Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-08-10
Nh. Yeadon of South Carolina.

The following philosophical and patriotic trI-
butte TO the services of northern statesmen was
pronounced at the Plymouth celebration. For its
truth, eloouence and libeTalIty, it deserves peru
sal.
Mr. YEADoS continued:
Before closing my remarks, so inadequate to this
great and interesting occasion, cannot forbsar
doing reverence 10 the name and shade of the IL
lustrious Webster, for his constitutional fidelity
10 the South. 1t SpIang from principle as well as
feelings imbibed from parental instructions and it is
To wonder that the boy who first read and studied
the Constitution of his country on cotton hand
kerchief, should have been answering and iuith-
full in giving the full lenet of that Constitution
to the cotton States of the South aud West. 1t
was under this halowed influence ibat at Rich
mond, in 1910, he made the memorable declara-
ton, that in the capital of Virginia, under the
light of October sun, he gave 1t 10 The wings oil
lie wIud, and wished it borne 10 every cGIner OF
the Republic, that Congress had no power what
ever, directly ndiectly, to interfere with the,n-
StituuJn of slavery in the several SateSj' and II
in tile spirit that he took that noble stand
in 1850, which saved his country from lnttr nal
Strfs-lhe Union from dissolution. (HiSSeS and
applauseO And white thus SoutheTneT render
ing homage TO the illuStuUuS dead, lei me also do
homage TO the illusirious living, aud return NY
grateful thanks 10 the great speaker OF The uny-
the gifted, the glorious Everett WebSter'S wOr-
thy successor in the Cabinet and in the Senate
chamber) for the declaration and sentiment utter
ed by him IN Congress many yeas ago, but still
indelibly impressed on my memory: 'TheIe is no
cause in which would more readily shoulder
muSket than 10 put down servile instruction in
the South (Applause.)
"Let ne here too, nar:ate an aneceote, or an
inc dent, connected with the grcat Ca!olinian, and
his love and admiration for Aiassac uSeltS aud
Boston. 1t was in my last conversation with him
just before lie departed from Charleston on his
last mission 10 Washington, that lie broke out i'll
warm, glowing, and loving eulogy of MasSacM-
S.t;S and Boston, referring 10 the time when JOSIAH
Quincy came as m SSionary from Massachusetts 10
Charleston and South Gro ina, 10 enlist the de-
ScendentS of the Huguenots with The descend
ents Of the Purtans. in the Boston tea party, in the
coming struggle for American independ nee, which
evident pleasure on the ancen ties, political and
social, winch once un ted the Two sister common
wealtllS and the two sister cities, aud disc urSng
eloqueEtly the affinities which yet obtained be-
tween them, III conversations. in hospitality, and
in social cItgante and refinement.
"Lct such principles Cnd Geelngs-Such as an
inat the boSOms of The dead Webster and Cal
houn and such yet animate the bosom OF the
hvinz EveI-tt-be cherished and initiated, and the
Union will be indeed perpstunl-realizing tie lof-
;iestand hnPpeSt destiny for itself, with the two
oceans for its longitudinal, and the North Pole
and the lsthmus OF Darien for lis atitutinnl boun
dares-civilizing, chdstianizing md popping the
American continent, and by their glorious exam
Pile and influence regenerating the human race
In the language IF the Union anthem OF Il gifted
sCn of New England who has made the sunny
South his home, would say, this day, frcm full
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