The Arkansas advocate., 1830-04-07
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DEBATE IN THE sENATE-Jan.

2 DEBATE IN THE SENATE-Jan. q. & IWhen MT. Webster concluded his first Speech on Wednesday, the 20th, Mir. Ben q ton followed with some remarks in reply to MT. w., but as they are principally embodi- ed in his more extended speech some days ! after, those are omitted. On the day fol- lowing, MT. Hayne took the floor, in the 2 following rejoinder to Mr. Webster:l
 M MT. HAYNE said, when he took ocea- kslon, two days ago, to throw out some ideas with respect to the policy of the Y Government, in relation to the public lands, nothing certainly could nave been j farther from his thoughts, than that he should be compelled again to throw himself upon the indulgence of the Se- nate. Little did expect, said Mr. H., to be called upon to meet such an ar < gument as was yesterday urged by the gentleman from Massachusetts, TMr. q W ebster. Sir, questioned no mans opinions; limpeached no mans motives; 'lI charged no party, or State, or section of country with hostility to any other, but ventured, thought, in becoming spirit, to put forth my own sentiments m relation to great national question pf public policy. Such was my course. lie gentleman from Missouri, Mir. Benton,] it is true, had charged upon the Eastern States an early and con tlnued hostility towards the West, and referred to a number of historical facts 8&and documents in supportof that charge. Now, sir, how have these different ar guments been met? The honorable gentleman from Massachusetts. after zsfeiiberating a whole night upon his course, comes into this chamber to vim dicate New England; and instead of making up his issue with the gentleman from Missouri, on the charges which he lad prefered, chooses to consider me as the author of those charges, and losing sight entirely of that gentleman, selects < me as his adversary. and pours out ali the viaIs of his mighty wrath upon my devoted head. Nor she willing to stop there. He goes on to assail the institu- lions and policy of the South, and calls in question the principles and conduct 'of the State which l have the honor to Represent. When l find a gentleman of mature age and experience-of ac- knowledged talents, and profound saga city, pursuing a course like this, declin- Z ing the contest offered from the West, and making war upon the unoffending South, l must believe, l am bound to believe, he has some object in view which he has not veatured to disclose. MT. President, why is this? Has the gentleman discovered in former contro- saversies with the gentleman from Mis- souri, that ne is oyermatched by that Senator? And does he hope for an easy victory over a more feeble adver- sary9 Has the gentleman's distemper- ed fancy been disturbed by gloomy for bodings of ssaew alliances to be form Cd" at which he hinted? Has the ghost of the murdered CokLITIoN come back, like the ghost of Banquo, to sssear the eye-balls of the gentleman" and will it not "down at his bidding?" Are dark visions of broken hopes, aud honors lost for ever, still floating before his heated imagination? Sir, if it be his object to thrust me between the gentleman from % Missouri and himself, in order to rescue the East from the contest it has pro- voked with the West, he shall not be grati6ed. Sir, will not be dragged into the defence of my friend from Mis- souri. The South shall not be forced into conflict not its own. The gen W tielnall from Missouri is able to fight his own battles. The gallant West needs no aid from the South ts repel any at tack which may be made on them from any quarter. Let the gentleman from Massachusetts controvert the facts and arguments of the gentleman from Mis-. souri, if he can-and if he win the vic. r tory, let him wear its honors: shall not deprive him of his laurels.
 The gentleman from Massachusetts in reply to my remarks on the injurious 4 4 operation of our land system on the prosperity of the West, pronounced ar extravagant eulogium on the paterna care which the Government had ex tended towards the West, to which he Y attributed all that was great and excel lent in the present. condition of the
 New States. The language of the gen