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Ent, a practice in which one fee probably surpassed the earnings of
three months in New Hampshire, with an agreeable society about him,
popular abroad, happy and beloved at home, nothing could have been more
auspicious than these opening years of his life in Boston. The period
upon which he then entered, and during which he withdrew from active
public service to devote himself to his profession, was a very important
one in his career. It was a period marked by a rapid intellectual growth
and by the first exhibition of his talents on a large scale. It
embraces, moreover, two events, landmarks in the life of Mr. Webster,
which placed him before the country as one of the first and the most
eloquent of her constitutional lawyers, and as the great master in the
art of occasional oratory. The first of these events was the argument in
the Dartmouth College case; the second was the delivery of the Plymouth
oration. I do not propose to enter into or discuss the merits or
demerits of the constitutional and legal theories and principles
involved in the famous "college causes," or in any other of the great
cases subsequently argued by Mr. Webster. In a biography of this kind it
is sufficient to examine Mr. Webster's connection with the Dartmouth
College case, and endeavor, by a study of his arguments in that and in
certain other hardly less important causes, to estimate properly the
character and quality of his abilities as a lawyer, both in the ordinary
acceptation of the term and in dealing with constitutional questions.
The complete history of the Dartmouth Coll