Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-02


which the following are extracts, preceded by some
observations ofthe Editors ofthat paper. of which
we select these
@The Debate Tin the Senstc)is still going on--and
from the extract ofa letter wo lay before our read
ers il appears that Mr. Rowan Of Kentucky has done
himself great credit. by the ability and eoqucnce,
with which no has vindicatcd the cause of truth,
against the dangerous doctrines of q new "Daniel
como to Judgment" This Mr.. Rowan by the way,
is an old Federalist, whitewashed by Jacksonsm, or
a. MIR. Webster expteascs il, dyed in the ,rooi Of
all politicians, the Lord deliver u.s. from those whose
creed y old federal warp with modern Jackson filing
1.-The Rowans. the Baldwins, the M'Lnnes, tho Ia
neys, the vrooms, the Walls, the Greens, the Ing
hamss the Van Burens. cum muyis aiis They are
the men who have least federation for honest differ
sncc of opinion-who arc the Republicans of this
day-who scruple not to call James Madison Fed
eralist, and who exempify the truth Of the remark
that new converts are ever the most jealousy
Mr. Richie says ugain-"but the truth is, he (NIr.
Webster, thought it best 10 pass over Mr.. Benton
(who had thrown down the gaupilet and make his
blow at Mr. Hayne, 1.-THE editor has special knnck At
Ieomptmentins) for the purpose no doubt of waging
war upon the present politics Of 8. Carolina Sew.
concur in the opinion that shall not
see his speech as it really was, but he may please
to make it! Amy thing indeed but what it was!" So
far the Editors The extracts from the letter alluded
to, are as follows:
"Mr. Rowan's was an able and patriotic
speech. He expressed liberal and enlightened SEN
timens in relation to the public lands concidng with
the opinions expressed by Gen. Hayne. (That is to
say, that the U. States had oppressed the West by
IN md JoJ
that all the public lands should be given away The
main part, and if may 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 (A1r Rowan was full, pointed and pow
erful. 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. g. c."
The modest writer concludes by an ntmation that
Mr.. Webster did not hear Mr.. Rowan, fearing to
face the storm which he had conjured up. Fiddle
Sticky $50
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 CON-
pare them with Mr.. Webster's speech which we are
now republshng. .Most especially do we ask it of
whomsoever may see this paragraph, attentively 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 over the States and the Poop with
lss Coasssssso-~I a'f Of Mr. websers speech If the
reader shall not then find all those OPINIONS Of the cha.
racter and spirit Of Mr. webers constitutional tenets
most completely fased, SANDERS of the dirtest and
most envous description-if he shall not find on the
hat oc
RAJ authority, is that of Virginia herself affirmed by the
Legislature of 1872 in the unanimous adoption of the
report of Mr.. John Howe Peyton, on the Pennsylvania
propositions to erect Constitutional tribunal-if be-
sides all this he does not acknowledge himself in the
most explicit and unqualified manner, that Mr.. Web.
sters construction is that of sense, without
which tbs impossible for the Union to last ttoelve months
If we say, all these impressions not made upon
his mind most deeply, most convncingy, irrevo.
caby-tben we give him leave to brand us with the
epithet which shall most orcby describe the extreme
of folly and stupidity. Daniel Webster is nothing to
us and we even less if possible to Daniel websteri
but the systematic efforts to orestall public opinion
as to the chara his Speech by filling the public
mind with falsehood and Misrepresentation, deserve
exposure, Reproduction and contempt. The gigantic
system Of asehood and deraction resorted for the
election Of Gen. Jackson. cemented and rendered
sstible, by the union of two 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 fcalty
Gen. Jackson, to destroy all who dare assa his admin
istraton, and the succession the heir appa.
rent. To sustain this system, need not wonder
that tools in abundance found when forty presses
through their Editors and Proprietors in the direct
pay Of the Treasury of the United States
We have not yet reached Mr.. Webster's consttu.
tonal argument.
~ The last Enquirer indulgcs in philippe against
Mr.. Barton-and for what offence, gentle reader
dost thou imagine' Neither more or less, than his
converting the Senate ofthc u. States into ''Bear
Garden!' Pouring out his personal gricfs and pri-
vate hatreds, in the "augusr presence of the SEN