in which he is represented
sitting upon a white horse. Did he really ride a white horse, or don't you
recall the color of his horse?"

"Why, bress your soul; 'call de color ob de hoss--'call de color ob it? Do
you see dish yer nigh hoss dat I'm a drivin' now, right yer? Well, dat's
de werry hoss Mossa Gawge used to ride. He lef it to me in his will!"

Just then we reached the station, and I dismounted from the hack and paid
Washington's body-servant for his service. No doubt a longer conversation
with him would have revealed other new and startling facts relating to the
Father of His Country.

LITTLE GEMS FROM WEBSTER.

Venerable men! You have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven
has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this
joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour,
with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife
of your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over
your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else, how changed!
You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke
and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewn with the dead
and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse;
the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to
repeated resistance a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an
instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death--all these you
have witnessed, but you witness them no more.... All is peace; and God has
granted you this sight of your country's happiness, ere you slumber
forever in the grave. He has allowed you to behold and to partake the
reward of your patriotic toils; and He has allowed us, your sons and
countrymen, to meet you here, and in the name of the present generation,
in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you!--From
"_Oration on Laying the Corner-Stone of Bunker Hill Monument,_" _June 17,
1825._

* * * * *

If anything be found in the national Constitution, either by original
provision or subsequent interpretation, which ought not to be in it, the
people know how to get rid of it. If any construction be established
unacceptable to them, so as to become practically a part of the
Constitution, they will amend it at their own sovereign pleasure. But
while the people choose to maintain it as it is,