The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-10-20
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FOR PRESIDENT,
HENRY CLAY, of Kentucky.
Mr.. wEBsTER,s SPEECH.


wihsianding his apparent detection from
the Wings, il hears the impress Of the /
lofty talent Of MIR. Webster. We read
some parts Of it With satisfaction and We
regret that man like him should sacri
fee the good opinion of his Wing friends
for the rnltry sum Of six Thousand a Year.
Being an able lawyer his practice would
yield him double that sum, and YET for the
sake Of nm Office he is willing to tarpish
his good name and damn himself in the cs.
timaiion of every Wing forever. We
might let the Speech pass without re-
mark IL he had confined himself 10 subjects
relayent to the occasion, but when he steps
on, Of the way TO attack measures aud
then the motives of men, We cannot let il
pass without putting our seal Of disappro.
baton upon it. Ii will be seen that he
now abuses the Compromise Act and the
motives which governed Mr.. Clay in It's
passage. This surprised US because the
act is no longer a law aud We never heard
Of hts opposition to it before, and saVors Of
jealousy because a rival in talents is more
popular in his own State than himself. -
His course towards the Wing Convention
is altogether ill.timed. He states that
they had no power 10 &" declare q sePara-
ton between the President and the Wings"
Of Massachusetts, nor to " nominate can
dtdaie for the Presidency" This is de-
MED by the Boston Atlas. II states that
that subject bad been fully discussed al
over the State and that the Convention
was empowered not only to select persons
for Governor and Liculcnan, Governor,
but 10 "transaci any business tia, might
come before It." Ills whole course IS
strange eopdne, for a Wing, but as it il
intimaled that he bad become very gracious
with SJmo Of the Loco Foco members Of
Congress, il may not be Improbable that
he is looking for nomination By that
party for the Presidency, for who would
have thought in 1897 that John c. Cal
houn would have been taken Up by parry,
which hc said "was only bound together
by the cohesive power of public plumber"
The Globe praises him and says he has
done him injustice, and il IS presnmabe
,ha, after he is slayered over by that print,
the whole party will be ready 10 swallow
him. The whole Wing press speak IN
deelded terms against this speech. We
give the remarks OF the National Intel
lisencer:
Eminent az are tha abilities Of Hr. Webster
commanding as are his powers Of convincing
and pcrsaAdlng has certainly, IN this N.
stance. overtasked them. No human ingenuity.
no eloqnence, even the most divine could even
so N8GAs6 Oh LNHtabHA W p7NhAl A2Hh fARsb 1i4
common sense. or propriety, or principle, as tn
awe and argue them into the monstrGus propose.
tion whieh il picascs him 10 advocate which
through the entire scope OF his speech, is bat this
that. Whatever the ubliguities OF Mr.. fylet's
course, whatever lis faitlllcs.ness, whatever his
open apoWnd hostility 70 them, now constantly
declared, AID though At this very instant his oii
eial organ. arc constantly declaring TINT he nerer
ras ang thing bata tras and fdifAfal Democrat.
vet II becomes the Wing party, and is their SOL
emn duty. to give him their undivided support,
and TO sustain his as a Wing administration!
The main topic, which he urges almost every
where through the discourse, Is union, harmony,
conelliation, forbaarance things which under
any extremity Of uiedltAted mischef or Proyoca.
tom he considers the Wings mosi culpable IN not
having practiced towards one whom, TIL his
,reaehory took the most violent form. they did al
thoy could to enaciIiIte--a cancellation all on
one side. as to Mr. Tyler and his followers, and
which Mr.. Webster himself Ia no manner praeh
ees even in the very address where he so zeal
ously breaches IT,
Nothing caa exceed the bitterness with which
he seems 10 regard the late Massachusetts con.
ven,ion, which dared, IN dcrogaion TO al his own
v ishes, to nominate Mr.. Clay for the Presidency.
lie poars upon that respectable and patriotic body
perfect tempest OF sneers. "Thcy had no bn-
sness TO do il they exceeded their commission"
1 II hey did. 1t was hardly more than did that L.
| eislativc Convention Of the state which IN 1855
! nominated Mr. Webster himself against General
| Harrison a nomination which the great secreta-
~ declared he would rather avoid, bat to which
| he fell, bound to submit.
| lie taxes them. in manner net less spioneilc,
with presumption, IN undertaking TO read Mr..
| TYLER out of the Wing church presently, he
suspects, they may think of doing tho same GOOD
1 Office even TO hmsoi--hinselt, Fahueil Hall
I Wing that ever was and ever will DO wing p!
/ Now. wo know not what may seem arrogance TO
/ Mr. Webster, in Massachusetts,; but, certainty,
such presumption as THE the entire Wing party
! have every where pracliced in regard to MT, ~.
| Ter and if Mr.. Webser's voice cannot deter MAS
saehusetis, how Should il deter the entire country
from entering up, in the most solemn form OF
/ rcprobation, its rejection, as Wing, OF the man
whom his own official minious are now extotiing
| to the Locoiocos as having "done more damage
to WhigisaA than any other man on earth y
| In short, the temper Of the speech IS only gooa
towards those who cross not Mr. Webstor's own
purposeS aud il ovorboils with i'll concealed ran.
cor towards every thing that regards Mr.. Clay
! and tho Wings themselves, so far as their conn.