. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. definite was learned of the fate of Sir JohnFranklin until 1859, when the steamer Fox, despatched by Lady Franklin, madethe melancholy discovery that Sir JohnFranklin died on the eleventh of June, 1847,and in 1848 the Erebus and Terror 636 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. were abandoned in the ice. The survi-vors of these disasters, one hundred andfive in number, died one by one fromcold and exhaustion on King WilliamsIsland. In the e
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. definite was learned of the fate of Sir JohnFranklin until 1859, when the steamer Fox, despatched by Lady Franklin, madethe melancholy discovery that Sir JohnFranklin died on the eleventh of June, 1847,and in 1848 the Erebus and Terror 636 FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR. were abandoned in the ice. The survi-vors of these disasters, one hundred andfive in number, died one by one fromcold and exhaustion on King WilliamsIsland. In the early part of 1851 Congress reducedthe postage on prepaid letters to three centsto all parts of the United States, prepaymentbeing made by means of stamps provided by under great disadvantages. His htalth hadbeen failing for some time past, and hisweakness was so great that he could speakonly with difficulty. This oration was one of the last public actsof the great statesman. On the twenty-fourthof October, 1852, he died at his home atMarshfield, Massachusetts, aged seventy,years, and in him perished the first statesman. RELICS OF FRANKLIN S POLAR VOYAGE. the government. The result was a rapid andimmense increase of the postal revenue ofthe country. On the fourth of July, 1851, the corner-stone of the extension of the capitol atWashington was laid by President Fillmorewith appropriate ceremonies. The orator ofthe day was Daniel Webster. His addresswas one of his best efforts, but was delivered of America. He was large and stout inframe, of swarthy complexion, and slow andheavy in movement—a man of noble andcommanding appearance. His intellect wascast in the same gigantic mould as his language was simple and chaste, and hisarguments irresistible. His patriotism knewno sectional limits. I am as ready, heonce said, to fight and to fall for thf ADMINISTRATIONS OF TAVLOR AND fILMORE. 63^ constitutional rights of Virginia rt^ t tkm forthose of Massachusetts. » Alexander H.
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