Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-03-03

ceptng challenge ALL succeed with the great
mass OF our people He appears honorable and amia-
bic. His unhappy fate fences him round with public
sympathy That sympathy cannot be broken IN upon
To men of sound moral and religious Prisciple the
country looks for help such time. TO the spirit OF
New England spread every where 10 the spirit OF the
Bible wherever dffused to men who love peace and
love their fellow men, and who have the wisdom 10 bear
the little ills and irrtatons of life, rather than 10 at
tempt to cure them by rushing TO the commission OF the
blacklist crimes The personal safety OF sach men and
of the interests dear hem only be secured
by their subordnatng all other considerations to that OF
moral rectitudc If preserve an elevated con-
dition OF moral aud religious feeling and sentiment
through the country, political concerns VIII go Well
but if morals go down, matter what party goes up the
country is undone.
IFron the SUM-
Ii there be any regard in this community Tor law
and order If indeed civilization has not ceaSed-lf
chaos has not come again, the name of James Wat
son Webb must, from this day forward sunk IN every
honest man snostrls There is here developed the most
reckless and wanton disregard, not only OF the laws
Of God but of the opinion of men. II was guilt
enough 10 propose either of the crimes planned by the
three consplrators; and man with human feelings
would thank God that although he abored under the
guilt of the conception, Providence had spared him
that of the execution. Humbed and broken in spl-
rlt, any belng less than demon would have enreated
those who were pnvy 10 his frustrated purposes to
conceal them; and would have confessed them him.
self 10 one but his God. Bat this man Webb,
while whole country far as the news has Sped
are amentng the death of CIlley, aulhorses publ
cation, which, in the height of criminal audacy,
conveys the assurance that if the death OF Cley had
not been accomplished by those of the conspuators
who first took in hand, Webb and his associate sp-
rlts stood ready TO finish the work In the midst Of
nations W all, the murderer taunts the pubic with
his avowal of audacious depravity, and unrelenting
unrepentHg guilt We can contemplate the subject
no lenger.
From the Express
The WASHINGTON DUsL AND THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE UNITED STATEs-We know not when our
eyes have been greeted with a more pleasing an
nouncement than that ofoHr Washington Corespon-
dent stating The fact that the Judges of the Supreme
Court,-by formal resolution we understand re
fused TO attend the funeral of Mr.. Cley because he
had fallen in duel.
If these circumstances had any influence over the
Supreme Court, how much stronger would they have
been If their eyes had met the fearful narrative we
copied yesterday from the New York American !
According TO this statement, Col. Webb, and two
ohers-the Evening Post says they are Daniel Jack
son of this city, and Major Morre the rcsolute and
chivaric friends" as stated by the Spy in Washing
ton" were SO resolved upon putting Col. Webb in
the place Of Mr.. Graves that they intended nothing
more nor less than an ASSASSINATION, or a MANNING
of Mr.. Cllcy If he would not consent 10 the arrange
ment they proposed III such proceedings as these
be necessary among men of honor in sach cases, the
causes that lead TO them naturally enough stimulate
the Judges of the SupreYse Court to make begin
ming in their august trbana Of dlscountenancing and
dscredltng all such resorts to arms. If the statement
to which allude put forth in good faith, the
men engaged nit intended an outrage unparalleled in
these United States and If the parties had met, a
scene would have occurred the like of which never
disgraced civilized community.
[From he szrenscript.l
MORE PARTICULARS ME BLOODY AFFAIR AT
WAsHISGToN.-The American publishes letter from
the editor of that paper, written WashinS ton, and
designed to exculpate Col. Webb from any Improper
agency the recent bloody affair: So far from any
excalPati0n, II seems, in opinion, 10 place the
conduct of that gentleman in much darker light
than we had supposed. The determination TO force
man to fight or to break his limbs, exhibits
age and brutal disposition scarcely supposed
could exist in civilized community.
REASON OF Mr. CILLEys DsATH-The sole and
undivided cause why an end was put to poor Cillsy
was, because he refused to certify 10 the gen.
tility of Col. Webb. This he was net bound to do
by any manner Of means As well might one man
demand of another, with pistol at his head, cer
cate that the is made of green cheese, or that
can the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn"
are made Of the old moons chopped mp into lesser lu
minares ana If he refuses this certicee, shoot hr
down without any remorss!
Certify that a man Is a gentleman, forsooth Tru
w. il is very difficult thing to prove what constitutes
thing ding to the taste, the opinion, or the pre-
JUDGE Of the witness. thing very indefinite can
be hardly worth killing or being killed for.-Ib.I
lFror the Ne1p Era
The feelings OF the public yesterday recoled with
horror on beholdng the statement published by
Webb and his friends, respecting the preconcerted
murder of Mr.. Ciley. the extract which gave
in our leading article pat readers in possession of
the confessed intention Of Webb to assassinate poor
Cey in case he escaped the rifles jointly aimed at
him by his malicious enemy Wise and his antago-
mist Graves But we did not then know the name
Of Webb's accomplices who signed that audacious
| avowal, for they were suppressed in the American
where il first appeared and could only be conjectured
from lncipent circumstances connected with the con-
spracy which is said TO have been arranged before
Webb set out for Washington.
We learn, however, from the Evening Post of yes
tcrday, that one Of the slgners and approvers of
Webb's plot was Major Morrcll, and the other a
Daniel Jackson, of this city.