The weekly Butte record., 1858-12-18
Jefferson Davis and Daniel Webster.

Jefferson Davis and Daniel Webster.
In a late speech in Fanuel Hall, Bos
ten, iowa ds the conclusion Of his re-
marks Jefferson Davis used the follow
ing words:
It has been not only, my friends, in
this increasing and mutual dependence
Of interes is that We have formed new
bonds to bind US together. These bonds
are both material and mental. Every
improvement in the navigation of rivers,
every construction Of railroads, has Of
fered new reason for our being to-
gether. Every new achievment, wheth-
er in art or science, in war or manufac-
lures, has constituted to us a new and
glorious memory, and that has afforded
new bond, new sentiment, holding
us together. Why, then, will ask
again, why do We see these lengthening
shadows which fall in the course of our
political history? Is it because the
sun is declining in the herizon2 Are
they indeed the shadows Of the evening,
or are they, rather as hope and be
lieye, but the miSts which are eXhaled by
the sun when it rises, and which are to
be dispersed in its meridian glory
Are they but the little eyar escent
clouds which fit between the people and
the great purposes which the Constitu-
tion was ordained to establish | hope
fully look for that reaction which shall
establish the fact that our sun is yet in
the ascendant, that that pail which has
so long covered our political prospect is
to be drawn aside, that we are again to
be divided in opinion upon measures of
expediency, in discussions as to the
rights of the States and the powers Of
the Federal Government-suc discus
sion as is commemorated by this great
picture between your own glorious
statesman, Webster, in the Senate Of
the United States, and our boast and
pride, the great and incorruptible Cal
houn. These men stood in opposition
in political sentiment, yet they warred
not against each other; they stood in
an afectionate relation to each other,
and never did l see Mr.. Webster so
agitated, and never did | hear his voice
so falter, as when he delivered his eulo-
gy upon John c. Calhoun. But allu-
sion was made to my own connection
with your great fayorite and departed
statesman. Upon that | will only say,
on this occasion, that very early in the
commencement Of my Congressional
life, Mr.. Webster was arraigned for an
offence which afflicted him most deeply.
He was no accountant, as you all know
and he Was arraigned on charge of
having misappropriated what is known
as the ''secret service fund" | was
one Of the committee appointed to in
yestigate that charge. endeavored to
examine the evidence with view to as
certain the truth. 1t is true that I re-
membered he was an eminent American
statesman; it is true that as an Amer
lean | hoped he would come out with
out stain upon his name; but enter
ed into the investigation to ascertain
the truth and to do justice. The re-
suit was he was acquitted of every
charge brought against him, and it was
alike my pride and my duty to vindi-
cate him in every form that lay within
my power. Loud applause. No man
who knows Daniel Webster would ever
expect him to ask less. No man who
knew him ever could have believed that
he would have asked whether the charge
was made against a Massachusetts, man
or Mississipian. No. 1t belonged to
a lower, later, and | trust a shorter
lived race of Statesmen to measure all
facts by questions Of latitude and lon
gitude. Loud cheers