The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-12-24

ARe memsers Of the House Of Representative
are az their CID habits again They can't or doa't
cave on their custom Of speaking to Bnncombs.
pn the 18Th inst. resolution was offered to take
away from the Speaker Of The House the appoint
nent Of the committees on Territories and ON the
District Of Columbia. This movement was made
Y order to expedite ihe organization Of the body
nut any such attempt meets with small favor from
NE ultraists either Of The North or Of the South
several members took occasion Of the resolution to
express 40 length their opinions about the Union.
slavery in California, in the District of Columbia
ETC., etc, Now, although man of plain sense can
soc little connection between the resolution and all
the talk which was had on the occasion about dis
union and resistance, still we must not conclude
mat the speakers had no object in view when they
We're delivering their fiery and eloquent addresses
inr. Ioombs, and Mr.. Stephens, and Mr.. billiard
must surely have intended somethinq bv their
splutter on the 18th.
But although these gentleman meant something
by their speeches. it is hardly probable that they
meant exactly what they said The fact is that
the members who were so violent, on the 18Th. in
their diatribes against Northern men and Northern
manners, are those who have been hitherto re.
garded as rather lnkewam in their advocacy of
the peculiar rights and institutions of the South.
Il has heen charged against them that they have.
on several occasions, shrunk from what were con-
sldered their duties as Southern man. How is il.
then, that Messrs. Toombs, Stephens and Hill
lard-all three regarded as highly conservative
IN their political ideas-should place themselves at
the head of the party which talks about disunion
II the Wilmot Proviso is passed
When man has gone a little TOO far on one side
and finds himself somewhat compromised he is often
driven as far in the other direction in order to
what he has lost by his first false step. So it
seems to be with the Georgia members and their
Alabama aid. Their constituents have probably
thought their representatives little too cold in their
defence OF Southern interests, and hence those
members are obliged to make up, by an extra sup
ply OF heat the coldness they have hitherto mani
issied The explosion of the 18th was, therefore.
not intended 10 do any damage its only object was
to make little noise, and help along the getersup
of the affair.
Ihese gentlemen were so anxious to set them
selves right before their constituents, that thew did
not consider how inopportune was the manifesto
non Of the 18th. A resolution was offered: a fair
cnahee Tor making speech was presented and so
these gentlemen took off their coats and went To
work with vengeance. Not only was the time
for their demonstration badly chosen, but tbeirsvs.
tenn Of taetics-their arguments-was i'll arranged.
III selected They pronounced for dissolution of the
Union in case the Wilmot Proviso was passed
through Congress. Now, if anything was to be
SAID, they ought to have declared for disunion in
case the WilmOt Proviso became the law of the
land. The mere passage Of a bill through Con-
gress, and the signing of it by the President. do not
make the bill a law Of the United States. The
Judiciary must pronounce the bill constitutional or
II is no law. Hence the Georgia and Alabama
gentlemen were talking Of revolution before CON
means ofresistance have been exhausted
They were using language which, in some conn-
tries, and those not the least advanced in civilza
ion, would be considered ILLEGAL and traasnnnhle