Litchfield enquirer., 1830-03-04
Mir. Webster's second Speech, ON MIR. FOOTE'S RESOLUTION.
IN SENATE, IAN. os. 1ean


 has been tossed, for many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he nat urally ayails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us initiate this prudence. and, before we float farther, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are. ask for the reading of the resolution.
 The Secretary here read the resolution of Mir. Foo,e.
 We have thus heard, sir, what the res- olution is, which is actually before ns for consideration and it will readily occur to every one that it is almost the only sub ject about which something has not been said in the speech, running through two days, by which the Senate has been now entertained by the gentleman from South Carolina. Every topic in the wide range of our public affairs, whether past or pre- sent-every thing, general or local, wheth- CT belonging to national politics, or party politics, seems to have attracted more or less of the honorable members attention, save only the resolution before us. He has spoken of every thing but the public lands. They have escaped his notice. To that subject, in all his excursions, he has not paid even the cold respect of passing glance.
 When this debate, sir, was to be resum- ed, on Thursday morning, it so happen ed that it would have been convenient for me to be elsewhere. The honorable member, however, did not incline to put of the discussion to another day. He had a shot, he said, to return, and he wished to discharge it. That shot, sir, which it was kind thus to inform us was coming, that we might stand out of the way ,or pre- pare ourselves to fall before it, and die with decency, has now been reccivcd.- Under all advantages, and with expectation awakened by the tone which preceded it, it las been discharged, and has spent it's force. It may become me to say no more ofits effect, and that, if nobody is found, | after all, either killed or wounded by it, it is not the first time, in the history ofhu- man affairs, that the vigor and success of the war have not quite come up to the lofty and sounding phrase of the manifesto, The gentleman, sir, in declining to post pone the debate, told the Senate, with the emphasis of his hand upon his heart, that there was something ranking Aere, which he wished to relieve. MT. HAyNE rose, and disclaimed having used the word r0nk- ling. It would not, MT. President, be safe for the honorable member to appeal to those around him, upon the question, whether he did, in fact, make use of that word. But he may have been unconscious of it. At any rate, it is enough that he disclaims it. But still, with or without the use of that particular word, he had yet something here, he said, of which he wish to rid himself by an immediate reply. In this respect, sir, l have great advantage over the honorable gentleman. There is nothing here sir, which gives mo the slight est uneasness; neither fear, nor anger, nor that, whichis sometimes more trouble some than either-the consciousness of having been in the wrong. There is no,h- ing, either originating here, or now receiv- ed here, by the gentleman's shot. Moth. ing original, for had not the slightes feeling of disrespect or unkindness toward: the honorable member. Some passages it is true, had occurred since our acquant. once in this body, which I could have wished might have been otherwise but had used philosophy and forgotten them When the honorable member rose, in hi. first speech, paid him the respect of at tentive listening; and when he sat down, though much surprised, and must say C. ven astonished, at some of his opinions, nothing was farther from my intention than to commence any personal warfare !; and through the whole of the few remarks l made iE answer, avoided, studiously and carefully, every thing which thought possible to be construed into disrespect. And, sir, while there is thus nothing o. riginating here, which l wished, at any time, or now wish to discharge, must re- peat, also, thnt nothing has been received here, which rankics, or in any way gives me annoyance. vill not accuse the hon. orablc member of violating the rules oi civilized war-I will not say that he pois- oned his arrows. But whether his shafts were, or were not, dipped in that, which would have caused raukling, if they had reached, there was not, as it happened , quite strength enough in the bow to bring them to their mark. Ifhe wishes now tt find those shafts, he must look for then r elsewhere; they will not he found fxeC