He was advancing in his profession, winning fame and respect, earning a sufficient income, blessed in his domestic relations, and with his children growing up about him.

He was social by nature, and very popular everywhere.

Genial and affectionate in disposition, he attached everybody to him, and his hearty humor, love of mimicry, and fund of anecdote made him a delightful companion, and led Mr.Mason to say that the stage had lost a great actor in Webster.
But while he was thus enjoying professional success and the contented happiness of his fireside, he was slowly but surely drifting into the current of politics, whither his genius led him, and which had for him an irresistible attraction.

Mr.Webster took both his politics and his religion from his father, and does not appear to have questioned either.

He had a peculiarly conservative cast of mind.