In fact, the Northern grievances, according to Mr.Webster, consisted of the tone of the Southern press and of Southern speeches which, it must be confessed, were at times a little violent and somewhat offensive.

The short paragraph reciting the unconstitutional and high-handed action of the South in regard to free negroes employed as seamen on Northern vessels, and the outrageous treatment of Mr.Hoar at Charleston in connection with this matter, was not delivered, Mr.Giddings says, but was inserted afterwards and before publication, at the suggestion of a friend.

After this came the fine burst about secession, and a declaration of faith that the Southern convention called at Nashville would prove patriotic and conciliatory.

The speech concluded with a strong appeal in behalf of nationality and union.
Mr.Curtis correctly says that a great majority of Mr.Webster's constituents, if not of the whole North, disapproved this speech.

He might have added that that majority has steadily increased.