A fee of that sort he certainly received either then or afterwards.

Every ugly public attack that was made upon him related to money, and it is painful that the biographer of such a man as Webster should be compelled to give many pages to show that his hero was not in the pay of manufacturers, and did not receive a bribe in carrying out the provisions of the treaty of Guadaloupe-Hidalgo.
The refutation may be perfectly successful, but there ought to have been no need of it.

The reputation of a man like Mr.Webster in money matters should have been so far above suspicion that no one would have dreamed of attacking it.

Debts and subscriptions bred the idea that there might be worse behind, and although there is no reason to believe that such was the case, these things are of themselves deplorable enough.
When Mr.Webster failed it was a moral failure.

His moral character was not equal to his intellectual force.