Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-09-29

anu iot NiSolOGs prosecution Ol NdI- -
Wing Generals won the victories. The sons of
Webster and Clay served in the army, and fell vic
tins to their zeal for the prosecution of the war.
While the son of Mr.. Van Buren, remained at home
and still lives TO be the terror of the wing party.
s'Mr Van Buren, exerted more influence TO defeat
any ten men in the nation" (See Marshfeld
specify What evidence of weight of characte
extent of influence, and possession of the confidence
of the American peoplel Not more than any one;
but than any ten." An influence of course,
sufficient to outweigh and by mighty difference
the influence of the entire WING party, in the palm
lest days of the best leaders which il ever knew
Influential enough for that, and always consistent
enough with himself to be, with one solitary
exception, opposed to MIR. Webster. Here we
have all the charges against Mr.. Van Buren, which
Mr.. Webster, with all his unrivalled ability as an
orator, and with all the zeal which hostility nur-
ured through thirty years of unremitted and invet
crate antagonism in political life could inspire
1t is all readily receivable into one all comprehen
sive charge, viz; He has been the dreaded and sue
cessul antagonist of old fashioned whiggery As
respects any other charge, either named or referred
to, Mr.. Webster is as open TO attack as Mr.. Van
Buren,.
Mr.. Webster claims that one can teach HIM
any new lesson about what Free Soil doctrines are,
or by what means they TO be made OF pract-
cal character. From hissfrst entrance into public
life, he claims that his Free Soil principles have
TO, &c e,,cb n .bat thew could be oil
a more complete and consummate stamp. While
on the other hand, he abundantly insinuates that
Mr.. Van Buren, has rendered a vast amount OF SER
vice to the slave power 1t would not add any
thing TO Mr. Websters reputation in this respect 10
draw out comparison between his own history
and that of Mr. Van Buren,. If Mr.. Van Buren,
wrote ten lines to procure the surrender OF the Am.
istad negroes to their kdnappers, Mr.. Webster
wrote more than ten hundred lines, urging upon
our consul at New Providence and our minister at
London, as also uponthe colonial governor, and the
British minister at Washington, the shameless. IN
famous doctrine that the American flag carries with
it the right of the STAKEHOLDER on every square mile
of the ocean, and into every foreign port, through
out the wide world Surrender the negroes OF
the Creole or prepare to meet the wrath OF the
American nation" was the tone OF more than one,
or two, or three communications penned by Web
ster himselfas Secretary oil State under the ustri-
Gus John Tyler. Van Burens executive order,and
Webster's labored diplomacy were failures. The
former sought the unlawful delivery into slavery
of 81 kidnapped native Africans. The latter nsls-
| ted upon the surrender into slavery of 133 native
Americans made free by the voluntary act OF the
oftheir owners in carrying them beyond the Juris-
diction o. slave law In three years oithe admin
istration of John Q. Adams, there were kidnapped
end imprisoned in one of the four national slave
prisons of the Federal District, one hundred and
one persons native Americans all; of whom elgh-
~ one were delivered over into slavery without any
form OF legal trial. and siXweIe sold into rreclalm
able chal;el slavery TO pay their Jail Fees Web
STE was there fresh from his glories of the Bunker
Hill oration where lie had La Fayette for nearer,
az, had cooperated with him, and with other vet
C, ms Of our war of ndereudence,in laying the cor
ner stone of thot noble monument But he had
not free soil enough in hins to promrt him to
speak word, or move finger against such out
RACES These were not attempts at kidnappiug.-
They were unresisted unrebuked, oft repe aed in
stances of kidnapping, within mile OF the Senate
chamber where Webster was letting off his thun-
der. and of the white house where Adams was fill
inc the executive chair, and having command of
the entire army and navy of the nation, if il
had been his choice TO put a stop to such out
RACES
Why the trainers of the constitution themselves
voted for the continuance OF the atrocious African
slave trade during twenty years from the time OF
the organization of the federal government. Van
Buren, said LET the Spanlards have the men whom
they have stolen from Africa, fifty four in ALL
And the trainers ofthe Constitution virtually said
4" Let Americans-any who are disposed continue
the business of man stealing in Airica-and to
what extent they may beinclned to do SO. And let
them hold and enjoy, and u-e, and multiply, their
stolen property in this country, as long as they
may desire it. Our present laws enslave an addi-
tional seventy five thousand of native Americans
every wear. And Mr. Webster, with full knowl-
edge of factslike these, attempts TO make capital
against Mr. Van Buren, COR two or three unsuccess
full attempts to favor the designs of slavehooers.-
And that too after his full and hearty and public
endorsement of the Free Soil and Free Men plat
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