...shallow-minded pretenders who make distinguished origin either a matter of personal honor or reproach. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. It did happen to me to be born in a log-cabin, raised among the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period...

...and civilization, are sufficiently in point, to deserve a repetition here. His remarks are : — " It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin, but my elder brothers and sisters were — in a log cabin, raised amid the snow drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early, as that when...

...rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin...snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was...

...of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be bom in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters...snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was...

...distinguished origin a matter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. It did happen to me to be born in a log cabin, raised among the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period...

...foolish enough to indulge in them, and they are generally sufficiently punished by public rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were...

...foolish enough to indulge in them, and they are generally sufficiently punished by public rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition. Gentlemen, it did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin ; but my elder brothers and sisters were...

...Webster's birthplace is the following extract from one of his speeches, delivered at Saratoga, in 1840: " It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin;...and sisters were born in a log cabin raised amid the snow drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early as that, when the smoke first rose from its rude...

...sufficiently punished by the published rebuke. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of hia early condition. It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin, but my older brothers and sisters were bora in a log cabin, raised among the snow drifts of New Hampshire,...

...great public assembly at Saratoga, in the year 1840. " It did not happen to me to be born in a Jog cabin; but my elder brothers and sisters were born...snowdrifts of New Hampshire, at a period so early that, when the smoke first rose from its rude chimney, and curled over the frozen hills, there was...