The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-16

arresting Legislation by dlttory resolutions I; IL
! is curious fact that it has also been tried in
the English Parliament
The articles of The Chronicle, from which we
have quoted, appeared on the 2lst Of Feb.
On the 18th of the same month the ministers
introduced bill to extend the elective franchise
in Ireland, which being pressed in despite of the
demand for postponement, on the part OF Mr.
D'Israei and his friends, on the ground of its
acting as surprise, was resisted by motions
for postponernent and calls for division. This
plan was pursued until II o'clock at night, when
Lord John Russell rose and withdrew the mo-
ton. The minority received this intimation Of
their triumph with loud cheers.
Although it was not generally known at the
time, this precedent is Of high antiquity, and
was resorted to as early as the Parliament of
Charles T. 1t is strictly constitutional, and as
the Richmond Wing well observed, in the ma
turc of an irregular veto.
Those who seem obstinately bent are violat-
ing at once the spirit and the letter Of the Con-
stitution, have no right to complain Of a resort
on the part of the minority to mode of resist
ance strictly within the Constitution, and sub
stitute for resistance of more stringent kind.
The statistical information contained in this
speech, as well as the picture drawn Of the re-
sources Of the Southern section of this Confed-
eracy, also render its republication a matter of
interest TO all who have not read it. We have
made this special reference to il, chiefly on ac-
count of the curious history of its adoption both
in the English Parliament and by the Northern
Representatives, of the plan for which the latter
professed at first such holy horror
"Times change, and men change with them"
it seems, now as formerly.
~ The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Courier, who is a decided Wing, in
referring to the recent letter of Mr.. Stephens, of
Georgia, denouncing the employment Of force
against Mexico says:
&c There is no doubt, but what Mr.. Stephens has
truthfully expressed the feelings OF ninety
out Of every hundred inhabitants of fifteen of the
thirty States of this Union"
In n previous paper the same writer remarks:
" From the information that has reached here
this morning, no doubt seems to exist of the cleo
ton of Captain Reynolds, a Quarter Master in
the q. S. Army to the high civil trust of Il Sena-
tor of the United States from New Mexico The
army establishes the State Government, why
should it not be represented in the Senate! And
this, suppose, is modern Republicanism Has
there ever been a greater outrage upon the policy
| and usages of our Government than this; and is
it possible, that the fanatics of the free States be-
lieve, that the South will acquiesce in any such
! of IL. IL,
will be undeceived before long, in a manner that
they little expect"
g Never, in all my twenty years acquaintance
with public affairs at their main sourses, have |
seen such an utter confusion Party--whch when,
in popular government, it has broken down all
right and true view of public questions, in order
to give them an aspect to suit itself, usually sub
sttutes at least system of its own, less Just and
true but still comprehensive and consistent enough
to embrace the interests and the policy which are
to direct the country while one of its great dvi-
sons shall govern it in their sense and for their be-
hoof--party itself has lost its wits, fallen into an
utter distraction, and knows no longer what it is
driving att that, to the disregard Of real public
ends, which it has been long practising, has nov
ensued a still worse anarchy than even that partial
| system which one-hafofa society pursues in wied
ing power as politicians for their own benefit only
We have passed, by amentabe but most natural
progression, beyond the alternate reign of organ
Of personal cabas; and every thing seems COM
pletely at sea. We are in the midst of the most
serious public difficulties, such as ask, to eXtri-
| cate us from them, great political WISDOM temper
and patriotism; yet scarcely an atom of these
qualities appears any longer to offer itself at this
earnest call Of public necessity bnt, instead, only
deepening selfishness, wilder folly, and discosds
more incurable
"A more pitiable or q stranger spectacle than the
councils of the nation at this moment present, has
seldom been witnessed 1t is the very moral of
those COMMISSIONS and Of that ruin to which Com
monweath hasten, when, preferring their humors
of the instant to their solid happiness, and the
peoples flatterers to the peoples friends, they
abandon themselves to a senseless rage of party,
which begins by trampling on all public sense,
and speedily ends by corrupting all public virtue
until presently come-provoked by the selfish fury
with which each leader or cabal follows its own
headong desgns--dangers incapable of being
averted except bya degree of patriotism which
exists no longer then, of course, destruction is
close at hand, and nothing except the very bounty
of fate can snatch the country away from it. !"
~ The following note from Mr.. Stephens,
which we extract from the Baltimore Clipper
of Saturday, confirms our statement in regard
to the same matter.
MEssRs. STEPHENS AND TooMBs.--.9a Unbound
from Mr.. STEPHENS, member of the House of
Representatives, contradicting statement made in
the letter which we copied on Saturday from the
Philadelphia Bulletin, detailing the last illness of
Gen. Taylor.
WASHINGTON, 18th July, 1850.
.Messrs. Editors.--My attention has just been
called to a communication in your paper of this
morning, over the signature of Hen,ico, COPIED
from the Philadelphia Bulletin purporting to give
tba ATTENDING tho illpecc IF ,an
preceding his death, which contains statements in
reference to myself and colleague, Mr.. Toombs,
under protestation of repeating merely what"
the correspondent "knew to be true,'' that can
not permit to go to the country uncontradicted.
did not see General Taylor during his last Illness
nor did my colleague, Mr.. Toombs. The last in
terview had with him was several days before
his attack, and never, in any interview had with
him. was there the slightest allusion made in the
remotest degree whatever to the subject stated by
| Henrico. And | feel warranted in saying the
same in relation to my colleague, Mr.. Toombs
deem IT, therefore duty as well TO n,vseIf os In