Its a Story they tell in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Danl Websters deador, at least, they buried him. But every time theres a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, Danl WebsterDanl Webster! the groundll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while youll hear a deep voice saying, Neighbor, how stands the Union? Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or hes liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, thats what I was told when I was a youngster.
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That the townspeople might better see him, the President was persuaded to leave his carriage by the inducement that the ladies wished to get a...
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Realizing that his time was nearly spent, he gave full oral instructions about his burial and the manner in which he wished to be remembered.....
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Live free or die.
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Inscription on a tombstone: 'I TOLD YOU I WAS SICK'
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