The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-05-17
Saturday Morning, May II,Is5O
THE "SrATgsMAN -. Tsyo,-W W.I

"T''''-Citlzen "Ssmmedaiy." through
the columns Of his Statesman is chuck
ling with great glee at what he is pleas.
ed to term the deseriion Of Wing prin.
Iciples, on The part Of Daniel Webster,
in his great speech in the Senate Of the
United States, few weeks since, upon
the resolutions admitting Texas into the
Ynion. Is Daniel Webster any less d
Whig-is he any more in favor Of the
extension of slavery than lie ever was,
by The delivery Of that speechl 1t will
take optics sharp ween," To discover
that he is either one or the other Dan.
'el Webster is now; as lie ever has been,
me sworn and uncomprOmising foe To
the extension OF Slavery over territory
now free. Is there anything in thai
speech to give countenahce to the idea
that his great mind has underwent any
change upon this all absorbing question,
OF Slavery! Certainly not. Ii is re.
pIete with the lofty fidelity TO the Con.
stitution aud lars bf his touhlry-fbt
these Texas resolutions, however obiec
Iionable in their character are now a nor.
tion Of the solemn, the binding, the ines
capable iaw Of the country. There they
stand. actual living things, placed upon
our statute books, by Locofoco votes, as
a solemn compact, by which new STATE
is admitted into the Union. Has DAM.
el Webster, under his oath of Office 10
support the Constitution and laws of his
country, changed his political views, or
deserted his old political compeers, by
maintaining that those resolutions are
binding upon him, and upon the country,
as solemn Legislative contract, BY which
and through which, sister common.
wealth is claiming and exercising all the
rights of co'sovreign ofthe national con.
(ederacSl While |lr. Samuel Medary,
and his party followers of the press thro'-
out the State, are charging apostacy and
Inconsistency UPON Daniel Webster they
are only establishing the fact, in the
minds Of all candid aud intelligent men,
that they themselves are either fools or
knaves. If they want to know the true
sentiments Of the great Massachu setts
Senator, upon the policy and justice of
these annexation resolutions of March |,
1915, why do they not turn 10 his votes
in the Senate, upon all kindred dues
tions agitated there during his Senator-
al career1 They would. certainly, be a
very proper test Of his views. And es-
pecialIy, if their object is to enIighten
the minds of their readers upon this sub
ject, let them publish Mr.. Webster's
speech delivered at Niblo's Garden, in
the city Of New Ymk, when the ques
Iion of annexation was agitated under
Mr.. Van Burens adminis,ration,in in which
with an eloquence that was overwhelm-
ing with power Of far-reaching thought,
aud spirit of almos, inluitive prophecy,
he dweIt upon and .toretOld the immense
mischief and wrong the admission of
Texas as a slave State would inhict up.
on the best interests of our common
county. Mr.. Webster therefore, stands
before the people as consistent. law
abiding man there has no change come
DER the spirit of his dream"-he stands
where he always stood. upon the lofty
platform Of the constitution aud laws of
his country. Mr.. Webster was not in
the Senate when these resolutions passed
ON The lst March ls45. He took his
seat in that body few days after their
passage. during the same month, as the
successor Of Mr.. Choate. But final
law, completing the work OF annexation,
had to be brought 5efure the Senate,
sometime after he took his seat, upon
which his vote is 10 he found recorded
in Tie negahoe. Nor was he content to
cast a silent vote upon this all engrossing
and all important question. His power.
fu voice. was again raised within the
walls of the Capitol against the question
of annexation, upon the express ground
that the whole scheme had been resorled
to as a Southern expedient to increase
their political power in the National
councils. Aud yet such mere party.
time servers as Mr.. Samuel Medary, aud
the lke-men who one day threw up
their caps for Van Buren and opposition
to the annexation of Texas, and the very
next day, SO soon as they heard of the re-,
suit of the nominations of the Baltimore
Convention in 1874. put up the servile
Southern shout of "Huzzah for Polk
and Texas!" have now the extreme mod
esty to charge inconsistency upon man
who feels it to be his duty to support the
laws as he finds Memi No, gentlemen,
this kind uf game will not do. You
put too poor an estimate upon the intelli-
gence of tine people. if you think you
can deceive them with this kind Of stuff.
You sold yourselves, body and soul, to
the slave dictators in 1874, by the adop-
ton of the two.third rule in the Balti.
more Convention and the nomination of
Mr.. Polk; and you cannot now get out Of
the scrape by charging inconsistency up.
on the Wings. The annexation of Tex
as, as the darling project of the South
was the controlling test for the action Of
that Convention. Mr.. Van Buren,, then
as good democrat as he ever was, was
prescribed BY the Hutspurs Of the South,
because he had come out in opposition
to the annexation of Texas as a project
involving the extension of slavery, in his
celebrated letter published only few
weeks prior to the assembling of the
Convention. These are the undeniab!e
truths of history. they stand out in
bold relief, are not to be mistaken and
not to be contrOyerted. Il is blot unon