Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-03-08
interesting Letter.

the fowing sensible and interesting letter, from gen
omao whose character entities his statements to the
highest confidence and his remarks to the most earnest
consideration.
Garbled and confused biographies may get the start OF
full and consistent TRUTH and vena press may endorse
those hurried ms-shapen alsehoods for sudden effect
on the public mind but TRUTH though less rapid in its
nrogress is sure to follow and eface those false i'm.
pressons.
In the District which Judge Allen so ably and faith
fully represents Geographic lies have not disturbed the
well established and well earned confidence of his con-
stituents His reputation, which was not gained in
day. was not likely to be lost in an hour Ii the char
acer which he has long maintained at home, caused
them to demand with the most expressive decision, the
reluctant sacrifice ola lucrative professional business,
and the quiet ola pleasant home, for the protess and
often loathsome station he has occupied amid the tu
MOL of hearess political strife at the Capitol, he has
now an additional camto their esteem and grateful re
gard. True, he has not shown himself ambitious to
dash into the arena of debate where ready
and many anxious display their ieats of rheto-
ric but when, now, the occasion has called orcare
full wisdom and manly courage, he has not shrunk from
duty which he would be the last to covet, and many
others too timid to perform. What he has done
not undertaken in the dark. Judge Allen was quite
too sagacous and far-seeing not know beforehand
well as now the tempest of party fury that would at
rage against him. He had seen both storm and
sunshine before, and we'll knew that the blacklist cloud
is often charged with much more wind than thunder
In Massachusetts deep feeling has long been secretly
working, of disgust and morfcation/a the base and
debasng dependence of Mr. Webster on capitalists and
stock.jobbers, whose interests he must subserve
whose stipends he must forego Perhaps the ed.
ltors OF the Daily Advertiser, malignant in their
wrath against Judge Allen, should have been the fore
most to commend his wisdom and courage, even had
his charges against the Secretary been tenod
we're than they actually were. Their memories mss be
very Short they die in three years. leaving no
trace of 50 memorable contempt for the Secretary's
prices, But political necessities and editorial feelings
and expedients are changed, and they now quick
eendemn Judge Allen, and quick to euogze Mr. Ash
nun, between whose virtues there is as broad dis
lance, even the floor of Congress, as between fact
and slang, or sobriety and drunkenness.
PHmADELrH1A, March 5, 1851.
Mr.. J. M. EARLE,
Dear SIR Having just left Washington, and learne
something of the state of feeling there in reference
the late speeches and developments of the Represents
i've from your district, avail myself of Ieasure INC
ment to give you such information as possess.
1t was not my good fortune to hear Mr.. Aller
but there is but opinion at Washington as to h
good temper, dignity, and ability with which he az
quilted himself. Even those most deeply in the inte
est Of Mr.. Webster, freely concde this, and many
alsides condemn scurrous and mpoten the person;
attack of Mr.. Ashmun in reply. In order to extenuat
his grossness, however, said that an earlier HOT
of the day, he would have been more considerable; f
men at Washington are not always the same at evenn
as in the morning. Mr. Ashmun assumes at the outst
of his reply, that there great deal of indgnato
ie1 IN the Honse against his colleague, and that his
marks upon Mr.. Webster were received with scorn-
Nothing, let me assure you, is further from the truth
SO far from it, he listened to with the most profoun
and respectful attention, and spectator looked dow
from the gallery the following days, he could mol b
be struck with the marked courtesy with which Mr.
Allen was treated as he passed and repassed in tn
aises of the House. His whole course since he ba
been member-quiet, gentlemanly, assuming no ars
yet independent and courageous-has been such as Il
osNNe FltJuulce created by hi
political postion and to win for him the goodwill an
esteem of members from all parts Of the country. and
none more than of many from the South. The able,
representative from this State, pennsylvania who
personal friend Of Mr.. Allen, remarked to a eent,
man Of my acquaintance that he had never known sue
an instance of member regarded chiefly in CONGRESS
for his moral worth and his judgment ncounseI leapn
bya single bound, Mr.. Allen had done, to the foreno
rank of Congressional debaers He saw as all did an
as nobody in your State presume needs to be told thu
Ashmun fell far behind him.
But what is said Of the charge! SO much Of this,
think, is universally admitted, namely that MIR. Wei
ster received large Of money from merchants an
bakers in Boston and New York, to enable him to Q
into the Cabinet but it is denied by many that such
arrangement is sufficient justify the charge Of oic
corruption. Now, as understand it, MIR. Allen doc
not chargesofiical corruption, but corruptarrangeme
prior to the Secreary's taking office exposing hin p
cuiarly to the danger Of official corruption He ma
believe, as hundreds at Washington do, that of
cia corruption has already followed but hat, he do,
not charge. Mr.. Webster's friends say, that alhoug
ereceiyed the money, not in fuIment ola "ba
gain" but free gift Nobody supposes that there wa
a written contract, duly sealed and Witnessed but il MI
Webster wrote 10 the Sub-Ireasurer, Of Boston, " az
offered the premiership and hesitate tke it, bccaus