Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-09-09
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Hayne ard Webster.

9 A very able and graphic writer IN the Ma
tional Magazine, in fthe course OF a sketch
g of CSC Congress as il tis--lts members and
their manners"-trayels out of the record
20 give the following very felicitous Sketch
the great notification debate, which took
place in the Senate Chamber in 1883. be
!. notification fever had NJ this time risen al
I most frenzy high, and members OF all par
ties had deserted the lower house 10 witness
the splintering of lances between Robert 4.
uayne, of South Carolina, .and him who
Z has immortalzed himself in our American
annals, AZ the expounder of the Constitution
Daniel Webster. We were in the GAL
lery,n says the writer
. When we entered, Gen. Hayne was
speaking. He was man OF general youth
ful appearance, with his shirt collar turned
over his cravat and his hair smoothly brush
ed across his forehead. He was OF the
middle stature, and well made. Tie was
speaking cnergetically; his eyes were pecu-
IiarIy brilliant, and his face was extremely
pale; he moved up and down the aisles form
ed between the desks, with rapid and ng-
itated step; his gestures were vehement.
and he appeared 10 lie under high state Of
excitement We were peculiarly struck
With his whole appearance, and the tone OF
feeling evident in the chamber. Mr.. Cal
houn, then Vice Pre-idenr, was in the char.
EAVifh his large steady, and vlgIlant eyes,
witnessed the first great battle OF his doc
trIne, he seemed the very spirit OF emhGdled
Interest: not word, not a gesture OF Gen.
AHayne escaped his lion look. i he Senate
wasdeeply Interested, as a matter OF course.
THE language Of Gen. Haync was rich and
vigorous; and his powerful sketch OF the
effect of the Inpost law Ola the South--the
description he gave of her ptople-hls own
bold and hazardous elocuiinn and Inpetuous
.bearing-were evidently making a strong
impression on the body. From time 10 time
attention would he directed from him to the
gentleman who was expected TO answer him,
aud whom General Hayne addressed under
cover of terrible and CALLING fire.
/ Cold, serene, dark aud melancholy that
man thus assaulted, sat apart, bleak and
frownimg MS n mountain rock; he evidently
felt the gigantic influences that we're at work
around him, but his profound tuind was
strengthening tsct for The contest. And
how deeply solemn was The hour, that mo-
mentl how grand the scene aud what were
the meditation aud spirit rallyings of that
dark man Ibis c0unienance wayercd not
during the whole ofthe Tremendous speech
assault after assault was made upon him; but
he neither turned to the right or the left but
calmly, and g,llan,ly, ike soldier waiting
the signal, he hided his hour The time Of
retaliation came, swift M the thoughts Of
vengeance, tn Daniel Webster. Who will
forget the exor,ititn of that remarkable Ell
fort, the lushing sarcasm, the whitening
tones Of that voice, and the temper OF his
language: Gen. Huyne 1--WE remember dis
tinctly) changed color, and appeared much
Disconnected. But who TINT heard him will
permilthe peroration 10 l,e forgotten r. those
closing passages OF grandeur that magic al
fusion To the flag of freedom aud his coun-
try. Looking, with his dark and lustrous
eye, through the glass dome OF the chamber,
over which he could see the banner flowing,
he delivered mn nposirophe, which Inns new
er been surpassed, and seldom equullcd -
IL conposes figure of the most thrilling
interests burst of solemn and pathetic
feeling; and coming from such source, "a
man generally esteemed phlegmalic,) II
was electric II was like the beam of sun
set, or Ike tho CLEAN OF summer lightning,
radiating the brow OF the clf TO which we
have above alluded.