We marched from Cambridge to Boston, three miles and a half, and stood in our places for hours, and then marched over to Charlestown.
We were tired out when the oration began.

There was a little wind which carried the sound of Mr.Webster's voice away from the place where we stood; so it was hard to hear him during the first part of his speech.

He spoke slowly and with great deliberation.

There was little in the greater part of that weighty discourse to excite a youthful auditor; but the great thing was to look at the great orator.

Waldo Emerson, who was there, said of him: "His countenance, his figure, and his manners were all in so grand a style that he was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest.