Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-12-30
from Webster.

ieuw few extracts from a
poeOn u non Daniel Webster, in reply to
he great notification speech of the Hon X.
L Hayne of South Carolina, in the Senate
# the United Statss, Jan. 80, 1880. 1t is
low thirty yesrs since Webster, the great
eader of the Wing party immortalized
limself by his powerful aad mNetorly de-
ence Of the Union and the constitution,
,gainst the nullifers of the South; ind since
he Black Republicans of this degenerate
.ge claim to advocate and sustain the prin
iplcs of the old Whig party, these extracts
Gay serve to show how Webster estimated
edafal authority md may serve as mirror
h the .tlharlnites, Abolitionists, anti. (ugi-
ssslaYes hwites, Brownies, niger wor-
Mpper disunionists, higher-lawites, irre-
,ressible con6ietites, antislavery, Bibleites,
nd all and singular III . fag enders of fanat.
sal fanatics, fire eaters and secessionists
generally; and hypocritical would,be phil
lnthropists nondesoripts and sympathisers
nth thieves, assassns and traitors uniyer-
ally.
Speaking of the power of the States to
ounteract federal law, he says;
"The great question is--whose preroga.
We is it to decide on the constitutionality
{ federal laws2 | answer, the Supreme
'ourt Of the United States, and from j. there
no appeal but the ballot boz, or reyolu-
on Ia civil war;
a.
Again, he says:
''Ne Statcin the Union can interfere and
op the process Of tho General Government
y force Of her own laws. under any cir.
uIastances \ al will 90
8 far for popular sovereignty or the sove'
eignty ot the States as any man, but the
overeign people have put restraint upon
lie States, by their compact in the federal
onstitution. Hence, to make war, coin
loney, and enter into treaties, are acts of
'ue sovereignty, but the peope have placed
lis power alone into the federal govern
lent, by declaring that the constitution, and
ne laws Of the United States made in pur-
lance thereof, shall be the supreme law of
le land"
And finally, in reply to the disunion sens
ments of Mr.. Hayne, he says:
81 have not allowed myself to look beyond
10 Union 10 see what might be hidden in
e dark recess behind. / have not accus,
med myself to hang over the precpics of
sunion, to see whether, with my short
ght, | could iathom the abyss below.
i've me the banner of our Union, without
stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star
lscured, and every where, spread all over
characters Of living light, blazing on its
nple folds, as they float over the sea and
er the land, and in every wind under the
hole heavens, with that other sentiment
ar to every true American heart, Liberty
ID Union, now and forever, one and insep.
able"
Let all who hold allegiance to the Black
.publiean party, which openly avows ts
1tional purposes by acts and words in the
dslatiye halls of our glorious Union, pom.
-er over the past and view the perspective
ture, and they may see that Webster, too,
luld be a Democrat, if yet alive. Any
an who roads the whole speech from which
ese extracts are taken, will pronounce it a
cd Democratic speech. And we hope
at this masterpiece Of Webster may yet
rye to convert many from the ruinous her.
les Of modern republicanism. D,