The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-10-15
From the National lntclligencer, Oct. 4th.
The Great Webster Speech.

From the National lntclligencer, Oct. 4th.
The Great Webster Speech.
Our columns of to-day will be found
to contain this remarkable harangue. It's
importance is such as in our peculiar po-
silion. would forbid us to touch it, but
that its character on many main points, is
so little ambiguous, that few Wings we
think can form any judgment of it but one.
Eminent as are the abilities of Mr.
Webster. commanding as are his powers
%! convincing and pcrsuading-he has
certainly, IN this instance, overlasked
them. No human ingenuity, no eio-
quencn, even the most divine. could ever
50 dazzle or conlound or bewitcIl men
from all common sense, or proprietv, or
principle, as to awe or argue them into the
monstrous proposition which it peases
him to advocate: which through the en-
tire scope of his speech, is but this-that,
whatever the obliquilics of MIR. Tvler's
course. whatever his ia,hIe.s, what
ever his open, avowed hostility to them,
now constantly declared, and though at
this very instant his official organs are
constantly declaring that he was never
any thing but a true and faithful Demo-
cat, yet it becomes the Wing party, and
is their solemn duty, to give him their
undivided support, and to sustain his as
Il Wing administration!
The main topic, which lie urged almos,
everywhere through the discourse is
union. harmony. cancellation, lorbearance
things which, under any extremity of
meditated mischief or provocaion, he
considers the Wings most cnl pabe in not
having praclised towards one whom, till
his treacherv took the most violent form,
they did all they could to concliate-a
cancellation all OH one side, as to Mr..
Tyler and his followers, and which Mr..
Webster himself in no manner practIses,
even in the very address where he so zeal
Gus y breaches it.
Nothing can exceed the bitterness with
which he seems to regard the late Mas
sachusetts Convention, which dared. in
derogation of all his own wishes, to nom
mate Mr.. Clay for the Presidency. He
pours upon that respectable and patriotic
body a perfect tempest of sneers. "Thev
had no business to do it: they exceeded
their commission" It they did, it was
hardly more than did that Legislature
Convention of the State which in 1885
nominated Mr. WEBSTER himself against
General HARRISON; nomination which
the great Secretary declared he would
rather avoid. butte which he felt bound
to submit
lie taxes them in a manner not less
spenetic, with presumption in undertake
ing TO read Mr.. Tyler out of the Wing
church; presently, he suspects, they may
think Of doing the same good Office even
to hlmsell-himselE, Il FaneuiI Hall " hig!
that ever was and ever will be Wing.
Now, We know not what may seem al
tcgance, to MIR. WEBSTER, in Massachus-
etts; but, certainly. such presumption as
this the entire Wing party have every
where prac!ised in regard to Mr.. Tyler;
and if Mr.. Websler's voice cannot deter
Massachusetts, how should it deter the
entire country from entering up, in the
most solemn form of Reproduction, its re-
lection, as Wing, of the man whom his
own official minons are nov extollng to
the loce iocos as having "done more dam
age to Whigism than any other man on
earth!"
In short, the temper of the speech is
only good towards those who cross not
Mr.. Webster's own purposes; and it over
boils with i'll concealed rancor towards
every thing that regards Mr.. CLAY and the
Wings themselves, so far as their conf
dence in him as their great leader identi-
ies their cause with him.