Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1850-12-28
ANOTHER UNION DEMONSTRATION.
The Hon. Daniel Webster and tile Uni,o Sofe,v r,,,

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Mr; Webster having, at considerable inconvenience
attended the New Eng and festival at the Aster House
on Monday evening, The Committee of s few loo. ,ha
opportunity of inviting him to meet the citizens Of Nov,
oK yesterday, at noon, at the Governors room in the
oily nan; and having accepted the invitation the com
nee accordingly made the necessary Preparations
Long before the appointed time the room was crowd
ed with the most Influential of our merchants and other
citizens. ~ 9'''0'
At y o'clock precisely, Mr. Webster entered the
room accompanied by Mr.. Lathrop. of the Union Safe
pause ''N'''S "p-
he Mayor, after lapse OF two or three minutes.
sao .If. w ebser, OF Massachusetts will now be ad-
pressed by MIR. James Il. Brady on the psrt of the
UNION SAFETY Committee and the citizens of New York
Mr ). L. Brady then said: Mr. Webster. the Union
COMMITTEE OF this city of New York, have invited Won
mere TO meet number OF your fellow ctzens desrour
10 TESTIFY their admiration oil the course YOU have adont
Gu IN 'e recent agitation, which babe fair at one time
10 IMPAIR not destroy, the liberty OF this happy re-
pubic; ana we feel assured that you must be gratied
with the reception those citizens will give Won They
are OF various political sentiments but thew We one
ing IN common-a feeling stronger than any which ever
oonna Lllem 10 party-an ardvnt abiding devotion, to
our nome and prosperous Union. 1t is because you
have stood by that Union during its latest and I'M
mnent DAGGER that they extend to YOU their heart
iet gratitude \ GU are here in goody company The
laces OF departed patriots surround you on every SIDE
Va these walls still glitter
Some of the few-the immortal names
That were not born to die"
You behold here the portal of architects who nsssed
their lives IN constructing securing our political
fabric we feel that we revere their memory when
we honor him who assists in preserving the holv s
bors tor posterity. tCheers) And though some tea
lures deorm the gallery, which remind us of blind ia
natlclsm, or the wicked acts of the demagoaue thew
serve Dut to render more usous the memory of those
who did not prefer ambition revenge to the wei.
fare and glory OF their native land. Enthusiastic
cheerng9 Our country is just passing out of irving
emergency You have witnessed the bad efforts of its
m Tho ,Nhl InLo r1nf.,.
appreciate your perseverng exertons for its safety and
IS most becoming that they should attest grail
tude at every convenient opportunity. Even now the
very men who placed our country in danger-the very
men whom we have protected against their own folIy
or wlckedness-these men deny that any peril ever ex
lsled and sheer at the anxiety which they did all in
.her power TO increase Applause) Be assured that
they Will not be forgotten The time has arrved in cor
political history when the great test of every man pro-
posed Tor any high place OF trust will be the strength
and sincerity OF his attachment to the American Union
Inc ne people VIII support no candidate who does not
peieVe hat all the provisions OF the constitution EQUAL
~ merit observance, and that the American citizen must
seek IN that sacred charter wha shall be 10 him in
(Cheers) ="
NOW that the country seems relieved from the dan.
ger with which it threatened we may perhaps re-
loce mat the Crisis occurred II has done much to alay
II not destroy the bitterness of party controversial
mas mlgated those sectional feelings which have too
long and too generally prevailed in our land Ii has
dii1used that American feeling to which you have so
recently and so eloquently erred We feel sir that
you would not have shrunk from any consequence 10
winch your partin the agitation might have sinh
lected you Ii it had resulted in martyrdom history
would nave done you the justice it often awards when
paee IS assigned even to the humbest martyr in holy
cause winch Is refused to the eonqueror of world
bnt we DO not wish such men you die for the con-
much wish and interest that YOU
should ilVe and labor for its preservation Nor need
you leaVe 10 poserty the duty OF approaching what Won
nave done Tor our glorious Union. GU already enoy
the admiration and gratitude of every true patriot with
IN our broad territory. Great cheering1 | shall saw
but little more. This audience desires to hear vou -
hese gentlemen know how well YOU can depict the |
fearful tendency OF those sectional divisions which have
destroyed many republic No man can better than
you explain what happy results have emanated from
our excellent government. Youcan enforce the belief
that IN preserving this government we are executing
trust not alone tor those who now live under our laws
but Tor all mankind. Our wide spread territory is
,or ne enterprise OF our entire race Here free
competition ensures TO merit its deserved success Here
the oppressed OF every cline finds refuge and bome
and here, at the great fountain of liberty whole genera
py republic to fall, ntic curse and sorrow upon
the entire human family. We will zealously guard it |
from disaster so mournfu. We will see that no man
sa oe elected TO any high station, who, after giving
solemn assurance that he would maintain the constitu
uon, might yet employ his office IN manner to indi-
cate that when he gave that assurance he medtated
perjury and treason.
he conclusion of Mr.. Brady's observations was fol-
lowed by enthusiastic cheering
Mayor, WooDH1L-Gentlemsn, Mr. Webster will
reply to Mr. Brady.
Mr. Observation-Disclosures am afraid that YOU ex-
pect speech from me.
MANY VoIcEs-We do. Laughter)
W.T. w EBSTER then stood on chair 80 that he might
De seen, In compliance with the expressed wish of
those assembled, and spoke as follows
am Infinitely obliged to you, fellow citizens for thus
inviting me to meet SO large number ofthe citizens of
New ofk belonging to particular section or par
W ,espousng no particular associations but assembling
and acting, and receiving me Americans in the lar
ges and most comprehensive ofthat glorious ap-
pellation.
1t has been truly said by Mr.. Brady, tina. there are
subordinate questions, on which different parties enter
tam different opinions Those questions ought ever to
De and ought ever TO remain subordinate because when
we se 10 the magnitude OF that great question: the
decision OF which country and our national charsc
teri might say our political existence-depend there
should be no two opinions among men of any pary
whatever. (Appause.) Undoubtedly gentlemen, I
nave oeen attached to party have espoused the
tlmenls OF party, and main tanned doctrines ofparty
out should be unworthy OF the regard have received in
other instances and especially unworthy this proof Of
your regard II did not hold all party dogmas and all
party principles subordinate and inferior the great
question OF the constitution and the government uadsr
which we live. And did not and have not felt that
there was any hazard in coming out boldly and as firm.
y as could in favor OF the necessary to the
unfolding of the country whatever party might receive
or reject them There is no danger in giving utterance
any where on this continent to the feelings OF the true
and patriotic American heart. No party put down
such sentiments. No party repress those that ut
ter them because throughout the length and breadth of
the land the great predominant feeling after all is and
especially when the public mind is aroused-the great
and predominant feeling OF all u.s. that we are one people
that we are Americans-hat we live under consti-
luton the achievement of which cost so much blood
so much treasure, and much efort-and that we are
determined 10 maintain il to the last
Gentlemen, IT is true, Mr.. Brady has suggested,
that there are those who pretend think there has been
no danger to the institutions of the counyhat those
cries for Union meetings, and the raising OF the Union
nag, and The repeated uterance OF Union sentiments
We're superhuous-that it work of euperooatiop
think quite differently, and / see now, much more
clearly than did on the 18th OF March last that the
feeling OF alienation OF part of the country from
another--this feeling of hostiiy-this disposition to
war IN the halls OF Congress-a sort OF belgerant le
gisation OF one part OF the country against another
was far more wide spread and far deeply seated
than then apprehended. Intense silence.) And you
will hnd 80 in the experience of you ALL Owing to
circumstances, not necessary to allude to- there had
come to be spirit of disaffection entertained by one
portion OF the country towards another and alienation
OF brothery love and Kindness and disposition cul-
tvate that feeling. Along the sea coast, gentlemen
and in the large cities, where the sympathes ofmen