New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-06

amount of 100 silver rublcs, ($75.)
Mr.. WEBSTER AND OrrIcE.-W. IL. Z.
discovers in our remark on Mr.. Websters al
legged Fastening to his grave because he was
not nominated for President, the betrayal Of
a bad spirit" and asks
"Can YOU not find in that good as well as an svs
motvei Can you not suppose that Mr. Websters cha
grin may have arisen from noble rather than mean
sentimentY-that he mortified, wounded, destroyed
no, because he failed to get office and place Tor the
qualification of gnobe feelings but because he had
failed to win the confidence and honorable regard q
his fellow men-because his Wing brethren had IN AS
opinion turned their backs upon old and long tried
companion deserted old friend, proved reachercss
and recreant as other friends have proved and turned
their backs upon him at critical period, and thereby
faliifed history to leave serious blight upon
his good name foreveri"
Now ice have attributed no motive" at oil
TO Mr.. Webster-haye not made and do not
indorse the assertion that he died Of chasrin
nor any thing of the sort We see no reason
to 90 behind the report of the doctors, who
found in his corpse after death abundant phys-
zeal causes for Mr.. Webster's decease, inds
pendent of any mental predisposition. But Il
lie did die of modification at his Baltimore
defeat we say the fact is not honorable to his
memOry-nay, is more discreditable than IL
was or might have been to retain the second
Office in the country after the fit time had o..
rived for leaving it.
But there is one phase of our correspond
ent's letter to which we most decidedly Oh
ject-tbat which esteems it rccreant and
"treacherous in party not to nominate thb
or that great man for President A party may
do itself great wrong by a nomination-it msy
make sad blunder, and irretrievably mar ~
prospects or its fortunes-but it owes no mn
fealty or service, and is under no Obligationb
support a candidate when it believes the pub
lie interest would be better subseryed by tsk-
ing up some one else. Nor does it follow thes
a man has failed to win the confidence o.
lis party, because il does not see fit to makes
fruitless struggle for his elevation to some I'M
portant post. There are many good Wings who
enjoy oar confidence " in an eminent degree,
yet whom We never supported and never
expect to support for Office, and to who's
we nevertheless have not been treacheroD"
nor "reereant" Office is a great trust, .
great responsibility; to windbag it is great
elevation, but not to Webster. We do nss
think his place in history would have been ~
proved by his election to the Presidency
Would Socrates have made q grander hguw >
in history had he welded at will the he1es
demoeraeie of Athens, and fourished he
Cleon OF Little Giant Of his earthly life, H.
stead Of drinking the hemlock! No, il -
weakness-a sad, deplorable wsakness-sa
man as great as Webster to imagine the Pres
deney at all material to the completeness u
bis career IL seems almost Atheistic, or =
least Sadducean. In so saying, we do ~
question the good intentions AID patriotic psr-
poses Of any aspirant; we simply insist thS
each should take care that his own motives1s
pure, his purposes upright, and then rest sass-
fed that the place assigned him in the Prov
dence Of God is that which, oil things cofse
cred, is best for him and fer mankind.