The North-Carolina standard., 1850-01-23
LEIGH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY MORNING 49,

;DNESDAY MORNING, JAM
privileges of membership in either Of them. even
possessing right to raise his voice in debate. In
deed, in this instance it would seem that the expert
ment attempted did, in point Of fact ultimately fail,
as the substituted amendment of the House was not
ratified by the Senate. And yet must the efforts of
the honorable senator from New York be regarded
as not altogether successess, since he aided so eff
cienty in defeating the amendment of the honorable
senator from Wisconsin, and thus managed to keep the
question OF slavery in the territories open to
secure to himself some faint prospect of presidential
honors in uro by means of its fierce agitation here
after. eg
And now, speaking of the presidency, let Us re-
turn for moment to the remarks of the honorable
senator, to which am now replying. He calls him
self" the personal fiend-the unwavering friend''-
Mr. Dodge, of Iowa, from his seat, t' devoted T.
yes, sir, s. the devoted friend - of General James
Watson Webb. editor of the New York Courier and
Enquirer Why, Mr.. President, how is this How
are we to understand the honorable senator! am
assured by one whom 1 presume to be correctly in
formed that, until very recent period indeed, the
relations between the honorable senator from New
York and the subject of his present commentators
were by no means of an amicable nature. am told
that few presses in the Union have generally dis
played more hostility to the honorable senator from
New York than that of the Courier and Enquirer.
Lately, to be sure, seems to have changed its tone
considerably; and, am told, it has actually ventur-
ed to suggest the honorable senator from New York
as the most suitable person to receive the next whg
nomination for the presidency. Now, through the
little window have just opened it may be that
rays of light will in to irradiate the darkness
heretofore enshrouding the subject present enquiry
can see pretty plainly how it is that the honorable
senator from New York can be- and ought to be, the
friend of the comm ssioned but yet confirmed en-
missary to Vienna. / can understand not only how
he might well be his friend, but also how his heart
might pulsate with grateful emotions for the kind
ness exercised and partality displayed. But the
word unUapering is still incomprehensble, as the
amty between them is of too recent origin to have
been yet severely tested, and may be destined to grow
extinct before the fruit of honor shall have been gath
cred from the tree of political promise. 1t may be
that this friendship-so sudden tender, SO devo-
ted-ls fated to evaPorate when our minister to Vi
emma shall have returned to his editorial chair in New
York, and, under the influence of some new fantasy,
shall have resolved to suggest the name of some
ohef presidential candidate in preference to that of
the honorable senator from the Empire State. 1
should regret this extremely, sir; mutual affection
like that under review, romanticay springing up
in two young hearts, within whose recesses the cold
principles Of political and pecunary calculation have
never found entrance, should for the honor of human
nature, be preserved in all its original freshness and
fervor until eager appetite shall be swallowed up in
abundant enjoyment.
AnoEe Is one view OF tnlS WdueTs MI. fIcSlOent,
that remains yet to be stated. The honorable sena-
tor from New York tells US that he has documents
in his possession of nature to extenuate, if not
tirely free fren censure, his friend, between whom
and himself an ocean now rolls its pillows, but for
whom he still cherishes devotion intense that
which he felt before time and space had separated
them remotely; but he says that these documents
are of nature that in justice to the domestic
laons of that individual, he is at liberty give
them to tho world Well, sir, regret very deeply
then, that he alluded to these documents at all.
regret it sir, for the sake of the individual chiefly in
terested, whose character, and perhaps that of por
ton of his family, may suffer serious detrmen from
the superserviceable zeal of his champion on this
floor. If this topic had not been introduced, we
might have supposed that some public reasons, not
proper to be disclosed, connected with our diplomat
c relations with Austria. had nstigated the precpi
tate fight of this renowned Mercury of the press
across the stormy ocean. Now, through the discre-
ton OF his most loving advocate, we know that no
such public reasons have operated, and we know in
addition that there are some reasons connected with
the domestic relations of this parsonage which have
made it necessary that he should quit his native
try in such ungracefn haste. Curiosity will spring
up in all minds now, sir, as to the exact nature of
these domestic reasons; some will conjecture them
to be Of character, some of another. The news
papers of the country, will take up the inviting
theme, and edify their respective readers with
rious shrewd conjecures as to the cause of min
ister's exodus. The letter-writersIa most prying,
ingenious, and active class-will cast still more and
more confusion over the ample field of conjecture.
tic dstresses Of the unhappy Webb Young men
will jest sportively and with all the aggravations
which mischievous vivacity can engender. The
whole country will be occupied for month or two
to come in considering the overpowering domestic
woes which have come upon the once happy Editor
of the Courier and Enquirer of New, Y ork; and
without some speedy explanation of the mystery now
existing, the world at large will come to the concu
sion, in less than three months, that General James
Watson Webb, our nominated minister to Vienna, is
the most unhappy man IN everything touching his
domestic concerns to be found in all Christendom
The honorable senator from New York has certainly
been particularly unfortunate Of late. 1t but
the other day that he was running the fair fame and
destroying the well-earned popularity Of the ustr
Gus champion of temperance-the Rev. Theobold
ton. Now, he has succeeded in disgracing his own
special friend and editorial advocate by adding to
the dscredit of official delinquency the suspicion of
domestic infelicity. Well might the unfortunate
gentleman. who is now. perhaps, drinking Tokay at
Austrian tables, or smiling joyously beneath the
glances of imperial condescension, excaim with all
the emphasis appropriate to prosecuted innocence,
Save me from my frieads and Ill take care of my
enemies"
puted that the United States have frontier line of
,l6O miles. One of its rivers is twice long the
Danube, the largest river in Europe. The Ohio is
600 miles longer than the Rhine, and tho noble Hud
son has navigation in the IS Empire State one hun
dred and t,nenty miles longer than the Thames With
in Louisiana are bayous and creeks, almost unknown,
that would shame, by comparison, the Tiber or the
Seine The State of Virginia alone is one-third lar
ger than England The State of Ohio contains three
thousand square miles more than Scotland. The har-
Dor of New York receives the vessels that navigate
rvers canals and lakes to the extent of three thous
and miles, equal to the distance from America to