Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1843-01-30

me gentleman had given the House in part what h.
eons'd'fe as The realciuse of the defeat OF the Wings
nu raced up toa period previous To the death ui Pre-
"oe"' harrison. According 10 The gentleman, Their
were certain differences. personal rather than political
e'"o." MI ebsler and Mr.. Clay; and the gentleman
'fom massachusetts Mr. CusmNe) had 10 dav, ia pul
soace V Tie same idea. given the House some not per
,.e1 eNpisnatcns o n speech formerly delivered by him
ne gentleman nov let the House know what II vi.
,oa ne neahiby the fixed constitutional fact" of whici
nc ao "fhery spoken, aud how was that this Ia,
de'.'yed The Wing party Mr. NJ had 10 wish 10 mis-
UNDERSTAND The gentleman aud he was sure the gentle
u"" 'a no purpose 10 nilseprcsent what he had said
WI W understood The gentleman. tho "fxod fact" .
WING" ne spoke had been arrayed against certain othe
"N'u parry iicl; the fixed fact being seal
ed IN 'he " bite House. aud the unixed party TACT /,
' rouse, ana That II was the struggle between thes
'"o ae's winch had occasioued the death vi Tho " hi,
party. What did all tins meant Could any thing ,ls
mace out OF but that the opposition Of John lyle
aud Daniel Webster To Henry Ciay-a personal oppo.i
en alone lor the eenoman discarded all consideration
o'pf'nc'pie III these questions, )as candidate for tn,
"eN' 'sioency Ind caused all this ruut. The gentle
man had represented that Tins CONGRESS was in mn in
a"us sfl'sc To be dctnedas political party and Mr.
LAY as The dlcata head vi It, aud that apain.t TIN,
sy ana lis party head. the President aud M Webster
Were arra3ed nol on any point mucplc nor on ANY
system oi measures, (or the gentleman insisted there
was no principle 1n,",edn the matter that all was
parry party aud only party and he defined party to be
nothing bui an association oi men 10 pet into pwcr ,r
tas ar NJ presnmed) 10 hold power when they had got
H. Now, putting th,s and that together they lad nc
at'e we" al least u the disease that the patient died
OF.
NJ WISE was here understood by the Reporter 10
say mai the gentleman mistaken
MI MARSHALL SAID that. il he had misunderstood the
Ie"'e'"a" III th's he was not capsule of understanding
any 'hhS liad mol the gentleman said that the fixed
Tact was lnihe Pnsden, and his power and tina, the par
" TACT WIS 'hs HOUSE, and that the President wa, OPP
posed 10 the leader Of that pary' linot, Mr. NJ could
mol understand the English language.
The gentleman had thrown soulr lioht on n matter
winch was very important 10 US a. American citizens
aud he had further thrown somo yht up,n events thai
were coming MIR NJ had understood the gentleman To
say mat The wing party, OF which Mr. Clay was the
living approximation ,h's Wing party. alias Mr.
clay, had been killed by John Tyler and Daniel Web
sei, yes had been kllledt dead, stone dead 80.
And tho Administration meant 10 hold up ils nat aud
constitutional influence 10 any party who would come aud
support-Mhall No, John Tyler hs believed. there
was nobody 50 lar an he knew, that calculated upon
that; but would support Mr. Tylor's grand measure
lor he had some measures. and lac WIS u, much attached
loo, to his measures and his principles Chat was to MIR
WEBSTER measure aud the principles il involved that
he would give ms support 10 either Of the two branches
ol the Dolnscrac party that would come its support
aud that Of lhe Administration.
And THIS brought hun To a princjpc at last, "A
laugh On the eon,lenans showing, there was
principle about which the moderate Of the country
N"'u "' W was moderate man, very moderate mlu
might debate. MIR. ll Ter aud Mr. Webster regulated
all that Congress could do, and came here with mea
sure OF 'her own, denounens the leader Of the Wing
parry, and they now OF d to bring any Democratic
leader INTO power who would aid thom tins schoue Vi
theirs.
MI M SAID he had zen quoted saying that he had
heard gentleman say that thia Administration would
cut The same hgufe III the history Of this couary ns
afehosis did IN sentence, and that parenihesls uas
uehhod III ue grammar 10 be clause a sentence
when iSh' be read IN low tone or wholly omitted
Without INJURY TO tie sense; and inference had bcci,
drawn that liz bad meant 10 charge the President aud
hls Cabinet with having no influence lie dlsclalrnpd
all such intention. What he meant had been that the
history o' ms Administration disconnected from be
general story and though. as such. might be le out
"'o" INJURY 10 lhe national history, yet II might per
sc nave SENSE enough ior anght he knew But ihs he
would say mat the principle commended for by the Ad
ilnls'ration was the very and most undeinablc
and The most al war with all that had been taught by
HE leaders OF that Administration that could possibly De-
IL had, he understood, been SAID that Mr. NJ had slept
too ons upon Mr. Wcbsers speeches; tia, he had slept
upon them instead oi reading aud wing them. Mr.
NJ would certainly he the last man To parble the pro
dac"ns u any man, or 10 msrepresent his meaning by
dlsoned extracts from his language. 1t in dis
Joined portions that he had studied Mr. WebseIs
writings; he had not studied Them by single he
had read ihemssa whole and The book was a whole. lie
had nboed from 1t not individual puses paragraphs
eloquent as they WERE but the Informing spril Of his
philosophy lie had en.avored to penetrate the prnci
pies when his great mind had decided the great and
important legal aud political questions which had been
presented 10 him
When challenged to present sentence from under the
hand Of VI W eiser winch went against the PROJECT ol
the ENcheqner, as avowed by himself, Mr. NJ had of
torcd 10 pledge his reputation and he knew that rs but
snail pledge. hut II was nearly all he had) that the
challenger could not find speech an argument ul
Mr.. Wcbster's IN Whch the Constitution or policy OF
the United States was touched upon, in which there
could not be found principles which completely to
overthrow the urw currency schemes which lao had
stamped with his own great name.
Mr.. CusHiYG here and wished liberty to presen,
passage from Mr. Webster.
But Mr., MARSHALL refused to yield him the floor
He said the gentleman had refused the floor to others for
explanation, and he must submit to the same rule
Tor himself
Mr. Webster was Statesman. lie was not In the
habit OF making speeches 10 suit present party purpose
lie had fixed scienilic principles IN relation govern
meh, and that peculiar form of Government which a.
lone was adapted to people and peculiar condi
ton: from these principles he forever reasoned After
the fashion Of men who real philosophers, he al
ways applied his geneial principles to any particular
measure which happened 10 be brought before him
Hence found in all the works Of his pen those mighty
universal truths for which he had uniformly conended
until noH.
Mr.. NJ. might possibly attach an importance to it be-
You'd what il mered, but to Mr. Nj. it appeared that Nj
Webster's Fancull Hall speech containing the open a
vowal that the Exchequer scheme was his constituted
one of the mosl important political OF the day
The features Of that scheme two. First, it
tanned the plan OF Government bank; and sccond il
declared that the powers conferred upon that bank by A
merriam law were dependent upon State legislation And
this Mr. ayerrcd TO be ayprse not ouly the Con