Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-03-21
Mr., Webster in the North

The following comments of the Boston Traveller,
upon Mr.. Websters speech, in a remarkable vein,
and are significant we think, of the feeling that prevails
to great extent, in New England:
Mr. Webster is man who speaks deliberately and
his speeches not to be criticised hastily He has not
spoken without his accustomed consideration nor
Is his argument to be met with orecptsnce of Judgment
We know that there is great deal of deepelt dssas-
faction with the speech but we rather inclined to
think this dissatisfaction will wear away with time and
that month hence many who now condemn the speech
in unmeasured TERMS will regard it if not complacenty
at least sound and enable 1T dissatisfaction Of
feeling rather than of Judgment that so extensively
pelvades the mind ofour community.
Our impulses had led us to hope, rather than expect
that the great champion of the constitution would
find in that instrument a remedy for the "evil of the
daytha he would go beyond the strict letter OF
the contract, and assume the defence of Northern prn
cpes on higher ground than that Of the integrity of
political compact Herein is our disappointment. Mr..
Webster speaks, not as moralist, but as politician
as statesman, it you please-as expounder OF the
very letter OF the constitution And constrained
to say that as constitutional argument his speech
logical and unanswerable. We read it with pain and
regret, and with the dissatisfaction which others expe-
rlenced and have expressed. But on second thought
we were satisfied that it was the constitution and the
Some in the asperity of their disappointment aege that
Mr., Webster has torsaken his prncples"gone over to
the enemy, in the cant phrase OF the day. We
see it so, much deprecate the result of his argu
ment We donot even regard his speech as an exhbi-
ton OF his own principles; but exposition of the
terms OF the contract which binds these United States
together for better worse. He uttered no sentiment
which orbids us to believe tina, he would not gladly have
mitigated the Justice OF his plea But it not so
! nominated in the bond, and he knew the men with
whom he had 10 do"
The Boston Daily Advertiser continues to speak ou
firmly in support Of Mr. Websters pos Ition, and tell
the Northern people and members of Congress that if
they have any desire settle the questions which now
agtate the country and the government it is clear that
theea ha ed at oho,o
party, and with real desire for harmony And this
just sentiment is carried out by strong condemnation
of those who applaud the course of Senator Seward
The New York Tribune insdiously charges that a
passage Of Mr.. Websters speech las published in the
Boston Courer0 in which he condemned the treatment
which Mr.. Hoar, of Massachusetts, received in South
Carolina purposey omitted from the reports pub
lished in the Union and Inteligencer at Washington
The National Inteligencersays,
"We are authorized to say that Mr. Webster did not
revise the speech for the National Inteigencer or the
Union, did he read word OF the report of before
it was published in both those papers. We are further
authorized to say that in all the reports of the speech
revised by Mr. Webster, whether intended for the North
or the South, the above paragraph contained and
that all reports seen or examined by him have been
made to be exactly like TO another"
The Globe and Republic published the revised speech
which contained the passage, and it was as follows
/
ance at the North Free blacks are constantly employ
ed in the vessels of the North generally as cooks or
stewards When the vessel arrives, these free colored
men taken shore by the police or municipal autbo
rity imprisoned and kept prison till the vessel is again
ready to sail This is not only irritating but exceeding
y announcement IN practice, and altogether in-
practicable ana oppressive Mr.. Hoars mission, some
time ago, to South Carolua, well intended effort
to remove this cause OF complaint. The North thinks
such imprsonments illegal and unconstitutional; as the
great grievance"
! Sea Monster, some hundred and fifty feet in
engh is reported by the Charleston Courier, to have
been seen by Captain Blankenship of the steamer VIM.
Seabrook, and number Of passengers on areeent trp
OF the boat from Charleston TO Savannah
The Savannah papers also give the same sccoun on
the authority ofrespectable passengers,
| We are authorized TO announce GRIFFITH D. NEAL,
Esq. candidate for reelection to the House Of Dele
1 gAtas ON pi,,sylv mi. coupty