Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-05-09

ed, aud reasoning powers before which no inllacy
could pass undelccted whether concealed beneath |
the flowers of a metaphor or lugly hid in the re-
cesses of n logical formula. III HE darkest hours
of that purity he led the iorlOrn hope. Noglecting
II profession to which lew years assiduous devO-
ton would have given him competence, he be
came the champion of cause which seemed
hopeless. In the Senate, discussing great cunst
tulonal questions, or at the stump speaking toSle
people, and sorming prejudice with eloquence
when il could not be undermined with logic, he
was ever ready" His praise resouuded from all
Wings Hyperb Die was put upon The rack for
sounding epilhets in his praise, aud bis really great
powers swelIed to colossal dimensions, as seen
III the magnilying mirrors of partisan prints. lie
was called the "Godike,' and as an orDor was
often favoraby compared with those OF old,
t'Whose resistless eoqucnce
Shook the arsenal, aud fumned over Greece,
To Macodon, to ArtaxerNes' throne"
In the campaign which resulted IN the over
throw of Mr. Van Buren's administration, he was
in every place where his aid was needed Leading
or servng-fghting in the trenches, or giving
laws for the conduct OF batlle,-t appeared all the
same TO him. Opposed TO The most Calling fire of
fierce political hostility, he was not driven from
his path Ills public and private life WINS ruth
lessly ransncked with no honest intention; the
former in poor attempt to make him out a trait
or nposate AMI arstocrat the latter to give plaus
Utility to n misrepresentation, point 10 an epigram,
or venom TO sneer. He passed through The storm.
His party succeeded, and all remember the shout
of congratulntiun which ran through the Wing
ranks when lie was nominated Secretary OF State
We were to have glorious times OF peace aud
| prosperity All difficulties with foreign powers
would be satisfactorily settled and the lion would
! lie down with the lamb. The envy of political
associates was mute; the roar of party hostility
died away aud Daniel Webster appeared at the
! height OF his popularity.
But times, 1t seems, have changed. portion
of Mr.. Webster's former good friends have now
turned into ullguuut opponents and the Wing
papers generally have soltened tie tone Of their
eulogum Periods which once glowel in his
praise with words that burn, now flash with bur
momentery brightness from the embers OF their
dccaying fires. His services hardly appear re-
membered in the apparent decline of bis popular
ty; the waters OF Lethe have rolled over the
memories of many Of his former euogsls. De-
traction dogs HIM with keen scent, aud Adula-
ton iorbenIs her sweet music. And, worse than
all, each OF those puny pipnies of politics, who
contound patriotism with /, ace and country with
cupidity, raises his own ID!e ant- hill of lies, or
handles into shape and proportion the tiny ugli-
ness of his own begoiIon imp OF calumny, TO bear
against the great statesman, and crush him by the
accretion of small falsehoods. One bright par :
Ilcuar star, who edits paper in the West and
whose poellca TALENTS cast such nn imaginative
glow over his chronicles Of politician facts, takes
the field against him. A man whose reach OF
thought rarely extends beyond an epigran, and
whose logic finds fit utIerance in pun, is to crush
him who conquered ll0yne, and measured swords
with Calhoun! And can Mr. Webster stand this
invasion OF wit from LilIipul? We fear not. -
Tremble, o thou brawny and thunder scared
Titan, for pleasant man has come out against
thee, and thou shalt be laid low by joker OF Jokes
und he shall talk his pleasant talk TO thee, aud thou
shalt be no more !" Pray heaven HAT the coun-
try be not called 10 witness the affecting spectacle
of giant slaughtered with pins
The secret of this opposition we take TO be this
Small politicians hate great statesman with q
cordial and very natural hatred, for he is re-
proach to their narrowness OF mind, and butter
satire on their poverty OF soul. Mediocrlty when
united TO Meanuess, and sworn into the ranks OF
Faction, ever wages lis cunning and cowardly wal
of anonymous abuse against The craftsmanship
which detects lis objects, and thwnrls It's designs
There is no choice flower Of Blngsgate which
it does not Gull for lis purpose no effort which it
does not use, in its pursuit OF scandal and petty
detractiun. TO
Aud heap the pyramid of calumny."
If the opposition 10 MIR. Webster wero honest
if il rea " arose from difference OF opinion OF
vital questions of national policy; it it were con
Quoted on rules OF honorable mental welfnre, nc
one would have any objections TO it. We are nc
defenders of Mr.. Webster peculiar political O.
pnuns md with that modest assurance which
sits so umiabe on the brow of newspaper editor
we have occasionally seen cause 10 dissent rou
portions of his policy Secretary OF State bn
we feel, as we trust every New England mar
le Els, he he honest Wing or honest Democrat
becoming pride in his intellectual greatness, an'
an indisposition TO him betrayed by seemlD:
friends or damned with the faint praise OF truck
ling partisan prints, or made The mark tor The poi
somed arrows OF bruzen und hIaitIless political ia
natics. II is as bud to the hool of the ass lle'
against the lion in his lair against the dead io
We feel uled that Judging from what is beior
the public, Mr. Webster accepted his present OF
fee from pure aud patriotic motives; that he re
nuined in IT, in the breaking up of the lust cabinet
from the same motives aud that good porlIo
OF the abuse now heaped upon him comes iron
those who are incapable OF appeclaing dlslnleres
tedness in public servants, aud see nothing NOR
noble in official station than its leaves and fishes
The British Pariy.-W hilst England is impC
sing duties on American productions, rangln
. from one hundred to one hundred and ninety pc
4; cent the self styled democracy of this counlr
: are cIamoring for the doctrine of /" Free Trade
. nv which the products OF English pauper labc
ure TO be admitted TO our markets free of duty
. See the speeches of Atherton, Woodbury., Ca
a houn, Rhet Wright aud Benton. And If y0
o desire more evidence, see the Globe, New YoI
Evening Post, New Era, Richmond Enquire
and in fact oil the leading Tory papers oflhe coul
o try. Would not such party he more proper
." sty led the British Parry" For while 1t is NJ
g torious tina, our WOOL tobacco, cotton, pork, al
!. all our agricultural productions are taxed III u
British ports nj enormous rates, this party are o.
posed TO increasing the duty TO 81 per oeh,.
-, English products that are brought TO our marker
~ The time is rapidly approaching wheh sueh pa
Y, ty will be secuted from every section OF me 'ai
n by the indignant voice Of an incensed people,
b, f. Press.
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