Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-04-25
MRS. SWlSSI1ELM'S LETTERS No II.
w WashingtOn----eOss SpeecI---Com-
promises seneralIy--Harris's Speech.
IRvrNe HoUss, WAsHrsGToy. April

profound logic and quite number Of handsome
Grape shawls in Washington. AS have an ear
for the one and eye for the other, get sadly con-
fused between hearing and seeing 1t rather diff
icult to keep the run of all that is said on the
floor in Congress and all that is displayed in the
galleries. | might refer you TO honorable mem
bers for the ratification of this statement but hope
you will Just take my word for it. 1t may be, as
HORACE MANN says, that every faculty Of the soul
has special organs of manifestation situated in the
brain--that we see, hear, feel, love, hate by the
exercise Of particular forms every several one do
ing its own work, and this only. This appears
all correct work enough, inasmueh as We can do
several things at once but after ALL it is some
thing like the machinery OF Government. There
are many different departments, but all tend 10
one common center. The Senate and house-the
War Secretary and State Secretary, and Post
master and all the rest may be busy doing differ
ent things at one and the same time but all go to
the common center, the Judiciary or President,
and neisner can do more than one thing at time.
30 doubt II our eason-understandlng--ca dis
pose OF more and while sat yesterday and heard
the honorable gentleman explain his views lost
the entire run OF shaws and mantillas, beside es
Gaping nervous lever, by not hearing the first
part of Mr.. Rosss speech. When he rose some
one whispered me, It's only Doughface :" and
as have no particular fancy for unbaked bread,
and column hid him from view. did not choose
to interrupt the conversation Of the worthy subs-
tute of " the old man eloquent" to peep round alta
mass of -four and water. One see or hear
Northern trucker almost any day away out in the
West but only here could listen 10 Horace Mann.
the friend of Humanity, and 80 listened, and did
not hear "the man of Ross until friend came up
and whispered, "Just listen to your Pennsylvania
toady." Then | started up, looked roun1 the COL
umn and saw the gentleman. II his face is dough,
there is entirely too much saleratus in it, for is
as yellow guinea. Some one should add a
little acid, both to help the color and produce eff
fervescence. This would answer the purpose of
yeast, and make him rise " Ii will never do 10
bake him without this for BE is too fal to be whole
some.
What the first part Of his speech was | know
only by the reports which you already have
These make him say the Constitution recognizes
Slavery; but he would vote for no bill recogniZ
ing or prohibiting IT, Of course, then, he would
not vote for the Constitution. My attention was
called in time to hear him sobbing and groaning
over the Union-imploring, with hysieIical gasps,
that Members would calculate its value-its pa
lriotic ue--that Northern Democrats and agta-
tors would pause " in their mad career before ii
was TOO late" Many appeared inclined to profit
by his exhortation, stopped talking, and kept
watching the clock TO see il it were time for him
to quit. He objected to the admission of Califor-
MIA, because she is four tines as large Penn
sylvania, but said nothing about Texas, nearly
four times as large as California On the same
principle, New-York should be thrown out Of the
Union for being four times large as Rhode-Is
land. The reported accounts of the speech say he
replied to the speech Of his colleague, Mr.. THAD-
DEUS STEVENS. This is mistake. He merely
occupied fifteen minutes in personal abuse of Mi
STEvENs-raking the ashes of old party
squabbles in Stale politics, and denouncing his in
consistency in supporting Gen. TAYLOR instead
of Cass. He shook his finger, worked his body
up and down as though he had been churning on
an old fashioned Dutch churn, quivered in every
muscle, suffered and sputtered as he enumerated
the wrongs MIR. STEVENS had committed against
his native State, and declared she was ashamed OF
having given him birth. 1t is rather odd she
should have sent him here, and so MIR. STEVENS
appeared to think, for he stood up before the Spea
ker's desk, laughing heartily at the exhibition.
This Ross is reported to have said, the South
had never aggressed on the North but the re-
porters forget to add, what he did say, that the
North had been continually aggressing upon the
South THAT Pennsy ylvania herself led the way by
presenting Anti Slavery petitions to the very first
Congress that met after the adoption of the Con-
stitution. Then he declared that aggressions mus,
be stopped, and the South protected in her Constl
tuilonal rights.
A few moments before he had been wondering
how Mr.. STEVENS could have uttered his speech
while the portrait of WASHINGTON hung before
him ,---how he could dare defame the fathers OF
the ConStltutlon---Sucn men as + RANKLIN. won
der if he forgot that FRANKLIN himself was one OF
the most active Of these Anti-Slayery petitioners
whom he was now stIgmatisng as aggressors up
on the rights of others! He INDUCED in a large
amount Of gasconadng about his own State---his
own gallant little County Of Lehigh." 1fthe folks
there smart as he preiends. they will give
him his next office in coal-mine, until his com
pexion is of the proper tint for the chatel market
then send him South to fetch wha, he will bring.
He should never be permitted TO live above ground
in the State he has disgraced.
There is one thing, Mr. GREELEY, that strikes
my mind very forcibly this is the constant and
gratutous Qualifications of the Constitution.
have heard four speeches 1.-Two Pro Slavery on the
Loco Foco side, and two Anti Slavery on the
Wing side but about one fourth of every one has
our glorious Constitution Its compromises
Is wisdom.--its strength and perfection. To me
his looks as if the speakers felt that II required
praise The Constitution has been published.
hink, and most of their audience have read or can
-ead il. Is il not very strange that they cannot
rust il to speak for itself !---or that when they
rave spoken for it, and 10 one contradicted, they
cannot proceed to something else They keep
such dngdong about supporting the Constu-
ion." One might imagine it was some misera-
Die, decrepit old creature that no longer able
o totter on clutches, but must needs be held up
,n every side, and dragged along like drunken
oaier, on his road to the {" lookup"
have some considerable respect for the Con