Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-03-19

E. THE SECRETARY WITH THE ITCHING PALM.
1t is reported that MIR. Webster is very much dis
! turbed by the aspect which the charges produced
against him by Mr. Allen are taking, and that since
the admissions made by the Boston Advertiser, Is
nearly at his wits end. We do not underestimate
/ Mr. Websters abilities practised resources in
emergencies of this description, when say that
we are not surprised at his embarrassment. His best
friends, the journals most devoted to his interests,
most implicated by his disgrace have been compell-
ed to defeud what they could deny, and to insist
that cabinet minister may receive doaceurS prl-
yately, and to an indefinite amount without staining
his honor disgracing the administration with which
he is connected.
When a statesman OR his friends are reduced to
such an alternative, some embarrassment is both
natural and becoming. We hope the distinguished
Secretary will take 1t not unkindly, if refer him
to precedent of which, in his DISTRESS he may pos
slbly avail himself to advantage. The person whose
example we are commanding, though an actor upon
this worlds stage when it was some two or three
hundred years younger than it is now, was, never
heless, man with whom Mr. Webster can lose
nothing by comparison, and one whose fame many
persons would gladly purchase, even with bis in
fanny.
Like Mr. Webster be was the first adviser Of the
Executive, under whose government he lived; he was
like Webster, one of the greatest lawyers Of his
time; like Webster, he was one Of its most promi-
nent statesman; like Webster, he stopped to take
money Of persons whose interests were subject to
his official interference; and, like Webster, his dis.
honor was found out and exposed Here, up to the
present time, the parallel falls remains to be seen
whether the honor of the American people will be
indicated the English people indicated theirs
Ii they do, Mr.. Webster, Ike Lord Bacon the prime
minister Of james the First, will be impeached;
like Lord Bacon, he will be fined; like Lord Bacon
ne will be sent to prison; and like Lord Bacon, he
eminent.
These various correspondence between the dign-
ty, dlshonor and disgrace of Daniel Webster, and of
6" The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind,''
naturally suggest the example of Bacon, when in the
first agonies of his DOWNFALL to the study and mita
ton of one who now needs all the precedents of an
tquity, well the most generous counsels of his
contemporaries to guide him.
1t Is with the view Of assstingthe Honorable Sec
rotary to take his first step, which in his case is pc
culiarly the one that costs'' that we have trans
ferred to columns the letter which Bacon wrote
to Parliament, when the accusations against him had
been made public, but before they were officially
noticed either by the King or by Parliament. He
admitted his offence, plofessed penitence and asked
an indugent Judgment. 1t is true he was afterwards
deprived of the great seal, fined and sent to the
Tower, but will any one hesitate to admit tina
Bacon stands far better, morally, with his posterft,
than he would have done if he had asserted his in
S nocence until he was proved guilty, and then hat
justified his crime, the friends of Mr. Webster arr
now doing for hirn.--N. Y EUening Post