Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-01-15
THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES.


TON referred TO vote Of the Senate "
1876, il appeared from the list Of yeas and
"a, tina, the Senator from Missouri IS the
only man now belonging to the S mats
who was Senator then. Some twenty
years have wrought great changes in the
Senate and elsewhere. A new genera
ton is now in the field with here aud there
a veteran of the past.
A corr spondent Of the New York
Journal of Commerce, who notices the
TACT above alluded 10, goes on 10 give a
nrIef sketch OF The present Senate of the
United States-lhus
We may still boast of our Senate,
though its dignity and ability must suffer
knd Of diffusion or dilut,on sioug with
It's continual numerical expansion. New
States IN 1 eli youth and wIIdness cannot
be expected to send ripe scholars and fin
lshed Statesmen. Hence the narrow
fame OF some, who are nov enrolled IN
the number OF American Senators. But
give them time. There are nsmes among
THIN, If winch We have not heard I'LL
their election was announced. But every
man iere rises or sinks 10 his merlted lev.
e. The law OF hydrostatic pressure is
scarcely more certain. TINS body must
however always have its ornaments. -
Thus the giant Webster is again among
them with his massive proport ons oil body
aud of mind his deep toned voice and
his intellectual head and face. Honest
John Davis too is here once more in oil
his integrity and stability both of them
The boast Of their friends, and the objects
of respect TO their msgnsnlmous oppo-
nenis; they are men of whom Massacnu
sells may justly be proud. And how is
her old sister Virginia represented here
Respectfully, GO doubt, by Messrs. Ar.
cher and Penny hacker. But the bow q
the Archer will probably be unstrung
though II has abode in strength, and in him
will retire true gentleman and a high
min ed Virgnian. and man Of much ex-
actness Of manners, rendered more rigid
perhaps by habits Of "slngle blesssd ness. -
TO him w.llsucceed probably Democrat;
but where now are the G'leses, the Tszs.
wells, the BaIbours, the Lieghs, the Rive.
SEES, and many more oil that order Penn
sylvania as usual sends her sturdy names
-mtn who speak little, but vote steadily
--her Sturgeon and her Camera now
sustain her dignity. But no Buchanan is
Ihere,-a speaker, thinker and writer,
for whom nature has done much both IN
voice aud manners, though she appears To
have made up singular tumble OF oppo-
site qualities IN constructing his outer man
Ii Is difficult 10 say whether on the VIII lie
he Is a good looking man or not. The
prepondersnce is IN favor of the affirma-
tive. South Carolina seldom fails. She
delights to concentrate the very essence
OF her august chamber. Before the SUI
ptemscy OF this dea, the Rmlable and IN.
telIeent Huger pronounced Hug'e) the
descendant If the Huguenots, bws and
makes way for Calhoun, a standard man
IN the republic amid al his varieties. null
bus add,cfus jurare in rerba upagisiri; lu-
minous, pthy, logical, rapid. stroog IN ar
gum, nj, and stern IN conclusions; wear
ing a network of ST. ell around his brilliant
theories, and finding a reason Tor every
thing 10 the CONSTITUTION. See his busy,
black magnificen, eye. Behold the shorl
sharp angles Of that pregnant Uranium;
the multfuld wrinkles which acute think
ing has Gu: over the surface OF that anx
ious face. He has come 10 take hIs place
by the side of McDuffie, whose physical
prena,urity Of deer ptude seems to mock
81 Of ~ In Ia
testable duellIng that i,should nave plan.
ted an ineradicable bullet deep IN The body
of such man, teszing, worrying, paraly
zng a child of int, llrct, sensibsny and
eloquence. The mind scorns The shack.
les, but cannot escape them. No! his
mind is vigorous, vehement, and will speak
out. Maryland, too, rises in reputation
with her Johnson. Expectation waits for
him. Georgia continues TO ask attention
to her graceful berren, the model Of a
dignified Senator. Alabama is weighty
N her huge Lewis, the observed of all
observers. conloined to Bagby, no mean
gladiator. k-ntucky sustslns her life and
power m thu strong cool, compact, saiiri.
cal, cur.uscatng Criitenden, and her Clay
like MOI, h. al. Missouri rests firm on
the broad shoulders Of her ancient and in
deatigable Benton. Little Delaware re-,
joices in her astute, polite, fluent Clayton,
never without danger TO be trfl"e with.
Ohio snds her popular and sarcastic
Corwin, strong for every thing no under
takes. Arkansas her Sewer. sharp as the
crack Of Western rife. Michigan her
Cass. dgnifed and weiehty. The En-
pre- State. with touch of ALTERATION sends
her DIX and Dickinson. And so on TO the
end oil the chapter. Honorable Senators
ali. What an arena Tor intellectual con-
Hlct A six months conflict before them.
twenty millions of people looking ss,hem!
Aye. the world, And beyond this ''visl-
bile dlurnal sphere" the solemn shades OF
depated statesmen! "Act we'll your part
there all the honor lies"