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The Troy (N.Y.) Register praises Daniel Webster's speech at Faneuil Hall in Boston for its appeal to unity, good sense, and elevated principles, criticizing factional discord and urging leaders to move beyond old political feuds to focus on current issues.
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"When you listen to such a lofty appeal to your good sense, to your best principles of political action, to your most elevated and elevating feelings as a citizen and a man, how painful, how abhorrent, are the shrill and vulgar sounds that are screamed out from the catcalls of faction! There is not, at this time, a single man in the Union, distinguished for his abilities and his publick zeal, who does not in the main coincide with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Webster. No matter how long they have been on the political stage, and how deeply they may have been engaged in past conflicts, the great men of the nation, the patriarchs of patriotism, and those on whom the guidance of affairs has since devolved, all unite to deprecate the perpetuation of old party feuds. "Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof," is a maxim which it is as important to act upon, with reference to the past as to the future. Let divisions exist, if you please, but let them exist without dissension: above all, if you wish to see justice and publick spirit prevail, let them be formed with reference to the actual state of things and pending questions, not with reference to controversies long since passed away and principles long since settled and agreed on."
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Faneuil Hall In Boston
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The Troy Register notices Webster's speech as a lofty appeal to good sense and principles, contrasting it with factional noise, noting broad agreement among national leaders to avoid perpetuating old party feuds and to form divisions based on current issues rather than past controversies.