Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1843-12-30
From the Washington Globe pec.1.
Congress.

In the inmate, no business Of importance was
to-day. &
The House took up the unfinished business of
yesterday, being the resolution and amendment
concerning the election Of printer. There is al
ways painful travail when the Globe is connect.
ed with this subject. The House was detained
by number Of amendments. and qeestiUns OF
order, and speeches thereon, before proceeding to
III: election. In all likelihood, no vote would
have been had to-day, but for demand Of the
previous question; and even the decision of the
House that ethe main question shall now be put
was arrested by point Of order, assuming that a
vote Of the previous question did not intercept
amendments and bring up the main question, or
preclude debate, under parliamentary law. The
Speaker decided otherwise; and then there was
All appeal from his decision to the House. The
Speaker was sustained by an almost unanimous
vote; and the resolution for the immediate cleo
ton Of printer passed, and the proceedings was
entered upon. Blair & Rves were elected over
Gales & Seaton by vote Of l24 to g.
Newton Lane was elected Sergeant-at arm.
Jesse Il. Dow was elected Doorkeeper ovel
Joseph Follansbee, by vote Of l25 to 3d.
The publishers Of the Globe would be Justly
deemed insensible, if they were not deeply and
gratefully impressed by the infexible and zealon.
support they have received from the Democracy
of the House on this occasion. 1t would be ar
rogating too much for themselves, however, t.
suppose that the great interest manifested for then
in the late ompetition--whch was SO effectualy
baffied by the sentiment of the party as not t.
show itself in the House-had its origin in per.
sonal considerations. Vastly more important re-
suits were aimed at by the Republican Represen-
front in the selection Of the Speaker and othei
organs Of the House, than any considerations ap.
pertaining to the individuals chosen. The antag'
onists of the Democratic party looked to the com.
petition among the candidates for stations to b.
bestowed by the suffrages Of the Representative:
of the Democracy, Comprising the greatest party
majority probably, ever known in Congress- t.
disclose all the supposed latent dissension, which
as forerunner Of that destined to invade the ma
tienai convention in May next, would tear The
party to pieces. 1t was insisted that the indica
tons given by the House, in selecting the friend.
of this that rival for the Presidency, would b,
construed into declaration of its preference fol
one or the other. Upon this ground, the enemie
Of the cause predcated their appeals to the par
ticular friends of each of the distinguished mel
designated by public opinion as competitors TO
the nomination of the national Democratic con
vention, and urged that they should stand aloo
from all consultation with each other-come t
no agreement among themselves, but call in tn,
common enemy to join with this or that section
Of the party, and allow them to dispose of tn,
controversy to suit their own interests.
In this way, those candidates who were in til,
minority oftheir own party, by calling on thei
Wing allies, might, it was inferred, command ma
jorities, and rise for the moment themselves, BY
defeating their own party. In word, ssdivid,
and conquer' was the watchword with all wht
preferred private to public considerations. TIL,
influence and patronage of the Administrator
were brought 10 bear, and pressed to the utmost
to increase the schism which the selfish feeling
Of all whs sought to profit by them were but too
prone to originate. From the far East to the "a
West, all the Tylerized Democrats Of any not,
were here, including the ofice-holders and thos,
expecting office. They arrayed themselves un
der the standard Of the Democratic rival for tn,
Presidency whose interest happened to FREEDOM
mate in the districts in which they lived, arr
were incessant in urging their instructions as con
stituents, and their official influence and applian
ces, as make-weights the opposing scale 10 tn,
candidate preferred by the majority Of the party
The Presidents private secretary, we learn. Ger
tainly, made the most urgent instances TO prom
inent men, and anxiously pressed coalition 0
all portions of the Democratic party opposed Il
Mr.. Van Buren, with the Administration, in tn,
effort to prevent the selection of the Globe estab
hshment for the public printing. 1t was urged
as an indirect but significant reputation Of thu
pretensions of Mr.. Van Buren, by the Represen.
tatives of the people in the new Congress, il
which Mr. C!ay's friends would Cordially coop
crate. Such blow, it was argued, would utter
" PROSTATE Mr.. Van Buren, in the eyes Of Ii,
country, and relieve all rivals of his dangsrou.
competition
How nobly all these insidiops attempts were
rehuked by the honest and patriotic Representa-
tives of Democracy in Congress, is known to
every one who had an eye upon this scene
Not friend of either Of the Democratic rival.
for the Presidency would look upon any as the
candidate Of the party, but such as were made Sc
BY its own will, declared by previou. decision
of a decided majority; and for nominations so
presented, the suffrage of the party was, in eff.
feet, unanimous. And this is the way in which
the friends Of all the democratic asprants dispel
the expectations of federalism, that the Balti-
more convention is pregnant with feuds. The
House Of Representatyes-the immediate enla-
nation Of the popular vote from all quarters ofthe
Union-has proved that undninii!y is the result
Of its consultations. No bargainings-no COM
promises-no pledges were made to produce
harmony. The great controlling motive which
prevailed, and adjusted all differences, was the
public good, considered by all as only attainable
by submitting to the fundamental principle of our
institutions--the wiH of the mass. We have
never known this law 50 cheerfully acquiesced
in, or an occasion in which there were greater
incentives-we might say temptations-to resist
it, than were furnished in the late organization
of the House. The democracy never had reason
to be prouder of the triumph of its principles,
than the purity, patriotism, and disinterestedness
of its Representatives have furnished on the re-
cent occasion.
The Senate, to-day, reelected its officers Of
the last Congress. Mr., Beale, the door-keeper,
came within one vote of being ousted, as being a
decided democrat. The Federal Senator to
whom Mr.. Beale is indebted for his place acted
considerably for his party in not extirpating the
little remnant of Democracy in attendance on
that body. The grand sweep in the House Of
Representatives made by the victors Of 1910,
who thought no democrat worthy of any Office,
has been Justly retaliated by the present House.
The hard-cider campaign of the Senate, after
breaking the Globes contract, and dismissing its
publishers, were content with barely orersla~sh-
ing Mr. Beale. To have inundated him at this
session, in cold blood, after making MIN such a
remarkable instance of mercy in the hot pursuit
Of 1871, would have been too savage, and might
have been remembered.
In the House, Mr.. Barasrd's continuance to
stick his protest on the journal, against the sense
of the body, was further discussed. A vast deal
o. .necial pleading has been employed in sup
nor; OF his legislative trick, which displays very
the professional refinement and
nol;ticai oLI;on,,- w,.;ch characterize Whiggery.
The amendment Of Mr. G;'mer to strike out the
protest and leave Mr. Barn.,a's resolution with
out it, was adopted.
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