New-York daily tribune., 1842-08-30
II He TRIB u NE.
fousress-gvork nud Working BaerraLsrs-
TWessrs. Aliem OF Ohio, Phelps nrd Hall
of Vermont.
From orr Special Correspondent

The Senate has Dcen iaDorlously employed dur
ing the whole of this excessively warm day, from
10 o'clock in the morning until nearly tonight,
upon the Tariff bill, principally in voting upon
amendments and in short and rapid discussions
upon many Of them. Contrary to general cxpecta-
ton, the question upon the adoption of the amend.
ments collectively, was not taken, and the Senate
adjourned after most patient session Of nearly
eleven hours. I presume that the bill will be
nassed tomorrow, and sent back to the House,
where it will probably pass without difficulty.
During the many years of my observation of the
aongs of Congress, Ihave never witnessed greater
unrerni,ting and laborous application to business,
than ba. been evinced by the Members Of the pres
en Congress. and believe that the records of the
two Houses will show the truth Of this opinion.
Yet no Congress has ever, within my knowledge,
received so little credit and so great share of
abuse as the present. Several reasons can be
given for this--ihc attention and expectation and
hopes of the People have been directed to few
important aud all-absorbing measurcs-Bank, Ta-
riff, &c.--and in the interest excited by them all
minor measures seem to have been forgotten. IF
the People could have locked, during this session.
into the Committee Roons-the real laboratories
ofthe Capitol-;hcy would have discovered that
faithful, solid hard vork, early and late, morning
aud evening" has been the order of the day with u
very large proportion of the Members of the pres
ent Congress. And they would have discovered
that the really valuable men in Congress are not
those who make the most noise or the longes.
speeches. cannot better illustrate this subject
than by the mention ofn few individuals.
Take, for instance, that man Allen, from Ohio,
wl,o makes more noise than any ten men in the
Senate. This man (and the same is true of many
ofhis pary) never does any of the business of the
Senate, nor is he capable of doing it, He never
shows himself in Committee Room, (unless it be
when he sends the messenger for something to
drink, when he is pretty certain to folloT 1t into
seme convenient Committee Room near at hand,
but leaves the immense work of investigating the
vast amount Of private claims and other matters
which come into the Senate, to be performed by
Others. In a body so small as the Senate, and in
which there is so large number of Committees
and SO great an amount Of work to be done, it is
necessary that every man do his duty, and not
shriuk or sneak from its performance otherwise
either great wrong is done to individual claimants
or to the country, or the labor of the aihess Mem
bers must be performed by others who can and
wilwork. OF those who have distinguished thom-
selves during the present session in the faithful dis
caarge Of their duty in this way, might name
many in both Houses, but for the sake Of contrast
to the very Honorable gentleman just named,
| will mention that of Senator who is o member
Of two of the same Committees with him-Mr.
PaELPs OF Vermont, wins has during this session
filled the place and discharged The daties of Chair
man Of two Committees, that on Revolutionary
Claims, and also of the Committee on the Militia,
and of arorhing member of the Committee on
Pensions, oi the Committee on Indian Affairs, OF
the Committee on Claims and, believe, ct one
o.her-in each of which he has done more work
than any ten speech-making Loco-Focos in Con-
sress who rail at the majority for spending the time
and money of tho nation. believe that there is
not another man in Congress who has periormes
as inuch hard work and saved the Government
more money by the detection ofimproper or fraudu-
lent claims and few who have done nearly as
be said Of his colleague HALL, in the House. /
take pleasure in doing justice to these and other
men whose labors and whose powers of investiga-
ton are so great, but who de not force themselves
upon the notice Of the country BY long and ire-
quent speeches F. Q.
VOICE FROM THE SourH.-The Wings OF
Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, at
their recent Mass Convention, issued an address
to the people. They hold the following language
which, though jast and true in every respect, is
somewhat new in the quarter whence 1t comes;
q And can we be much longer deaf TO the self
preserving principles Of protection, whilst one OF
the most powerful commercial and maritime peo-
pie on earth, and one TOO with whora wo deal the
largest, closes her ports against our provisions
taxes our cotton and burdens our tobacco with an
impost, which, under high prices, exceeds more
than fifteen times over, the primo cost OF the art-
Gle in our barns and warehouses Or shall we
close our arms in thoughtful disregard of the tu-
ture, until, as the signs Indicate OR great South
ctn staple is superseded in English looms by a
similar and cheaper commodity from the British
Eas, India colonies, and until our workshops are
broken no, eur manufactures dismantled, and our
hardy mechanics turned adrft TO starve, or to beg
their way upon the co!d charity OF merc'less
world Where, then, when there Is no market
at home or abroad, will the planter find buyer
for his cotton, and who will encourage the farmer
BY purchasing the surplus product OF his labor a
glance into futurity will teach US, that 1t We are
not wise enough to prepare by tirne' under the
sanction of the Constitution, for great coming
events the day is not far off, perhaps, when the