The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-10-02

only valuable for its furS. Just then DR..
ed in the Mackinaw blanket coat and
buckskin leggins in which he had crossed
the Rocky Mountaids, to plead for the
retention of Oregon. But you are too
late, DOCTOR" said Mr.. Webster, "for we
are about to trade off Oregon for the
cod tiSheries' The doctor soon con-
WINGED the Secretary of State, however,
that the valley of the Columbia was Of
great value, and it was retained. while
the settlement of the fisheries question
was left to succeeding generation.
Lord Ashburton retaining his business
habits, brought to Washington not only
Il diplomatic suite, but butler and a
cook, and rented the spacious mansion of
Matthew st. Clair Clarke. near that of
Mr.. Webster. Much of the preliminary
negotiation was carried on at the dinner
tables of the contracting parties, and
Congressional guests We're alike charmed
by the hospitable attentions of the g fine
old English gentleman and the Yam
kee Secretary of State. Lord Ashbur-
ton offered his guests the cream of Gull
nary perfection and the gastronomic art,
with the rarest wines. while at Mr.. Web
Ster's table American delicacies were
served in American style. Maine sal
mon, Massachusetts, mackerel, New Jer-
sey oysters, Florida shad, Kentucky
beef, West Virginia mutton, Illinois prai-
RE chickens, Virginia terrapin, Maryland
crabs. Delaware canvas back ducks. and
South Carolina rice birds were cooked by
Monica, and served in style that made
the banker diplomat admit their super
iority to the potages, sauces, entremetS,
ragouts, and desserts of his Partisan
white capped manipulation of casseroles.
Mr.. Webster's papers in the negotia-
tons with Lord Ashburton are models
of skillful reasoning, and his letter on
impressment is regarded as diplomatic
masterpiece. He not only had to con-
teuu Will ~ pidctlCll duu lpllSleu
diplomat, but to manage hayward
President, an unfriendly Senate, hos
tile House of Representatives and the
State governments of Massachusetts, and
Maine. When leading merchant con-
graduated him on the result, he thanked
him and said: "There have been periods
when l could have kindled a war; but,
sir, remembered that was negotiating
for Christian country, with a Christian
country, and that we were all living in
the nineteenth century of the Christian
ero. My duty, sir, was clear and plain
Mr.. Robert c. Winthrop was one Of
the most accomplished gentlemen in the
House of Representatives. He had sue
ceeded Mr.. Abbott Lawrence, a Boston
merchant, who, having amassed large
fortune, coveted political honors, and
was a liberal contributor TO the cam
paign fund Of his party. Astute and Oh
serving, he imagined himself a repre-
sentative of the merchant princes of
Venice under the DoSeS and England
under the Plantagenets, and he spoke i'll
u measured, stately tone, advancing his
ideas with pesitiveness that would not
brook contradiction. On several coca
sions he had been one of "the solid men
of Boston" who had contributed consid-
cradle sums for the pecuniary relief of
Mr. Webster, and this embroidered him
to assume a dictatorial tone in advising
the Secretary Of State to resign after the
Ashburton treaty had been negotiated.
The command was treated with sovereign
contempt and thenceforth Mr.. Lawrence
looked upon Mr.. Webster as ungrateful,
and as standing i'll the way of his own
political advancement
(To BE Continued