Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-20
naughty South Carolinhn entered the Lists OF
the political tournament like Saladin to oppose

YANKEE CGuR DE LION
When Mr.. Webster went to the anate cham
Der to reply to Gen. Hayne. on Tuesday,
January 20, 1885, he felt himself master of the
appearance when he was to address an audi
ence, he wore on that day the whis uniform,
which had been copied by the revolutionary
heIoss%a blue coat WI, with bright buttons 6u!I
was he insensible to the benefits to be derived
from publicity, and he had sent request to Mr..
Gales to report what he was 81, t. say to himself,
The most graphic account OF the scene In the
senate chamber during the delivery of the
speech was subsequently written virtually from
Healey's picture, 1t is rather high olored.
Sheridan, after his forty days preparation,
did not commence his scathing
IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS.
with more confidence than was displayed by
MIR. Webster when he stood up, In the pride Of
his manhood. and began to address the inter-
ested mass Of talent, intelligence and beauty
around him. A man of commanding presence,
with well-knit, sturdy frame, swarthy fea-
lures, a broad, thoughtful forehead, courageous
eyes cleaning from beneath shaggy eyebrows
which Bespoke strong Will, he stood like a
sturdy Roundhead sentinel on guard before the
gates OF the Constitution. Holding In profound
contempt con what is termed spread eagle oratory
lions Of his arms as If he was beating out with
sleege hammers his forcible ideas. His perora-
ZION was SuDlme. ana
EVERY LOYAL AMERICAN HEART
has since echoed the last words, Liberty and
union-now and foreter-one and INSOFAR
able!n
MIR. websters speech, carefully revised by
ruary, and large editions Of it were circulated
throughout the northern states. The debate
was continued, and 1T was the 21st of May
tanner Of New England, brought it to close.
The northern men claimed for Mr.. Webster the
superiority, but Gen. Jackson praised the
speech of Mr.. Hayne, and deemed his picture
worthy to occupy place in the White House,
thus giving expression to the general sentiment
among the southerners. This alarmed Mr.. Van
Buren,, who was quietly yet shrewdly at work
houn, and he lost no time in demonstrating to
the 1mpertous Old soldier who occupied the
presidential chair that the South Carolina doc
trine of notification could but prove destruc-
tive to the union.
Mr.. Calhoun was not
AWARE OF THIS INTRIGUE,
and In order to strengthen his state rights pol
Icy he organized public dinner on the anniver-
sary of JeffersOn'S birthday, April 18th, 1880.
When the toasts which were to be proposed
were made public in advance according to the
CUSTOM 1t was discovered that several OF them
were strongly antt-tarif and state rights in SEN
t1ment-SO much 50 that number Of PennSyl-
vania tariff democrats declined to attend, and
got up dinner Of their own. Gen. jackson at
tended the dinner, but he went late and retired
carefully prepared at the White House, and
which fell like damper upon those at the din
ner, while it electrified the North: ''The Fed
eral Union-tt must and shall be maintained ~
This toast, which could not be misunderstood,
showed that Gen. Jackson would not permit
himself to be placed In an attitude of patron
OF doctrines which could lead only to a dlsSolu-
ton OF the Federal government: But the COM
mittee on arrangements toned 1t down, so that
II appeared In the official report OF the dinner,
sour Federal Union-it must be preserved"