New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-15
MRS SwISSlIELMS LETTERS...No. IL.
Wn.binatou-Ross's Speech-COmprom
geperaIIy-IIarriss speech.

M
geperaIIy-IIarris's speech.
Cores pondeuce Of The Tribune.
IRyrxc HOUSE, WAsmISCTON, Thursday Aprll H.
DEAR Mr. GREELEY There is great deal OF
profound logic and quite a number OF handsome
crane sbawls in Washington. AS l have an ear
for the one and an eye for the other get sadly con
fused between hearing and seeing. 1t is rather dli
cult TO keep the run of all that is said on the floor
in Congress and all that is displayed IN the gale
ries / might refer you to honorable members for
the ratification of this statement, but hope you VIII
Just take my word for it. 1t may be, as HORACE
mann says, that every faculty q the soul has spe-
cial organs of manifestation situated IN the brain
that we see hear feel love, hate, by the exercise
of particular forms, every severalone doing its own
work. and this only. This appears all correct
enough inasmuch as we can do several things at
once but after ALL it is something Ike the machine
~ of Government. There are many different de
partments but all tend to one common center. The
Senate and House--the War Secretary and state
Secretary and Postmaster and all the rest, may be
busy doing different things at one and the same
time Int all 20 10 the common center the Judiciary
or President aud neither can do more than one thing
at time. So doubt if our reasOn-understand-
| iug-can dispose of more and while sat yester-
dav and heard the honorable gentleman explain ms
! views lost the entire run OF shawls and mantll.
! las beside escaping a nervous fever. by not hear
| ing the first part of Mr.. Ross speech. When he
rose some one whispered me, " It's only Dough
face - and ] have no particular fancy Tor un-
| baked bread, and column hid him from view, |
did not choose TO interrupt the conversation oil the
worthy substitute OF the old man eloquent to
peep round at a mass of flour and water One
can see or hear a Northern trucker almost any day
away out in the West but only here could listen
to Horace Mann, the friend OF Humanity, and so /
| listened and did not hear the man OF hoss untll
friend came up and whispered, Just listen 10
| vour Pennsy lvania toady" Then | started up,
| looked round the column, and saw the gentleman
If his face is dough- there is entirely too much sa
lera,us in it, for it is as yellow as a guinea. Some
one should add little acid both to help the color
and produce eilervescence. This would answer the
purpose of yeast, and make him rise IL VIII
never do to bake him without this for he is too Hat
to be wholesome.
What the first part of his speech was know
enlv bv the reports which YOU already have.
These make him say 'the Constitution recognizes
slavery but he would vote for no bill recognizing
or prohibiting 1t OF course, then, he would not
vote for the Constitution. My attention was called
in time to hear him sobbng and grooming over the
UnlOn-implOring, with hysterlca gasps, that
Members would calculate its vafue-its patriotic
value-that Northern Democrats and agitators
would pause in their mad career before II was
TOO iafc" Many appeared inclined to profit by hls
exhortaton, stopped talking and kept watching
! the clock to see If 1t were time for nm To qnt II
| objected to the admission OF California, because
she is four times as large as Pennsy wanna, but
said nothing about Texas, nearly four times as
large as California. On the same principle, New
| York should be thrown out of the mon for being
four times as large MS Rhode Island. The re-
ported accounts of the spe oh say he replied to the
speech Of his colleague, Mr. THADDEUs STEVENS
This is a mistake. He merely occupied fifteen min
| utes in personal abuse of Mr. STEvENs-rakIng over
the ashes of old party squabbes in State politics and
denouncing his inconsistency in supporting Gen.
| TAYLOR instead of CAss He shook his finger,
worked his body up and down as though he had
been churning on al old fashioned Dutch churn,
quivered in every muscle, suffered and sputtered,
as he enumerated the wrongs Mr.. STEVENS had
committed against his native State, and declared
she was ashamed of having given him birth IL Is
rather odd she should have sent him here. and so
Mr. STEVENS appeared to think. for he stood up be-
fore the Speakers desk, laughing heartily at the
| exhibition.
This Ross is reported to have said, the South
| had never aegressed ON the North; but the re
porters forget TO add, what he did say, that the
North had been continually ageressng upon the
South--that Pennsylvania herself led the way by
presenting Anti Slavery petitions to the very first
Congress that met after the adoption OF the Consti
tuition. Then he declared that aggressions must be
stopped and the South protected in her Constltu'
tional rights
A few moments fore he had been wondering
how Mr. STEVENS could have uttered his speech
while the portrait OF WAsHINGToS hung before
him how he could dare defame the fathers OF
the COnstitutiOn-such men as FRANKLlS. Won
der if he forgot that FRANKLIN himself was one OF
the most active Of these Antl-Slavery petitioners
| whom he was now stigmatlslng rs sggressOrs
upon the rights OF others He INDUCED IN a large
| on, of gaScnpaiinr ahout his Sfafp--hls
own gallant little County OF Lehigh' 1.-THE folks
there smart he pretends they will give
him his next office IN coal mine until his com
pcxion is OF the proper tint for the chaitel market
then send him South to fetch what lie will bring.
He should never be permitted to live above ground
| IN the State he has diseraced.
There is one thing Mr. GRIZZLY that strikes
my mind very forcibly this is the constant and
grstuitous gloriiicetons of the Constitution.
| have heard four speeches-two Pro Slavery on the
| Loco FOco side, and two Anti Slavery on the
wing side bu. about one fourth Of every one has
our glorious Constitution its compromlses-lts
"lsdom-its strength and perfection. To me this
.0oks as the speakers felt that it required praise
Inc constitution has been published think, and
most OF their audience have read or can read 1t !
is IL hOt very strange that they cannot trust il TO
SPEAK ior itseii or that when they have spoken
for 1t, ana no one contradcted, they cannot pro
| coed t. something else : They keep such ding.
| utuS aONut supp. thg the Constitution. One
migh imagine It was some miserable decrepit old
creature that was no longer able 10 totter on
cruches. but must needs be held up On every side.
and dragged along ike drunken losfer. on his
road to the lock up.
| have some considerable respect FOR the Cons,i
tuition and am sorry those who should bes, under
stand it, think so weak as TO require such con
tnusl bostering up, propping and defending
clustering swaggering blowing. a Dragging
Strength should bring csmness The conscious
ness Of integrity should ses folks at their case and
the nervous easerness with which these gentlemen