Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-20
MR.. WEBSTER

4dAN w EDS L EN-.
Resolved, That the Wings of this Convention cannot
permit the occasion to pass without expression
grateful reelection and high appreciation othe services
OF him. who true TO all the principles of the Constitution
true 20 every part OF ha country and whose conduct
IN tue Senate OF the nited States the of the
Compromise has shown pressure of fanaticism
could warp his course-Dauie Webster.
The foregoing just and well-earned tribute to
the great state snan of Massachusetts, was offered
BY NJ. Lyons, ofthis city, in the late Wing Con-
vention. aud was received by that body with the
most enthusiastic demonstrations of approbatien.
This public recognition of Mr.. Webster's claims
to the gratitude and confidence of the Wing
party of Virginia, wasemineutly due to that
distinguished man, and was highly appro-
pirate to the occasion. The Wings of this
State have from first to last, been the ar
dent aud unwavering friends of the Compromise
When that great measure was pending in the
halls OF Congress, their most tervent wishes were
offered up for its success. and after its passage
they gladly accepted it as final and permanent
settlement ofthe questions embraced in it. Whilst
reafhrming therefore the sentiments ofthe Wings
of Virginia with reference to this subject and
pledsing themselves to maintain the integrity of
the Compromise, the late Convention performed
no more than an act of simple justice in express
ing their high appreciation of the services of him
who came to the rescue of the Compromise in the
darkest hour of its fortunes, whose unrivaed ora
tory, stupendous powers of reasoning and inn
mense personal aud political influence were so
successfully devoted to its support, and who now
sternly procaims his unalterable determination to
give " no countenanee or support, concurrence or
ces, to the reagitation of the question:"
At no period of our history did blacker cloud
ever ilnpend over the Union, than during the con-
gressiona session of 1850, when Mr.. Webster
stepped forward in the United States Senate and
arrayed himself on the side oft hose who were
battling with the banded forces of Northern and
Southern fanaticism. Clay, Cass, Dickinson and
other distinguished members of that body from
both sections of the Union had done all that men
could do to uphold the only plan of paciication
that afforded the slightest prospect of giving peace
to the country, and averting the horrors of a civil
strife. But they were ever matched by the COM
binedforees of Free-soil and Disunion, and perils
We're every day thckening around them. 1t was
not until Mr.. Webster appeared in their ranks,
that the tide eff battle was turned. His ponderous
battle axe, like that of the Black Knight, in the
lists of Ashby, though called late into action COM
lpletely redeemed the day. The Compromise
passed; the honor of the South and the Union of
the States saved, and if larger debt of graf
itude for these results is due to any more
than to another-that man is Daniel Webster.
Since the passage of the Compromise measures
Mr.. Webster has taken no step backwards. He
has bearded the lion of fanaticism in its very den,
and told the people of Massachusetts to their faces
that they must conquer their prejudices, and sub
NIT to the constitution and laws of the land
Bidding defiance to the deep rooted prejudices of
the Northern people, he fearlessy tells them that
the fugitive slave law is law entirely constitu-
tional, highly proper and absolutely essential to
the peace of the country, and that no man can
be supporter of the constitution, who desires to
nbrogate or destroy it. No more lofty ex-
ample of moral frmness and eleveted patriotism
was ever afforded by any public man of this age
and country, than that which is exhibited in the
recent course of Mr. Webster, with reference to
the slavery question, and we feel assured that the
resolution of the Wing Convention expressing their
high appreciation of his services will be heartily
responded to by the Wing party. notonly of Vir-
ginia but of the whole South. The qualification
which the Wings of this State experience in tes-
tifying their appreciation of Mr.. Webster's public
conduct. is enhanced by the consideration that he
to whom they offer this voluntary tribute of their
respect and confidence is one whose transcendant
abilities have challenged the admiration of the
whole civilized word; an orator whose eoquence
is "poetry held in chains by reason" Cabinet
Minister whose statesmanshipis philosophy re-
duced to pratice.''