was elected Governor of
his State; the people feeling that they could place the helm of their
ship in no safer hands during the trying ordeal they felt they were to
pass through. In replying to President Jackson's celebrated proclamation
Hayne issued a counter-manifesto full of defiance. Happily the
compromise of Mr. Clay postponed for thirty years the threatened civil
war.

The evening of the close of that great debate at a presidential levee,
Mr. Webster challenged Mr. Hayne to drink a glass of wine with him,
saying, "General Hayne, I drink to your health, and hope that you may
live a thousand years." Hayne's disposition is shown by his reply: "I
shall not live a hundred if you make another such a speech." If he felt
there was merit in an individual he was quickest to admit it even when
it might be to his own detriment, and when it is remembered that he was
one of the first to compliment Webster on his great parliamentary
success, his noble qualities are shown in their true colors.

After serving in the gubernatorial chair with great distinction he
retired to become Mayor of Charleston. He now turned his attention
especially to internal improvements, and soon became president of the
Charleston, Louisville & Cincinnati Railway. This office he held at his
death, which occurred in his fiftieth year, September 24th, 1841. There
are many things in the character of General Hayne worthy of study.

DANIEL WEBSTER.

On January 8th, 1782, was born at Franklin, New Hampshire, a son to a
comparatively poor farmer. No royal blood flowed through the veins of
this child whereby to bring him honor, yet one day he was to rise to the
foremost rank among the rulers of his country. At that early period the
town of Salisbury, now Franklin, was the extreme northern settlement in
New Hampshire, and the schools were of necessity in a primitive state.

Daniel Webster labored on his father's farm during the summer, and a few
months of each winter attended the district school some two miles from
his home. Considering the cold, and the heavy snows which are
characteristic of his native State, one can scarcely realize the amount
of energy he must have utilized to enable him to enter Exeter Academy at
the early age of fourteen, and one year later, Dartmouth College. He is
represented as promising nothing of his future greatness at this time,
but it is stated that he pursued every study with EXTRAORDINARY
TENACITY.

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