Indiana State sentinel., 1846-04-30

Is il. then, on this that the high estimate of his
character as alluded to BY my colleague, is founded
Il is not Before he went TO Europe 1t is said, his
debts were paid When in England, il is also said,
the Barings, those shrewd and far-seeing bankers,
paid him thousand pounds sterling for his legal
opinion on the subject of the State debts. Did those
experienced and able moneyed men invest two or
three hundred millions in our State stocks without
first knowing whether the American States had or
| had not the power to contract debtsl Would they
give Mr.. Webster five thousand dollars for bis legal
opinion merely as to that powerl If may be per-
mtted to understand that transaction in "any just
sense" il would be that that money was advanced
him for purpose very far foreign from that which
appeared on tie face of the matter. Was 1t on this
that my colleague based his estimate of Mr. Websers
exalted characer-au opinion given to foreign Jew
money-lender against his own countrymen Ii not,
on what then! He has not given US a single item.
If all this is tracking down. of public men, then
fear / must occupy as fearful position as any OF
those who have presumed to attack the "godlke." !"
NAV prepare for as terrible scarifying my
friend over the way from Pennsylvania. And of what
did this scarfying and this rending actually consist
Was it anything more than '' false" heaped upon
"false." "creature" upon "thing," and "thing"
upon creature" The eagle into the blue vault
of heaven, and darts upon his prey like the bolt of
Joye; but the MuScovy duck loves to dip his foul
feathers into the mud and scatter about the dirty
water on everything around, as he shakes himself
free from it!
1t is said that the gentleman from Pennsylvania got
" scarifying." | think that the gentleman from
Pennsylvania gave tie senator an emetc, and its
operation has thrown off his stomach an immense
discharge of bile, with which he has plentifully be-
spattered the gentleman from Pennsylvania. Yet he
still survives and does not seem much the worse for
the infiction. 1t might be Just conclusion, from
the amount of bile thrown up, that the senator's
system could not have been in o healthy state. My
he faolin 0f Onax h0
turn the pages of vile party defamation, to rake
up charges against any man. Let any man read the
debates of 1872 and see what the senator's whg
friends said of him. If it half true, it placed
him so low, that it was impossible he should get any
lower | do not say that the charges of the wings
were true-(God forbid that should be answerable
for the truth of what they say)-but | say let any
look what they then said of him, and then say
if his friends said such things of him, surely the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania may; and may refer, too
his public acts, to show that he is entitled tc
that high place by the side of Washington, which my
colleague awards TO him.
The motion for reconsideration was finally laid or
the table.
House of Representatives., April IL.
Mr. WINTHROP rose for personal explanation, anC
having obtained leave. proceeded follows:
! in the course Of service of six years, | have
never before asked permission of the House to make
sure that | should do so nOw were my conduc
or character alone concerned. But | do not feel al
liberty to allow anything to pass, as having been
spoken by me, which may involve the slightest unjus
reflection upon others.
l do not mean to complain Of any reporters. Or
the contrary, l would make, both to those of the
Intelligencer and those of the Union the acknowledge
ments, for their general accuracy and excellence
which are Justly due from ALL
But this will say, that whatever | actually saiC
/ in this House yesterday, am represented in tht
Intelligencer of this morning as having conveyed al
idea which | certainly did not intend to convey.
If l was understood as meaning anything less thar
that the charge of being pensiOned agent Of the ma
nufdctariRg interest, brought against Mr.. Webster
yesterday, was. in every just sense, and in every
unjust sense, and in all senses whatsoever, an un
founded and untrue charge. | desire to correc
that understanding and to express that idea fully ant
unqualifedy.
But there is another part of the report to which
wish to allude said that as to the fact which th
honorable member from Alabama [RIr. Yancey1 hao
found in a newspaper, and which he said the whole
people of the United States were conversant with
that the sum of 100000 had been raised in som,
quarter for the benefit of Mr. Webster or his family
II knew nothing and therefore should deny nothing
| added that l wished that other gentlemen woulC
observe the same rule as to their assertions.
This remark strictly true at the time at which
it was made. | had indeed. seen the newspape
statement. | had heard something of a proposed ma
nfestaton of regard and gratitude towards Mr. Web
ster. But so far my own personal knowedg,
reached yesterday, nothing of the sort had been done
Now, sir, this morning l know more about th
natter and as the remarks which | made yesterda,
might involve in the suspicion of desiring to re
main ignorant myself and to keep others in ignorance
and might look like an attempt on the part of Mr.
Webster's friends to up and conceal transac
ton in the highest degree honorable both to him AM
to themselves, take the very earliest opportunity t.
give to the House and to the country the results of M
inquiries.
/ cannot proceed to do so, however. without ex
pressing the deep disgust which feel for the sort
personal assault which has been carried on in tIi
House for day two past, and for the necessit,
which has been created of introducing the private
affairs of any body before the country. But other
have thought these matters fit topic for the council
of the nation, and upon them must rest the response
bility.
desire, then to make the following declaration b.
: authority
Mr. Webster does not own single dollars wort
of stock In any manufacturing company whatever
nor is dollars worth of such stock held by others il
trust for him his family or in any way to be bene
fetal to him them; nor is he interested, in an
way, in any mandatory whatever, nor in the rise
fall in any sort of manufacturing stock or property
nor has any transaction of any kind taken place o.
condition of Mr. Websters remaining in the Senat
or leaving the Senate.
Mr.. Webster has disposed of certain valuable west
ern lands at prices not exceeding their actual value
, for which he has been paid. An arrangement, in
tended for his benefit, which he regards as highl
honorable to him, and which, may say, is as high
, compliment paid to any public man i
our country-being the provision of an annuity fo
life-was announced to bin here last month.
The gentleman making the communication accom-
panied it with this declaration and statement of il
! origin and objects: