The North-Carolina standard., 1847-10-20

you'd return to bis Northern home with better
r..ugs for this region of the Union, with fuller
roJsrstanding Of the nature Of our domestic IN
sautons, and better prepared to do justice 10 our
uccutar condition and habits. He mnde Ibis visil,
We were told, not with political views nos for Po-
rhcal profit, bat to see the South-to mingle with
our chivaIrous and high+oned PeoPle--to take
v;rr;n;.nss and CaroIinians and Georgians by
,h. hand and greet them as brothers and citi.
,,oDs If The same great Confederaey and he was
,o..;ved bv the Governor Of North Carolina and
entertained as the guest Of the State. Men of all
nsies rose up do honor to his exalted intellect
and the people Of the South, if they did not receive
him as heartily and as cordially as they would
aher distinguished public characters who might
rst them were nevertheless not wanting, at any
place or on an occasion, in whatever was consid.
cred due to his past career well as to the posi-
iOu he occupied before the country.
Well, Mr.. Webster made his visit and returned
home. And where next do we find him in his
capacity as a public naRf - In the Wing State
CsnvenIion Of Massachusetts, advocating the VIII
mot Proviso, denouncing what he is pleased to
term the encroachments of the slave power, and
declaring publicly that he had not "seen one in
telIigent man of the South who objects to the fair
exercise of all the power Of the North in prevent
ing the further increase Of slave representation in
Congress" In word, we find him advocating
doctrines, which, If carried into practice, ,COuld
degrade the SOuIh and, in all probability dissOlre
The, Cnioa; and in order to bolster up these doc
Hines and Justify himself before the world, he
H.:a of
testimony against themselves Speaking for them
and in their name, and announcing what he would
have the public believe as true, and as information
derived from the South the occas ion Of his late
visit, he says they do not consider Il "unreason-
able" on the part of the North to demand the
enactment Of the Wilmot Proviso that such
course is expected Of the North by the South !;
that it is right" on the part Of the North and
that therefore the people of the South have jnst
grounds for complaint. This is Daniel Webster
in l847, and this the measure of justice he would
give to this section of the Unioni Who IN North
Carolina told him that Tie South did not objeet
to the WilmOt PrOcisO, but on the contrary, con-
Hdsred the NORTH "rig6t" tn pressing 1t before
Congress? What Intelligent man of The South"
was it who thus truckled injustice and the spirit
of fanaticism2 Was il Senator Badger, or Gov
ernor Graham or MIR. Gales We pause for
reply. Shall we get h2 LIT the Register speak
cut at once for these gentlemen. We cannot be-
eve that Mey authorized Mr.. Webster thus to
speak in their name; but as they inteIigen men
ofthe South, and as they conversed with Mr. Web
aer when he was here, and are classOd among his
PERSONAL and political friends they owe it them.
selves aad to the State to declare frankly what
Impressions were made upon his mind, in connec
ton with this Tital subject, before he left North
Carolina 20 ........ ...-- Is.
But this is not all. Tho Speech Of MIR. Web
ster in the late Wing State Convention of Massa-
chusetIs not only abounds in doctrines and scnti-
menls deeply hostile to the South, but it contains
paIpabIc contradictions in regard to tho cause of
Mexico and against this country. In the opening
Of his Speech, aIluding TO Texas, he says:
This country acknowledged that Government
fOTei ign States acknowledged that Government
aud think in fairness and honesty, must ad
nit that in 10, al, '42, and '43, Texas was an
independent State among the States Of the world.
do not admit therefore, thai it any juGt ground
Of complaint on the part of Mexico, that the Uni
led States annexed Texas to themselves"
Texas, he says, was an independent State, and
had the undoubted right to annex herself to this
Union and for this act MezieO had no Z" Just
ground of complaint" against Us +; but what does
he say in subsequent part Of the same speech
Why he says this: But what is remarkable,
Sir, is that the grievance is on the part of Mexico
and we make the War. She has tie prominent
complaint, and we strike the first blow" We
leave it to the admirers and friends of Mr.. Webster
in this region to get him out of this papable con-
tradicliOn the best way they can.
Annexation, Mr.. Webster says, was the cause
Of the War. aIf there had Gecm no annexation of
Texas there 1rOH!d hare been no War" Very
good. Who, lhcn, made the war Did not Con-
gress annex Texas And did not the people elect
the members Of Congress, and are they not there
fore, originally responsible for the Ware Annex
Alien, and not President Polk, caused the War
That will do, Mr.. Webster. In your anxiety to-
saddle all the sin upon the people, and to hold up
that iniquity" called annexation again and again
to the startled eyes Of the North, you have done
justice to the PEesident-you have acquitted him
Of that great crime which has been laid to his
charge by your brother Fedcralists.
Mr. Webster comes out boldly for the Wilmot
Ptoviso He says it embodies "rery Just SEN
timent," and he calls it he's "thunder." He de-
elares that he nerer has, and that he ncUer t0iH
cote for annerdtioR of teTTitOrV to this Union