The New York herald., 1851-07-13
NEWS BY THE m AILs.
Our Washington Correspondence.
WasyuNaTon Julv2 ISL

| Our w Wasm1n8t0n COrreepOn0euces
WASHINGTON, July2, 1851
The V1gnia Speeches of the President and the Ssere
! taryof State-7he Moral Of their YIginia Ca1s-
pdig~-SscessD~ Docfrines Of Mr.. We6sso-49
Hit at the Lancaster Conremtior.
The triumphal journey of the President in lower
Virginia, and Of Mr.. Webster in upper Virginia.
have been highly gratifying in their results, to the
friends of the Union. They prove very satssacto-
rily the attachment Of Virginia to the Union, and
the respect Of her people for administration
which did not hesitate to plant itself upon the COM
promise measures of Henry Clay.
In Virginia, however, as in most ether civilized
States, the rights Of hospitality sacred, aud many
things omitted, and many things are permitted,
account of the duties Of hospitality, which other
wise would present very different state Of things.
Party prejudice and party feelings are temporarily
laid aside; and hence we find the President
and the Premier received by tho Virginians,
not as whig partizans, but as public servants,
and as the guests of the State and Of the pee
ple On the other side, we find a corresponding
spirit of forbearance of all party TOPICS and close
adhesion to the interchange Of compliments, and
neyerfailing eulogiums upon the Union, which, like
the old womans ham Of bacon, are always in sea-
son. and suit the appetes of every body except very
sickly people, and Jews and Mahometan II the
PRESIDENT and Premier had been aG the Lancaster
whig convention, we might have had something a
little liveer than the good old song of the Union,
and we might have had something different from
the nomination of General Winfield Scott a year in
advance Of the proper time.
The President has been circumspect. His disere-
tion has not failed him. All that he has confessed
ofany importance, is that he has been alarmed about
the safety Of the Union and thinks the danger not
yet over, in which every observing mao must ooa-
cur. The danger is not over. On the contrary,
such are the present aspects OF the Presidential
que stion that the elements of disunon appear more
formidable to- day than they did on the night when
the Omnibus bill fell TO piece, IN the Senate. Ihe
President admits the danger, swears that he viii
faithfully execute the laws, pleads the nationality Of
his views and his policy, and stops
Mr.. Webster goes further. lib makes n secono
speech at the same dinner, be is sure to fill up alb
the omissions of the FIRST. We refer to his seoond.
speech, for instance, at ,Capon Springs There DE
gives u.s. very broadly, the two following contradic
tory declarations in his two speeches.
I. That if State sh ,uld attempt to secedo, all
the powers of the government will be employed, If
necessary, to coerce her into her allegiance TO the
Union; reducing her from the sovereignty of State
to the dependency of subjugated province, if
essential to maintain the Union unbroken
2. That the violation of any article or particle OF
the federal constitution, by the authorities OF any
state, destroys the constitution and aosoiv3s the
parties to it, at their option, from further ale
glance
The first proposition declares, for example, that
if South Carolina attempts to 60 out OF the Union,
she will be whipped into submission; that secosson
ls treason; and that war, II required IS duty Tor
the suppression of the traitors aud the subugaton
of the rebelious State; that the Union is iadiyi-
sible that by all the powers Of the federal govern
ment, whatever the injuries inflicted upon, or the
wrongs suffered by, State from federal aggressions,
she must be reduced to submission
The second proposition, we take it, is hit mt the
Lancaster Convention and Gen Scott. Mr.. Web
ster directly called upon to answer to the truth
that in him the Fugitive Slave law, declared
in his second speech at Capon, that To violate 1t
10 violate the constitution: and that TO violate the
constitution, in any article is substantially to dis
solve the federal compact and that 1t is dissolved
thoroughly as if the entire constitution were
tTampled in the dust.
According 10 this doctrine Of Mr., Webster, the
Legislatures Of Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massa-
cbusetts, to go further, absoiyes all the other
States, if they please any one OF them, from far
ther allegiance to the constitution aud the Union.
In word it is the strongest sort Of secession doc
trne, this of Mr.. Webster. and can hardly DO
reconciled with the doctrine of the coercion Of State
that may think fit to take Mr.. Webster a. his
word, and leave the Unien because the co partner
ship is dissolved by its violation in other States.
This second speech Of MIR. Webster at Capon,
will be seized upon and appropriated as active capt
tai in South Carolina. We are getting into deep