The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-09-11
SPEECH OF THE HON. DANIEL WEB
STER. BEFORE THE WINGS OF MARSH


SPEECH OF THE HON. DANIEL WEB.
STER. BEFORE THE WINGS OF MARSH
FIELD.
At3 o'clock, Mr. Webster. accompanied by
Hon. Hiram Ketchum, of New York, Hon.
Geo. Ashmun, of Springfield, Hon. Artemus
Hale, of Bridsewater, and others, appeared up
on the stand, and was heartily greeted by the
people. His speech was devoted exclusively
TO the Presidential question. He avowed him
self fully, unequivocally, in favor of the cleo
ton of Gen. Taylor.
He said he believed him to be an honest
man, whose conduct had ever been marked by
high sense of honor. He was man of little
pretension, modest and unassuming. He had
been candidate for the Presidency year be-
fore the Philadelphia Convention. He was
fairly nominated BY that convention, and he
believed him TO be Wing Our opponents
said he was Wing, and they tried to disgrace
him and the other whig General, Scott, by putt
ing a Democratic civilian in command over
them. He did not believe the slavery question
had anything TO do with his nomination. The
convention believed him to be wing, thought
him the best man under existing circumstances,
and therefore nominated him. Mr.. Webster
spoke at some length, in indicating the wings
of Gen. Taylor.
| He denied the correctness Of the Buffalo
| PLATFORM which stated that the nomna ton OF
General Taylor was induced BY a desire on the
part of the wings TO extend slave territory
Nor were the wings of the South accountable
for the nomination, whether IL be good or bad.
The free States had some sixty majority in the
lconvention and could have nominated whom
soeyer they pleased. MIR. Webster said that,
in his Judgment, the question who shall be our
next President lay between 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 gratifed; the
skies were not about 10 fall so that we could
catch larks. 1t was idle to talk about third
candidates. We had enough of them i'll 1874.
Every vote given for Blrney In that election
was half vote for Polk and the annexation of
Texas, and every vote given this year for Van
Buren, was practically half vote for Cass.-
He had warned the people against this third
parry folly in 1871, and he would again warn
them of its consequences. He spoke of the
Buffalo platform--said what there was good In
it was what the wings had always advocated
and Van Buren, and his friends had always gone
against, what there was new in ii was unsound.
He had no confidence in Van Buren, 1t would
ba ludicrous 10 express confidence in Van Blu
rens free soil principles, for he had opposed
Everything that looked like free-soila all his life,
and he had no doubt. from the knowledge he
had of the man, that, were they together, Van
Buren, would laugh in his face when the free
soil question was named.
| MIR. Webster went on al some length to show
up Mr.. Van Buren's conduct.
He had always been the supple tool OF the
South-the alder and abettor of slavery; he did
~ l. T,h. n,,t,
Adams and elect General Jackson, than any
+ ten men in the country. He was the soul and
center of the opposition 10 Mr.. ADAMS he
spoke of his conduct while Secretary Of State
in his opposition to the abolition of slavery in
Cuba-he was the only President who ever in
advance, threatened TO veto a bill, if Congress
should pass such one, to abolish slavery in the
District of Columbia. He referred to his cast.
ing vote to rifle the mails of anti-savery pa
) pers. He said that no one ever exercised a
more controlling influence over his friends than
Van Buren,, and his friends all went with him.
He was, and so were his friends in favor oil
: annexing Texas Southern Wings in both
Houses of Congress voted against admitting
Texas into the Union. The Van Buren, men
those Nho now. for the purposes OF private pi
lque or revenge, cry out iree-soil, were the very
men who were the most vociirrous for Texas
: Mr. Websterhad no confidence in any of them
, Talk about dough-iaces!
Why, said Mr.. Webster, the Van Buren, mel
in Congress had not only dough-faces, but the,
had dough-hearts and dough-souls-were al
dough. He said that there were wings at The
, Buffalo convention whom he respected highly
but he thought it would have been proper, be
fore they took up Van Buren,, to have required
of him fruits meet for repentance. He spoke o
: Cass. He held him TO be the most dangerou:
man that could be put in nomination. HI
was the embodiment of the war--he was op
posed TO the treaty of Washington-he was fo
the whole of Oregon, and the matter wOulC
never have been settled by peaceful negotia
ton if he could have had his way. He wa
for continuing the Mexican war--he is all TO
war.
0 Now, said Mr.. Webster, we are 10 choOs,
between a man like Cass and one like Gen. Tay
lor. One or the other will be elected, and NJ
: one else. Ii is TAYLOR or Cdss.
n General Taylor has been fairly nominated b.
a whig conven,ion--he is whig. If believ
:, ed him, said Mr. Webster, TO be in favor o
war, of extending slavery, l should have OPP
: posed his election. believe him 10 be in ia
vor of neither-that is my opinion.
v PITIFUL MEANNEss.--Presiden Polk has re
E moved Ben. F. Butler from the office of Dis
+ trict Attorney Of New York, in accordanc
h with the threat of Mr. Bright MIR Butle,