Martinsburg Gazette And Public Advertiser

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Tennessee, to the editor of the Journal, dated

KNOXVILLE, (Tenn.) March 10, 1830.

"I see that Foot's resolution is still before the Senate. I have read Judge Barton's Speech. For pungency of satire it is certainly unsurpassed. If any other man, than the infamous and degraded author of the East Room letter had been the subject of it, my compassion would have been aroused; but knowing the truth, and feeling the justice of what was said, I involuntarily exclaimed, 'lay on McDuff.' I heard Mr. Webster's second speech read to a crowded room of Jacksonians. It was read alternately by Gen. ——, and —— Esq. two of the most critical, talented, and distinguished friends of the old Hero in this State. The reading was commenced just before the bells rang for supper. Supper was hastily despatched, and all returned with eagerness to the speech. The reading was resumed, and finished with the utmost avidity. Long as that speech is, when the reading was through all seemed to wish that it had been longer. During the reading there were frequent and enthusiastic bursts of applause by the whole crowd. Several passages were encored by the audience, and read again. Gen. ——, and Mr. ——, are both anti-tariff, and opposed to Internal Improvement by the General Government; in a word, they are great sticklers for State rights; but on this occasion they bowed with profound deference to the majesty of that giant intellect, which is visible in every paragraph of the whole speech. They questioned no position: they gainsayed no argument; but admitted that both for argument and eloquence, that speech was equal if not superior to any thing they had ever read: and with a candor that does them much honor, they admitted that General Hayne was routed and driven from the field. There happened to be two or three friends of the late administration present.—After all was over, one of them asked Mr. ——, in the presence of General ——, if Mr. Webster's speech had not made a proselyte of him? — and — both quickly answered that they "never had been for the South Carolinas doctrines."