The observations on the Greeks and Romans; on colonization in general; on the West India islands; on the past, present, and future of America, and on the slave-trade, are sagacious, profound, and affecting in a high degree." "Mr.Burke is no longer entitled to the praise--the most consummate orator of modern times." "What can I say of what regards myself?
To my humble name, _Exegisti monumentum aere perennius_." Many persons consider the Plymouth oration to be the finest of all Mr.
Webster's efforts in this field.

It is certainly one of the very best of his productions, but he showed on the next great occasion a distinct improvement, which he long maintained.

Five years after the oration at Plymouth, he delivered the address on the laying of the corner-stone of Bunker Hill monument.

The superiority to the first oration was not in essentials, but in details, the fruit of a ripening and expanding mind.

At Bunker Hill, as at Plymouth, he displayed the massiveness of thought, the dignity and grandeur of expression, and the range of vision which are all so characteristic of his intellect and which were so much enhanced by his wonderful physical attributes.