Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Professor Silliman” in chapter 9, page 214 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...ing the Presidential nomination in 1852.
They assailed him savagely, and Webster died, a broken man, in the autumn of the Presidential year.
I have given my life to law and politics, he wrote to Professor Silliman . Law is uncertain and politics are utterly vain.
The dispassionate judgment of the present hour frees him from the charge of conscious treachery to principle.
He was rather a martyr to his own c...
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