The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-04-29
PHILLIPS ON WEBSTER.

We make the following extract from Wendall
Phillips mastery review of Webster's speech.
F'What am l Daniel Webster) to be? That
Will depend upon where you stand; whether on Ply
mouth rock rebukng at great cost of moral cour-
age, the slave trade,-beneath the October sun of
the Old Dominion, pandering TO her vices in order
to elect MIR. Harrison to the presidency or, on the
Senate floor, llberaly, kindly very weakly, out
generated on the slave question in all its shapes.
"HoW Is each Of the thirty States to defend itself
Massachusetts has none of that population which Mr.
Arnold of Tennessee describes as ready TO rise and
strike for freedom at the first tap of the drum-none
OF that class OF whom Madison said that every adj
dlton to its number only weakens a State and rem
ders 1t less capable of Defence and which is rather
means of inviting attack than of repeng invasion
As for foreign foes she points to Lexington and Bun
ker Hill, where she fought alone and to all the 9TH
er battle fields of the Revolution on each of which
STOOD more Massachusetts men, than could be found
there from all the then six Southern States together
''Shall we dismember this great country. and as
tonlsh Europe with an act of folly such as Europe for
two centuries has never beheld in any government,
why not as well so, as to disgust Europe, and ont
rage the moral sense of the world, and retard the
hopes of the race, by the sight of a republic sof
which as Adams said, the preservation, propaga-
ton and perpetuation Of slavery is the vital and ami
mating splrltE-by the sight of a slave voyage to
-'NaNN' " SAtOuu Ic-SStdUiiSH slavery.
such as Europe for two centuries has never beheld
in any government
what Is TO become of the army and nayy,, We
shall at least need neither, TO put down slave ipsur-
rectlons, or conquer new fields for slave holders
What is to become of the public lands?' They will
be free, beyond the possibility of ever Websers or
Wnthrops to trick them into being slave States
Where IS the line to be DRAWN? Just there, where
men are so much ashamed of their sins, as to be I'M
willing to stand before the world responsible for set
ting up republic on the basis of savery-iust tbere
where men, unlike Mr.. Webster, love sayerv loss
ana union with Massachusetts, Ohio and Iibertv !
more Where is the flag of the Union TO rema;nl
where Is the eagle TO towerl' What fustian is ali
thls' Liberty first and union afterwards, said pa
trick Henry. 'Ubi llbgtas, ib patra, was Frank
Inns motto IF the breach in the constitution can
not he healed let discord reign forever. said Enc
lands Demoshenes, Lord Chatham. How noor
and tame beside these, seem the idle npast;o,aP
our Demosthenes! And this then. is the end If ,ta
political career of Daniel Webster! Thirty voars
ago, he spoke brave words at the rock nLon H.,
work Of HELP the slave trade. and euIog;sod H. ','a'
glGus character of our origin, praying that he
might leave to those who should come oGor ill., n'
some proof of bis attachment to good goyernnnnt
ana Oh civil and religious liberty; some nroor 81,
sincere and drdent desire TO promoto d,o,,l;
which could enlarge the understandings md inyyr 's
Tue hearts OF men;-and this is the result veriI,,
.Hisp Uses, were as he then was. nigh,,,.
but MS performance, as he is now, nothi1o,