Excerpt from Speeches of the Hon. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts: Delivered at the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, in Boston, Nov, 7th, 1849

Residents of Boston and its vicinity, native born of New Hampshire! we meet here to-day in honor of our native State, to commemorate and record our grateful affection for her, to acknowledge the obligation that we all feel under for her care and nurture in our early days. Coming into this, another State, we have not brought with us all our affections, or all our attachments.

We have invited to meet us many distinguished citizens of New Hampshire. They have answered our invitation, and have come in numbers. It may be considered properly the duty of the place I occupy to bid them, one and all, welcome. [Applause.] Welcome, ye of New Hampshire origin, from every part and quarter of our native State! If you come from the pleasant valleys of the Connecticut and Merrhnac, welcome! Are you from the sea-shore and the lakes of Strafford? welcome! Come ye from the Monad nock and the sides of the Crystal Hills? welcome! welcome! welcome! [Cheers.]

It was not in my power, Gentlemen, to meet you in the Hall of the State House before dinner. But I meet you here, and in the name of us who have prepared this celebration, I greet our guests, and in my own name, I greet all. I think they say the Chinese have a heathenish custom, when they meet, for one to shake his own hands to his friends. That is not our custom. Let us be more classical, Cur dextroe jungere dextra non datur.

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