Weekly national intelligencer., 1853-09-17

agtated large line Of border have entered finally
into the tactics Of political parties and the schemes
ambitious men, outbddng, racing one another in
competition Of clamor and vehemence controversy
which England European monarchy, frstclass Pow
near to the great Of the opinion Of the world
by her press her diplomacy and her universal inter-
course had taken great persuade Europe
claim was groundess and unconscientious-all these
things announced to observers in public life crisis
at hand which demanded something than any
sble and honest man to encounters assuring glory
to him who should triumph over it. One such observer
sad Men stood facing each other with guns on their
shoulders upon opposite sides of fordable rivers thirty
yards wide The discharge Of single musket would have
brought war whose fires would have encrcled the
globe"
Is this act disparaged next because what each party
had for sixty years clamed the line Of the old
treaty waived line of agreement substituted and
equivalents given and taken for gain loss But herein
you will only what the nation has seen, the bodness
as well as sagacity Of Mr.. Webster. When the award
of the King of the Netherlands proposing line Of agree
offered to President jackson, that strong will
dared not accept 1t in face OF the party politics OF Maine
although he advised to offer her the value OF million OF
dollars procure her adjustment which his
own mind approved. What he dared not do inferred
peril suppose Yet the experience OF twenty years
Of sixty years. should have taught oil men, had taught
many who shrank from acting it, that the Gordian
knot must be cut unoosed that all further attempt
to find the true line be abandoned idle and
perilous diplomacy, and that boundary must be made
by bargain worthy of nations must be traced by the
point of the bayonet The merit of Mr. Webster is first
that he dared to open tho negotiation this basis say
the bodness appreciate the domestic dicues which
attended it, In its naturet proposed to give something
which we had thought our own for half century to
cede OF the territory of more than one Soae demand
ed therefore the assent of those States by formal act COM
mittng the State parties in power unequyocay II was
to be undertaken not in the administration OF Mr. Mon
roe elected by the whole peoples not in the adminsa
ton of Jackson whose vast popularity could carry any
thing and withstand any thing but just when the death
Of President Harrison had scattered his party had alien
ated hearts, had severed ties and dissolved connexions
indispensable to the strength Of Administration, cre
ating loud call Mr.. Webster to leave the Cabinet,
creating almost the appearance Of an unwnsness nat
he should contribute to its glory even by largest service
to the State.
Yet consider, finally how he surmounted every dicul
ty. will not say with Lord Palmerston in Parliament,
that there nobody in England who did not admit 1t
very bad treaty for England But may repeat what
l said on it in the Senate in l843 "And what does
the world see? An adjustment concluded by special
minister at Washington by which ourfths OF the value
of the whole subject in controversy is left to you your
and by which, for that oneffth which England de-
res to possess she pays you over and over in national
equivalents imperial equivalents, such as nation may
give such nation may accept satisfactory to your
interests, soothing to your honorthe navigation Of the
st. John concession the value OF which nobody dis
putes concession to Maine alone but TO the whole
country to commerce. to navigation far as winds blow
waters rol equivalent of inapprecable value, open
ing ample path to the equivalent in part for
what she receives Of the territory in disputes hundred
thousand acres in New Hampshire; fifty thousand acres
In Vermont and New York the point OF land command
ing the great military way and from Canada by Lake
Champlan the fair and fertile island of St. George the
surrender of pertnacous pretension to four millions OF
westward of Lake Superior Sir win not say that
this adjustment admits designed to admit that our
title to the whole territory in controversy perfect and
indspuabe. will not DO much injustice to the ac-
compshed and excellent person who represented the mo-
deraton and the good sense of the English Government
and people in this negotiation cannot adopt even for
the defence OF treaty which so much approve the Ian
guage of writer in the London Morning Chronicle OF
September last, who has been said TO be Lord Palmer
and YER substantially
lordshp certainly did in Parliament that the adjustment
virtually acknowledges the American claim to the whole
of the disputed territory and that it gives England no
share Mt all absolutely for the capituaon yirtu
ally and practically yields up the whole territory to the
United States and then brings back small part Of it in
exchange for the right of navigating the ST. John viii
not say this But say rs that by concession OF every
body 1t better treaty than the administration Of Pre-
sden Jackson would have eagerly concluded if by
the offer of million and quarter of land they
could have procured the assent Of Maine to it. That
treaty she rejected, this she accepts and dsparage
body when maintain that all parts and oil aspects of
this question, National State, military industrial,
her opinion is worth that Of the whole country beside
say next that the treaty admits the substantial justice OF
your general claim 1t admits that in its utmost extent
it plausible formidable and made in pure good faith
1t admits before the nations that have not been rapa
cious have not made false camor that have assert
cd our and obtained Adudgng to you the
possession Of ourfths ndispuaby, she gives you for
the oneffth which you concede equivalents, given
cqulUonts none purpose to soothe and save the
point Of honor whose ntrnscal and comparative value
is such that you may accept them equivalents without
reproach to your judgment your rmness good
fath whose intrnsical and comparative value tried by
the maxims, weighed in the scales of imperial traffic,
make them compensation over and over again for all we
concede."
But lnger too long upon his public le and upon this
of its great With what profound conviction of
all the difficulties which beset it with what anxeties for
the ISSUE hope and fear alternately preponderatng he
entered that extreme trial of capacity and good for
tune and carried it through shall not forget As
If it last night recall the time when after the Se
had ratified in evening Executive session. by
vote Of hirynine TO nineI personally carried to him
the result at his house. and in the presence Of his
wife Then, indeed the Of his glory and happi
seemed full In the exuberant language Of Burke,
stood him, and his face 10 the expression Of
the Scripture Of the first martyr it had been the
face Of angel Hope elevated and JOY frightened his
crest do not know how others feel but IL had stood
in that situation would not have exchanged 1t for all
that kings or people could bestow."
Such eminence and such hold on the public mind
he attained demands extraordinary general intellectual
power, adequate mental culture, impressive, attract
i've energetic, and great character and extraordinary
specific power also Of influencing the convictions and
tions Of others by speech. These oil he had.
That in the quality of pure and sheer power Of intel
lect he Of the first class Of is think the uni
yersal judgment Of all who have personally witnessed
many Of his higher displays and OF all who without that
opportunity have studied his life in its actions and in
fuences and studied his mind in ts recorded thoughts
Sometimes it has seemed to that enable TO ap
precate with accuracy psychological speculation,
the intrinsic and absolute volume and texture OF that
BRAIN the real and of those abilities 1t
better not to hear him. unless you could see or
for undoubtedly there something in his countenance
and bearing so expressive OF command something
in his conversational language when saying para
e modca temperate exqusitey plausible embody