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knows no Whig, no Democrat. While While man would do more to uphold the Union, or take more pride in its perpetuity, he is prepared to repel the slightest interference with the South, on the slavery question.

Mr. Yeadon's practice at the bar has yielded him remunerating emoluments; and he is, therefore, possessed of a very handsome fortune. Not only have his industry, and attention to business, been blessed, but his liberality also; for, while prudence has regulated his private affairs every public and private charity has found him a liberal benefactor.

Mr. Yeadon's capacity for usefulness has devolved on him the performance of many duties in civil and military life. He has filled, with approbation, many important public stations, and he is identified with nearly all of the charitable and school associations of the city. The Northern States, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, are indebted to his pen for some of the finest descriptions of scenery, and the most graphic biographical sketches ever published in this country; an art of composition in which Mr. Yeadon is remarkably happy, and which causes his presence to be hailed with delight wherever he travels.

Mr. Yeadon's style of speaking is clear and brilliant. He has at ready command a large amount of, not only shining, but pure coin; and he expends it with ease and gracefulness. The visit of Mr. Webster to Charleston, in 1847, gave Mr. Yeadon a fine opportunity of displaying, not only the warmth of his heart, but of his eloquence too. As fair specimens of his extemporary style, we subjoin extracts from his speeches at the New England Society and Bar dinners to Mr. Webster.

At the first, being called on, Mr. Yeadon said "He presumed that the call made on him indicated that the company desired from him a sentiment merely, not a speech. That, after the brilliant and almost unparalleled display of oratory, eloquence, and exquisite wit, which had graced the occasion, it would be vain presumption in him to interrupt the further festivity of the evening with a set discourse. He could not forbear, however, giving expression to his gratitude for the courtesy which had made him a participator in the rich and

rare enjoyment, that had so signally marked this social and festive scene- -that had made him a guest of the family party, given to the favorite son of New England by the descendants of her pilgrim fathers, who had made the sunny South their home. It afforded him heartfelt pleasure to unite in doing honor to their distinguished guest. He honored him as the light and glory of our literature, the star, the sun of our intellectual sky-as bearing, in oratory and eloquence, the same relation to our country, that Demosthenes and Cicero bore to Greece and Rome; emblazoning her with an equal lustre--as having won, by a long life of illustrious public service, in the Senate, the cabinet, and the field of diplomacy, not only the title of New England's favorite son, but, also, that of the patriot statesman of America-and as standing forth, by universal acknowledgment, one of the greatest citizens of our great Republic; belonging not only to his native New Hampshire, and his adopted Massachusetts, but identified with the history, and contributing to the fame of his entire country; and, therefore, rightfully claimed as the common property of the nation. There was one particular, too, in which, as a Carolinian, and a Southron, he felt more than commonly proud to do grateful honor to Daniel Webster. In his own Massachusetts, and in the Congress of the Union, he had boldly and patriotically rebuked the mad spirit of fanaticism, that, under the banner of a false philanthropy, would preach a crusade against Southern rights and institutions, and stab to the heart the peace, the prosperity, nay, the very existence of the South. It was gratifying, also, to recal the fact that, in the year 1840, in the capital of the Old Dominion, under the October sun' of a Virginia sky, he, Mr. Webster, had given utterance,

before his entire country,' to the just, patriotic, and constitutional sentiment, and committed it to the wings of all the winds,' to be borne to every human ear, whether of friend or foe, of North or South, on all the responsibility that belonged to him—THAT THERE IS NO POWER, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, IN CONGRESS, OR THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, TO INTERFERE, IN THE SLIGHTEST DEGREE, WITH THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE SOUTH.' He pro

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claimed that we, of the North and South, | were citizens of United States-united only for the purposes of common defence, common interest, and common welfare, but separate and independent in every thing connected with their domestic relations, and private concerns. Honor to the man who upholds the Constitution as the bond of our Union, and as the ægis of protection and bulwark of defence, to the separate interests and institutions, each and all, of our United States. could not conclude, said Mr. Yeadon, without expressing his delight also, at beholding his own native State thus extending welcome and courtesy to Massachusetts, the mother of industry, enterprize and refinement, in the person of her illustrious Senator. It was fitting that old Massachusetts, she that had rocked the cradle of the revolution at Lexington and Bunker's Hill, should be thus met with old affection, and time honored' hospitality, by South Carolina-which had not sung the lullaby of our young independence; but tuned its ear to other, and different music, the thunder of Fort Sullivan. He gave, as a sentiment,

"The reception of Mr. Webster in Charleston. The old Palmetto Fort exchanging a friendly salute with Bunker's Hill."

At the Bar dinner to Mr. Webster, Mr. Yeadon spoke as follows:

"He asked leave to pay a common and richly merited tribute to the three greatest men of the Union. The relations borne by their illustrious guest to his city, his State, his section, and the nation at large, naturally suggested to the minds and hearts of all present, two other distinguished citizens of our republic, his co-equals in greatness and fame, whose relations to city, State, section, and nation, were identical with his own. Boston, the Athens of America, Massachusetts, the cradle of the revolution, New England, the home of the Pilgrim Fathers, delighted to do honor to DANIEL WEBSTER, the bright star of the East. Lexington, the soul of hospitality and intelligence, Kentucky, the eldest of the Western sisterhood, the far and mighty West, in all its vast extent of territory presented the laurel to Henry Clay, the great statesman of the West, who now, alas, in sorrow and desolation, amidst the shades of his own beautiful Ashland, mourns, with crushed and anguished heart, a gallant son, laid as a sacrifice on the

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altar of his country. Charleston, the Queen City of the South, South Carolina, the soil of South, the home of chivalry and generous the evergreen palmetto, the South, the sunny sentiment, do homage to John C. Calhoun, the pure and lofty patriot, the fearless champion of the South. Each of these illustrious men, in his own section, stands unrivalled in greatness and in the popular heart; and yet each was regarded as the common property of the nation, which had reaped such a long harvest services in the Senate, in the cabinet and in advantage and fame from their illustrious the diplomatic field. At home, each towered in greatness and elevation, beyond compeer; but when viewed as the national plain, they rose in the similitude of three lofty and colossal columns, contrasted in their order of architecture, but equal in magnitude and height. He asked for permission then, as not inappropriate to the grateful occasion, to twine a common public. He gave Clay, Webster, and Calgarland for the three great men of the rehoun, the three pyramids of America. Colossal in intellectual proportions, and towering in moral grandeur, they as much exceed those of Egypt in greatness and glory, as the intellectual and the moral are above the physical, while liberty is worshipped and public worth they and their memory will be reverenced, is cherished in this land of the free. time may come when posterity will say: From yonder pyramids more than twenty centuries look down upon our actions.'"

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In person, Mr. Yeadon is of respectable medium height, and somewhat stout. His head is what a phrenologist would admire, as happily proportioned, enough of the physical to give stability to the moral and intellectual, and his face is characterised by benevolent and intellectual expression. In disposition he is bland and courteous; and, though in moments of close attention to business, one may pronounce him occasionally and unconciliatory in manner, this arises more from anxiety to make progress with his engagements, than from a want of appreciation of the particular complaisances of life. Under an exterior sometimes forbidding, is beating a generous and sympathising heart, one ever open to the impressions of philanthropy; ever overflowing with kindness and urbanity.

In business the most minute particulars engage his observation or memory; and while, with some men, it requires hours of preparation, to make the transit from one department of business to another, he engages in the greatest variety