Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-03-13

sdental election were to be held to-day he would get
larger vote here than ever before Our advices fiom
Washington seem to warrant the belief that the
promise which he proposes will be acceptable to the
south rs 1t ought to be- and we trust, will be, to the
North"
The Courier and Enquirer seems to be rather yea
nay 1t remarks:
1t is quite certain that this speech will produce
great sensation in the country 1t was calm, collected
and Invested OF any attempt at display. Now and then,
MIR. Webster to grand and striking pas age, but
rarely. He sought to convince, rather than to crafty
and astonsh, The impression on the Senate was de-
cidedly favorable"
The Philadelphia North American does not COM
nit itself as yet to Mr. Websters positions, but is
tent with referring remark of Mr. Cahoun's as re-
ported by the telegraph, though not in fact madeby him.
that he hoped "the Senator would be willing remove
the impediments placed in the way Of the saveholdng
emigrant by the Mexican laws in force in California"
Mr. Calhoun said, the contrary, it was consum-
matefoy to say that Mexican law prohibiting slavery
in California and New Mexico is in force The North
American thinks with the N. Y. Tribune as to the pos
sbility of slaverys existing in California.
Eight dollars day as the wages of labor, and the
temptations of the placers would, in opinion carry
slaves not only to the hot banks of the Sacramento but
to the ogs Behring'S Straits and the frozen soitudes
OF Melville Island"
The PHILADELPHIA Euening Bulletin makes the fol-
lowing strong remarks
The speech of Mr.. Webster, delivered yesterday,
able and patriotic effort His sentiments in re-
gard to the physical mpossbilty Introducing slavery
as permanent institution, into New Mexico and Cali
ornia, those generally entertained by udcious per-
sons, whether at the North South. With that emf
nently practical turn which he nherts from his Saxon
ancestry, Mr.. w considers the agitation of the Wmot
Provso now that it has ceased to DO required for the
freedom OF California, useless, absurd and mad pro-
ceeding The ground taken by the Massachusetts Sc
naor, in reference to abscondng slaves is manly and
constitutional 1t certainly was not contemplated,
when the federal compact was formed that day would
ever come when the North should endeavor to evade,
by every SOFT Of subteruge its clear stipulation no. to
prevent, in any way, the recapture of the fugitive
gro: and the least the North can do in the present
emergency, is to act uprghty and honorably towards
the South, by entirely altering its conduct in this very
important matter 1t is beneath honest descend
to bubbles this question. Practically, the South is
cheated out Of her recognized property to the
ofthousands annually. by the of the North
and this in violation OF the solemn compact of the
stution.
Indeed, this speech of Mr., w. was, in all respects,
candid comprehensive and patriotic. We rejoice to
Senator of his influence taking ground dispassion-
aely There is demagogueism in this great effort
appeal to the passions Of the moment; but the broad
reaching views of the statesman, who legs-
ates merely for his generation but for centuries vet
to come exhibited in almost every paragraph of the
Grafton"