. Self-made men. lty of thelaw, if the word law can be used in such a base connection. Afierce tempest raged in the heavens, as if Nature were indignantat the outrage. The shrieks of the people, says a writer ofthe time, were dreadful; some were carried away lifeless, andsome, rushing forward, almost ere the life of their beloved rulerwas extinct, cut off pieces of his garments as precious relics, andhis hair was divided, out of great veneration, as for a martyr. These measures were subsequently disapproved by the Englishking, and the attainders against the murdered heroes reversed;but the sha
. Self-made men. lty of thelaw, if the word law can be used in such a base connection. Afierce tempest raged in the heavens, as if Nature were indignantat the outrage. The shrieks of the people, says a writer ofthe time, were dreadful; some were carried away lifeless, andsome, rushing forward, almost ere the life of their beloved rulerwas extinct, cut off pieces of his garments as precious relics, andhis hair was divided, out of great veneration, as for a martyr. These measures were subsequently disapproved by the Englishking, and the attainders against the murdered heroes reversed;but the shame of the transaction will last to the end of might Dr. Increase Mather write to Governor Dudley, Iam afraid that the guilt of innocent blood is still crying in theears of the Lord against you: I mean the blood of Leisler andMilbourne. My Lord Bellamont said to me that he was one ofthe committee of Parliament who examined the matter, and thatthose men were not only murdered, but barbarously DANIEL WEBSTER This renowned statesman and eloquently intellectual man wasborn at Salisbury, Merrimac County, New Hampshire, on the18th of January, 1782. In the immediate vicinity his ancestors(who were of Scotch descent) had lived from the earliest house in which he was born was the centre of a tract of onehundred and sixty acres of land, on the produce of which thefamily depended. His father was a man of large and stalwartform, of swarthy complexion, and of remarkable features ; of clearintellect, strong convictions, and indomitable will. Many of thesetraits, especially the last, survived in his illustrious son. From his mother Daniel Webster received the first rudimentsof an education. Mrs. Webster is described as an unusually beau-tiful woman, of superior intellect and of the warmest prophesied that her son would become eminent, and lived tosee a portion of the prophecy fulfilled. He was a member ofCongress when she died. About half a mile
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