It was a wonderful tribute to his power and influence, but the triumph was hollow and short-lived.

He had attempted to compass an impossibility.

Nothing could kill the principles of human liberty, not even a speech by Daniel Webster, backed by all his intellect and knowledge, his eloquence and his renown.

The anti-slavery movement was checked for the time, and pro-slavery democracy, the only other positive political force, reigned supreme.

But amid the falling ruins of the Whig party, and the evanescent success of the Native Americans, the party of human rights revived; and when it rose again, taught by the trials and misfortunes of 1850, it rose with a strength which Mr.Webster had never dreamed of, and, in 1856, polled nearly a million and a half of votes for Fremont.