On several public occasions he gave evidence that he was somewhat under the influence of deep potations.

I once saw him when his imperial brain was raked with the chain-shot of alcohol.

The sight moved me to tears, and made me hate more than ever the accursed drink that, like death, is no "respecter of persons." I heard the last speech that Mr.Webster ever made.

It was a few months before his death in 1852.

The speech was delivered at Trenton, N.J., in the celebrated India rubber case, Goodyear _vs.