Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-01-22
THE REGISTER.
Jefferson County, Va.
TUESDAY, JANUARY %, 1850.
The Proceedings

In Congress and the Legislature of our
own State during the past week, have been
sufficiently exciting. It is d significant,
as well as harry thing that the excite
ment is Confined TO the Legislative Halls,
for his fact furnishes gratifying proof of
how little real danger there is of any dis
ruption of those ties, that constitute the
American race one people.
From the "noise and confusion" arous-
ed on these occasions every man of sense,
who has acquired a competent knowledge
of human nature, can make the necessary
deductions, and this being performed, we
are satisfied that the resultant will be no.
wise alarming. As actors upon the polit-
ical stage it is no wonder if our Law-giv-
ers some times overdo their part, tickling
IS the ears of the groundlings but " ma
king the judcious grieve.''
There can be butone opinion, we should
suppose, about the disposition made by
the House Of Delegates of the contempt
IDLE Vermont Resolutions. 1t was exactly
right, neither over nor under-done, and
will prevent repetition Of such imperti-
nences, i. e. if it should so happen, that
a majority of the Vermont Legislature live
under influences which inspire the bosoms
of honorable men. Not so favorably do
we look upon the agitated question OF
sending delegates to the Nashville South
ern Convention. We radically dislike
such gatherings. They have the inevita-
bic effect not only of cherishing sectional,
anti Union feelings, but of guiding and
shaping those feelings into system; they
gather up scattered nebulosities that should
be left in their original dissipation, and
concrete them into engines of mischief.
If the prolessed motives of the advocates
of Convention are also their real ones
a thing the history Of AnneXationism jus
titles us in keeping wholesome doubt
about-then they should advocate Union
Convention and not sectional one. Their
alleged object in this Convention is the
preservation of the Union, they must for
give us if we assert lis tendency TO be d.
rectly opposite. We verify believe that
at the South as well as at the North there
are men-loud, bold, audacious, crafty,
& ambitious men-whose darling purpose
is DiSunion, and that the fanatical Adolf
tionists and Agitationists of each section
are directly playing into each others hands.
In word, and before the world, they keep
up shew of bitter inveteracy for each
other, IN their hearts they are knit with
all the fervor of an amorous passion.
There are men in both sections of the
Union who are tired Of the Union it is
too regular, systematic, and orderly; does
not offer their vaulting ambition speed and
scope enough, and they are burning to
crafty the passion for novelty raging in
their breasts. For time this passion
measureably spent itself in playing out the
Texas game, in maintaining the Oregon
furry, and in prosecuting the Mexican
War, now it seeks qualification in gnawing
upon the vitals of the Union itself.
Is evidence demanded of the secret
unanimity subsisting between the En-
tremists of the North and South. 1t can
be found in the sameness of the note
they both sing, when the fit is upon them;
it is the destruction of the Union, the poor
Union, that makes the burden of their
identical cry. The Union is the common
cage against whose bars they chafe and
beat, in their restless struggle for change.
The dumb shew of hostility kept up be-
tween the Northern and Southern branches
of the Anti-Union party is, we admit for
the most part, adroitly maintained, but ma
ture will out, at times, and shew how
things really do stand behind the screen.
That was beautiful touch of human ma
ture, when, on Thursday, Dec. 81, ls49,
in the House Of Representatives, the fol-
lowing scene took place:
Mr.. WILLIAMS called Mr.. Giddings to
order, on the ground of irrelevancy.
The SPEAKER said that if the gentle
man was called to order, he could not pro-