
 being the most consummate orator of modern times.' 
 And, certainly, from the date of that discourse, he stood 
 second, as an orator, to no one who spoke the English 
 language. But it is peculiarly and preeminently as the 
 expounder and defender of the Constitution of the United 
 
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 States, in January, 1830, that he will be remembered 
 and honored as long as that Constitution shall hold a 
 place in the American heart, or a place on the pages of 
 the world's history. 
 
 "Mr. Webster once said — and perhaps more than 
 once — that there was not an article, a section, a clause, 
 a phrase, a word, a syllable, or even a comma, of that 
 Constitution, which he had not studied and pondered in 
 every relation and in every construction of which it was 
 susceptible. 
 
 "Born at the commencement of the year 1782, at 
 the very moment when the necessity of such an instru- 
 ment for preserving our Union, and making us a nation, 
 was first beginning to be comprehended and felt by the 
 patriots who had achieved our independence — just as 
 they had fully discovered the utter insufficiency of the 
 old Confederation, and how mere a rope of sand it was; 
 born in that very year in which the Legislature of your 
 own State of New York, under the lead of your gallant 
 Philip Schuyler, at the prompting of your grand Alex- 
 
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 ander Hamilton, was adopting the very first resolutions 
 passed by any State in favor of such an instrument — it 
 might almost be said that the natal air of the Constitu- 
 tion was his own natal air. He drank in its spirit with 
 his earliest breath, and seemed born to comprehend, ex- 
 pound, and defend it. No Roman schoolboy ever com- 
 mitted to memory the laws of the Twelve Tables more 
 diligently and thoroughly than did he the Constitution 
 of his country. He had it by heart in more senses of 
 the words than one, and every part and particle of it 
 seemed only less precious and sacred to him than his 
 Bible. 
 
 "John Adams himself was not more truly the Colossus 
 of Independence in the Continental Congress of 1776, 
 than Daniel Webster was the Colossus of the Constitu- 
 tion and the Union in the Federal Congress of 1830. 
 
 " For other speeches, of other men, it might perhaps 
 be claimed, that they have had the power to inflame and 
 precipitate war — foreign war or civil war. Of Webster's 
 great speech, as a Senator of Massachusetts, in 1830 — 
 
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 and of that alone, I think — it can be said, that it averted 
 and postponed civil war for a whole generation. Yes, 
 it repressed the irrepressible conflict itself for thirty 
 years ! And when that dire calamity came upon ns at 
 last, though the voice of the master had so long been 
 hushed, that speech still supplied the most convincing 
 arguments and the most inspiring incitements for a res- 
 olute defense of the Union. It is not yet exhausted. 
 There is argument enough, there is inspiration enough, 
 in it still, if only they be heeded, to carry us along, as 
 a united people, at least for another century. In that 
 speech 'he still lives;' and lives for the Constitution and 
 the Union of his country. 
 
 " Why, my friends, not even the dynamite and r end- 
 rock and Vulcan powder of your scientific and gallant 
 Newton were more effective in blasting and shattering 
 your Hell-Gate reef, and opening the way for the safe 
 navigation of yonder bay, than that speech of Webster 
 was in exploding the doctrines of nullification, and clear- 
 ing the channel for our ship of state to sail on safely, 
 
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 prosperously, triumphantly, whether in sunshine or in 
 storm ! 
 
 " Beyond all comparison, it was the speech of our 
 Constitutional Age. 1 JVil simile aut secundum. 1 It was 
 James Madison, of Virginia, himself, who said of it in a 
 letter at the time : 1 It crushes nullification, and must 
 hasten an abandonment of secession.' Whatever re- 
 mained to be done, in the progress of events, for the 
 repression of menacing designs or of overt acts, was 
 grandly done by the resolute patriotism and iron will of 
 President Jackson, whose proclamation and policy, to 
 that end, Mr. Webster sustained with all his might. 
 They were the legitimate conclusions of his own great 
 argument. 
 
 " Of other and later efforts of Mr. Webster I have 
 neither time nor inclination to speak. There are too 
 many coals still burning beneath the smouldering embers 
 of some of his more recent controversies, for any one 
 to rake them rashly open on such an occasion as this. 
 I Avas by no means in full accord with his memorable 
 
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 7th of March speech, and my views of it to-day are 
 precisely what he knew they were in 1850. But no 
 differences of opinion on that day, or on any other day, 
 ever impaired my admiration of his powers, my confi- 
 dence in his patriotism, my earnest wishes for his pro- 
 motion, nor the full assurance which I felt that he would 
 administer the Government with perfect integrity, as well 
 as with consummate ability. What a President he would 
 have made for a Centennial Year! What a tower of 
 strength he would have been, to our Constitution and 
 our country, in all the perplexities and perils through 
 which we have recently passed, and are still passing ! 
 1 Oh ! for an hour of Dundee ! ' 
 
 " No one will pretend that he was free from all in- 
 firmities of character and conduct, though they have 
 often been grossly exaggerated. Great temptations pro- 
 verbially beset the pathway of great powers ; and one 
 who can overcome almost everything else may some- 
 times fail of conquering himself. He never assumed to 
 be faultless ; and he would have indignantly rebuked 
 
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 any one who assumed it for him. We all know that, 
 while he could master the great questions of national 
 finance, and was never weary in maintaining the im- 
 portance of upholding the national credit, he never cared 
 quite enough about his own finances, or took particular 
 pains to preserve his own personal credit. We all know 
 that he was sometimes impatient of differences, and 
 sometimes arrogant and overbearing toward opponents. 
 His own consciousness of surpassing powers, and the 
 flatteries — I had almost said, the idolatries — of innumer- 
 able friends, would account for much more of all this 
 than he ever displayed. I have known him in all his 
 moods. I have experienced the pain of his frown, as 
 well as the charms of his favor. And I will acknowl- 
 edge that I had rather confront him as he is here, to- 
 day, in bronze, than encounter his opposition in the 
 flesh. His antagonism was tremendous. 1 Safest he who 
 stood aloof? But his better nature always asserted itself 
 in the end. No man or woman or child could be more 
 tender and affectionate. 
 
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 "And there is one element of his character which 
 must never be forgotten. I mean his deep religious 
 faith and trust. I recall the delight with which he often 
 conversed on the Bible. I recall the delight with which 
 he dwelt on that exquisite prayer of one of the old 
 prophets, repeating it fervently as a model of eloquence 
 and of devotion : 1 Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, 
 neither shall fruit be in the vines ; the labor of the 
 olive shall fail, and the field shall yield no meat ; the 
 flock shall be cut otf from the fold, and there shall be 
 no herd in the stalls : yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I 
 will joy in the God of my salvation.' I recall his im- 
 pressive and powerful plea for the religious instruction 
 of the young, in the memorable case of Grirard College. 
 I have been with him on the most solemn occasions, in 
 Boston and at Washington, in the midst of the most 
 exciting and painful controversies, kneeling by his side 
 at the table of our common Master, and witnessing the 
 humility and reverence of his worship. And who has 
 forgotten those last words which he ordered to be in- 
 
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 scribed, and which are inscribed, on his tombstone at 
 Marshfield : 
 
 " ' Lord, I believe ; help Thou mine unbelief,' Philosophical argu- 
 ment, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in com- 
 parison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes 
 shaken my reason for the faith which is in me ; but my heart has 
 always assured and reassured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must 
 be a divine reality. The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely 
 human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my 
 conscience. The whole history of man proves it. — Daniel Webster. 
 
 " I cannot help wishing that this declaration, in all 
 its original fulness, were engraved on one of the sides 
 of yonder monumental base, in letters which all the 
 world might read. Amid all the perplexities which 
 modern science, intentionally or unintentionally, is multi- 
 plying and magnifying around us, what consolation and 
 strength must ever be found in such an expression of 
 faith from that surpassing intellect ! 
 
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 " I congratulate you, my friends, that your Park is 
 to be permanently adorned with this grand figure, and 
 that the inscription on its massive pedestal is to asso- 
 ciate it forever with the great principle of ' Union and 
 Liberty, one and inseparable.' Nor can I conclude with- 
 out saying that, from all I have ever known of Mr. 
 Webster's feelings, nothing could have gratified him so 
 much as that, in this Centennial Year, on this memorable 
 anniversary, nearly a quarter of a century after he had 
 gone to his rest — when all the partialities and prejudices, 
 all the love and the hate, which wait upon the career 
 of living public men, should have grown cold or passed 
 away — a statue of himself should be set up here, within 
 the limits of your magnificent city, and amid these 
 superb surroundings. Quite apart from those personal 
 and domestic ties which rendered New York so dear to 
 him — of which we have a touching reminder in the 
 presence of the venerable lady who was so long the 
 sharer of his name and the ornament of his home — 
 quite apart from all such considerations, he would have 
 
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 appreciated such a tribute as this, I think, above all 
 other posthumous honors. 
 
 " There was something congenial to him in the grand- 
 eur of this great commercial metropolis. He loved, in- 
 deed, the hills and valleys of New Hampshire, among 
 which he was born. He delighted in Marshheld and 
 the shores of Plymouth, where he was buried. He was 
 warmly attached to Boston and the people of Massa- 
 chusetts, among whom he had lived so long, and from 
 whom he had so often received his commissions as their 
 Representative and their Senator in Congress. But in 
 your noble city, as he said, he recognized 'the com- 
 mercial capital, not only of the United States, but of 
 the whole continent from the pole to the South Sea.' 
 1 The growth of this city,' said he, 1 and the Constitution 
 of the United States are coevals and contemporaries.' 
 { New York herself,' he exclaimed, 1 is the noblest eulogy 
 on the Union of the States.' He delighted to remember 
 that here Washington was first inaugurated as President, 
 and that here had been the abode of Hamilton and 
 
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 John Jay and Rufus King. And it was at a banquet 
 given to him at 3 our own JNiblo's Garden, in 1837, 
 and under the inspiration of these associations, that he 
 summed up the whole lesson of the past and the whole 
 duty of the future, and condensed them into a sentiment 
 which has ever since entered into the circulating medium 
 of true patriotism, like an ingot of gold with the im- 
 press of the eagle : ' One country, one Constitution, one 
 destiny.' 
 
 "Let that motto, still and ever, be the watchword 
 of the hour, and, whatever momentary perplexities or 
 perils may environ us, with the blessing of God, no per- 
 manent harm can happen to our republic ! 
 
 "In behalf of my fellow-citizens of New England, I 
 thank Mr. Burnham for this great gift to your Central 
 Park; and I congratulate him on having associated his 
 name with so splendid a tribute to so illustrious a man. 
 A New-Englander himself, he long ago decorated one 
 of the chief cities of his native State with a noble statue 
 
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 of a venerated father of the Church to which he belongs. 
 He has now adorned the city of his residence with this 
 grand figure of a preeminent American statesman. He 
 has thus doubly secured for himself the grateful remem- 
 brance of all by whom Religion and Patriotism, Church- 
 manship and Statesmanship, shall be held worthy of 
 commemoration and honor, in all time to come." 
 
 On the conclusion of Mr. Winthrop's address, a fine 
 band of music, which had played before the ceremonies 
 and between the addresses, struck at once into our 
 national airs, while the cheers of the assembled multi- 
 tude gave the appropriate close to the proceedings. 
 
 The celebration of the event was fitly completed by 
 a brilliant reception and entertainment at the house of 
 Mr. Burnham, in the evening of the day of inauguration, 
 which was attended by a large company, among whom 
 
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 were many of the most eminent persons in the country, 
 who had assembled to do honor to the memory of Mr. 
 Webster. 
 
 Upon the wall opposite the head of the table in the 
 dining-room hung a faithful portrait of Mr. Webster, 
 appropriately decorated with flowers, evergreens, and 
 immortelles, showing below in a bold relief of white 
 flowers the inscription of his last words — 
 
 U I STILL LIVE." 
 
 And on a stand below were placed additional personal 
 memorials — his familiar costume of the blue coat with 
 gilt buttons and buff waistcoat — the old Whig colors 
 which he always delighted to honor. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS. 
 
 The correspondence between Mr. Biirnham and the 
 Park Commissioners, in which the site for the statue 
 was finally determined, ended with the following letters 
 communicating the action of the Board : 
 
 Department of Public Parks, 
 General Office, 36 Union Square, N". Y., cor. IGtii Street, 
 
 October 6, 1874. 
 
 Gordon W. Burnham, Esq., New York City. 
 
 Dear Sir: I take pleasure in sending you a certified, copy of the 
 resolutions passed in relation to the proposed site for the statue of 
 Webster, which you so generously propose to present to the city of 
 New York. 
 
 These resolutions were unanimously passed by the Commissioners, 
 and are, in my judgment, regarded with favor by the community at 
 large. 
 
 I am sure they will be respected by our successors, and the spot 
 
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 now selected sacredly held for the statue of Webster, until the artist 
 selected to execute the important work shall have completed his labors. 
 
 Gordon W. Burnham, Esq., 128 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Sir: The following resolutions were adopted by the Board gov- 
 erning this Department, at a meeting held on the 25th September last, 
 namely : 
 
 "Resolved, That the Board would be gratified to be able to place 
 a worthy colossal statue, in bronze, of Daniel Webster, on the Central 
 Park, in accordance with the munificent proposition of Gordon W. 
 Burnham, Esq. 
 
 "Resolved, That, pending the undertaking of Mr. Burnham, the site 
 at the junction of the Middle and West Drives, south of the lake, shall 
 be reserved against any other permanent use or appropriation than that 
 proposed by him." 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 Henry G. Stebbins, 
 
 President D. P. P. 
 
 Department of Public Parks, 
 General Office, 36 Union Square, N. Y., cor. 16th Street, 
 
 October 6, 1874. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 
 Wm. Irwin, 
 
 Secretary P. P. P. 
 
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 Proceedings of the Corporation of the City of 
 
 New York. 
 
 On November 27, 1876, the Board of Aldermen of 
 the city of New York unanimously adopted the following 
 preamble and resolutions, which were duly presented to 
 Mr. Burnham : 
 
 " Whereas, Gordon W. Burniiam, Esq., having placed 
 in the Central Park, at his own expense, the colossal 
 statue in bronze of Daniel Webster, with the granite 
 pedestal on which it stands, did, on the 25th day of 
 November, instant, present the same to the city: now, 
 therefore — 
 
 " Resolved, That the Mayor, Aldermen, and Com- 
 monalty of the city of New York, appreciating the illus- 
 trious character and services of the statesman to whom 
 this monument is raised, and rejoicing in the possession 
 of a work of art which is so notable itself, and which 
 so eloquently incites to patriotism and to devotion to 
 
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 the Constitution, do now, in grateful recognition of this 
 renewed expression of the munificence and public spirit 
 of an honored fellow-citizen, present their thanks to 
 Goedox W. Bfexham for his memorable gift. 
 
 " Resolved, That the Major be, and hereby is, re- 
 quested to forward to Mr. Burnham an engrossed 
 copy of the foregoing preamble and resolution, duly 
 attested." 
 
 Descriptiox of the Statue. 
 
 The engraving of the statue which accompanies this 
 publication renders it unnecessary to give any formal or 
 technical description. It was modelled in Florence, and 
 cast at the celebrated foundery in Munich. 
 
 The size and dimensions of the whole work are as 
 follows : 
 
 The foundation, commencing sixteen feet below the 
 surface, is laid in cement upon a solid rock. 
 
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 The pedestal, designed by Messrs. Batteesojn", Can- 
 field & Co., of Hartford, Connecticut, is of Quincy 
 granite. It is twenty feet in height ; a single stone used 
 in its construction weighs thirty-three tons, and the 
 whole weight of the pedestal is about one hundred and 
 twenty-five tons. 
 
 The figure, which is of bronze, is fourteen feet in 
 height, and its weight is six tons. 
 
 The whole work thus stands thirty-four feet above 
 the surface of the Park. 
 
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