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covered with eulogy; and our national stock of eloquence is all insufficient to describe how profound and far-reaching was the sagacity of Daniel Webster! Remember who it was that said, in 1831, I am in earnest,--I will not equivocate,--I will not excuse,--I will not retreat a single inch,--and I will be heard! [Repeated cheers.] That speaker has lived twenty-two years, and the complaint of twenty-three millions of people is, Shall we never hear of anything but slavery? [Cheers.] I heard Dr. Kirk, of Boston, say in his own pulpit, when he returned from London,--where he had been as a representative to the Evangelical alliance, --I went up to London, and they asked me what I thought of the question of immediate emancipation. They examined us all. Is an American never to travel anywhere in the world but men will throw this troublesome question in his face? Well, it is all his fault [pointing to Mr. Garrison]. [Enthusiastic cheers.] Now, when we come to talk of statesmanship, of