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Ma. WEBSTER & Ma CLAY, OF ALA.
In the U. s. Senate. on Wednesday, whe. the
chair put the question Gu tie passage of the
suh-Tressury Bill
MIR. CLAY, Of Alabama. spoko more than
an hour, chuetly against the late Bauk Of the
United State. la the course Of hi. speech
having alluded TO a decIaTatiou said 10 have
been made by Mr. Web,,.f. at the reriod of
the excIiement caused by thr removal of the
drPUsi'es that there were 40 SuadIls rcyo-
iuiiousry times
No WEBSTER rose, ard said ihat psrhsp,
ne ought 10 feel Obliged 10 The n,ra,.,cr .-nm
Alabama for hIs quotation and adoption of q
report. wholly without foundation, which had
oeeh circulated IN the newspapers several
years ago. That report was. that at meet.
iEg OF many citizens on Sunday in Baltimore.
81 The lime OF The excite ment ia the country
created By the Withdrawing Of the deposite,.
he had said that herv rere n, Sabb4,kS In Re-
evolutionary tiHiss. That. sir. (said Mr.. Web
ster,) Was vile falsehood aud SANDER. I
never said an! such thing, either then or at
any other time. Haying been home, on indIs-
Pensaole business. was fastening back to nv
scat here 10 vote on very important measures
'heh pehdlnE, and ~ regard 10 which friends
hAd written TO me 10 lose no time. When I
arrived Ia Baltimore, on 4 Sunday evening
being IN company with the distinguished ANA
honorable gentleman who represented NJ that
Time the city OF Philadelphia in the other
House OF Congress. we found, on landing
from the boat, and repairing TO the hotel, a
collection OF people, assembled without our
procurement or knowledge. We each ad-
dressed few observations 90 them on the Alb
sorbing public topics which had drawn them
together; and this We felt bound to do out of
respect tn them, and as the readiest mode Of
restoring to the day the quiet and repose
which are so important TO is proper obser-
vance But no such language and no such
sentiments as the member has quoted ar allud
ed to to day escaped from either OF US. I
should not, Of course. have noticed in NV
place hero che original sIander il il had mo-,
been alluded to by others.
Mr. CLAY. OF Ala said h.. did not aIlude
to Mr.. Webster. The story had teen told Of
the other gentleman.
Mr WEBSTER said he pronounced the
whole story vile slauder, whether reported
OF himself or his friend. Neither 81 u,. air.
('a'd Mr.. Webster.) expressed any such sehti.
meni, nor any thing like a. The whole mat.
ter was original and uamixei calumny
Mr. CLAY Of Alabama. in Fepiy. stated
mat u u was mistake or a caiumny, IL pro-
eeedsd entirely from the pipers in favor Of
The political principles advocated nv Mr. w.
and u bad not proceeded from or been circu-
lated ~. papers OF the other sldc. Tits was
the h'Nt time he bad heard Il coniradicl.d; and.
hearing II from surh sourre. he was salts
ned bo mast have hcen nIisinfrmed
Nr- SOUTHLAND then addressed the Sc
mats. when the Bill Vas passed, as already
stated
hr. CLAY, Of Ala sgsi1 alluded 20 the
sunday shaW shove referred to. and read from
tho Journal n Debates Mr.. Web.ter's ow,,
statement nf the subject, by which II appeared
That The words referred 10 we're never uttered
b' Mr W, but on the contrary, hy m old
evolutionary solaier Mr. G. having read
the sI'ismsnt. SAID hs presuned that Mr.. "
had no, intsRde-. Co eharEe him With caiumny
Nf WEBSTER said he bad M doubt al
the time hut that tic gentleman believed eli
he had SAID.