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WssHrScroS, February 5, 1880
Br. Cisy's Revolutions Court Martial Cap, Cooper
IN, Custom House Reuorais, &c.
Your attentive reporters will, doubt, have fur.
nishsd you Mir Clsys speech far Il preceded in
erenso, and your other correspondents will have fur.
nished you with review ofiti be 1t my humble task
to de,cribe the elect IL produeed the Senators who
will have to pass the subject matter OF Mr. Gays
disoourse ty their votes.
Mr. Clay will find himself pretty much alone. lie
has made no favorable impression on the South and
m Indifferent on the moderate men of the North
and South, and he has tailed even to conyines the
free solers The Texas Senators, who are among the
most loyal, and ready to 20 as far any Southern
men In the honorable adjustment Of the slavery ques
tion, inesnsod at It, and the In which Mr.
Cay proposes to settle tn, boundary question: and Mr.
Gays own ffisnds call ~ . tolsIably good wilmot
proTo speech only not quite 80 direct ss that though
In moral sense BY declaring slavery In the abstract
s-ropg lie ADDS oboquy to the manner Of settling the
question
SO far, the impression on Senators and members
with quite number OF rhom Of all political shades
lbave convrrssd the subject The resolutions will
probably ct'sn come ten or twelve votes not more.
thelsss immense and will have vast deal to
90 With openiBg the way for other propositions
nit to Without feeling degraded In the eyes Of
their eS,sutuents MI Clay has By his example,
BY sspsrston from the Nerth. The only question
sgsinst rheh, a. an exclusively Northern one, they
are nov united would Immediately spring up among
themselves and divide them again. The South L.
sgsrst the pressure q the North, homogeneous
whole, remove that and lite Own parts viii
OF In TAI gsDts Let the South we'll consider and pom
der hi. fact illustrated TO day by Mr. Gays argu-
ment sud IA regard to uhieh all orstorics powers
will tsenpioJs ed to merrow
one thu only seems to be settled thus far 10 Wit
that the plan Of the sdministraon TO leave the ques
ton oTen viii net be adopted by the patriotic portion
Of s.ratcrs aud members and that the plan Of the
Lving Cay cabinet to make u the leading iseae OF
the neat presidential psign. vill certainly be pros
trsted IN tlis tsrpect, Mt speech Ia Of incalcu.
liable imiotsf TO all partiss and death warrant to
the pr.sent sdninistrstion IL has shown the south
the Danger a delay while certainly has the effect to
prepare tte North for srationsl ocm promise
learn hat q curt Martial vill b. held in mediate.
~ In the ey o. N.- fors, under connodcr. stewart
vho bas received orders 70 that elect 10 try captain
Cooper Who tent cut 90 the Coast 81 Africa TO take
command 81 our sgusdron on tbs, cost but returned
account % ~ bssh without orders or leave Of the
depsrtnstt iii Cnsidered q serious case.
The oitmie,als from the various custom houses Of
.mo,,ep her. IN ws.hSgtsn The sserstsry o. the
Treasury does all for Effect 60 procure pressure on
Congress but tbs latter no more alarmed these
violent pioceedpgs than At the statement In the r.,
yuti,c that kr walker himself does not sustain the
We've adopted by the majority Of the Ccmnittee Of
WASs and Means. The chairman OF that committee
conkr,d With Mr.. waller before he made HIS report
and speech; and n Mr. waller has really changed his
mind on TIE subject he viii hare to put d,n.r
committee or the House. tbss thoss which we're con
tsiped in the leader 81 the Rppsife Ct last Monday
bs rentdyirg all the evns Ct the present. system By
6ripe both number q officers and their salaries by
Law He is nos 81 opinion that the lag Of 81 March,
1870 witch fixed the expenses 81 collecting the revenue
81 bsotoo. BY that very limitation necessarily CON
srred ON Mr. Meredith the TO reduce the salaries
of the EN- poyees, 10 meet the requisition The
law cas not be construed ss 10 defeat itself - " the
csse With the construction that MIR. Meredith would
mt upop &C. does not authorize him TO dismiss the
csrs Who necessary for the proper collection OF
ths revenue but n obgss him 90 TO remunerste their
services a. VII the reduoton In the expenses OF
coliection Indicated BY this Law.
c.y or Dr. wsssrs,.-we learned yesterday. from