The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-03
CITY OF WASHINGTON.



THUnsDAy MORNING, DEC. ., 1850.
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the Republics Assault ON tAs Speaker.
The Republic OF yesterday contains bitter, malig-
aan and disgraeefu assault upon the Hon. Howell Cobb
the Speaker OF the House of Representatives This at
lack filed as il is with vupeation. and coming as il
does from the personal organ Of General Taylor proof
conclusive Of the deliberate iasehood Of those professions
Of moderation with which Taylor noparysm has sought
odelude and cheat the country II the vndictivs out
pouring Of men, smar.ing under defeat, who have not
the decency to sndeavor to conceal the hypocrisy
which they have attempted TO palm off upon the public.
The complaint which the Republic now preends to
make against Mr. Cobb 10 based upon the fact that he
was elected by plurality and not by majority vote.
and thai. taking the chair, he promised to discharge
his duties faithfully and impanally" The Republic
argues. from the mode Of Mr. Cobbs election, and from
the promise he made taking the chair, that he had
right to give to the democratic party the prponderance he
has given it in constituting the committees We could
argue these points with PATIENCE if thought for
moment that the Republic placed any. the least, conG
dence in the business or the reasonableness of its
own complaints. But we do not and cannot believe
ii does. When it announced Mr. Cobbs election, ii
annouRced at the same time its belief that he would
discharge his duties ultra partisanan announce
ment which convicts its present complaints il they
were well founded OF deliberate falsehood This Ian
guage may be deemed harsh but we will offer no apology
for to readers. know that whoever has seen
the assault upon Mr.. Cobb. made by the Republic, will
deem no reply too harsh, when provoked by such i'm
pudent hypocrisy and dishonesty that put forth by the
special organ and mouth-piece Of the President.
The Republic complains not that the personnel Of the
committees is faulty but that the chairman of every
committee, with the solitary exception Of the Committee
Accounts belongs to the locooco parry and that ION
all the important committees he (Mr. COLBY gives the
minority lhe democratic party members, and the
majority he wings and free soers) opposed to him ToUR
members, with the single exception Of the Committee for
the District Of Columbia" Does the mouth. piece of
General Taylor remember that, before the election Of
Robert c. Winthrop 10 the Speakership, il had been the
custom for the Speaker 10 appoint all important commit
tees five Of his pary and four Of the opposite party
And does the mouthpece Of Gen. Taylor remember that
Mr. Winthrop-he presidential candidate for the Speak
ershp at the present sessondsegarded the established
CUSTOM and appointed on those committees sir Of his ovn
party. and only three Of he opposite parya And does the
mouth piece OF the President remember 10 forget that Mr.
Winthrop defended himself for that departure from csab
lished custom, and was supported by the wing party
When Mr. Winthrop took the chair, he, too, promised,
the identical words Of Mr. Cobb, to discharge his duties
faithfully and impartiay." And then we were en-.
gagged in foreign There were questions Of mo-
of family character-not between wings and
democrats alonebut between the Union and the armed
enemies of the Unionbeween and Mexico; but still
Mr.. Winthrop, elected he was BY the absence Of
gentleman from South Carolina gave all those commit
tees ntrused with preserving the national honor the
friends and sympathzers OF Mexico Now the Republic
fit to assail Mr. Cobb, while is ready to wound its
knees in humble alteration Of Robert c. Winthrop We
have never seen dishonest pretence 20 further in i'm
pudent attempt 10 dupe the people.
But there is another circumstance The Republic adds
the free-soil and wing vote together. and calls i, "a
jorty" II majority in opposition to Mr. Cobb but
does the Rspsbe contend that it majority in opposition
to the general opinions OF Mr. Cobb leaving the slavery
question Il cannot in the affirmative without
its habitua disregard Of truth And has The Republic
forgotten another important election which held not
in the hall Of the House Of Representatives. but before
the American people II il has. will refresh its
ory In the year ls4s, and in the month Of November
OF that year. an election held for President and Vice
President of the United States One Of the candidates
for President General Zachary Taylor by name. promised
most solemnly that he nopary man; that il elected
he would be the President, not OF party but Of the
country that he had friends to reward. and no enc
mics to punish and that he would make honesty. capa
city, and fidelity the test OF official merit He elected
precisely as Mr.. Cobb was elecied--by a minority
vote. The votes polled for General Cass and for MIR
Van Buren, exceeded those poed for General Taylor
by $4,000, and yet General Taylor elected. and
he was inaugurated and a. soon as he was inaugu-
rated, he called around him cabinet Of vndctive par.
tisans. and gave to il his power and authority He
authorized 10 the face Of his pledges and his promises
a crusade against the democratic party. He hunted its
members from Office without regard 10 their Qualifca
TONS and he filled the public service with the born
thralls of Cedric the Saxon"-with the men who had
supported him. or with the friends OF those whose sup
port was necessary 10 him. During all this time the
Republic pandcred to his passions, and urged him in
his relentless and vindictive course Now that
paper preends to find fault with Mr. Cobb for dischayng
his duties in obedience 10 the established precedents. and
in spirit Of infinitely more libenliiy thaa that which
marked the course Of Robert c. wnthrop-thc Magnus
Apollo OF the Republic Such conduct cannot but excite
the disgust Of all honest men,
InssIsnce and Entsssty.
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