[WASHINGTON, D.C., March
8, 1850.]
Mr. Webster spoke yesterday; and (can you believe it?) he is
a fallen star! — Lucifer descending from heaven! His intellectual life has been
one great epic, and now he has given a vile catastrophe to its closing pages.
He has walked for years among the gods, to descend from the empyrean heights, and
mingle with mimes and apes!
SOURCE: Laura E. Richards, Editor, Letters and
Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, Volume 2, p. 264-5
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