Said Webster: "And now is Charles Goodyear the discoverer of this invention of vulcanized rubber?
Is he the first man upon whose mind the idea ever flashed, or to whose intelligence the fact ever was disclosed, that by carrying heat to a certain height it would cease to render plastic the India Rubber and begin to harden and metallize it?
Is there a man in the world who found out that fact before Charles Goodyear?
Who is he?
Where is he?
On what continent does he live?
Who has heard of him?
What books treat of him?
What man among all the men on earth has seen him, known him, or named him?
Yet it is certain that this discovery has been made.
It is certain that it exists.

It is certain that it is now a matter of common knowledge all over the civilized world.

It is certain that ten or twelve years ago it was not knowledge.

It is certain that this curious result has grown into knowledge by somebody's discovery and invention.
And who is that somebody?
The question was put to my learned opponent by my learned associate.

If Charles Goodyear did not make this discovery, who did make it?
Who did make it?
Why, if our learned opponent had said he should endeavor to prove that some one other than Mr.Goodyear had made this discovery, that would have been very fair.