The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-06-17
THE DAILY SPY.
WORCESTER,
MONDAY, JUNE IL, 1880.
DANIEL WEBSTER.

bic, his ueacnefy 10 the CAUSE VI NSc0o' GAIN " uo
ceive the people in relation thereto, are most ptitu
aud should be showed up and exposed, whenever they
are used for his justification or defence. tits no new
thing for sthe Defender Of the Constitution" 10 resort
q such shifts when he finds he has gone beyond what
public sentiment will sustain. Every body who keeps
the run of such Matters win recolect his famous war
speech in relation to the Eastern boundary when he de-
clared that if he were in the place of the President,
he would, b, the Fourth Of July, march the United
States forces into the British Provinces, take posses
sion of the territory, and hold it till claims were
allowed by the British Government Such speech
from such quarter took every body by surprise, and
in the Threatening posture Of our foreign relations. its
effect upon the business Of the country was sudden and
disastrous People had looked to Webster and his
friends to sustain the Of peace and it was sup
posed that if he took the opposite courses would pro-
baby decide the question on the side OF war. Ihs
consequence was that it produced CONSERVATION in the
market, paralyzed foreign trade, and depressed the
mice of national stocks. The merchants of Boston
and New York wrote on Washington, in great trepi-
dation making such representations they could, to
change the course Of things and countoract the in
Auences which appeared to prevail. Under these cir
cumstauces when the subject came up again, Daniel
took the back track avoring pacific course and very
cooly declared that in his patriotic speech, he spoke
Of the fourth Of July, the time when, if Obliged to
resort to force he would do its simply account Of the
political character of the day. but did intend to des
ggnote the ns or any other fourth Of Jiy IN particular
as the one on which he would carry his purposes into
effect y
If such thing had been done by some obscure men,
Der of the other house, people would have let it pass,
probably with simple expression Of wonder, at the
Kind of constituents he must have send such rep
resentatve into the House. As it was, nobody could
account for the Occurrences except ultra members
of the Temperance Society, who accounted for the
original declaration, mode which, account of the
libelous character of the charge it involved, we will
not repeat
Again, when Daniel made his great compromise
Speech and omitted say any thing about the wrongs
of our coored seamen in his catalogue of mutual
plants, the omission struck every with surprise,
and it became so instantly the subject of COMMENT that
he interpoated very sentence in relation thereto,
into his authorized version of the printed report of the
speech. s y
But when the speech came to be circulated and read
among the people, it was found that the sentiments il
contained in favor Of Mason's infamous fugitive slave
bill were repealed with indignation ip all quarters
throughout the free State So, to set that matter RICH
the Boston Courier came out with semi-ofhcia ex
PLANTATION, setting forth that there misprint in thu
report which escaped observation in the revision, anC
explanation of what intended to be said Blu
this explanation was so obviously aterthought, AM
was SO utterly inconsistent and improbable that nobod
regarded it at ALL In this EFFICIENCY, Daniel comes GU
with bill, in which limited right to trial by jury
guaranteed to fugtves, and very solenny offers it II
the Senate, with the declaration that il prepares
by him last Februaryl! Suppose il was; why was
not offered before? And, why is it offered now +
Daniel had already committed himself to Mason's bill
in all its provisions, and TO THEIR FULLEST EXTENT
Those provisions are irreconcabe to those Of Daniel
last February bill. Yet the attempt is made, OF
the strength Of this Bill by the Boston Courier and it
affiliated presses, to claim that Daniel is in favor
securing the right of trial BY jury to those who ar
claimed as fugitixess Such are the inconsistencies il
which men involve themselves, when they abandon tn
safe ground Of principle for abase timeservng expedi
ency. These subteruges will not the purpose
The people too intelligent to be cheated by them.
They see and know that the Massachusetts Senator ha
betrayed them and their interests. sssa,si
He has sold them for such reward ashis cupidty o
ambition or BOTH has led him to believe would be thu
result of his treachery. We hope and almost belev
that there is enough Of conscience and Of rmness in HI
people, to hold him to rigid account for it. Wheth
er there is, or not, we shall see. 4se'