The whole force of his great mind was brought out, and, in several speeches, he commanded universal admiration.

He always led the van, and was most skilful and instantaneous in attack and retreat.

He fought, as I have told him, in the 'imminent deadly breach;' and all I could do was to skirmish, in aid of him, upon some of the enemy's outposts.

On the whole, I never was more proud of any display than his in my life, and I am much deceived if the well-earned popularity, so justly and so boldly acquired by him on this occasion, does not carry him, if he lives, to the presidency." While this convention, so memorable in the career of Mr.Webster and so filled with the most absorbing labors, was in session, he achieved a still wider renown in a very different field.

On the 22d of December, 1820, he delivered at Plymouth the oration which commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims.