Excerpt from A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life and Services of Daniel Webster: Delivered Before the Citizens of Providence, November 23, 1852 Resolved, That while we bow with submission to the dispensation of Divine Providence, which removed him from this life in the full possession of his great powers and while discharging with honor to his country many of the most im portant administrative duties of the government, it becomes us to cherish his memory as a part of our truest national glory and to do what we can to trans mit to those who come after us, our high appreciation of his long and varied and preeminent public services. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.