Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-03-05
MIR. WEBsTER's SECOND SPEECH.
TcONTINUED.

Protesting to be provoked, by what he chose to |
consider charge made by mo against South Caro-
lima the honorable member MIR. President has taken
up new crusade against New England. Leaving
altogether the subject Vt the public lands, i'll which
his success. perhaps, had heer neither distinguished
satisfactorily aud letting go aso of the topic ofthc
tariff, he sallodorh III general assault, on the
opinions, politics, and parties of New England, as
tiioy haves6een exhibited in the last thirty years
This is natural. The ''narrow policy of thc public
lands had proved legal settlement in South Caro-.
lima, aad not to be removed. The "accursed
policy If the tariff also, had established the fact OF
iis birth and parentage, Ill the same State NO won
der, therefore, the gentleman wished to carry the
war, as he expressed it, into the enemy's country
Prulcntly willing to quit these subjects, he was
doubtless DESTROYS of fastening on others. which
cCuld not be transferred south OF Mason and Dixons
line Phe politics of New England became his
thence and it this part Of s speech, think,
that be nrcnaced ME with snch discontinue
Discontinue! why, sir, when nc attacks any thing
which maintain, md overthrows II; when he turns
the right or lett of any position which take up when
hG drives inc from any ground choose to occupy he
may then talk of discontinue; but not till that distant
day. What has he done? Has he maintained his
own charges, Has he proved what he alleged? Has
he sustained himself, in his attack on the Government,
and on the history Of the North in the matter of the
public lands? Has he disprovcd fact. rctutcd
proposition, weakened argument, maintained by
nc. Has he come within beat of drum of any posi-
ton of mine? Oh no, but he has carried the war
into the cncmys country" Carried the war into the
cnemy's country Yes sir, and what sort Of war
net over the whole surface of persisted pamphlets,
indrscreet sermons. frothy paragraphs, and Tuning
popular addresses; whatever the pulpit, Ill its
moments Of Alarm the press IN Its heats, and parties
in their extravaganza, have severay tho off, in
times of general excitement and violence. He has
thus swept together of such things as but that
they are old, the pablic health would have re-
unired him rather to leave in their state of dispcr
sion. For good long hour or two, we had the
broken pleasure of listening to the honorable ncin-
Der, while lie rcctcd, with his usual grace and spirit
and with evident hgl, gnsto speeches, pamphlets
addresses and oil the ct cecrds of the political press
such as warm heads produce III warm times and such
as it would be "dscuinture' indeed, for any one,
whose taste did delight i'll that sort Of reaiing
be obliged to perusc. This is his This it is to
carry IilGvar into the enemys country. 1t is in an
Invasion of this Sort that he atters himself with the
expectation of gaining laurcs, tit to adorn Senator's
brow.
expected that should, either now, or at any time,
separate this tarrago into pars, and answer and eXa
mine its conlponents. shall hardly bestow upon il
all, general remark or two. In the of forty
years, sir, under this Constitution, we have expo
Iienced sundry successive violent party contests
Party arose. indeed, with the Constitution ITSELF and
in some form other, has attended it through the
tfeater part ofits history Whether any other Con-
s.itution than the old articles of confederation was
desirable, was, itself, question on which parties
formed; il new Constitution were framed, what
powers should be given to it, another question;
aud, when it had been formed what was in iact the
Just extent of the powers actually conferred, WINS a
third. Parties, we know existed, under the first
Administration, distinctly <narked those which
manifested themselves at any subsequent period.
The contest immediately preceding the political
change in 1901 and that, again. Which existed at the
commencement of the late war, are other instances
of party excitement, of something more than usual
strength and int nsity In all these conflicts, there
was, doubt much of violence both and all sides
1t would be impossible, ii one had fancy for such
employment, to adjust the relative quantup, of VIC
encc between these contending parties. There was
nrbJ IN e IN II n n cd in
lar Governments. With great deal of proper ant
decorous discussion, there was mingled great deal
also of defamation, virucnce, elimination, and abuse
In regard to any party probably at one of the leading
cpochs in the history parties, enough may be found
to make out another equally intlamcd exhibition, US
that with which the homo rable member has edited Us
For myself, sir shall not rake among the rubbish
by-gone times, to sec what can find, or whether
cannot find something, by which / can fix blot on
the escutcheon of any state any party, envy par,
of the country Gen. Washingon's administration
was steadily and zeaously maintained, Us we all
know, by New England. 1t violently opposed
elsewhere. We know i'll what quarter he had the
most earnest, constant, and perseverng support in
all his great and leading measures We know where
his private and personal character held in the
highest degree of attachment and veneration and WE
know, too, where his measures opposed, hrs SER
vices sighted, and his character vilifed We know
or might know, 1t we turned to the Journals, who
expressed respect, gratitude and regret when he re
tired from the chief maglsracy 81 who refused to eX-
press either respects gratitude regret-I shall not
open those JOURNALS. publications more abuSlVc or
Spurious the light, than sent forth
against Washington and all his leading measures,
from presses South of New Engand-But l shall
not look them up. employ scavengers-no one
is in attendance me, rendering such of re-
tGliation and if there were, with asss load of them
with bulk huge that which the gentleman
himself has produced, would touch one OF them.
see enough of the violence of own times, to be
no way anxious to from forgetulness the ex-
tavagancics of times past Besides what is all this
to the present purposc1 1t has nothing to do with
the public lands, in regard to which the attack was
begun and it has nothing to do with those sentiments
and opinions, which have thought tend to disunion
and all Of which the honorable member seems to have
adopt himself undertaken to defend. New Enc
land has at times SO argues the gentleman, held
opinions dangerous, as those which he now holds.
&c it But why, therefore, does he abuse New
England If he finds himself counteUanced by acts
of hers, how is it tat, while he relies these acts
I1c ot-cfo fhoir