As Vice-President, as secretary of State, above all as senator from South Carolina, he gained lasting renown.

His life was eminently pure, his career exceptional, his fame established beyond the reach of calumny, beyond the power of detraction.
MR.

WEBSTER'S 7TH OF MARCH SPEECH.
Continuing the discussion invited by Mr.Clay's resolutions, Mr.
Webster delivered, on the 7th of March, the memorable speech which cost him the loss of so many of his staunch and lifelong friends.
The anti-slavery Whigs of the North, who, as the discussion went on, had waited to be vindicated by the commanding argument of Mr.
Webster, were dismayed and cast down by his unexpected utterance.
Instead of arraigning the propagandists of slavery, he arraigned its opponents.

Instead of indicting the Disunionists of the South, the poured out his wrath upon the Abolitionists of the North.

He maintained that the North had unduly exaggerated the dangers of slavery extension at this crisis.