Litchfield enquirer., 1833-04-04

cation from Mr.. Calhoun, nearly equal in length 70
Mr.. Websers. We were for while in a quandary
what to do with these dOcUmenls-ihey were able
gumenIs upon a great constitutional question: we
DESTROYS oil readers should he in possession
Of the whole argument-we were abundan,y satisfied
that the more they saw Of the monster Notification
the would they loahe and abhor it but we found
it utterly impossible for us to compass the whole
Of the speeches for a number OF weeks, even &c we
gave up our columns exclusively to them. We there
fore upon the whole concluded let them rest; and
f we have hereafter space which otherwise
proftaby or usefully Gil up, may occasionally give
an extract from some Of the speeches. Sometimes,
when we are Strengthened for room. we almost wish
We had at our command the great unwieldy sheet Of
the U. S. Telegraph, that we nigh. compress into it
two or three mammoth speeches. But up here in the
country, we cannot meet the expense, whatever our
wishes may be.
A week or two ago we gave an extract from the
concluding part Of Mr. Webs,er's speech. We now
give short extract from the commencement:
"The gentleman from South Carolina, said Mr..
Webster, has admonshed TO lie mindful Ofthe opin-
ions Of those who come after us. We must take our
chance air. az to the light in which poscry will re-.
gard ] do not decline it's Judgment nor Withhold
myself from it's scrutiny. Feeling that nun perform
ing my public duty with sngIeness OF heart, aud to the
best Of my ability, fearessy trust myself to the c"Un
try, and hereafter, and leave both my motives and
my charac ter 10 lta decision.
"The gentleman has terminated his speech in n
OF threat and defiance towards this bill should
il become law Of the land, altogether unusual in the
halls of Congress But shalt not suffer myself to he
excited into warmth, by his denunca,ions Of the
measure which I support. Among the feelings which
at this moment ill my breast not the least is that ofre
gret the position in which The gentleman has placed
hA HnA0 hsFneAI San0tiN NNA
which he has espoused finds no hNsis in the consU-
tion--no auccOr from public sympaihy-no cheering
from patriotic community. He has no foothod on
which to stand, while he might display the powers Of
his acknowledged talents. Every thing beneath his
feet ia hollow and treacherous. He 10 like strong
man struggling in moraas every effort to extricate
himself only sinks him deeper and deeper. And Tear
the resemblance may he carried still further; fear
that friend can safely come to his relief that no
one can approach near enough to hold out helping
hand without going down himself, also, in the bottom
leas depths Of this Serbonam bog.
"The honorable gentleman has declared that on the
decision Of the question now IN debate, may depend
the cause ofliberiy ITSELF ] am Of the same opinion;
but them sir, the liberty which think IN staked on
this contest, not political liberty, in any general and
underlined character, but our own, we'll understood,
aud long enjoyed American liberty.
"Sir, love liberty no less ardently thnH the gen.
tleman, in whatever form she may have appeared in
the progress OF human history. As exhibited in the
master States OF antiquity as breaking out again from
amidst the darkness Of the middle ages, and heaming
the formation Of new communities, in modern Eu.
rope, she has, always and everywhere, charms for
me- Yes cir, il is our own liberty, guarded by con-
stutons and secured by union it is that liberty
which is our paterna inheritance; it ia our establish
ed denr-bought, peculiar American liberty to which
am chiefly devoted. and the cause Of which now
mean, to the utmost Of my power, to maintain and de-
(end"
We copy the following extract OF letter from Wash,
ington, as published in the Portland Advertiser:
-, >" Wrst''" IIomen.-L saw there couple Of spIcn.
did western beauties. The South produces elegant
women, and the valley Of The Mississippi splendid
ones. There is an orignality-a raciness among the
women Of the west, which 10 emnently nttractive.-
They touch the confines Of civilization ana barbarian
with such daring grace. that the precise pes mai
tres Of the Atlantic ihundersiruck or turned into
gaping statues at their fascinating wildness and en-
from the woods, is sealed book nm Atlantic dan.
dy. He cannot understand her; lie has no, the key
she IL beyond his vision. To know them properly
TO estimate them accurately, We must have been lost
on the Ailegh"nies; siiPwrecked foreign coast,
drank sherbet with the Turk tnsted the river Jordan,
tressing to see the Atlantic beles pick their way
through a crowded drawing room. They sometimes
stand the outward edge Of the crowd, and look de-
apairingly TO friend ut the other end Of The room ne
one would look upon the spires Of Cincinnati from the
pinnacles Of the Aleghanes or traveller look across
ihe Arabian deserts. A western belle dashes through
the crowd az she would through the river mounted
horseback. Nothing impede' her. She makes man.
nera and controls the rulers Of society she marches
through it--ihrowing handles aside ship does the
pillows The southern fine lady glides like sylph
full OF feeling, and passion, which give edge to her
conversation and fire 10 her eyes,"