Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-02-02

iosoPHy, dS peTlect as those Oh any inStl-
tuition in America"
Mr.. WEBsTER's SPEECH. We publish
to-day part Of the speech of MIR. Web
ster in the United States Senate, on the
subject of the distribution of the Publick
Lands. What has given an uncommon
degree of interest to the matter is the elo-
quence it has called forth, and the person.
al warmth it has excited. Mr.. Benton,
of Missouri, and Col. Hayne, Of South
Carolina, had both attacked New-England,
as ever having been hostile to the inter-
ests of the West, and as wanting in good
feeling and patriotism towards that Sec
ton. This called forth Mr.. Webster in
defence of New-EngIand, and of her
good spirit towards the west and he went
further and carried the war into the terri
tory Of the Southron. After Mr.. Web
ster closed, he wished the subject post
poned, on account of his engagements in
the Supreme Court. To this Col. Hayne
objected: he wished an opportunity of re-
plying: he felt, he said, something rank
ling here pointing to his breast) which
he wished to get rid off. "Ready for it
now, sir" replied Mr.. Webster. Howey-
er, there was an adiournment. and Col,
Hayne had an opportunity OF concocting
his speech. He was followed BY Mr..
Benton; when Mr.. B. closed, Mr.. Webster
rose Immediately to reply to them both.
But an adjournment being called for and
carried, Mr.. Webster had no opportunity
of replying till last Monday.
We have before, and more than once,
expressed the opinion that our northern
politicians are too mealy mouthed. They
have for the most part, year after year,
and decade after decade, sat like statues,
and heard the good old land Of the puri-
tans and their institutions and policy abus-
ed, in no measured terms, by the men,
bers from the South who assume to them
selves in peculiar degree the name and
bearing Of gentlemen.
And then there are, and always have
been, those hollow-hearted demagogues
from the north, who have followed the
southern car, with all its aristocracy, in
savish subservience and blind adulation,
while at the same time they have been
held in contempt by those who have made
them dupes. We have been conquered
and kept down by our divisions. 1t makes
our blood boil when we think how we
have been abused time and again, by the
imperious and declamatory men of the
south. Doubly Notifying is it to feel
that the igRominy has been occasioned
by the treachery of the false sons Of New
England ; and to know that the south
has always been able to detach sufficient
portion of our own men from our own in
terests to hers, TO enable her to gain the
victory. Who ever hears one from the
west or from the south abusing his part of
the country! No one. They stand firm
and indivisible, like one man, in defence
of the honour and interest of their own
section.
We are rejoiced at the manly stand
which Mr.. Webster has taken, and we
trust that he will follow it up: and that
Messrs. Bell, Sprague, Silsbee, and others
will join in the Senate, and our excellent
delegation and that of the other New
England States in the House, to repel to
the utmost every attack upon the honour
of New-England. New-Hampshire, it is
true, has fallen into feeble and radical
hands, and bound herself. blindly we fear.
to alien interests. But there is strength
elsewhere 10 present front that will not
submit TO the ever-increasing load Of vile
imputa,ions thrown upon our honour.
Let New-England be united, and be true
to her own interests and her own policy