The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-10-19
ME-. WEBsTER AS A srATEsMAN.


MIR. WEBSTER AS A STATESMAN.
Efffa jr1Bl Mr. Es re- is 468 e BOsi6l. Sent. ~.
Wi:aoUt passing through the preliminary
stage of the State Legislature, aud elected
to Congress in six years lrOlI the time OF his
adms TO The Superior Court of New
Hampshire, he was on his FIRST entrance into
the House Of Representatives placed BY Mr..
epeaker Clay % ihe cemmitsee of Fnrasn
Affairs, and took rank for hwih as one of
the leading statesmen of he day. His FIRST
speech had reference to hose famous Berlia
and Milan DEGREES anG orders IN Council, 10
which have alreads alluded, and 'he i'm
preston produced by il was such as TO lead
the venerable Chief Justice Marshall cish.
teen years afterwards, in writing 10 Mr..
Justice Story, TO saw: "At The time when
this speech was delivered | did not know
Mr.. Webster, but was so much struck with
ii that did not hesitate then to state that
lie was a very able man, and would become
one Of the very first statesmen IN America,
perhaps the yesy first" His mind at the
instinct scared from the principles which
govern The municipal relations sofindiyiduals,
to those great rJles which dictate the Law
OF Nations to independent States. He tells
Us, 10 a fragment Of diary kept while he
was a law student in Mr.. Cores Office, that
he then read Vattel through for the third
time. Accordingly, in after life, there was
no subject which he discussed witl, greater
pleasure and nav add with greater power
than questions OF the law Of nations. The
revolution of Greece had from IFS outbreak
attracted much OF The attention Of the civil.
lied world. A people, whose ancestors had
originally taught letters aud ar,s % mankind.
struggling to regain place in the great fam
| iIy OF independent States; he cunyulsiye
Efforts OF a Christian people, he ioundation
OF whose CHURCHES bv ihe Apostles 10 person
| il recorded ia the New Testament. TO shake
OF lie yoke o( Mohsmmedan despotism. ms.
sessed a sirsrge interest for the friends OF
Christian liberty throughout Europe and A.
mecca. President MOnroe had called the
attention OF Congress TO this mnst interest.
ing struggle in December. 1925, and Mr..
Webster returned 10 Congress ais rr tet'f.'
ment oi eight wears, a, thr representative ",
| Boston, made Die q eek aetel1fipn The .u5-
ticct OF motion atnl ! spefcl I'll tliis speech
lie treated what iig eltl58 tfthe sFeat gu,
ton Of tie day ,'e III 5ou between absa
lutte and rcsu' a@a nv cn.
gagged in srar 81 tJ6 doc.
| trines Of the i" u GaiHr
tained the duty q d
great fee pOwer "a ~.
That speech remains IA tis
day the ablest aud mos, rem n.
STRANGE against the principles q he allied
military powers Of continental Europe. Mr.
jeremiah Mason pronounced il " the best
sample parliamentary eloquence and states.
manlkc reasoning which our country had
seem His udignant protest against the
spirit uf absolutism snd his words Of sympa-
thy with an infant people struggling for in.
dependence were borne on the WINS Of the
wind throughout Chrisiendum. Tney were
read in every Language, a every colrt. in
every cabinet, in every reading room. on
every market place. by the Republicans of
Mexico and Spanish South america BY The
relurmcrs or llaly, TIE ratriuts pf Poland /;
On the Tagus, die Danube, well as 4, The
head or the little armir. us Revolutionary
Greece. The practical impression which
they made on thc American mini was seen
in the liberality WITH which eargoes Of food
and clothing, year or two allerWars were
dispatched 70 TIE relief Of the Greek, No
legislative OF executive measure was adopted