Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-07-28
Washington, Thursday, July %, lS4l.

Washington, Thursday, July %, lS4l.
An excited discussion arose in the House TO
day, in reference TO the appointment of com
miI,ee, TO examine into our present tariff, ant
report results in season for the next session o
Congress- Mr.. Wise led the way, and denoun
ced the appointment as intended to disturb the
compromise act of '33, which he seemed &c
consider of eternal obligation. Mr.. Gushing
replied TO him, and showed very conclusirely
that there was nothing in that compromise act,
which precluded Legislation for purposes of rev.
enue. Mr. Nesbit of Georgia, then took the
floor. and repelled with much spirit, The attack
which Mr. Wise had made upon him. He car
ried the war pretty freely into Africa, and
charged Mr.. w. with reasonable intentions to-
ward the Wing party. Mr.. Wise replied in
thunder; and MIR. Nesbit rolled it back again,
hot and heavy as it came.
Scenes like these are the element of Mr..
Wise, but the more he eXcels in them, the more
he dishonors his nobler nature. 1t is this pas
sion that will prevent him from being polite
statesman, or the safe leader of party He
has the elements of an orator and statesman,
but they are so wildly mixed, they will, fear,
come TO nothing John Sergeant ia like a fixed
star, pouring its constant light alike through
clouds and storms Mr. Wise is like a comet
that has broken loose from It's orbit, and flies
this way and that, till at last it punges into u,-
ter night. ! say this of Mr.. Wise with pain;
he might be great; nature has done enough for
him, but fear his extravaganza, fckleness and
fiery impulses will make him fail of his destiny.
Tomorrow the House will probably take up
the Bank Bill We shall then have plenty of
Virginia distractions, which as the editor of the
Richmond Wing very Justly remarks, are worse
than mullens; these come TO seed, but the ab-
stractions come 10 noihing.-These distractions
arc in politics, what transcendenialism is in
morals, mental shadows, which few can see and
still fewer feel. They are unworthy of the
practical sense which once characterized the
statesmen of Virginia.
The Senate have been arranging to-day the
details of the Bankrupt Bill. The probability
now is that it will pass, and without including
corporations. The President is constitutional
ly opposed to including these, and has knocked
the expectations of the locofocos all in the head
on that point They now begin to cry out
against the veto power. Applied TO charlerhg
bank, 1t is all well, but 10 exempting corpora
hons, 1t is monstrous. A fox among the hens
'of our neighbor is one thing, among our own
hens quite another.
| am quite sure we shall have a Bank, and
one that will answer essentially the great prac-
,ilcal ends of such an institution. There is a
growing disposition among the friends of the
measure 10 arrange the provisions in spirit of
.amiiy and concession. The Encouragement
of the former Bank, though it had then ceased
10 be national institution, operates greatly
against this. But because one ship has been
wrecked, is no good reason why we should not
build another 1t is reason why we should
have the new one commanded with more care.
The President has been lost, but steamers will
still traverse the ocean.