Madison Express (Newspaper) - June 9, 1841, Madison, Wisconsin 1 OF SUBSCRIPTION Tlic MADISON EXPRESS will Wednesday evening at the follow ing rale For one year in advance 00 If not paid within Six 3 50 If not until the end of the year 00 Foi nix in advance 1 SO For three months do 75 to this Office must be post paid or will not receive attention The will adhered to TERMS OF ADVERTISING ADVERTISEMENTS in the at For the Insertion per of twelve linea or 91.00 For each 35 Longer in proportion liberal will bo made to who the year fi tainted it the law Tbc above terrai will be to THIS FAFER THE LAWS RESOLVES AND PUBLIC TREATIES THE UNITED STATES ARE PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY BY WILLIAM W VOLUME 2 MADISON WISCONSIN JUNE 9 1841 NUMBER 16 DANIEL WEBSTER No our country has been more falsely nrd than the present e'rftnent Secretary of State The detractions of feis enemies to have kept giant with the progress of his public fame and usefulness name is shining in he remotest corners of our Globe among bencon lights of cur glorious Republic enemies at home are pouring him the of their impotent calumny The Organ of this city has been uncommonly and minute The effect of extending the rules nnd articles of war relative to to citi zens United States would have been to expose every American citizen visiting the encampment of the American army to be charged with being a have that charge tried and determined by a drum head Court Martial and that trial followed by death It would have Withdrawn from our own citizens the great shield of American right of trial by jury ced the whole country and all bur citi fit under martial law So thought Mr he voted it So thought Mr and Mr row of South Carolina Mr n this of abuse The earliest por and i Mr of Virginia Mr Kent of Maryland Mr of Vermont or N Mr King of North Carolina now Senator trom Alabama and of the Mr Richardson lato C J of N Mr Robertson of ind many others of the warmest of the of Mr Madison and they voted with Mr and there is no more truth in this charge against Mr Webster than in the sumo charge should it ba made against Mr tho of the por tions of his loen opened history falsified lo afford a foundation for detraction As thu and fume of Daniel are now the cherished property of the nation attack on such a v ith the country is an attack the should be now mot and repelled We ask the public to rend the following masterly vindication nf Daniel not his triumphant eloquent in die n be prepared hereafter lo receive as they deserve slanders upon his ve elo not wish to divide evidence we publish it entire to the of thing ulse A frond prepared the following defence the N York Artier and exact statement of the case in regard to as appears from the and printed debates The charges i On the 7th Jan 1314 he voted a- an for defraying the expenses of Navy This U exceedingly for of Ways and Means son-in-law of Mr Jefferson the leader of the thun House of Representatives III On the of March hs voted against the to cull forth the militia to execute tho of the and repel invasion This is wholly n mistake or ing the Capital which had been destroyed by the enemy The answer given to the fourth charge is the answer to the seventh except that under the 7th head is contained also a very charge that Mr ster voted also against a to provide for the rebuilding of tho Capitol lifter it j had been destroyed by the enemy The unfairness and falsity of this charge are shewn by an examination oi he re- cord The Journal shews the following legislation in respect to rebuilding the Capitol It is to ba er that in consequence of a domestic amity Mr Webster did not take his seat in Congress in 1814 thn day of October On the September Mr Fisk of New York a distinguished friend of the administration of Mr Madison moved for a committee tn inquire into the expediency of removing the sent of Government during the session of Con- i gress to a place of better security and less inconvenience The motion pre- nyes 72 noes si This was not a party vote as the record shows On tho 3d October this committee re- ported that it was inexpedient at this time to remove the seat of but Mr Fisk himself moved to amend the report by striking out the word client nnd substituting expedient On this motion tho vote stood 63 to 03 and the Speaker Mr declaring himself for the amendment it was ted and amended resolution was re- ferred to a committee of tho whole House October 4 The order of the day on of the this subject for Mr Newton Jwo 1st the mailer is not stated ror reason for as hut appears in the debates A hili mid passed the House of s without opposition either on of ho such question voted upon dr pending IV On the only a few before the Hart- Convention ho voted against a to provide additional for ing the expenses di the Government and he public credit This reference to the Hartford I tion is for effect and to make un- fair and false impressions as it is known to all that are not ignorant that Mr nothing vto do with the Convention Tho opponents of Mr Webster hava or the again and again challenged in rain lion that he was in any manner of I connected with tho flartford for ie service moved its indefinite postponement This was agita ed yeas 61 nays no party voto as the Journal shows October 6 Tho report of the tee having been reported buck to the House from thu committee thu whole was taken up and on the question to agree to it the vote stood ayes 72 and 71 So the report recommending the removal of the seat of Government from ington to some more place was agreed to and a committee was bring in a hill October 13 Mr reported a the temporary of thi suat of Government en the h October Mr took his scut fir iha first for that session Tl 111 an j its origin or proceedings No ami mi this day ihy was taken n motion lo reject and it wus 73 Mr is to gay he voted thu of a if out of has Keen or ran ba presented Ariel yet of Navy It he charge so falsely made and so often the time and indeed i refuted continues to be repeated il is tlie Senate to I As for the rest of tha fourth allegation imite by of amendment such i it only appears that Mr Webstor was in for the public service n very small minority against a laying On 111 is ground alone the was some who had been friends the from th on various articles to some of which was very serious ob- however he It a while money Cuald be raised in other in by a leading friend of the Ad- ministration and cm which had boon in no stage of it a party vote viding for the removal of the seat of from Washington The not rejected was read a second timu and committed to a of the ot don question of regularity of proceeding j of order ot business The proposed a Street tax upon House Being repeated back from the iv The that 1 rious It laid sales committee to the it was moved to men j at auction on lie postage of on amend the by inserting a section Mr W t r on that emotion to retail wines on license to re- with Senate in spirituous liquors nnd foreign on carriages for the conveyance it well known that f persons and on plate harness whole war Mr Webster It is but to ascribe Mr constantly upon our vote against to hia to tho form of some of the taxes because tho Journal shows that a few days lie voted in the affirmative on a iion to other taxes The ayes nnd nous given in the Journal show that the voto on the tax kill red to was not liy any means a lest of parties or a party vote Most off leading opposition members voted in affirmative The Journal of the President o build October 1814 shows that Mr greater extension of our Naval asiel expenditure and nn tho wa Tlie Navy been exceedingly unpopular with the in power every body known and Mr Webster was attempting to into pop The Journal shows on the 8th IS 14 tile House went into on rnm tho the of e to eii more i liar two fole fir each ship Mr iii it the motion us lost and t Je hill many other votes 1 the kind in fourn Us for the debates show that Mr the lio means of meeting proudest sn lira time power and the Capitol should bo rebuilt on their former sites in the city of Washington which was rejected without a division In committee of the whole tho BiH had amended and uno of tho ments was to name which the Government should bj removed Tlie does not appear upon the Journal but is believed to havu been Lancaster Pci The question then baing put upon the engrossment of was Mr Webster voted in tho This was not a party vote tlic Northern men generally voting to remove the eminent to and the Southern men were against it carry a stcr proposed and voted for soine the i The heat that ins Mr Hoed j tines provided for by tins but as he this place on the 20th Octo- of other contained in Mr Lewis of Virginia whom it he voted against the whole Mr Jefferson called tho residuary thn he to postpone i of all the federalism of the State of as enemy 1 1 ilic world in then to the voto complained is it not a vole an appropriation lo defray the ex- indefinitely a tho Presi- dent of tha United States to call upon thu soveral States for respective quotas of Militia to defend frontier against invasion VI On the 13th he voted against the Tlie answer to stands oh same ground as those to soino of the pre- ceding The reason is not given but the debate a reason fair and honest Navy but a vote against at least whatever may be thought of its strength and validity Mr Webstor never gave a vote the country against repelling invasion or against ex- thu lawn He was as ready to defend the country ns the ot and ive have seen stated what ii no doubt that when Portsmouth tho town in which lie then lived was supposed to be in danger of an immediate attack Ky tha enemy no was platted on the of JOHN LANGUOR at the head of a committee for its defence In Mr speech March 1833 in reply to Mr he lunged that gentleman to show that ho ever gave un Unpatriotic during the war or at any other time lie admitted that reitk Mr he had preferred to carry on the war with England on the ocean and had indicated that preference by his votes as had Mr and others It is well known that on the casion referred to Mr Calhoun who has served with Mr Webiter for thirty in Congress and who well knew what hia votes were during the war was perfectly when challenge was made VII Me also volod against a to provide additional for the support of Government nnd the public credit and also against an appropriation for Senate to originates of large tions of money for military service was then and now many exclusively tKe legitimate ot nf to the principal of money for the support ot Would it be considered fair to charge con and the friends of Mr and supporters of the war with a proposition to withhold the means of die country lie anil voted against the nary amendment of thu Senate ly not and therefore the same charge against Mr Webster with vo ting with Macon on thai tinn is unfair if not ridiculous II On Jan 1814 he Voted against a proposition more effectually to nnd punish and spies This is absolutely mitre On Ilie Jan 1814 Mr Wright of Maryland moved the following Resolved That Committee of tbc House be instructed lo inquire in to the expediency of extending tbc second of the net for the government of the United relative to spies to the of the United States moved for a Committee to into the expediency of rebuilding tho President's house and Hie Capitol and tlie necessary expense for that purposes The resolution was adopted without objection and a which ed on the November and on th it Mr obtained leave to bring in a making an appropriation for repairing or rebuilding in the city of Washington It dons not appear that any further took place in tho in re- gard to the introduced by Mr but on the of February a ftom l-he Senate to provide for tho rebuilding of the President's house and tho Capitol being under consideration in House of it was moved that no part of the money should be expended the President laid before Congress a port stating the principles upon which the Capitol President's house and the Post Office should be with an estimate of the cost This motion was Thun Mr Stanford of North Carolina an supporter of the Administration moved that the be with in- struction to report such a change nnd plan of of the public buildings as shall comport with of theUovernmenU This motion was lost Mr of Virginia a's appears by his was of opinion that the money ought not to bv voted without some kind of change in the old plan of construction nor without Home plan being laid before the house to show whal the construction was to bo and the expense of it Mr Webster was of this opinion alao acd on the third reading of the there were 69 yens and 20 Does and the passed Mr Webster voted in tho negative nnd this is the crime he is accused of Mr Eppes the leader of the house and chairman of the c of Ways and means voted with iim Mr Farrow of S C voted him Mr Kerr of Va Mr of Pa Mr Taylor of N Y Mr Ingham of Mr of N C Mr Couard of Pa Mr Stanford of N C nnd others i launch democrats voted with Mr many of Mr Webster's political fri voted for the Thu truth it was no party ing and thora was no party vota on it and all that can be of it is that Mr Webster was not v illing to vote away thr money of tho to until he knew was to be laid and any more Mr Ep IBS Every public man kr all fair j tied men admit that jistice can bs done I lo no mun o jt a vote here and nnd publishing tl em without proper connection vithout accurately stating the omit si in aid without giving the reason on h were founded efforts of this kind have been mada against Mi Webster many and hy different but thus far The ivay in which Mr Webster himself m-t thorn may learned by the folio extracts from his speech in reply to Mr on thu March But sir before that he has something to say had prepared it lo draw Gump irisons himself j Hi had intended to say time j hail upon our opinions and conduct in regun to thu If lime Si time does allow A remark ought Rot to bo cannot b j to produce its nt that obviously to be I Why did the lo j or rny opinion the war nt all lie In J? he wish to leave an inn impression that di no or something said by not now t of defence cr justification T not with ti patrio ism 1 HI means that or nothing bring forth let him take the responsibility of the lot him state his E am day to the ti and now is hour 1 think wo road sir that of tha good spirits not thu a and what io hut -an on v I or Sir T call tor j Tho knows my whole conduct well i deed the journals show it all from the mi I cumo into till If I havn doho j then sir thine any tiling which as as love will not anv man's -let it now bo stilted j me fact tho t the Ho speaks of war ill t which is culled the late war though it s now since it 1 lie would leave I tin impression that I o it I was not in Congress war was nor in public 1 i my with and jurors and plain tills and dufi If I Inid benn in am had enjoyed of hearing tho honorable man's can say I hare concurred with hi n But I not in public life I neve r had fir a i single hour find in no situation therefore to or fte declar of war 1 ami to tho and if has any fact lei in it sir f camn int during i the war I found it vaged and i And what did I do lo oppose it 1 i Look to thn the i tax Ms up any if be to bring j up not showing opinion hut showing want of loyal y or to thu country j did not to sill that was nor honorable man i did of every measure nor did ho Tho war had f receded hy tho system nnd th As a I certainly did not well of II ed to me the us UN much as our enemies while ii cramped of the ready to answer it Sir I am glad this subject has been alluded to in a manner which me iti taking public notice of it because I uni well aware that tor ten years past infinite pains have been taken to find something in tho range of these topics which might create dice against mu in tho country The journals havo all pored over anil the reports and scraps of para graphs and have col- put together in thn and made to flare out as if hud been some discovery But all this failed The next resort was to suppose dence My letters were sought for to learn if in confidence of private had never said anything which an enemy could make usu of With view tho vicinity of my former has been searched as lighted dle New has haan exploded from mouth of tlis to White Hills In onu instance a man had lelt the gonn miles off ex- a letter was nnd j it was a was hehl to consul T it anei result was if was against Mr Webster thu i he whole combined of Europe She had been nt war twenty years She had tried her fortunes on the continent but generally with no At one time tho whole continent had boon closed against her A long line of armed rior an unbroken hostile array frowned upon her from the gulf of archangel round the promontory of Spain and Portugal to prevent him from moving from tlie track when the railroad car of death was hard upon his I have even seen people and roll into their graves like a lifeless too lazy to exert themselves in their own behalf and I expect that when the last trump shall arouse them from the foot of the hoot of italy There was slumbers they will not a port which an English ship could i themselves Upon their v enter Erery where on the land thn ge of her great enemy had triumphed defeated armies crashed tions and overturned thrones but likes the fabled yiant he wna imconqiierabUi only white touched the On the ocean ha was powerless Thn field cf famo was his adversary's and her meteor i flag was streaming in triumph all over it To her ascendency England owed everything we are now at war with her One of the most charming of be r I body of that opinion brings against mi- a charge of of ism ot h'j on many but conduct from the the 1 know thist rsn ici lifu has'had its in ti want dent love ot country Sir when I to i her of ho ul sir in what di I the of caine here was Mr fur a bank It was a war as being nee to enable te carry war wanted rcvi n ii bank it was furnish it on that account it was i You on Mr President You some the and salvation the on carrying m Ye na In this opinion I have been right or wrong but the was himself of tlie opinion told us the other day as a proof of hit independence of on great is thai he differed with his friends on tho subject of tho burgo He was ilucii eilly and opposed Co it tl furnishes in judgment nr on my patriotism or tl o soundness of my political opinions thai I was opposed to it also I muan opposed in opinion for I was in Congress und had nothing Jo do with act creating embargo And as to opposition to for carrying on the war after I e into Congress I again say let the gent specify let him lay his finger on my thing calling for ah answer arid he shall have an an- swer Mr o i ere yourself in the House during a considerable part of this time The honorable gentleman may make a Witness of VOL He may be his own witness Give i s but sorrie fact some charge capable in itself either of being or disproved Prove any thing not with and patriotic c nnd I am and growl like a dog with a sore foot because have been disturbed so soon I by a country farm house and find old hats coats and breeches stuffed in at the dow's I that the goil cf indo- lence if there in the of want wo that the lank children of necessity Is there running up to stand in the shade of neglect by dews of her poets has said of lier moral instruction I also know that tier is o'er waver idleness is pampered by the pap of Uor in on tUc i excessive wealth and that we wens at war with her I j riches abundantly abound the tares of sloth are yielding h vesi Luzy fogs surround the Head of him whom lucre has lulled to siness and he knows not how to shake off the lethargic incubus which sits upon his breast and sticks faster than n blood sucker to a eats drinks and sleeps for the of his from the of Time that roil heavily by and ia the midst of case there are DO such convenient articles us peace and ba found We my friends I known men of wealth and re- fer march I calling upon ami paying our res to her at timna I was for giving lier to knoM hat we too had a right of way over tho seas and that our marine sailors wero not entire on the of the deep I tor to its gallant arid spirit for tir fro fertil the sens ami on an open and an the eir bravest of enemy it knew thu cf ami iff its that in their hands though the rf might down to they went with it yot that j whose physical faculties never b or disgrace our a most touching her ir the vary apple of her eye for the in her IMP: clutching iit very brightest a leal of men but still a if vir i it ii a mere machine for fabric able paper It was n now form fir paper money and of country 1 thought it it er and deeper in I a speech on the it piloted let reuel and it am not of it for nny ability it hand I um not ashamed of it the it which it manifests Bu f sny a- gain gentleman himself that of the I if 1 was seduced into error or into opposition thorn sits inv What sir loading i or leading measures nf that On Other subjects men The has adverted to one one- I mean the Navy He nnd snys nt tho coin of the war Navy It was unpopular with friends who then politico of ths country Bui he he with his friends in respect he party and and was the friend and advocate nf tjio Navy Sir I him fnr it JJe IKS That gallant Navy goon fought that a man who had on it had not been sir ifi all this I the same as the Sir I do heit know when rny opinion of the of naval furee to tin Uni- ted States its origin I enn no date to my sentiments on be- cause f never entertained I coming into my nt the when Ihu navy was most unpopular when it was called by all sorts of and designated by many course epithets on one of these occasions on which j men address their neighbors I to put a boy's hand in the Navy I insisted on its importance its to our to our national character its if intended to Inin and extend our commerce opinions t brought and so far as I it j was the first or among tho first times in i which I presumed to speak topics j of tlie day that to oh thu n greater attention to tho naval I service There divers of editing the war On or on the of anel expense j which should bo on each cnt men held different I con I t looked with most tho results I of naval warfare and therefore t invoked Government to invigorate strengthen that arm of tho national defence I in it to seek its enemies thei seas go every auspicious indication pointed and where the heart and of the country would go with j Sir we Were at war greatest Power on earth England hid gained an ascendency on tho seas over had become so paralyzed with that it would extra pressure fever and ague to bring their muscles into active my dear hearers I say I have seen such inch and one good ney sweep is worth in a We'll regulated industrious community than as many such as could be packed between the eastern cape of Africa and the outskirts of eternity C tny I regret to say thai has of late become a accomplishment with too a portion of our young lation Employment is getting to bo thought vulgar and a hand not fit to be offered for the of the fair sex Give me a hand a hard and a soft vur throws me behind thi i hard hearts are now all the go gentleman or behind any other in the pimps of in honor in fidelity in devoted love quette call the BEAC The 111 ID be a propriety in as war Iho ef injuries alone It wasa war and fights was the proper nil that theatre my ardont tiutt own should be c h sir fuV and for my opinions as connected willi it And as I do not to recur to or ever unless indispensably necessary I repeat the demand for any any any allegation that country in which I was me ami which I serve I in defiance now here in place defy the honorable lo put liis insinuation in the form of a and to support chargo by any whatever si full ieng in the N Y A SEmS 05 IDLENESS 71 T DOW i R I have selected the following words lext for my present t tlic monarch lay and life away My that her broom swept ten thousand evils into the pan of oblivion still if we look into the dark comers of wild world we shall find that webs ol large and strong enough to entangle are yet hanging there obscuring the few ble rays of enterprise that yet on benighted regions The three-story of the south wallows in the mire of indolence and grows fat upon tlie gravy of the Laplander nt the North lolls in laziness and puts up with the cold porridge the besmeared of the cast snoozes in his mild built careless of fare arid content lo feed with the that of sloth arc great havoc in our neglected juvenile eries They are stripping tlie young shrubs of promise of their greenest foliage and blighting the buds of en- as fast as they appear If matters go in this way in itch longer the rising generation will soon become fit for nothing but to be hung up as in the moral grain fields to young men into habits of industry Those who subsist like wood cocks by suction wot thei brazen brows with artificial swrat are too to mention They are thicker than toads after a shower they infest our public and up the avenues to prosperity It requires a more powerful galvanic than I possess io dying and set heir dormant faculties in a healthy tier Aronic vc sons of and lands lay the corner stones of your fortunes Sow the industry in the days of your youth and you will have the satisfaction of reaping a harvest of plenty in the autumn of life If you ever think of erecting for yourself splendid temples of you must strip ambition of its of vanity and commence the work forthwith If yru fall asleep when tlie edifice is half completed the are ten to one that when you 14 1 1 vu some stray angel s u wm find u jut my friends while these half miserable models of humanity arc thus slumbering amid the of ease I want you to a sad condition their poor souls arc in Their never are thrust beyond Althy circle of some selfish their lie soaking iii the gastric fluid of their earth and its ruins overgrown with the grey moss of despair O my you must be up and a doing if you wish to prosper in this Just ing life's blessed in the in- dulgence of sluggish dreams and if yon don't eventually slide into shirtless shiftless and shoeless lot um er- i f 11 ji ji t use my hat for a spit box nnd standings arc darker than the i r J i i T- j i me down as one of the combs o codes of S n i f i 71 of aiie lint industry mv morals arc made up of nature's loose J t t i i i ers can clothe the tattered barely stuck together with r f j can ni scarlet and tic paste of instinct i XT f i i u iii broken winnows ol want with My dear is not i- u i V J ii 4.1 -i i- i the aid of that nutty which abideth ly confined to the gloomy arena ot u i 14 n v in 1 forever to its bosom heathenism It often lies at the door j 4 i u v the holiest and industrious of die of and rubs its shine p of the rocks the upon the silken frock of refinement I have seen it strew the parlors of the sleepy and round the poor man's cottage with noxious weeds I have seen it take all the stiffening out of the stoutest energies of man and cover youthful ambition with the blue mould of bity I have seen it so fasten as to die of re pose where slumber thn children of daily toil Let Us go to our long homes with he satisfaction of having done our duty to our Maker to our neighbor and to ourselves So mote it Funny cleared kicking tip her hods nt the Sou Hi t
