The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1848-02-28

absent. OF course the President gave his
casting vote in favor of taking up the bill
Had Mr.. Webster been present, AID uotedright,
Mr.. Calhoun's Resolutions on the War would
have been taken up, instead Of Cass's bill.
This woul have given the opponents OF the
war great advantage. Was l too severe,
then, on Mr.. Webster, for his neglect of duty ;
On being called in question by Mr.. Morse,
l stated that l spoke by authority OF the
Worcester Journal, an able daily paper of that
rity, and not Liberty party paper either.
The following is the extract to what Preferred +:
When the vote was taken on the Both ult,
IN Cass's bill to raise more troops for the
Mexican War, Daniel Webster ,oas not present,
and the consequence was, the war party tri-
umphed Had he been at his post, and voted
according to the will of his constituents, that
infamous bill would haze been defeated! The
Chronotype in reference to this absence from
duty, says =" We learn from gentleman
Just from Washington, that he (Mr. Webster)
had not the usual excuse of an engagement in
the Supreme Court. He was spectator in
the Representatives Hall at the time the said
vote was taken in the Senate
You attempt to implicate Mr.. Hale as
being liable to the same charge made against
Mr. Webster. But how is itl When on the
30th of Dec. Mr.. Cass moved that the Senate
take up the Ten Regiment bill, Mr.. Hale was
present, and opposed 1t an an able Speech But
the motion prevailed by the casting vote of the
President. Mr.. JYebster being a spectator in the
oMer House.
The charge that made against Mr.. Webster
was, that he did not vote achem he might hare
voted. Had he been in New Hampshire,
Meeting prior engagements, then might have
)een some excuse. But as Mr.. Morse said,
he was within two minutes CALL an idle
spectator in the other House, when the vote
was taken, and his single vote would perhaps
nave changed the whole current of the pro-
eeedings in the Senate, and given the friends
If peace permanent acknowledgement yet his
vote was wanting,
Twill only add, in closing, that Mr.. Morse's
'rebuke' was not so " whitening but that
still am among the living, and am prepared
20 prove that the " statements made By me
relative to the wings, are all true,-and that
he was surely mistaken in many of the state
ments madeby him.
Respectfully Your obi. Serv't.
WOODBURY. DAVIS.
The points above stated, as well as other
harges brought by Mr.. Davis against Mr..
Webster, were promptly met and we think
lost triumphantly settled against Mr.. Davis,
the discussion to which he alludes, and we
lid not suppose that he would ever again
ave the folly to assert even what he considers
$ strongest points; but his partizan zeal will
robably lead him to stand by his errors. The
'ubstance of the charge here brought against
IT. Webster by Mr.. D. and some enemy of
Ir. Webster's in Worcester, is, that Mr.. w.
.ad it in his power to prevent the Senate from
ringing up the Ten Regiment bill, and to
substitute for it Mr.. Cahoun's resolutions
AN Mr.. Davis be serious in continuing to re-
terate such contemplate nonsense after such
thorough exposure as he got here before four
,r five hundred people? Is the modification
f the exposure drawing him to the commits
ion of further follies
We understand Mr.. D. is a lawyer and has
,een for some time lecturer in the service of
ne third party. II he is man of common
Intelligence he ought to know in the first place
hat the political divisions in the Senate are
iirty:foe Polk men, t,oenty Wings and one
iberty man, John p. Hale, who generally votes
18th the Wings. lie ought to know that 81
E 81 of these Polk men, a majority of sir or
zen of the Senate, sustain and defend what
,er President has done and the war measures
far as they are publicly known, which he