Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-03-02

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we select these:
"The Debate lin the Senate) is still going on-and
from the extract ofa letter lay before our read
ers, it appears that Mr. Rowan of Kentucky has done
himself great credit, by the ability and eoqucnce,
with which he has indicated the cause of truth
against the dangerous doctrines of n new "Daniei
come to judgment" This Mr.. Rowan by the way,
is an old Federalist, whitewashed by Jacksonsm, or
as Mr. Webster expresses it, dyed in the .oooi Of
all politicians, the Lord deliver US, from those whose
creedis old federal warp with modern Jackson filing
1.-THE Rowans, the Baldwins, the M'Lnnes, the Ta-
neys, the Vrooms, the Walls, the Greens, the Ing
hams, the Van Burens cum muitis dliis. They are
the men who have least federation for honest differ
cnce of opinion-who the Republicans of this
day-who scruple not to call ia mes Madison a Fed
eralis, and who exemplify the truth of the remark
that new converts are ever the most jealousy
Nlr. Richie says again-s'but the truth is, he (Mr
Webstcri thought it best to pass over Mr.. Benton
(who had thrown down the gauntlet) and make his
blow at Mr. Hayne, 1.-THE editor has special knack at
complimentary for the purpose no doubt of waging
war upon the present politics of S. Carolina Sew
era letters concur in the opinon that shall not
see his speech really was but as he may please
to make it! Any thing indeed, but what it was!" So
far the Editors. The extracts from the letter alluded
to, are as fellows:
"Mr. Rowan's was ON able and Patriotic
speech. He expressed liberal und enlightened SEN
tmens in relation to the public lands concitng with
the opinions expressed by Gen. Hayne. THAT is to
say, that the U. States had oppressed the West by
selling lands to settlers, and that justice demanded
Int nil no 0rt
main part, and if may SO express it, the body of Mr.
Rowan's speech was directed against the doctrines
promulgated by Mr.. Webster, in relation to the
States and the U. States Supreme Court. On this
subject, he (Mr. Rowan) was full, pointed and pow
crful. He plead the cause of the States, with en-
ergy. ability, and indignant independence of spirit.
He treated Webster's doctrine as going to reduce
the States to the condition of Provinces, &C. & c."
The modest writer concludes by an ntimation that
MIR. Webster did not hear Mr.. Rowan, fearing to
face the storm which he had conjured up. fiddle
Sticky
We have inserted these remarks of the Enquirer
and its sapent correspondent for the purpose of ask
ing and insisting with the reader, that he shall com.
pare them with Mr.. Websters speech which we are
now republishing. Most especially do We ask it of
whomsoever may this paragraph, attentvely to
compare what is said above by the Enquirer and its
correspondent, and Duff Green's assertion, that Mr.
Webster contended that the Federal Government had
unlimited control the States and the Poop e with
the Constitutional port of Mr.. Websers speech If the
reader shall not then find all those OPINIONS of the cha
racter and spirit Of Mr. Websers constitutional tenets
most completely fasfed, SANDERS of the dirtiest and
most envious descrpton-f he shall not find on the
other hand that Mr.. Websters construction of Fede
raj authority, is that of Virginia herself affirmed by the
Legislature of 1919, in the unanimous adoption of the
report of Mr. John Howe Peyton, the Pennsylvania
proposition to erect Constitutional tribunal-f be-
sides all this he does not acknowledge HIMSELF in the
most explicit and unqualified manner, that Mr.. Web
ster's construction is that of common sense without
which impossible for the Union to last tuelve months
If we say, all these impressions are not made upon
his mind, most deeply, most convincinsy, rrevo.
caby-then we give him leave to brand us with the
epithet which shall most forcibiy describe the
Of folly and stupidity Daniel Webster is nothing to
US, and we less if possible to Daniel Webster;
but the systematic efforts to foresall public opinion
to the character of his speech, by filling the public
mind with fasehood and Misrepresentation, deserve
exposure, Reproduction and contempt. The gigantic
system of sehood and detraction resorted to for the
sistible by the union of hundred presses which
rung the changes throughout the United States in end
less succession and COMPOUNDED and carried away the
People, by confidence and repetition of assertion, has
recommended to retain the People in their fealty to
Gen. Jackson, to destroy all who dare assal his admin
straton and the succession to the heir appa
rent. To sustain this system, need no, wonder
that tools in abundance found when forty presses
through their Editors and Propretors in the direct
pay of the Treasury of the United States.
We have not yet reached Mr.. Wcbster's constitu.
tional argument. -
10 The last Enquirer INDUCES in dsfsilippc against
Mr.. Barton--and for what offence, gentle reader
dost thou imagine? Neither more or less, than hi:
converting the Senate ofthe U. States into "Bea
Garden :" Pouring out his personal prefs and pri