The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-10
TELEGRAPBIC INTELLIGENCE.
S P & E G Il
OF THE
HON. DANIEL WHDsrnn r
ABINGDON, PLYMOUTH CO., MASS.

BosroN, Oct. o. 1S4s
Mr.. Webster, in accordance with previous notices,
addressed the wings Of Plymouth county to- day, at
ten O'Clock, and spoke hour He left this city i'm
the Inc O'Clock train, and met at Arlington by
committee, and escorted to II house OF Major Joseph
Hunt and thence to grove about three quarters Of
mile distant, where large concourse of people, OF
both sexes, had assembled to hear him. 1t esti-
mated that there were 1000 people present
MI. WEBsrER said that on the Presidential question
there was no third part II we'll known that pre-
vious to the nomination Of candidate for Presidents
on general principles, he neither counsellor nor
adviser for the nomination Of General TAYLOR He
did not doubt his qualifications as a military man;
but the time for discussing the question Of the pro-
piiety Of his passed He was the oulv
candidate for the wings and the only question was
should he General Cass be President-one of them
must be- He deemed it proper to make the support OF
General Taylor generous and manly. lie believed
him to be Of excellent sense, solidty Of charac-
ter, and whig. The objections which had been
urged against him, that he had received the nomi-
nation Of other pares-tbat he had declared that
he would not be the President Of party
ridiculous He deemed that he had made
clear and explicit declaration of his views and If he
had promised to be the President Of party he would
not vote for him. He though that the votes Of whig
States DC upon 10 eject General Taylor.
had been supposed the whig would sup
port him; but this could not be depended upon and
he believed that there whig States enough to
elect him, provided that the wings in Ohio Pennsy-
vania and New York, true to their colors There
doubt but that Massachusetts would throw her
vote for Taylor. There had been twenty years,
conflict with the opposite party, and the essential
features of this conflict had not been changed
The wings had commended for the construction of
the constitution, in rdsnce with high judicial
DECISIONS and the views which had been handed down
from Washington Jefferson and Others The demo-
cratic party took theirs from Jackson They regarded
the veto power salutary. They believed 1t to be
right to the best generals from Office and by
that means encourage party spirit Another ques-
ton which they at issue, was that of
protection to home industry, and home labor
This question was right upon us, and, unless,
some revision of our custom-house laws should ha
soon made, adopting discriminating and specific dtsL
ties many years would eapse before the prosperity Of
the country could be restored If General Cass wa
elected this would not be done. The improvement oe
our harbors and rivers another question involved
in this campaign. The method of conducting our
foreign rea ions another; were these to be CON-
Quoted in pacific, or in querultus .pirt-hayipe.
tie idea Of conquest pedominant? He believed Caso
a most dangerous man this respect. He knew
dizement. The attention of the wing party was too
much taken up with men. There was no doubt that;
General Taylor was wing, also that Van Buren, was
liberty man. He would invoke the whig press, North
South, every where to back to the discussion OF
principles If General Cass is elected all these ques-
tions will be lost sight Of He will say that the sub
treasury already existed 'The people elected m, with
it. and hence approved of it,, and with the other
questions. Recent events had raised another ques-
I:.I
1t reminded him of a witticism by Swift, Dulcc
ct natalie soium''-I wonder where he stole them:
If those words not stolen, the sentiment
of this party was petty larceny. Tho wings
were just as good free soil they were
The barnburning schsm in New York, originated in
entirely different affair, and in existence long
before the Wilmot proviso was heard of. Tho wings
first raised opposition to annexation; the barn
burners seized upon the feeling, and hence originated
the Buffalo Convention They attached this to the
oEer thirty line cles and required the wings OF
Massachusetts, to serve under them. He proposed to
do such thing. He alluded to the letter of Harrison
Gray OTIS and wished it might be read throughout the
country 1t exhibited the vigor youth with the wis.,
dom of age. 1t has been characterized as a humbug
He desired there might be humbugs Of the same
kind. When men who had sat in council with Gov
Briggs, and acted with him for years, and left him.
they ought to give reason. These were that
they could not vote for Taylor and Briggs and Reed
would not go with them. Who ever thought they
would They talked Of the minions of slavery. Was
Briggs minion Of slavery? Was Reed n minion o..
slavery? There nothing in the Buffalo platform to
which the wings could object They would only have to
change their name; but Van Buren, the head of the
wh'gparty,woud make great change. Boys sometimes
at school, drew curious pictures putting the head Of
one animal on the body of another If thew shoulff
ma Ike an image Of the whg party with Van Bursn ar
its head, it would be more amusing than that of the
celebrated Gerryman We at a crisis He did
no: distrust the result, if he could be assured that
there Was action and energy in the wings The wings
Of Massachusetts, were not daunted The whip Marty
might make Mistakes but he should follow its fortunes
Its principles came down from Washington IL was
no easy thing, in this day, to form a party which
should not be local. II the whg party be in a mi
nority for twenty years to come it would render tho
country great service, aud was its only means Of es-
cape from great dangers