Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-09-03

and their own iighting.-W. II. HARRlsoN.
Mr.. WEnsTER's speech at the great Wing
meeting which was held lately at Sarato-
ga Springs, is highly spoken of. Theories
pondent of the Ny. Commercial Advertiser
in his notice of it, says
The little story of Seth Peterson (mcntion-
ed by Mr.. Webster) was happily given as an
illustration of the delusive and erroneous
maXims of Benton, Buchanan and other po-
litlcal econonis of the present day.-Seth
was neighbor of Mr.. w. a hardy Yankee,
Of amphibious habits, half farmer and half
fisherman, with plenty of the s'poor mans
blessings" and a good share of the comforts
which his daily industry gave them. AS he
and MIR. w. were alone in little boat, return
ing from fishing, and while he was pulling at
the oars, he would sometimes give his own
conceptions of national policy. He had heard
low prices were as good for poor men as high,
provided the necessaries of life were reduced
In aproportionate degree and was asked what
he thought of these changes.
lie said-eif every thing which the poor
man wants could be reduced in exact proper
ton to the reduction of his wages, and remain
SO, he would not suffer by the change. But
l have only one Thing to sell, and that is my
habor-l have many Mings to buy, and find
the reduction does not reach all the articles
which want. Flour and meat may be redu-
ced, but tea, coffee, sugar, spices, and many
other articles, are just the same as they Were
before the reduction of the wages of labor
My interest, therefore, induces me to be in
favor of high rate of wages "This, (said
MIR. Webster,) is practical wisdom, which is
far better than the theories of politicians
The reasoning of Seth Peterson comprises the
whole question in the best possible FORM"
The correspondent ofthe New y ork Amer
lean says of the speech
SIT was remarkable quite as much for a
scrupuious abstinence from all ornament, all
attempt at oratorical effect, all mere appeals
ness of reasoning, its severe simplicity, it's
ly, was there an approach to sentiment or pa
thos-and then not forced, nor prepared, but
spontaneous, and springing naturally and I'M
avoidably from the topic he was discussing.
1t was an allusion TO Log Cabins, and to the
poor and contemplate sneers from which the
association of the name of Gen. Harrison
with Log-Cabins sprang.'
81 agree" said Mr.. Webster, s'that to live
In Log Cabin is no recommendation of a
candidate Tor the MISUNDERSTANDING Is 1T "a
ny disqualification. 1t is however TO be as
sumed, that man who by his capacity and
industry has raised himself from log cabin
to eminent stations il his country, is Of more
than ordinary merit. /, sir, have feeling
for log cabins and their inhabitants. was
not myself born in one, but my elder brothers
and sisters were-in the cabin which, at the
close of the Revolutionary War, in the pcriIs
and suferngs of which he bore his part, my
father erected on the extreme frontiers of New
Hampshire, when beyond the smoke which
curled from its chimney, not another stood
between it and the walls of Quebec
Gin this humble cabin, amid the snow
drifts of New England, that father strove by
honest labor to acquire the means of giving to
his children better education, and elevating
them to higher condition, than his own
That cabin honor for the sake of the vencra-
bic man who dwelt in it. (Here Mr. Web
ster's voice became almost inarticulate from
emotion.) That cabin annually revisit, and
thither | carry my children, that they may
learn to honor and to emulate the stern and
simple virtues that there formed their abode
and when | or they forget that cabin, and
what it teaches and recalls, may INV name
and their name perish from among men for
ever.'
do not pretend to give the exact words,
but this was the general sentiment, and the
pause that followed--the choking pause of
thousands Of hearts struggling to subduc the
emotions which this simple burst of fiIial pic
ty called up, bore Natures hottest TESTIMONY
to the power and cloquonce of unadorncd and
uncxaggerated Truth.