me of Sprague's invaluable "Annals of the
Pulpit," eleven were Dartmouth alumni, while all the others, save
eight, numbered her alumni among their teachers.

Dartmouth has an honorable record in the various departments of Law
and in statesmanship. Most naturally we dwell upon the name of Daniel
Webster, towering in strength and grandeur, like the mountain beside
which he was born, amid the surrounding granite, who left the impress
of his genius upon the jurisprudence of his native State, upon the
Constitution of his adopted State, and upon nearly every conspicuous
page of America's civil or political history for half a century; who
loved Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill with an undying affection,
dwelling alternately beside the one or the other; who cherished as the
apple of his eye his Alma Mater and the nation for whose service she
had prepared him; who in early life and middle life and old age
advocated the universal brotherhood of man, whether pleading in behalf
of the oppressed African, or the oppressed Greek, or the oppressed
Hungarian; who gave all his sympathy and all his influence in aid of
every pursuit, enterprise, and institution which could ennoble the
human race; who made all other human law pay homage to the
Constitution of his country, and all human law to the Divine
Revelation; who gave to Dartmouth a more enduring fame throughout
America, and to America a more enduring fame over the whole earth: of
Levi Woodbury, who as Governor of his native State clearly
comprehended and carefully regarded its various interests; as a
Senator commanded the profound respect of the National Legislature; as
a Cabinet minister, inaugurated "a series of reforms which pervaded
the whole department, and penetrated to every branch of the service,"
and who upon the Supreme Bench of the United States gave judicial
opinions which are "monuments of patient research, ripe, and rarely
erring judgment, enlarged and liberal views, and eminent attainments:"
of Thaddeus Stevens, of whom his biographer says: "Thoroughly radical
in all his views, hating slavery with all the intensity of his
nature, believing it just, right, and expedient, not only to
emancipate the negro but to arm him and make him a soldier, and
afterward to make him a citizen, and give him the ballot, he led off
in all measures for effecting these ends. The Emancipation
Proclamation was urged upon the President by him, on all grounds of
right, justice, and expediency; th