Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-02-03

GTSMR. WEBSTER AND Mn. WINTHROP.
In a speech which he delivered in the
House of Representatives, on Wednesday of
last week, Mr.. WINTHROP of Boston spoke
in the following terms of Mr.. WEBSTER:
He hoped he should be pardoncd for saying a
few words in relation to the author of the ex-
chequer project. He did not stand here as the
defender of the Secretary of State. That man
was one of his most distinguished constituents {;
and he felt it to be duty which he owed TO
those he represented to say something of him.
When he saw so much unnerited reproach cast
upon him, he felt that it would be doing inius-
tice to those who assembled in Faneuil Hall to
hear him, did he return home without saying
anything on the subject. lie was not one OF
those who listened to the Faneuil Ia speech
Of the Secretary of State. lie regretted that
such speech was then and there made. lie
dssen'cd entirely from many parts of it-for
instance: the charge, that the Wings of Massa-
chuse's, by declaring final separation from
the President, bad committed themselves to an
indiscrmae warfare against all his measures,
he THOUGHT, was not at all warranted by facts.
The idea, too, that no peculiar party element
entered into the passage of the tariff bill If last
session, because some twenty or thirty Wings
found themselves 20 situated as to be obliged TO
vote agains', while some ten or a dozen of the
opposite party voted for it, was altogether ;b-
sur1. Nor had the charge that the convention
of the Wings of Massachusetts had transcribed
their authority, by considering subjects not us.
ual in such conventions any foundation. But
that the inerrogatory" Where shall go!" in
stead Of being Applicable to his relation to the
Wings of assachuse'ts, whose confidence no
man ever enjoyed in more eminent degree than
of ,'ntp Itnto h.,
lust of ofice-a mere trucking to place and
power-was rs gross as il vas unfounded In
deed, the very next sentence Of the speech for
babe any such construction. He referred to the
sentence where the Secretary declared that he
was, and always should be, a Massachusetts
Wing.
Ia relation to the subject before the House,
he would declare that he was not unwilling to
admit that there was something in the argument
OF the gentleman fro n Kentucky Mr.. Marshall, !
who contended that there was an Inconsistency
between the speeches of Mr.. Webster and the
report on the subject Of the eXchequer. He
should not attempt to explain away that incon-
sstoncy. But he would say that, in all Mr..
Webster's discussions of the sub-treasury, his
leading argument against it was, that it was an
abandonment of the duty of the Government to
regulate the exchanges and currences of the
. country. All his other objections were subor-
dinate to this Indeed, it was the burden OF all
his speeches; and he (lIr. W. would remark
that there was no inconsistency between that
view of the sub-treasury and Mr.. Webster 5
views in relation to the eXchequcr. Although
he disapproved of his position, yet he thought
when the Secretary of State was accused of in.
consistency, he might reply in the language OF
an ancient philosopher, may have acted con-
trary to myself but never contrary 10 the re.
public
He had no idea that Mr.. Webster would thank
him for what he had said here to-day, although
he might say amen to some of his remarks Z; yet
he had felt it to be duty to those whom he rep.
resented to say what he had sad-spurnng
alike misrepresentation and misconstructions
which might be made here and at home.