Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-03-07
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Bad Policy.
WASHINGTON, Feb. H.
Mann members are certainly going 10 tne cap
..i-,,.d to-day. and rumors OF shooting are
h.r5,ed about Another rumor is, that tne ooutn
'n IL Dotv's resolution to pass on Monday,
md then Withdraw in body from the Union.
A"' Cor. Post.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.
The talk of Foote may seem bombastic, but
il is not Mr.. Do,y's resolution comes up again
in the House on Monday next, and the Southern
members have declared their determination, IN
case it is passed, to break up the House Jore,bty
every man of them being armed for the occasion.
Cor PhiLd. Inquirer.
QFThe arguments thus presented-or ready
for presentation-by the Southern members, are
very poor ones, but the policy OF the Thing is
much worse. The only rational explanation OF
such dongs would be that those engaged IN
them were afraid that compromise would be
offered from the North. and had determined to
defeat it at all hazards For surely the North
ern member who could entertain the idea OF
COMPROMISE under such circumstances would
grossly inpeach his own personal equanimiiy.
We trust, however, that there is more gas
than substance in these raw-headed stories.-
They doubtless, have some foundation, but
very slender one. 1t does not follow that there
is 10 be general fight In Congress from the
fact that some Bobadl is seen fourshing
Bowie-knife or ostentatiousy loading his pistols.
Such demonstrations are rather pacific IN their
tendency than otherwise. Speaking daggers, as
q habit, rather disinclines TO the Of them.
" Y. Tribune.
What if the thirty or forty Southern mad-caps
riihdra,p? We rather guess Congress could
get along without them. And what ifthese men
90 armed and threaten assassination-aye, and
attempt it. too' 1t strikes us that good posse
of policemen could even protect the capitol from
being defiled by blood. In any event, the au
thory of the Government is not to be destroyed
in that way: that Will stand, and they who try to
destroy it by violence will themselves perish.
The Washington correspondent Of the Tri-
bune, writing on the 9th ut, said:
"1here is no truth in the newspaper rumors
that Mr. WEBSTER designs at an early day to
offer a compromise upon the Slavery question.
All the assertions to this effect have been mere
fnesse to induce Mr.. Webster to do so. What
ever he may do hereafter, he has now no such
thing in contemplation
Let us read Noah Webster on
Fnese-artiicc s,ratagem; subtilty of con-
trivance to gain point"
Now we do not doubt the entire correctness
of the Tribune mans position. Daniel Webster
never will compromise great principle The
story that he will was but piece OF fnesse.-
The threat of Disunion is fnesse. The threat of
violence on the floor of Congress is fnesse The
Union meetings in New York and Philadelphia
are 10 be credited to-fnesse. Yea about nine
tenths of all that is written or spoken in Wash
ington on this Slavery question is fnesse, and
ought to frighten nobody.
There is a sturdy old chap at Washington who
knows how to check this game of fnesse thus:
The President. The N. Y. Tribune gives the
following extract OF letter from Washington
ssThe President is very firm, and the South
ern members are in full possession of his views
A committee of them inquired, in an interview
with him, if he had expressed himself ready to
maintain the Union at any cost. He replied that
he habitat he should blockade every Southern
port in case of an armed resistance to the col
lection OF the customs-tnaI ne should in
terpose the regular army but should call for vol
nnteers from the Northern and Western States, |
putting himself at their head, and should pour
out his blood, if needed, in defence of the Un-
ioa. He is confident that the people of the
Southern States would themselves put down any
attempt to break forcibly out of the Union
When told that the Southern members would,
in a certain contingency, secede and go home,
he quietly remarked that there would be enough
more good men ready to come in their places
The calm firmness of the Northern members is
also having good effect Mr.. Duer's bearing
in the collision with Meade is not forgotten,
while Col. Bissell's late speech, and especially
its manner, is generally applauded.