Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-10-13
POLITICS, &C.
Nv. Websser's Speecls-COm-
Iaents of tIe Press.

THE GREAT WEBSTER SPEECH.

FROM the National fnteaigeneer, an INST.
THE GREAT WEBSTER SPEECH.
Our columns ofio-6ay will be found to
contain this remarkable harangue. It's
Importance is such as, in our particular
position, would forbid us 10 touch il, but
that its character, on many main points,
is so little ambiguous that few Wings, we
think, can form any judgment of j, but
one.
Eminent as are the abilities Of Mr.
Webster comma ndng rs are his powers
Of convincing and persuadiDg has Ger.
ialnly, in this instance, overtasked them.
/ No human ingenuity, no eio9nence, even
the most divine, could ever SO dszzle or
conlound or hewitch men from all COM
mon sense, or proprlety, or principle, as
/ TO awe or argue them into the INDUSTRIOUS
proposition which II pl, asses him to advo-
vate; which, through the entire scope OF
! his speech, is but thls-ihat, whaieverihe
obliquities of Mr.. Tyler's course, what
ever his falthlesSnr IS, whatever his open,
agowed hostility to them, now constantly
declared, and though al this very instant
his official organs are constantly declar-
I ing that he nerer mas any Thing but a true
and faithful Democrat, yet il becomes the
Wing party, and is their solemn duty, To
give hlm their undivided support, and to
sustain his as Wing Administration
! The main topic, which he urges almost
every where through his discourse, is
union, harmony, Cancellation, forbear
ance things which, under any extremi-
ty of meditated mischief or ptovocation,
he considers the Wings most culpabe in
not having practised towards one whom,
TIL his treachery took the most violent
form, they did all they could TO conciiate
IA Cancellation all on one side, as TO Mr..
| Tyler AMI his followers, and which Mr..
Webster himself in no manner practices.
even in the very address where he zeal
Ously breaches it.
Nothing can exceed the bitterness with
which he seems 20 regard the late Mas
! sachusetts Convention, which dared, in
dsrogation of all his own wishes to nom-
nate Mr.. CLAY for the Presidency. He
pours upon that respectable and patriotic
body perfect tempest OF sneers. "They
had no business TO do it: they exceeded
their commission" II they did, it was
hardly more than did that Legislative
Convention of the State which in 1895
nominated Mr.. Webster himself against
General Harrison: nomination which
the great Secretary declared he would IA
Their avoid, but to which he felt bound to
submit.
He taxes them, in manner not less
splentlc. with presumption, in undertaking
to read Mr.. Tyler out ofthe Wing church:
presently, ne suspects, they may think OF
doing the same good office to himself
himself, Faneuil Hall Wing that ev.
er was, and ever will be Wing Now,
we know not what NAV seem arrogance
to Mr.. Webster, IN Massachusetts but
certainly, such presumption as this, the
entire Wing party have every where prac.
tised in regard to Mr.. TylIr; and il Mr..
Webster's voice cannot deter Massachu.
sets, how should it deter the entire coun-
try from entering up, in the most solemn
form of Reproduction, its rejection. as
Wing, OF the mao whom his own official
mlnons are now extolling to the Locofo-
cos as having "done more damage TO
Whigism than any other man on earth !"
In short, the temper Of the speech is
only good towards those who cross mol
Nr. Webster's own purposes; and ii over
rboils with ill-concealed rancor towards
every thing that regards Mr.. Clay and
the Wings themselves, so far as their con.
fidence in him as their great leader, iden-
tifes their cause with him.
Large rs is the field for further stric.
ture, we must confine ourselves 10 few
other main facts, that claim a more spe-
cial public attention.
On MIR. TyIer's great conscientious
question, the bank and lis Constitutional
lty ; on the compromise act, (Which MIR.
w. utterly denounces y on the protective
policy; on something like the assumption
ni State debts, or, at least the 8ppropra.
ton of the public domain for that purpose,
(Which he suggests not unambiguously J
and on all the reioes, Mr.. w, bster avows
his entire dissent from Mr.. Tyler's views.
Now, when before did The world ever wit
ness Ministerial fact like this--an adj
vser-n-chief, who, instead Of quitting his
Ministry at the first leading measure on
which he cannot act with the throne, cling.
ing to his place, though he dssents from
almost every capital measure, and repre-
bending every man " no will not Join him
in sustaining acts and policy, all of
which he condemns.
L.