Mr.Webster spoke but once, and then very briefly, during the progress of the debate, and soon after returned to New Hampshire.

With the exception of these resolutions, he took no active part whatever in the business of the House beyond voting steadily with his party, a fact of which we may be sure because he was always on the same side as that staunch old partisan, Timothy Pickering.
After a summer passed in the performance of his professional duties, Mr.
Webster returned to Washington.

He was late in his coming, Congress having been in session nearly three weeks when he arrived to find that he had been dropped from the Committee on Foreign Relations.

The dominant party probably discovered that he was a young man of rather too much promise and too formidable an opponent for such an important post.

His resolutions had been answered at the previous session, after his departure, and the report, which consisted of a lame explanation of the main point, and an elaborate defence of the war, had been quietly laid aside.