The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-04-11
FROM THE SPEECH BY WENDALL PHIL
LIPS, IN FANEUIL HALL MARCH %.


Once more, and will relieve you soon-(' 90 on I!
go on !)--and that is in this matter of balancing
the complaints of the South and North against each
other, MIR. Webster plainly betrays the bias under
which he spoke. Stirring with only some twenty
lines, the vast usurpation of new territories which
has completely changed the character of the Union,
he charges against Northern legislators a want of
fidelity to the Constitution.
But would say, point me, Mr.. Senator, to one
single law on any statute book, in any free State in
consistent with the Constitution of the United States
Point to single Legislature that has ever re-
fused to do what the Constitution babe it The
moment the Prigg and Pennsylvania case was pub
liShed, IN which the Court said the States had no
right to legslate for against the stakeholder in
pursuit OF his slave, New York, New Jersey, Mass
achusetts, Maine, and all the Northern States qu-
city yielded the statute granting jury trial. that con-
dlcted with this decision. You and [, Mr. Chair
man, went up to the State House with bill based
on that decision, and it was passed in MONTH
ihere Is not law on any free State statute book
that Conflicts in the slightest degree with the Con-
stitution of the United States. Mr. Webster knows
this to be the case. He said, as long ago as when
ne defended the Constitution against Hayne, in $780,
am resolved not to submit, In silence, to accusa-
tons either against myself individuality or against
the North, wholly unfounded and unjust ; accusa-
tons which npute to us disposition to eyade the
Constitutional Compact, and to extend the power of
Inc Government over the internal laws and domestic
condition OF the States He said in March, 1849,
TO Butler, OF South Carolina, If the gentleman will
say that Massachusetts has ever passed law in vo-
aton OF the Constitution, | am here, ready to de-
tend her. In March, 1S50-Eheu quantun, n,uta-
tuS 40 1to he has nothing to say on the subject
except to accuse his constituents.
NOW, having brought this unjust charge against
the Legislators OF the North, he turns round, and in
the North's behalf says nothing But when he prints
ms speech In Massachusetts, he prints in it few
feeble lines about South Cardinals imprisoning our
seamen Does he arraign legislatures No Does
he allude to laws Never. Now there stand upon
their statute book, laws which the know are uncon-
stltutlonal, making our seamen liable to be seized
and sold These statutes they confess to be uncon-
stltutlona, because they forbid their being passed
upon and tried by any Federal Court Mr. Webster
knows them to be unconstitutional.
! Side by side with those statutes, Louisiana and
south Carolina have enacted that if any person.
rom Massachusetts or elsewhere, goes to these
States to make up case, and try the constitutional
" OF these laws in the Supreme Court, he shall be
punished by Imprisonment in the common Jail Mr..
webster knew all this yet he has not a word to
say against the whole range of Southern legislation,
which Is confessedly unconstitutional and which
dares not meet the faces of the Judges of the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
In his spoken speech, he did not utter SYLLABLE of
this. 1t was published in the Intelligencer and
Union, without line about the Northern seamen.
but when ne was about to send it North, he puts in
SIX or eight lines on the subject. He says, This is
not only irritating, () but exceedingly inconyenient
IN practice, O and seems altogether impractcabe
and oppressive. & y Well, the speech came to
the people OF the North in this seeming way and
great many OF the Massachusetts newspapers spoke
out against Its poroonery, and only one or two CITY
papers supported him. What does he saw in his
second authorized edition.? Seems. madam
nay, His' (Applause) Now it no longer is incon
Venient or seems irritating, but EXCEEDING
LY unJustlnable and oppressive His thermometer
has risen ten degrees. What raised it? The conn
try papers of Massachusetts, prolonged applause
Let hun hear of good hot meeting in Faneuil Hall,
ana 1t VIII so up to boiling point Enthusiasm
why, IL we whip our best, we can whip this top in
to spinning at last That paragraph had never been
inserted if the speech had not been obliged to bear
the eyes of Northern men. He has changed it
changed 1t for the better Let 60 on, and we will
cheers)
know that have detained you great while too
long. Il No, no u have endeavored to obey the
Boston Courier, and stick to the speech and the Con-
sttutlon 1t Is not necessary 60 out of the limits
OF that pamphlet in order to answer even Dan'l
Webster, in my opinion. But this is no doubt
momentous question for we have reached the great
western goal of the world.
In this high romance, if romance it be- (says
Edward Everett,) In which the great minds of an
tlquty sketched the fortunes of the ages to come.
they pictured to themselves favored region beyond
the ocean, land of equal laws and happu men
The primitive poets beheld in the islands of the
best the Dorc bards surveyed in the Hyperbo
rean regions the sage of the Academy placed it in
the lost Atlantis and even the sterner spirit of Sen
eca could discern falrer abode of humanity in the
distant regions then unknown We look back upon
the unlnsplred predictions, and almost recoil from
the obligation they imply. By us must these fair
Visions be realized, by us must be fulfilled these high
auspices which burst in trying hours from the long
ing hearts OF the champions of truth There are no
more continents or worlds to be revealed Atlantis
hath risen from the ocean, the farthest Thule il
reached there are no retreats beyond the sen
no more discoveries, no more hopes Here then n
mighty work IS to be fulfilled, or never by the race
OF mortals. The man, who looks with tenderness
on the sufferlngs OF good men in other times The
descendant of the Pilgrims, who cherishes the mem
DRY oil his fathers the patriot who feels an honest
glow AT the majesty of the system of which he is
member !; you are the men, fellow citizens bv
whom these bright auspices are to be ACCOMPLISHED
MS Is me last solemn experiment Of humanity
Are the one, purpose, and resolve of this sneech
luOSe IN which II is 10 be3 The c,;l;n,, H.. r.