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Daniel Webster, born Jan. 18, 1782.

 
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Daniel Webster, born Jan. 18, 1782.
If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first words that would flow from its lips would be, ‘Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose and nothing to gain.’ We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.


If we are to be true to the Christian religion, we will live our lives in reverent fear of God, and shall respect his commandments. We will maintain just, moral sentiments, and such conscientious convictions of duty that shall control our hearts and lives. Then we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes for our country and it will have no decline and fall. It will go on prospering and to prosper.


But, if we reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution, which holds us together, no man can tell, how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity. Should that catastrophe happen, let it have no history! Let the horrible narrative never be written!

We must trust that Heaven will not forsake us, nor permit us to forsake ourselves. We must strengthen ourselves, and gird up our loins with new resolution. We must counsel each other and be determined to sustain each other in the support of the Constitution and prepare to meet with Godly Character whatever difficulty, or danger, or sacrifice, the Providence of God may call upon us to meet.


Are we of this generation so derelict, have we so little of the blood of our revolutionary fathers coursing through our veins, that we cannot preserve, what they achieved? The world will cry out shame upon us, if we show ourselves unworthy, to be the descendants of those great and illustrious men, who fought for their liberty, and secured it to their posterity, by the Constitution of the United States. We have a great and wise Constitution. We have grown, flourished, and prospered under it, with a degree of rapidity, unequaled in the history of the world. Founded on the basis of equal civil rights, its provisions secure perfect equality and freedom; and those who live under it are equal, and enjoy the same privileges.

The Constitution has enemies, secret and professed. They have hot heads and cold hearts. They are rash, reckless, and fierce for change, and with no affection for the existing institutions of their country. Other enemies there are, more cool, and with more calculation. These have a deeper and more fixed and dangerous purpose. There are those in the country, who profess, in their own words, even to hate the Constitution.

Friends of the Constitution must rally, unite and act, with immovable firmness, like a band of brothers, looking only to the great object set before them, the preservation of the Constitution, bequeathed to them by their ancestors. They must gird up their loins for the work that needs to be done. It is a duty which we owe to our ancestors, and to the generations which are to succeed us.
There go I except for the grace of God.
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Re: Daniel Webster, born Jan. 18, 1782.
I homeschooled all three of our kids and this is the dictionary we used:

1828 edition of Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language

[link to 1828.mshaffer.com]

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
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My representative is THAT OLD???





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