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Excerpt from Webster's Speeches: Reply to Hayne (Delivered in the U. S, Senate, January 26, 1830) During his childhood the future statesman was sickly and deli cate, giving no promise of the robust and vigorous frame which he had in his manhood. In his Autoez'ogmp/zy, written for a private friend in 1829, though extending only to 1817, he says he does not remember when or by whom he was taught to read and that he cannot recollect a time when he could not read the Bible. His father had a mind strong and healthy by nature, insomuch that he became a sort of intellectual leader in the neighborhood. He seemed to have no higher aim in life than to educate his children to the utmost of his limited ability. To small town schools of the neighborhood Daniel was sent with the other children. When the school was near by it was easy to attend but sometimes he had to go, in winter, two and a half or three miles, still living at home at other times, when the school was further off, his father boarded him out in a neighboring family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.