Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-09-21
MIR. wcbstcr's Marshaeid Speech.

We really wish we could make room for the whole
Of this extraordinary speech. He supports Taylor,
but il i with much hesitation. The speech is COOL
deliberate and cutting, and if the wing party does not
smart under the niiction il is because they have al
ready suffered much sefdcgradation of late to
make them callous that nothing be added to
their shame. The N. Y. journal of Commerce, a
leading Taylor paper admits that the speech of Mr..
Webster has been read with regret by many of his
best friends. True, he ussents to the nomination Of
Gen. Taylor, but il is given with such apparent re-
luctance. and with many attachments, that silence
would have been kindness in the comparison"
We give few extracts below. and hope it will be
read by every Gen. Taylor is far from being fit
person for President, according to Mr.. Webstcrs
showing:
But the nomination of the candidate for the presden-
cy by the wing convention in Phiadelpha, is salts
factory the wings of Massachusetts that is certain
and it would be idle to attempt to conceal the fact
However much respectable and distinguished in
the line Of his profession, however much es
Unable private citizen, General Taylor is military
man, and military merely. He has had no train
ing in civil affairs He has performed no functions Of
civil character under the constitution OF his country He
has been known, and only known, by his brilliant
achievements a the head OF the army Now the wings
of Massachusetts, and among them, of opinion that
il not wise discreet 10 20 10 The army for selec
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States IL is the first instance ia history in which
any of military character has been proposed
for that high Office. Washington had great military,
bot by far greater civil character. lie had been
poyed in the councils of his country from the earliest
dawn Of the revolution he had been in the Continental
Congress- he had established great character for wis
dom aud judgment in civil affairs After the war; you
all know, he elected a member of that convention
which framed the constitution of the United Sates and
il was of the most honorable tributes paid TO
him, that, by that assembly of great and men, he
AZ thpfrd Ind
his first attached the constitution under which
we live. President Harrison a brave old soldier,
and different periods of his life, rendered important
military services but he nevertheless, for the much
greater part of his ie employed in civil than
in military affairs. For twenty years he either gov
OF Territory member of Congress, minister
abroad and he discharged all the duties appertaining
those offices to The satisfaction of the country. This
case, lherefore-tbe nomination OF General Taylor
stands by itself without precedent and without ustca
ton from anything in our previous history.
"fheir reasoning this Gen. Tay flor is wing, not
eminent in civil life, known in civil life, but still a
Of sound wing principles. Circumstances have given
him reputation and the eclat Of the country. As he is
the whig candidate, he will be chosen and with him
candidate, will be able TO elect members TO the
two houses OF Congress, get augmentation Of wing
strength the wing majority the House of Representa-
tves will be increased, aud the oc0ioco majority in the
Senate will be diminished That the view, and that
the motive however wise unwse, which governed
great portion of that assembly in Philadelphia Now,
gentlemen, in my opnion this unwse policy. Ii
suitable to the wing character-it
c;lable with wsdom-t short-sghted, and
pohsihg, on great question of principle.
"Gen. Taylor has b:en nominated fairly, as far
know, and cannot, therefore, and shall oppose his
election. AT the time, there io0
firmly Of opinion that such nomination not fit to be
made