Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — Webster's Log Cabin. [ARTICLE]

Webster's Log Cabin.

It did not happen to me to be born in a log cabin; but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log cabin, raised among the 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 no similar evidence of a white man's habitation between it and the settlements on the rivers of Canada. Its remains still exist; I make it annual visit. I carry my children to it, to teach them the hardships endured by the generations which have gone before them. I love to dwell on the tender recollections, the kindred ties, the early affections, and the touching narratives and incidents, which mingle with all I know of this primitive family abode. —Daniel Webster.