North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-06-21
MR.. MERsrrn,s

MR.. WEBSTER'S LIFTED s-aa,
We publish below,a letter from NJ
Mr.. Botts Of Virginia, in which II. Sa. !" ebsler
an error in the report Of his Buffalo Sue c0rsea
My DEAR SIR: When arrived :, M 4, 1851.
attention was called to pafapranb = . =. York nv
lc report OF my speech at Buffalo. oeiegnp6.
cumstanees, II is wonderful that the Tue ei
Po.e, performed the service as we'll as he Ala F
mistake occurred Of some importance. WHY outa
rected as soon as it met his eye. Toward he co.,
me speech am represented as having said END Of
men, lsegret exceedingly that slavery er, "enle
southern States and hat Congress has no noR. IN
NJ MS is so entirely in opposition to the over
drift of my remarks, that it might havo ne whole
that all would have regarded II "a n;. "eeh hoped
error. 1t appears however, that this ,ras Of an
sally the case, and therefore the uhVt.
PITY caused the following correction to he 10y Prom
me herald, the paper in which the report FIVE
very exists in the southern States: b,t mal sa
no power 10 act upon 1t. 1t may be, howes mas
In the dlspensation of Providence some ron That
'his eVi may occur, or may be hoped for bprssS"i
II must he OBVIOUS to every intelligent person a.
IT Congress possessed power over slavery mat
in the southern States any attempt 70 exists
power would break up the Union Just as sn,al auca
would an attempt to introduce slavery in,o MY as
.chusetts These are subjects OF mere S,a,s os asa
ana S'ate authority Intended originally 10 be left gu
tireiy with the States, and they must so be ls GIN
If we wish to preserve the Union, VT sill
y on are at liberty to make any use of this LOTT.
which you may think necessary to remove faIse ~;
pressions. -' 'o ill.,
am, my dear sir, with the truest regard, Won,
ooeGien' servant, DANIEL WEBSTER,
! Hon. JOHN M. BORIS, Richmond, Va. '
Even with this correction, Mr.. w ebster,s R,e,
I Speech abounds in most Objectionable matte, L
sectional Speech, and the great characteristic ft
is his undisguised and inveerate hostility to S,.n...
He exults in the fact that he has done nothing d.
ing his public career. to extend the institution. AZ,
he seems to draw much consolation from the bsE,
that it is atlast circumscrbed and hemmed in ".
I have given MIR. Webster credit from the first .,i
stil give him credit, for his manly stand in favor
the fugitve-slave law but have objected, and Va
still object TO the law on this subject which he Womb
have had, if circumstances had permitted it-a law
which would have granted to the escaped slave bol
by jury TN the free States In commenting on hi,
positions heretofore and now, we have uniform,
given his language-we have not condemned him
without allowing him to be heard through our cd.
umns.
The Raleigh Register has repeatedly charged n,
with misrePresenting this Speech, and with having
done Mr.. Webster injustice in relation TO it and the
last Raleigh Star joins in this charge of the Register
as follows:
Il s. We copy the following letters from the Rich.
mond Times, and commend them TO the consderatim
of the editor of the Standard, who has been exern
himself of late 10 -injure Mr.. Webster, and 10 ma
him odious in the eyes of the people of the Southern
\ States. Whilst the which the editor of the
Standard sees fit TO adopt, is ilbera and unjusifa
BILE, ii is at the same time calculated weaken The
affections of the people towards the Union, and to
produce in their minds distrust and want of conf
dence in every distinguished citizen of the NOh
/ however patriotic he may be, and however ready 10
do justice 10 the South and her institutions Is the
Standard willing TO do justice to Mr.. Webster, OF
will he persist in the remarks he made upon the r.
port of speech which did not convey the ideas Of
the language of that distinguished Statesman aud
4 Orator. We shall! see.'
Now. what we have to say in reply to the above is
this We published the whole of Mr.. Websefs
Buffalo Speech, as we found it at TIE time in the Re-
public and other Northern newspapers. As soon as
we saw the correction made by the New York
Herald, apparently by authority, copied it into
our paper, and expressed the hope that Mr. Websta
would make the correction himself, over his own
name and now that he has done SO, we have inser
i ted his letter at length.
And now, what has been the course of the Regis
ter and Star 7? They hare Withheld the Speech tru'
their readers, though they were fully aware Of b
importance of the effort this crisis of public affairs
and though they knew also. andFnow know, that Mr.
Webster spoke for the Administration which they
port, as well as for himself They suppress hs d@a
| nent-slp in little correction of it, when that col
rection happens to turn up-and then seek to cow
up their want of fdefi ty TO their readers and 10 III
Constitutional rights of the South, by charging
with misrepresentation > and Is iberality." Ihe
are facts which We challenge these papers TO dPut
| We now call upon these papers to say why thu
have suppressed this Speech, and whether they a
prove it. II they approve it. will they not say 50
And they dsapprove it, will they refrain from sa
ing SO out of regard for the Federal Administrator
God save the Union and the rights of the SOuthe
people, if their only reliance in the hour of trial is
be upon such public journals ! s.