It was addressed to the President, whom it treated with respectful severity.

With much skill it turned Mr.Madison's own arguments against himself, and appealed to public opinion by its clear and convincing reasoning.

In one point the memorial differed curiously from the oration of a month before.

The latter pointed to the suffrage as the mode of redress; the former distinctly hinted at and almost threatened secession even while it deplored a dissolution of the Union as a possible result of the administration's policy.

In the one case Mr.Webster was expressing his own views, in the other he was giving utterance to the opinions of the members of his party among whom he stood.