The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-05-02


himself any trouble about the Era.
Mr.. WEBSTER, LiNE-oF-BATTLR SuIp.-Mr
Webster has some high-fown friends at the South
The Richmond (Va) Republican says
at is only upon an extraordinary occasion that
such man as Daniel Webster can fully devotion
his gigantic proportions. Like the Pennsylvania
line-of battle ship, he requires deep water and a
heavy gale to exhibit his capabilities to advan-
tage. Your Phillipses, and Garrisons, and Hales,
and Stewards, can foat IN washing tub, Ike so mani
eockroaehes Navigating shingles, and unable TO SEE
ouer the top Of their wooden nails belnue that the
rest of the world lts better than outside baybq-
rians' Webster does not belong TO This eromd"
The imaginative editor unceremoniously leaves
the cockroaches " to navigate their shingles"
and converts Mr. Webster into second Isaac.
about to be laid upon the altar. There are men
in Massachusetts,, he says, who would strike him
to the earth for his last noble effort in the Senate
"They would compare themselves to Abraham.
carrying his son Isaac to the altar, and raising
his paternal hand to slay his frst-born, when
they are in truth more Ike the STUPID ram rho ,r0s
looking on from The Hcket, and into mhose throat me
patriarch plunged The sacrifeial knife instead of that
Of his son. Let them bear in mind that there
is much more resemblance between an Adolf
ZIONIST and a sheep, than there is between nm
Abolitionist and the Father of the Faithful twho
himself owned some hundreds of slaves and educe
from the scriptural narrative profitable and
practical moral ~
The man is uncommon smart at figures.
The Resembling RESOLUTIONS OF THE MIcHIoAY
LEGISLATURE, releasing General Cass from all
obligation to vote for the Provso, were passed in
the Senate by the casting vote of Lieutenant Gov
ernor w. M. Fenton, who was elected as a pledg-
ed Wilmot Proviso man. In the House, the vote
stood, "a yeas, 20 nays Twenty members were
absent.
The Penmsular Freeman remarks-
!" Where were the other twenty members, who
should have been present, and voted on question
so important as this? Did they dodge the qucs-
ton, or were they absent, and advantage taken Of
their absence, and the question brought up at
that time, pnrposely, when it was known there
was majority present favorable to the resolu-
tions2 The latter seems to have been the factn
We hope the Freeman will not rest satisfied
with supposition. Let the names of the non.
voting members be published and their party
designation be given. Ii looks very much as if
they were conniving at an act they did not dare
to sanction openly.
INDEPENDENT DEMocRAT IN. H)-The Iads-
pendent Democrat of Concord, IN III has com
menced its sixth volume. No journal in New
England advocates with more power the cause of
liberal principles 1t says;
whether by our aid or not, we have seen q
great revolution in the five years now gone The
question of the restriction of human slavery which
at that time was not mooted, save in our own MT
tie State has come to swallow all other questions,
and to shake the very Union to its centre. On
this question: to-day, Congress, in both Houses,
Is divided into two nearly equal parties; each
struggling for the mastery, and each doubtful Of
the issue How far this great change is due to
the men who first joined that issue in New Hamp-
shire, 1t does not become MS 10 say. This much
we can say: VIZ STRUCK THE FIRST BLOW"
And it viii live to strike good many more
blows.
WAXING uP--We see the Wing papers are be-
ginning at last to understand the movements OF
Messrs. Clay and Webster, and toacensure them
for their undisguised opposition to the Admins
tration Ii is said that General Taylor too has
got his eyes open. There is some danger 'na'
Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Webster may ind themsea'e'
abandoned by the Wing Party, and len '.'a
with General Cass at the head Of the anu
is.ration Party, with the Wsshins'o" o"D~ %
their priucipal organ. The other day Nr |iay
undertook to berats the Wing o'na'0'' 'O' '"'
,,v0r ,h.v nd shown the Presidents policy
Th.v ,r.a.,rsd his words up In their hearts, and
they will yet repay them with interest