Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-05
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wAsuisor. n, Oct 20, ists.
Whether or not your own domestic wonders, Mes.
merism and Abduction, have permitted Richmond to
he hushed into that awful expectation with which
all the North has been waiting for MIR webs,ers
speech and disclosures. know not. The speech,
however, We have. at last; tho small disclosures.
| Ia wha, sense the public eager for the dis
course ITSELF am not precisely certain. Ills VOL
shin, the many, loves. however. to be agapc. Some
thought MIR webster's revelation, would dam re
the Whigs; some, that they would make the Tyler
people look more ridiculous than they do. Some
reekoned ON his telling strange TRUTHS Others his
putting forth extraordinary fsehoods. as to himself
| his colleagues, and the great chief whom he has
| been serving Some imagined he would say every
thing IN the word; while Others lutte moro eonsi.
derate, were utterly puzzled to imagine what he
would or could say.
IL such was the wondorment over what the speech
rss 10 be, equally great will it DC at rha, IL is.-
Tho present times have, in my apprehension, seen
no Performance so remarkable. Few copies Of il
having ye, reached here, you may possibly not &c.
eeive 1t by this n'i in which event, an accoun, of
its main points will lie worth your posse ssing.
IL was we'll known here that MIR w. had, through
MIR Choa,c, pledged himself that he would quit the
Cabinet, and that he would not return from his pre-.
sent trip 10 Marsh6elt. The speech makes it c'ear
that, If he keeps this pledge, it will be because he
ehnno, help il; that he does not intend 10 abandon
the Cabinet: that, indeed. there is no reason why he
should; Tor he has undergone no change Of feeling
or opinion, as to Mr. Tyler or Observation-Disclosures
lie insists tina, the Wings il to themselves and
to the county to make all they out of his most
excellent Aecidency-that is, that they oush, to
have supported him, and should now support him;
and that the capital error which they have commit
ted is, tina, they have not siad with Mr. Tyler las
he himself has done) &c, MIR Il. do what he like
In short, take the sum and substance Of all this
part Of his doctrine to be, that patriotism req ures Of
Mr Webster that, il the devil should be President
las he probably will be, Of these days) he, Mr.
Webster, should, il possible, be his Primo Minister;
and that we, the Wings, should, by all means, lend
patriotic support to both diaboic leaders, in od,r
that the country may reap all possible advantage
from their measures.
At the dissolution OF the first Cabinet and its
causes, he can hardly be said TO glance. He limits
HIMSELF here, TO the single revelation, that 10 the
PtOss, he had given his adpiec against all Of tisn
A most extraordinary ovowal, certainlyi When.
before, was ever any thng like this heard IA
Prime Minister, who p,oclaims that he had directly
dissen,cd from the capital acts of the Admnis,ra-
ton with which no was joined, and with which lie
proposes TO continued But, TO crown the isnominy |
OF so unprncipled declaration let it be added that
he states direct Jdissiood: for moth n.y. aver is
more certan-it is here perfectly notorious that on
the chief Of the YeOeS, the majority Of the Cabinet
remained uneonsul:td up to The moment Of its publ.
eiii0n-thnt many private persons hal seen it, three
ia bafnrc IL. nT,l.
Secretaries, (includng MIR wy knew nothing OF il,
TIL it came into the Capitol,
MIR WEBSTER goes on to declare himself utterly
opposed to the Compromise Act; Of which he regards
the whole policy iuinous. Here is another ad.
mirable point of harmony between him and his con.
scientious President. If the Chief Magistrate is
troubled with conscience. it must be admitted tina,
his premier is not. lie is z9aIously in favour of
Protective Tariff, he says, and hopes the present
'etllement ofthat question will be perpetual one.
Here is another admirable conformity between him
Ind his leader. lie Enormously exhorts the Wings
o union with Mr. Tyler's Wing Administration
Ind this at a moment when the Official Organ here
5 declaring that " The President never was a whig
has ever been faithful Democrat-and challens-
8 the entire earth TO produce the man who has done
is much damage 10 whissery as John Tyleri"
Now, is not this rare You will easily infer from
III this, tina. was right when lately let you know
hat MIR Webster was anxious to recall the inlima
ion he gave, before he left here, of his wish to quit
he Cabinet. lie is determined to stay, if they
will let him. He will then, probably remain; for
DR. Tyler has not the pluck TO turn any thing out
f his Cabinet.
Alas for Mr. Gushing! The cup is once more
ashed from his lips.