The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-04-21
DANIEL WEBSTER'S WAYS.

queSuonably authentic, which has
never before been related in print.
may be told of Mr.. Webster. On
their way home from the conven-
ton, which was held, we believe,
at Philadelphia, the Mississippi
delegation called upon Mr.. Webster
at his modest house on Louisiana
avenue, in Washington. 1t was
near the close Of a summers day.
when, ushered into the front parlor,
and introduced to Mr.. Webster, the
chairman, Judge Sharkey-the
same, it may be, who years after
ward was conspicuous in the recon.
struction politics of his State-ad-
dressed the great orator in terms of
lattering enlogy, saying, among
other things, how pleased he and
his fellow-delegates would have
been to see Mr., Webster's great ab-
ilities recognized in the nomina-
tiioaa of their Ioort.y f7r the pIroidcu-
cy. AS matter of fact, the dele
CATION had steadily voted against
him in the Convention. 1t was
upon this fact that Mr.. Webster's
curt reply turned. "You have ex-
pressed, Mr. Chairman" said he,
"the sentiment that your desire
and Imust suppose that your action
was in conformity to that desire
in the recent convention of the
Wing party for the nomination of
a candidate for the Presidency of
the United States-your desire and
effort was that the honor should fall
upon me. In response to which |
have only to say that the record,
gentlemen, is the other way. Good
night, gentlemen" And, -bowing
himself through the folding doors
into the rear parlor, where Mrs.
Webster sat in the deepening twi-
light, he vanished TO Mississippi
eyes, leaving his visitors, sternly
rebuked for lip service, to find their
homeward way as best they might.
1t was i'll the preceding Presiden-
tial canvass, in 1S4S, when General
Taylor was the Wing candidate,
fa fa, H HeG6fd SISTER Tia hm7atdl, ttlH on lis afm ffmt at
Marshfield, the speech in which he
declared that the selection of Gen.
Taylor-who in private conversa-
tion at Washington had been char
acterized, but uniustly, as "only
swearing frontier Colonel"-was "a
nomination not fit to be made
The speech-the only one, we think,
he made in the canvass-was listen
ed to by a large assembIage who
had come to Marshfeld for the pur-
pose, many straight Wings from
Boston and elsewhere being Of the
number, with considerable sprink-
ling ofso-called "Concience Whigs,"
ont OF whose secession from the
party grew the historic coalition
which soon after put Charles Sum
ner snd Henry Wilson in the Sen
ate of the United States. Many Of
these Boston gentlemen, we remem-
Der wore white or light colored kid
gloves on the occasion, and their
applause was diverse, as one and
another of the orators utterances
affected the divergent prejudices of
his auditory. The expression above
quoted remained III the printed
speech as Mr.. Webster made il, but
another, still more offensive to the
Wings proper, was eliminated from
the verbatim report as it stood in
type in the Office OF The Boston At
las. The Whig Committee sent a
delegation to Mr.. Webster, asking
that the obnoxious phrase might be
cancelled before the speech went to
the press. NO" said Mr.. Web
ster, ''let it stand as | spoke it,
Not to be baffied in their solicitude
fer its expurgation, one Of the Com
mIttee renewed the request in a
note to Mr.. Webster, inclo8ing a
check for $500. Mr.. Webster's
reply to this was that the expression
would as well be left out; that the
speech with that omitted would
sufficiently express his views on the
point to which il is related. So the
speech went to press without it
They may be those among our Bos-
ton contemporaries, solicitous for
Mr.. Webster's fame, who may be
moved TO dispute the substantial
accuracy Of what is here related
The fact, III its main details and
chief significance, we believe to be
susceptible Of proof, the lapse Of
thirty-two years nevertheless.
NOT IN THE CALENDAR.
If ever any man deserved to be can
onized, Dr. Thomas is the man. His
Ecleetric OIL has become an Invaluable