The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-10-03
OUR REPRESENTATIVES, rs. TEXAS BOUNDARY
BILL.

The question has been again and again asked
why no effort was made in the House to amend
the Texas Boundary bill and at last, one men,
ber in reply to the New York Tribune, who seems to
have in his mindthe adsge that ga poor excuse is
better than none says that efforts were made, but
were rendered anavailing because the Speaker
would not look at any one who rose upon the
Free Soil side. That gentleman had no eye for
anything but the Texas appropration-no eye
towards anybody but his own party. Gentlemen
rose as numerously, in succession, as the phantom
kings did before the eyes Of Macbeth, and they
spread out their chests and held out their hands,
and even hemmed but the impossible Speaker
looked only TO Mr.. Boyd; and so the most dis
graceful act upon the American statute book was
carried.
We admire the simplicity of the man who
could adventure this apology for one Of the most
flgrant neglects of duty and one of the most
glazing exhibitions of supineness and cowardice
.ha. have yet been perpetrated in the House of
Representatives and it would increase our admira
tion to know whether be believed it satisfactory
or not How would such an apology have sound
from the mouth Of John Quincy Adams4
Worcester Spy.
John Quincy Adams, had he been living, could
have done no more than was done on the occasion
referred to. The editor of the Worcester SPY does
injustice to the true men from the free States
who sought to defeat amend the bill The
rules of the House, enforced by a Pro.Slavery
Speaker, could not be set at naught. IL is sheer
nonsense to talk of the representatives of freemen
betraying their trust, because they did not amend
the bill. Men cannot do impossibilities. The
Speaker gave the floor to Linn Boyd-how could
Judge Allen or Mr. Rockwell deprive him of it ?
And when Mr.. Boyd got the floor, offered his
amendments, and sprung the previous question,
how could other amendments be introduced IL
was an impossibility. And when the previous
question was not seconded the ever-ready Speak
err took care to give the floor to somebody who
would move to commit and spring the previous
question on that How could that be helped
Would you have the Speaker lyncbed, and the
somebody on the floor choked off by main force :
There are plenty of Generals who can always
plan better campaign and fight better fight
than the man on whom are the actual responsible
tiles of the battle field: plenty of heroes, out of
harms way. Once for all we say, essential amend
ments to the Texas Boundary Bill were rendered
impossible by the fact that the Speaker and
decided majority OF the House were against them
The w ARLINGTON REPUBLIc continues to cul-
tivate harmony in the Wing Party by denouncing
all those sections of il that dislike the bills lately
passed. and by stigmatzing as baleful agtators
Wing Journals that venture to differ from it in
opinion respecting the adjustment. Ii is already
at loggerheads with the Philadelphia Nonh Aner-
lean, the Albany Eoenng journal, and the New
York Tfibme. This may suit Mr.. Webster, but
will scarcely advance the interests of the Admin
istration
TExAs-lt seems that the Governor of Texas
has vetoed the bill referring to the people the
proposition from the United States to purchase
territory, &c. The Legislature adjourned till
the Sd November.