New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-08
-0ANsEa. WEBSTER AND HIS FOL
LOWERS,

On Tuesday last a large assembly met ct
rsneue Hall to discuss the state of the Union,
and 70 propose measures for its preservation.
without exception SO far Is we know, the gen.
ssmen whose names appear in the proceedings
Of the meeting, have been either before or since
his death professed admirers.Of Daniel Webster,
and believers in the political and constitutional
doctrines which he maintained in the latter years
Of his life, and subsequent to his famous speech
Of March Z, 1850. He is BY them recognized rs
an authority in all matters relating to the Con-
stitutiou, and especially 10 the relation between
Freedom and Slavery in our political system. On
AL Convenient occasions they SUMMON his great
nalne, and appeal 10 his great memory to give
sountenanoe TO their own views and projects.
In order to form a correct Judgment of the
extent 10 which the cOmPrOmisers of 1861 repre-
sent Mr. Webster aud his opinions, and how far
their pretensions are sustained by the facts, it is
5nly necessary to cite few short passages from
Que of the latest of Mr. Webster's public utter
a0ees, the speech which he made az Buffalo,
May %, 1851, in vindication Of his speech OF
March Z, and in explanation of his matured views
on the Slavery question. Here is what he said
On that occasion. Let the Northern compromisers
who are now so anxious to degrade themselves
By concessions to the South, read ard ponder:
If the South wish any concession from me,
hey won't get it--Dot hairs breadth Of it. If
they come to my house for it, they viii not
Snd it. / cOncede nothing.
40 matter what may be said at tho Syracuse
Convention or any other assemblege Of insane
yrsOns, never would consent that there should
b one foot of slave territory beyond what the
cd Thirteen States Lad of the time Of the forma-
asn Of the Union. Never, never. The man
can't show his face to me and prove that j ever
departed from that doctrine. lie would sneak
Away, or slink away, or hire a mercenary Hep
.est be might soy what merccnary aPostate
from liberty Daniel Webster has become. He
Knows himself to be- hypOcrite and falsiier.
All that now say is that with
Che blessing Of God, win not nOw or hereafter,
before the country or tue world, consent t. be
Numbered among those who introduced new slave
,0wer into the Union. l viii do al in my power
tOpreyent it,
And new contrast these manly and energetic
tc~clarations with the resolutions Of the Faneuil
HAL meeting.
Rssolred That no 10 favor Of The adoption ola
seuprouise line, TO be established the parallel Of 80
% North latitude, with tie provision that Slavery
sAal DO prohibited in all tie Territories Moth Of tho
ssad hns and shol BE- rec2gaize3 en- all tie Tcyrtoriss
sek erist"g, or that meg heTegftr BE- acquired Souk
yae sane until the people OF such Territories shall
y authorized to form State Governments, when they
sAAii continue abolish Slavery they may sec fit"
Ills is what is called the Cr.tenden Compro-
,nlse, compromise by which nothing is given
% The North, and everything is yielded to the
south. Mr.. Webster, il will he remembered, in
rs seventh Of March speech, went no further
a. ard oonciliating the South than 10 abandon
We WImOt ProSiso-that is to give up the
"fnal prohibition of Slavery in New,Mexico
ana utah, where, az 10 said, it wac excluded
" natural laws Of soil and climate. lie would
"s' eratdrtously irrtate the South BY insisting on
sPto1lbili0n where it was not absolutely needed,
s"s Is 70 say, over territories which were sure
Hlaaln practically Free But If the slave
.'1aeIs should ask more, if they should ask, as
vac Crttsnden propcs ition asks, that Slavery
.A'u 90 protected BY the Constitution in terri
.V now free from it" If tho South wish any
sooeeSelon from me- e1claims Mr.. Webster,
Mey wont get it-n0t q hairs breadth Of it.
Il conccde' nothing
"" The South would ask or that tho North
"'a'd bsten for moment to such monstrous
ss'Postons as thoso put forth by Mr.. Crittenden,
III douglas, aud tho Border-State Committee.