The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . t beat to-day, orMolly Starks a widow. These statues were modeled by Carl Conrads after statues in bronze nowin the State House park at Concord, New Hampshire. The original also ofStark is by Conrads, and was erected by the State. The original of the Web-ster statue is by Ball, and was presented to New Hampshire by BenjaminPierce Cheney. On the occasion of the acceptance of these statues by Congress, Mr. Gal-linger exclaimed of General Stark: Amid the gloom and despondency ofthe darkest days of that heroic struggle his vision discerned
The national Capitol; its architecture, art and history . t beat to-day, orMolly Starks a widow. These statues were modeled by Carl Conrads after statues in bronze nowin the State House park at Concord, New Hampshire. The original also ofStark is by Conrads, and was erected by the State. The original of the Web-ster statue is by Ball, and was presented to New Hampshire by BenjaminPierce Cheney. On the occasion of the acceptance of these statues by Congress, Mr. Gal-linger exclaimed of General Stark: Amid the gloom and despondency ofthe darkest days of that heroic struggle his vision discerned a victoriousending. Eighty-four years of age when the second war with Great Britaincommenced, he longed for the energy of youth that he might engage in thestrife, and chafed under the burdens that kept him from again serving hiscountry. Mr. Chandler, representing the State of Websters birth, proudly said: In centuries to come, if the statues in the gallery escape the levelling handof time, and future generations look upon the likeness of Webster and ask. 232 The National Capitol who he was and what he did, there shall come the undying eulogium : He wasthe great expounder and defender of the American Constitution. Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts honored his States adopted son and Senator,whose greatest life-work had been performed in the Capitol, in words ofeloquence and kindly judgment: It would have been fortunate, he said, for Mr. Websters happiness and for his fame if he had died before what would have been his fame and what would have been his happinessif his life could have been spared till 1865 ! He would have seen his greatarguments in the reply to Haine, in the debates with Calhoun, inspiring,guiding, commanding, strengthening. The judge in the court is citing orator in the Senate is repeating them. The soldier by the camp fire ismeditating them. The Union cannon is shotted with them. They are flashingfrom the muzzle of the rifle. Thev are gleaming in the st
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