THIS EDITION HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE REVISAL OF MR. WEBSTER, AND IS ISSUED WITH HIS CONSENT ON THE APPLICATION OF FRIENDS. SECOND EDITION. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY MARK H. NEWMAN, 1S44. STANFORD LAW LIBRARY Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by MARK H. NEWMAN, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. S. W. BENEDICT & CO., STER. & PRINT., 16 Spruce street. CORRESPONDENCE. WASHINGTON, February 13, 1844. SIR: Enclosed is a copy of certain proceedings of a meeting held in reference to your argument in the Supreme Court in the case arising out of the late Mr. Girard's will. In communicating to you the request contained in the second resolution, we take leave to express our earnest hope that you may find it convenient to comply with that request. We are, sir, with high consideration, yours, very respectfully, Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER. P. R. FENDALL, HORACE STRINGFELLOW, R. R. GURLEY, WILLIAM RUGGLES, JOEL S. BACON, THOMAS SEWALL, WILLIAM B. EDWARDS, Committee. At a meeting of a number of citizens, belonging to different religious denominations, of Washington and its vicinity, convened to consider the expediency of procuring the publication of so much of Mr. Webster's argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Fran. F. Vidal et al., appellants, vs. the Mayor, &c., of Philadelphia, and Stephen Girard's executors, as relates to that part of Mr. Girard's will which excludes ministers of religion from any station or duty in the college directed by the testator to be founded, and denies to them the right of visiting said college--the object of the meeting having been stated by Professor Sewall in a few appropriate remarks, the Hon. Henry L. Ellsworth was elected chairman, and the Rev. Isaac S. Tinsley, secretary. Whereupon it was, on motion, unanimously resolved- 1st. That in the opinion of this meeting, the powerful and eloquent argument of Mr Webster, on the before-mentioned clause of Mr. Girard's will, demonstrates the vital importance of Christianity to the success of our free institutions, and its necessity as the basis of all useful moral education; and that the general diffusion of that argument among the people of the United States is a matter of deep public interest. 2d. That a committee of eight persons, of the several Christian denominations represented in this meeting, be appointed to wait on Mr Webster, and, in the name and on behalf of this meeting, to request him to prepare for the press the portion referred to, of his argument in the Girard case; and, should he consent to do so, to cause it to be speedily published and extensively disseminated. The following gentlemen were appointed the committee under the second resolution: Philip R. Fendall, Esq., Rev. Horace Stringfellow, Rev. Joshua N. Danforth, Rev. R. Randolph Gurley, Professor William Ruggles, Rev. President J. S. Bacon, Doctor Thomas Sewall, Rev. William B. Edwards. The meeting then adjourned. ISAAC S. TINSLEY, Secretary. H. L. ELLSWORTH, Chairman, WASHINGTON, February 13, 1844. GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication. tlemen connected with the public press have, I believe, reported my speech in the case arising under Mr. Girard's will. I will look over the report of that part of it to which you refer, so far as to see that it is free from material errors, but I have not leisure so to revise it as to give it the form of a careful or regular composition. I am, gentlemen, with very true regard, your obedient servant, To Messrs. P. R. FENDALL. HORACE STRINGFELLOWw. R. R. GURLEY. WILLIAM RUGGLES. THOMAS SEWALL. DANIEL WEBSTER. WILLIAM B. EDWARDS. |