Mr.Webster was thoroughly national.

There is no taint of sectionalism or narrow local prejudice about him.

He towers up as an American, a citizen of the United States in the fullest sense of the word.

He did not invent the Union, or discover the doctrine of nationality.

But he found the great fact and the great principle ready to his hand, and he lifted them up, and preached the gospel of nationality throughout the length and breadth of the land.