The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-05-16
Daniel Webster on the Encroachment,
Of Slavery.

No one can doubt tina. Daniel Webster
and Henry Clay, if they had been alive,
would have opposed the repeal Of the Mis-
souri, Compounds. Indeed, II either oil
them had been alive, and in the Senate OF
the United States, we do not believe II
would have been consummated.
No public man OF his day was more eI-
plicit and decided in his expressions of a
firm determination TO resist the enerOach-
ments of slavery, than Daniel webster.-
His declaation, in his Marshfeld speech in
1873, that there Z" had been no North, but
that the time was coming when there "would
be North" must be remembered by all
IND the purport of this declaration is very
clear to us that he then ioresaw, and intend
ed to predict, condition of parties very
like that which we now witness, although
we do not believe that he even for a mo-
mcnt imagined that the slave power would
attempt and actually consummate the IT.
peal Of the Missouri Compromise, for the
purpose of appropriatine to itself territory
that had been so long solemnly dedicated to
frecdom.-POrtldad Advertiser.
In that same speech, he also said:
eff the term free-soil party, or frcc-soil
men, designate those, who are fixed, and un
alterably fixed. in favor of the restriction OF
slavery, are to-day and were 50 yesterday,
and have been 80 Tor some time, then | hold
myself to be as good Frec-s0il man, as any
OF the Buffalo Convention. lpray to know
who II to put beneath my feet treer soil
than that upon which | have stood, ever
since have been in public life' pray to
know who is to make my lips frcer than
they always have been or to inspire into my
breast more rcSOiHte and .hred determine
tion 10 resist he adrdaces and tnerOachmsRis
ofthe siare pO,rer, than has inhabited it,,
since for the first time opened my mouth
in the councils of the country"
Some have objected to acting with the
Republicans because they don't like some of
the men who compose it. When they find
a party to which this objection will not APP
ply they will he fortunate. On this point
we commend to their consideration the fol-
lowing extract from speech made by Mr..
Webster at Philadelphia in 1911 -
"Therc are subordinate questions on
which those may diiF.r, without great injury,
who agree in general principles. And there
are questions Of temporary interest, in re-
gard to which wrong decision made now
may BE- corrected hereafter. Such are not
the questions nor before as. The questions
now before us touch, and touch vitality great
and deep, and permanent interests OF the
country.
On these questions brethren Of the same
principles must not differ.
When great principles of government are
ut stake when high and lasting interests are
MT hazard. repeat, that in such crisis,
friends must not allow themselves TO divide
upon questions respecting men, so as to de-
feat or cndanger all their own dearest OBJ
jects. -
What we do now, we cannot undo. We
do il once, and we do il for our generation,
perhaps torerer. And 50 much OF all our
highest interests, our true,t prosperity, and
,>ur best hopes, depends ON having this work
w. u done, that I say once more, say IT
trom ..hc very bottom Of my heart = .Syt
with IN. most profound conviction OF its
;mn,r,nn,e -breihrea Of same PriReipIes
D,la NOT Be ailo,rsd 10 differ Nth regard 10
men "