Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-06-02
Core. pondence Of lie Boston Ala.
BALTIMORE. Nav %. 1914


BALTIMORE, May %, 1913.
As | was advised, by the appearance
oil reporters from New York, that you
would receive sooner than | could send
you, an account OF the Webster dinner.
through the New York Tribune, | did
not say any thing of it, in my last, and
would not now, but for the very strange
com mentary which a writer in The Bos
ton Mercantile Journal has made on
paragraph IN one Of my rec mt letters
IN relation 10 the dinner. | was GER
family surprised al the rem arks in the
Journal and the more, as the writer,who
certainly knowa nothing Of who am.
undertook to charge upon me an effort
10 impair tho reputation Of Nh Webster.
This is altogether a mistake No SIMS
ter design hatever was concealed in
The letter, certainly noihing was design
ed like what is charged; for the letter so
lar as the dinner was concerned, was
cautiously confined TO facts. You do me
but justice in saying SOFAS you did in the
Atlas OF Friday.
But as the writer in the Journal by
MS remark, "nonS rerronS," Intimates
That more will DO heard on the subject.
II may be as we'll, that | should take
him at his word, and say something
more about the Baltimore dinner. In
doing SO, | may disclaim for myself anv
design. or as cherishing any desire, to
impair the reputation of the foremost
man OF the American age yield TO no
man IN admiration Of The great intellec
al ability OF Mr. Websteras far as one so
humble us myseIf moy be able to appre.
ciate It-and submit, that this feeling
Is perfectly reconciliable with the regret.
which ! expressed in the letter that has
gwen offence, that the effort 10 get up
the dinner was 'hard work. Now how
did the matter turn QUIT
Ii is some four or FIVE weeks since the
suggestion Of the dinner was started. II
is known here. and may as well there.
fore state the fact, 10 have proceeded
hrst from one Of the officers under the
General government, a very worthy
man. and an excellent officer, land the
only one, by the by, who atten led the
dInner,the others having been kept ba ok
by foolish rUmor getting out that Mr.
webster intended to open on Mr. TylerD
II received no favor in any quarter when
hrst started, and was only taken IN at
last, because il was understood that Mr.
webster had been written 10 on the sub. |
Ject, and had accepted the invitation i
oome personal friends Of Mr. Webster
then took the matter up, and when the |
day was fixed, dinner was ordered for a |
hundred: pass over tho personal eE.
iorts which were required to get subscri-
oers, and come down to the fact, that
though only one hundred was asked, |
That number was not obtained. There
were, so learn only about ninety pres |
OF these only three, so fur |
ther understand, were Of the Locorooo
party, and these are rather fish,.
The dinnea took place, and 10 the eye |
OF spectator, seemed anything else
than a hearty and Joyous meeting. The
dinner was good-decidedly good-.it
was prepared in fine style, and the table |
set OIL with taste. The wines were
choice, and the champagne cork was
heard wiIh as much distinctness "a Il |
would be in church, and seemed to at
tract the attention Of the guests, as if i'll
were as much out Of place as If it were
really church, and not a dining room
they were assembled in. Having obtain
ed q position in which could, by a eoupI
a'oetl,take in a view Of the whole scene.
must say,thata less enthusiastic-lye.I
more cherries company-it was never
my misfortune % encounter. Every boz
dy seemed under reslraint-soms
looked up and down the table, as If thew
lett they were out Of place, or were sus
Pectec OF something wrong-others eat
sParingly and with a doubtful air-and
when, az was the case, some Of the more
youthful Of the company essayed to
Iaugh,it seemed to fall on the ears oCthe
rest as most misplaced, IL not sacrilepr.
Gus mirth.
II was impossible for Mr. Webster not
10 see ihal he was dining with gentle !
men, who, with all their respect 10 him,
and. high admiration for histalents,were
gu at ease, and uncertain Of what thew /
were dOing-and it was equally impossi
bic Tor him not to partake Of the cheer
less, almost sombre feeling, which pre-.
,ailed on al hands. He did see il, and
10 did fee It. And if there were any /
.oubt Of this, il was removed when he
oso to speak. Il is next to impossible /,