Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-01-09
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WASHINGTON, Dec. &c. 1849.
Both Houses of Congress adjourned from
Monday evening over to Wednesday next, in
order to allow the members to participate in
the observance of Christmas here, or in some
of the neighboring States.
Tomorrow some attempt at business will be
maze. Mr.. Cass has offered a resolution, in
the Senate, acquiring the Committee on Foreign
Affairs to inquire into the expediency OF sus-
pending our diplomatic relations with Austria,
on accounto of Austria's nhumaTf
the noble Magyars of Hungary. 1t will offer
a field for defamation, and no doubt the Com
mittee will report in favor of the measure.
Mr.. Bradbury, of Maine, has offered a resolu-
ton, calling upon the President for the charges
on file against the Locofocos who have been
turned out of office, and the reasons for their
removal. fit passes, the President may treat
the call as President Jackson did a similar one
he told his interrogators in the matter, that
he was responsible for the removals which have
been made, and as for the reasons which inn
PEELED the removals, they were to his mind salts
factory,
In the House, tomorrow, attempts will be
made, doubtless, to electa Clerk, a Sergeant
alarms, etc. In the end, it is quite possible
the plurality system will have to be again re-
sorted to, in order to get the officers iii ques-
ton elected.
The course of Messrs. Toombs & Co., is
severely animadverted upon by almost every
Wing one meets here, whether in Congress or
not, or whether from the North or South. Mes
srs. Toombs and Stephens, being strong in their
respective districts, may weather the storm;
but as for Messrs. Owen, Cabell and Morton,
if they have not signed and sealed their
political death-warrants-all three of them
then will I never again undertake to prophecya
self-evident thing. ~.
Mr.. Stephens still has strong hold upon the
hearts of all Wings. They hate to give him up.
They believe that he has suffered his personal
friendship for Mr.. Toombs to lead him Temporal
rily astray. But for Mr.. Toombs there is no
wing sympathy to be found. 1t is much the same
in regard to Mr.. E. Darlington Cabell.
Those two gentlemen were first and foremost
to dictate to the National Convention at Phila-
delphia, that if General Taylor did not receive
the nomination for President, neither they nor
their Wing constituents would be governed by
the action of the Convention, but would run a
candidate against its nominee. General Taylor,
happily, was nominated and elected. Then Mr..
Toombs, as is openly alledged here, cast his
thoughts upon the high Office of Secretary Of
War, but, coming to Congress and finding no
hackers here, he resolved to prevent his col
league, Thomas Butler King, from being made
Secretary of the Navy, by pressing George w.
Crawford for the head of the Department.
This scheme was successful. Next, Messrs.
Toombs g. Co., did not wish to see Mr.. Vinton
of Ohio, at the head of the Treasury Depart
ment, and hence they pressed Mr.. Ewing, Of
the same State, so hard upon the President, for
the office of postmaster General, that Gen. Tay-
lor got his danler up and sent a friend at once
to Mr.. Ewing, to inform him that he had been
selected for that station. Mr.. Toombs did not
wish Mr.. Ewing appointed in the, Cabinet; he
only used his name as a check-mate te keep
our Mr.. Vinton. As Mr.. Abbott Lawrence
would not accept the office of Secretary of the
Navy, a portion Of the Cabinet, as at first de-
eided upon, had subsequently to be remoddled.
Mr.. Toombs attempted to dictate, and proha-
bly, did dictate much on the occasion.
After the Cabinet was formed Messrs.
Toombs e. Co. were the first to dictate that no
removals should be made in the Departments
here upon political grounds. They went home,
and aftersa few weeks had rolled by there came
up letters here from Georgia Wings, saying
they had changed their minds, and that they
had Whigsfriends there who must have offices
here and Locofocos must be removed to give
them places!
Next, Mr.. Toombs comes here and under
takes to dictate to the Wing caucus that it shall
adopt a resolution foreign to the object for
which it had assembled, respecting the subject
| of slavery. Failing in this attempt he with
drew from the meeting, carrying five members
with him.
Next, he dictated to the House that Mr.. Win
throp should not be reelected Speaker-that a
Locofoco should succeed first. In this he sue
| ceedad.
Mr.. Toombs' last performance, in the matter
Of dictation, took place in the House on Sat
urday last just before the Speaker was elected.
He attempted to address the House in spite
of the resolution which had passed, that there
should be no debate. He was called to order
by fifty members, again and again. But he
persisted d in going on. He screeched and Scream
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