Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1852-11-05
The Webster Meeting in Boston.

We are sorry to feel obliged to express con
tempt for anybody or anything connected will
the name of DANIEL WEBSTER, just at th
moment but we profoundly feel, and cannot
repress, indignant ard loathing contempt fo
the hybrid and Heterogeneous "W ebster Club,
of Boston, composed of such poor demagogues
! generally as the Reverend " Hubbard Wins
low, William Hayden Ia snal' -potatoe polit
clan who made money by purchasing the Bos
ton Il las while it was yet warm with the brill
liant labors of Mr.. HoUGHToN, in 1910, ant
whose money is emphatically all there is o
hlm) and a Mr.. WWey, whose speech to his CO
DEVILS on Wednesday evening last, was per
feet outrage on the memory Of Mr. WEBSTER
and on the great whig Farty which Mr.. e.
sTER had pronounced to be the only "star" tc
guide us in the perlls by which We are sur
rounded.
This miscalcd "Websfer meeting" was he'd
on the day qtter the death of DANIEL WEE
ing the great bereavnent. And one of the
"leaders," of the proceeding, one of the prln-
cpal wire-pullers in the desperate and dishon-
est game Of arraying the great name Of DANIEL
WEBSTER against the Wing Party and Whig
Measures and Policy, was Waliam Hayten,-
than whom a smaller and meaner lickspttle
cannot be found in Boston. The following is
the brief report of the speech of Dir. Hayden, as
we find It IN the Atlas:--
"Mr. Hayden said he should vote for him
self, and sand the policy pursued by the Balii-
more Convention was damnable; also that the
country ,Cou'd be safer in The hands Of Gen.
Pierce than Gen. Scott"
We have no doubt that this poor partisan
,riN 'vote for himself" unless he can find some
body for whom he has higher regard, which
is noways likely!
But the llustrious Hayden, Postmaster Of
Boston, dwndes into nothlngness before the
powerful vindctveness of Mr.. WiHeH to whom
we have aluded. He is reported by the BJs-
ton Jowna! to have spoken IN substance as
follows:
Mr.. Wiley made n very long and bitter
speech against Gen. Scott. lie sniA Gen.
Scott had no qualifications for the Presidency
except that he had an ounce and halt of Bri-
sh lead IN his body; and he Ihe speaker was
glad TO see that lie had even that, for it was
the only solid thing alont hlu.
TIE " hg party had disgiaced themselves
in the nomination of man who did not know
enough to understand that he was not fit for t @
Presidency. lie had eeotioneered Tor himscl..
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to locate hospital somewhere in the prnlrles of
the West, for dead and wounded soldiers; by
which he (Mr Wiley supposed were meant
the dead and wounded soldiers of the Scott
presidential campaign. 1t was not, he said, as
Gen Scott alleged, to select place for hos
plal. That was not true! Why, said Mr.
W llley, "dd General Scott state an untruth !:
Nobody but towards lie!"
Mr. " iiley lamented that distinguished
gentleman of Massachusetts. who had lately
written lett to the colt Club of this city
me hing Mr.. Wnthrop) had placed Mr.. eb-
ster IN such false contrast with General Scot,
by stating in the words of that letter that "be-
fore the Baltimore Conven ion you knew 10
candidate but the great .\elc England States
M IN, Daniel Webster; but now, since that nom
nation, you know no candidate but the great
1
Mr.. " illey spoke Of the inconsistency of the
Atlas and the JvurnQL in sustaining General
Scott, stating that at first after the nominate On
was made, tney did not dare to call General
Scott Statesman, because paper of the day
before would contradict one Of the day after.
but now they did Claim him as the greatest
man OF the age.
The speaker cu!ogizcd General Pierce, who
n tl,n H..
native State, and infinitely super or 10 General
Scott. General Pierce was man of the high.
est intellect and virtue, and would do honor t.
the Presidential chair,
He urged the movement onward 10 teach Mes,
po.it,cqt iDlre -pulters lesson. Mr.. " ebster
he sand, was defeated at Baltimore because
George Evans Of Maine, wanted the sent OF
the Supreme bench, vacated by the death Of
Lew Woodbury., and Mr.. Webster was ins,ru
mental in giving 1t to Judge Curtis; and Luther
'. Bell went to Baltimore with ~ ebster word,
on his tongue and scott sympathles in hi,
heart and finally went for the latter for The SAX,
| Of q nomination 10 ongress
! Much OF Mr. Wley's speech was in strair
OF severity, inersperced with vein of great hu
NOR. which frequently CONFUSED The lcioie audi
ence 1cuh intense iaughtr lie spo about tw,
hours, and after he closed his remarks, the ad-
dress, IN which cessation of political actor
Tor tins campaign was recommended, was with
drawn, leaving the Executive Committee t.
proceed in political matters the same as If Mr.
Webster were still living.
And this is the poor mountebank, and thi
the poor blackguardsm, that are permitted t
dlshonor the name of DANIEL WEBSTER, i
Boston, the very day after the death of tina
Statesman, and while his unburied remain
were still lying in funeral state at Marshfeld
If any deeper detestation can attach to sue
names as H'lli0m Hayden and this W,Hey, tina
they have earned by tn dsgraceful record W
have given above, we are sorry for them!
0TFLoRTDA ELECTroN-We gave Thurs
+ day the reported vote in every county bat tw
- ONES and Walton-by which BRoomE az
peared to have majority of 27S and MAJ
WELL majority of 1913. We have now tn