DEATH OF DANIEL WEBSTER (1782-1852)

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Exeter News-Letter, New Hampshire
Monday, November 1, 1852

This historic issue contains not one, but two lengthy articles announcing the death of one of America’s greatest statesmen and orators. One pieces says, in part: “DANIEL WEBSTER. One of the most illustrious men that ever flourished in the tide of time, one of those exponents of wisdom and truth which God occasionally endows with His richest gifts as a leader of our race, a man in whom centered thse elements that compose the structure of human greatness, one whose words took on the dignity and sanctity of oracles, has just finished his mortal career….The death of Mr. Webster leaves a vacuum in our national councils that no person now upon the stage of active life gives promise of filling.”

The advertisements and notices are really fantastic in this original newspaper. There are large illustrations of stagecoaches (the largest I’ve seen in any newspaper), railroad cars with locomotives, and even an early iron stove!

Four large pages, in fine condition. The inside pages are bordered in black as a memorial to Daniel Webster.

$195

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Posted by mmitchell | Filed Under All Historic Newspapers, American Expansion