The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1848-09-09
Speech of the Hon. Daniel Web
stcr, before the Wings Of
MarshlicId.

gives lnc lO!lOWlnS leleSfdPhlC ACCOUNT
Of the great speech delivered by Mr..
Webster, at MarshfcId, on Friday last
Mr.. Webster, accompanied by Hon
Hiram ketchum. of New York, Hon.
George Ashman, Of Springfield, Hon.
ARENAS Hale of Bridgewater, and others
appeared upon the stand, and was hear
tiIy greeted by the people Hi. speech
was devoted exclusively to the Presldcn-
tial question. He avowed himself fully,
uncquivocalIy, in favor otthr election Of
Gen. Taylor.
He said he beloved him to be an hon
est man, whose conduct had ever been
marked by hi Oh sense Of honor. He
was man of little professions, modest
and unass ming. lie had been candi-
date for the Presidency year before the
sitting of the Philadelphia Convention.
He was fairly nominated by that Con-
vcntion. He believed him to be true
Whig.-Our opponents said he was a
Wing and they tried to disgrace him and
the other Wing General Scott, by putting
a democratic civilian in command over
them H. did not believe the slavery
question had anything to do with his
nomination. The Convention believed
him to be Wing, thought him to be the
best man under existing circumstances
and therefore nominated him MIR Web
stcr spoke at some lcnCth in indicating
the Wings Of the Convention and eXtoll-
ing the character of General Taylor.
Of a Ia, al In
Platform which stated that the nomina
ton of Gen. Taylor was induced by
desire on the part of the Wings to extend
slave territory, nor were the Wings OF
the South accountable for the nomination
Whether it be good or bad, the free
States had some sixty majority IN the
Convention and could have nominated
whomsoever they pleased. Mr.. Webster
said that, in his Judgment, the question
who shall be our next President lay be-
TWEEN Gen TAYLOR and Gen. Cass. One
of them will be elected -whom then
should the Wings vote for? We could
not all have our personal preferences
cratifed; the skies We're not about to fall
so that we could catch larks 1t was
idle to talk about third candidates. We
had enough of them in lSl4. Every
vote gwen for Birney in that election
was half vote Polk and the annexation
of Texas, and every vote given this year
for Van Buren, was practically half a
vote for Cass. He had warned the peo-
pie against this third party folly in 1871,
and he would again warn them of its
consequences He spoke OF the Buffalo
PLATFORM said what there was good in
ii, was what the Wings had always ad-
vocated, and Van Buren, and his friends
had Away. gone against what there
was new it it was unsound. He had no
confidence in Van Buren,. 1t would be
ludicrous TO express confidence in
Van Buren's free soil principles, for he
had opposed everything that looked like
free soil all his live, and he had no doubt,
from the knowledge he had of the man,
that were they together, Van Burcn
would laugh in his face when the free
soil question was named.
Mr. Webster went on at some length
70 show up Mr. Van Buren's conduct.
He had always been the supple tool Of
the South-the alder and abctter OF sla-
very. He did more, said Mr.. Webster,
to defeat John Quincy Adams, and elect
General Jackson, than any ten men in
the country. He was the soul and Gen.
ire OF the opposition to MIR. Adams. He
spoke OF his conduct while Secretary of
State, in his opposition to the abolition
of slavery in Cuba. lie was the only
Pre- sident who ever, in advance, threat
cn.d to Veto bill, if Congress should
pass such an one, to abolish slavery in
district OF Columbia. He referred to his
casting vote, to rifle the mails of anti
slavery papers. He said that no one
ever exercises more controlling intlu-
ence over his friends than Van Buren,,
and his friends all went with HIM. He
was, and so were his friends, in favor OF
annexlng Texas. Southern wings in
both Houses of Congress- voted against
admitting Texas into the Union. The
Van Buren, men, those who now, for
purposes of private pique or revenge, cry
out for free soil, were the very men who
were the most NoCllerOuS LOT leNaS' MT.
Webster had no confidence in any OF
them. Talk about dough-iaces! Why,
said MIR. Webster, the Van Buren, men in
Congress had not only dough-iaccs, but
they had dough hearts and dough souls
were all dough. He said that there were
wings at the Buffalo Convention whom
he respected highly. but he thought it
would have been proper, before they
took up Van Buren,, to have required OF
HIM fruits meet Tor repentance He spoke
of Cass.--He held HIM to be the most
dangerous man that could be put IN NOM
nation. He was the embodiment OF
the War-he was opposed to the treaty
of Washington-he was for the whole OF
OREGON. and the maticr womb never