The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1851-04-16
The GOaIike Daniel.

The GOdIike DaaIel.
The Hun. Daniel Webster, President Fill
mOrs's Secretary of State, has lately been
making speech It Annapolis, before the
stakeholder. Of ofM,rylsnd. Greedy Of the New
York Tribune, thus speaks Of the GOdlike
aud his speech, He shows up bis eOnsisteney
in fine eOlors. What Q ridiculous thing
lHbiggery Of the present day is. Greely
ought TO reeOllee. that The Godlike can turn
as many sOmersets in politics, as any circus
rider that ever mounted a spring board,
would for pay. But 10 the extract:
The Old and the New Webster.
"Fen or Twelve years ago, al a lime when
the Annexation Of Texas bad not yet been
seriously medita,ed by any considerable por'
ton of our people, Daniel Webster made a
sell speech in ouI. City, wherein he volunteer
ed declaration that resistance 10 the ,Ex-
ieniIon ofSlsvery and Slave Power, under our
Government was with him matter Of con-
scieplous principls and PalriuIic duty, which
coud not be waived nor compromised, but
must be lived up TO at all hazard aud at all
cost.
"SeVen years ago he spoke at intervals
through The Struggle Of 1874, making resis>
,snce roSIayery Extension The great, coniro-
ling issue, and thereupon calling Northern
lreemen 10 rally TO the Wing standard. -
Well co we remember the bitterness he felt
and expressed un the receipt of Mr.. Clay S
6tst Alabama letter, which seemed to take
the true ground from under our feet.
"Three years qgo, Mr.. Webster came into
the support OF Gen. Tay lor with un(egned
teluctapce, in view Of The pro-Suvery lnfli-
elce which, to n great extent, secured hiH
nomination. "The North" said Mr.. W., in
one of his first speeches Of that campaign;
''lhere is no Nurth!-but think ! see indi-
cation that hereafter there riH be a North ~
&c, &c.
sin that campaign, Mr.. Webster ridiculed
the claims Of The Van Burens and their Buff
falo dove TO he distinguished as Free SOilers,
claimed the Wilmot Pruvso as not Davy's al
all, but his thunder, and insisted that he and
his Wing brethren had been uphOlding the
FreO Soil banner for years before the wills
mots and Van Bnrens ever thought of such
Ihing-that The Wing party was the true
party OF resistance to the encroachmcnts oil
Slave Power, and the Bufaoes we're Bogus
"ln lS40, Mr.. Webster Tough. noble
battle ia the Senate against the efforts Of the
ExtenslQnisls aud their allies TO organize
California, &c without the Wimot Provso,
and maintained the struggle down to the lasI
houus Of the Session.
In lS5O-.not yet one year ago. Mr..
Webster, even after making his great plunge
declared in the Senate tina: any Fugitive
Slave GlIl 10 be passed ought to guarantee tc
the persons claimed as Iugitses Trial by
JIry, and, in this connection, took from his
drawer Il bill which he said he had drawn
long before, expressly securing this right.
Another MIR. Websier--diycrse in suir,
il, though identical in pody--hss just been
making a Speech 10 the assembled slave,
breeders Of Maryland--n Speech very full o
Union and very empty of Liberty. Thi;
speech speaks of the Federal Constitution
as n compact between Slave States on the
one hand and Free States on the other, wher
IN truth the whole, substantially. were Slave
Stalcs-- -.nearly all holding men in bondage
and no one of them having then lhought{uIly
Considered the ethical and social bearings o
Slavery. This speech talks as if hostility Il
or even a disposition 20 ask modifc alons o
tbs present Fugitive Slave Law, which utter
Iy denies and subyerts that Right Of Trial BY
Jury which The other Mf. Webster insisted
should be Inviolate-were synonymous will
dlsIoyal'y to the Union--wlh moral treason
- Both these men make able and plan.
sble Speeches. but--in spite of our pro
gressive tendencies, our fondneas for novel
ty--we can't help liking the old Webste
better than he new one"