New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-23


las monstious contriyance, National Bank
which should lend the Government thirty MI
lions on a cash capital Of only five. and bis eX-
posture of the injustice and unconstitutionality
Of collecting the Public Revenue AZ one end of
the Union, in specie, or It's full equivalent, and
at the other in mrcdeemable deprecated pr
per, were 50 conclusive that 10 man ever al
tempted 10 answer them.
in 1916, the Federal party OF New-Hanp-
shire were defeated in the Congressional Flee
ton, but We are not sure that Mr.. WEBSTER
had consented to run third time. In August
Of that year, he removed to Boston, and de-
voted himself entirely to the practice Of the
Law. He declined nomination to Congress
in 1915, and an election TO the Senate, which
influential men offered to canvass for In his be-
half. at little later period, bat served as
Presidential ElectOr in 1870, and as member
of the Convention which revised the Constitu-
ton of Massachusetts in l52l. In the fall Of
le22, be was again pressed to represent BoS-
ton in Congress House, and SO urgently that
he did not feel at liberty to decline. He was
chosen by over 1000 majority, and returned to
the Councils OF The Nation, after an absence of
six years.
Oflis subsequent career, We may speak more
hurriedly, since its leading features must be
fresh in the minds Of most citizens He distin-
gushed himself O823) by proposition look
ing to an early recognition Of Greek Indcpend-
ence, and a magnificent Speech in its support.
He favored also like acknowledgment of
South American Independence. In 1924 he
made his great Free Trade Speech-the ablest
ever delivered on that side of the question.
Boston was then the focus of Free Trade, and
the Fodcralists were its principal champions,
while the mass of the Democracy, cOunseled by
CLAY, SNYDER, ID. ID. ToMPKISs, BALDWIN, III.
NILES, MATTHEW CAREY, &c, had for years
been the ardent advocates Of Protection. The
times have bravely altered since then; Mr..
WEBSTER has seen occasion greatly TO modify
ifnot entirely retract his Free Trade notions;
and Free Trade is now said to be DemOcratc.-
But we are DEPRESSING.
New England unitcdly supported JoHS QvIs
cy ADAMS for President in 1924, and Mr. WEB
srER concurred, though never personally an
ednrer of Mr.. ADAMS He and JOHN RAN
noIPn were the Tellcrs when the House elect
I'd Mr.. ADAMS Presidcnt-by the vote Of 13
States TO land he became one of the ablest
and most influential supporters of the Admin
z paEl al IN
1924 and Is26 with scarcely a show of oppos-
ton. Mr.. WEBSTER was in the latter year
chosen Senator of the United States. To-
ward the close of 1S27 his first wife died, while
he was on his way to Washington TO take his
seat in the Senate. The next year (lo2o) was
signaizcd by the defeat of J. Q. ADAMS and
the accession Of Gen. Jackson to the Prcsl-
dency.
During the session OF is29-30 occurred the
memorable debate ON FooT's Resolution re-
specting the Public Lands, wherein Mr. WEE
STIR, in replying to Col. HAYNE' oil ;. e. VIM
Dictated his right to rank first among living de-
baters. 1t is hardly too much TO say OF his
great and lesser Speech on that occasion that
thCv rescued the Federal Constitution from
construction fast becoming popular which,
once established as correct, must have proved
it's destruction. The constitutional right OF
any State of the Union to nulliiy an act OF
Congress. whether by It's ordinary Legislature
or by a Convention specially called, once adj
mtted as legal, would strip the Federal au-
thorty of all Just claim TO be considered
Government aud throw us back upon the met
6cicncy and scmi-aDarchy of the Old CONT
mental Confederation. Yet that doctrine OF
Notification so frankly propounded and ably de-
Tended by Col HAyNr in the debate with WEB
srEE claimed with much plsusbility TO be based
upon and clearly deducible from the Virginia
and Kentucky Resolutions of 179S and ",
which are known to have been drafted respect
iyelv by JEFFERSON and MADISON ,andrepeatedly
redfiirmed as containing the Democratic creed
respecting the powers Of the Federal Govern
ment and their rightlul limitations Mr.. WEE
srrR inexorably demonstrated the incOmpatl-
/ bility of this doctrine with any real power or
/ force in the Federal Government, and, admit
tine fully the right OF Revolution as superior TO
| all Governments showed that State could
not remain in the Union and assume to nulliiy
acts of Congress upheld by the Supreme Court
that the contrary assumption was condemned
BY the Constitution itseli, and utterly at war
with the public tranquility and safety Mr..
WGBsTER's speeches arrested the Jackson
party on the brink of committing itself ire
trievably 70 the doctrine of Nullifcation-a
committal which would have proved an set of
suicide
Mr.. WEBSTER remained in the Senate, ud-
yocstine the rechsrter of the second L. States
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