A Webster Address

An address delivered by Daniel Webster before the faculty and students of Dartmouth College on July 21, 1828 has been published as a pamphlet by the Dartmouth College Library, under the editorship of Edward Connery La them '51, director of the Library's Division of Special Collections. Mr. Lathem's introductory note explains that Daniel Webster, then United States Senator from Massachusetts, and his brother Ezekiel, of Boscawen, N. H., undertook a journey together after the adjournment of Congress in May of 1828. It was proposed that a public dinner mark their arrival in Hanover on July 21, but Webster, unable to accept this invitation, attended instead a "crowded levee" in the evening and spoke briefly to the gathering, addressing himself first to the faculty and then to his "young friends" of the undergraduate body.

These remarks were reported in a few newspapers, and were included in the National Edition (1903) of his writings and speeches, but the Library's pamphlet is believed to be the only separate edition of the address to be issued in the 125 years since it was delivered.