The New York Herald

From the Boston Advertiser.
The whig meeting at Faneuil Hall.
[A full representation of the whig voters of Boston, as could stand in that hall.]
The Hon. John P. Bigelow, Chairman of the County and Ward Committees, called the meeting to order soon after 7 o'clock, and the Hon. Joseph Bell was chosen President.
Hon. Daniel Webster, introduced by the concluding remarks of Mr. Curtis, then took the stand amid vociferous cheering. He spoke for more than an hour, reviewing the policy of the present administration, and applying its results to the action for which voters are called upon here at the next election. It was a most convincing and stirring appeal to the reason, conscience, and feeling of every one present: it showed the ground upon which the country in every election since that of Mr. Polk has disclaimed political connection with the President; it analyzed the origin and position of the President's war, and examined its pretexts, motives, and its expense: it explained, justified and applauded the course of Mr. Winthrop in Congress: and finally in most eloquent appeal it called upon every true man in the country to abjure every effort which should be made to lead him to act in opposition to the Constitution of the United States, and bade him to look to that as the great instrument of the country's prosperity and safety. No whig, Mr. Webster said, who could look for any good through violation of the constitution. Such desire had been hazarded upon the party here, but it was a false charge. No whig here contemplated any action not authorized by the constitution. Looking to our existing condition of wide spread prosperity, and our past history we could all see that the element at the foundation of all, that by which we were powerful at home and respected abroad, was the constitution of the United States. It was our duty then to frown indignantly on the first attempt to shake the pillars of this great institution of our liberty.—It was founded about the time of the great French Revolution, which shook the whole of the European world, and the influence of which was not unfelt in this country. What carried us through that eventful crisis? It was this Constitution of the United States. With him at the helm to whom its first administration was entrusted, it became the ark that bore us safely over the ocean of the world, agitated into a whirlpool, as if Eolus had let loose his storms. There were at that crisis but two helmsmen the world could boast of—one Palinurus in this country and one in the old world. The one he of whom the phrase was used that he was the pilot that weathered the storm," the other, here—greater man and greater pilot—he who not only weathered the storm, but controlled it. This Constitution, therefore, which had done so much good for us, which we now possessed and were called on to maintain and defend, was the true rallying point for all true whigs of the United States, now and forever. If we should say that because we are dissatisfied in this or that respect in the action under this constitution, we would therefore undertake to destroy or impair it, or to get rid of it, we should act most unwisely—and not more wisely than if we should desire to be able to strike down the sun from heaven, because the moon sometimes eclipses its light, and a cloud passes over its disc.
Mr. Webster's speech was listened to with the greatest attention, and interrupted by frequent and hearty bursts of applause, and was greeted at the close by immense cheering.