New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-15


dobt She had eft ,ather mother, brother. sisters
husband and three small children, one OF them an
infant.
looked on her face with its hagsard grief
Where Compromise" were written IN brief
Icounted her tears as they fell amain'
Saving Compromises again and again.
thought of a babe at cabin door,
Where a mothers shadow shall fall no more
thought of the wisdom Of this great and
Assembled together mighty band
With armies and navies at It's command
With laundering cannon and cleaning swords
And PRAYING chaplains, and learned boards,
With their pompous words about Freedom
charms.
As they tore the babe from its mothers arms,
The tears might Ina mJvedthem They were
but men,
But what of the Compromises then
looked on her paid check again
On her sunken eyes with their scalding rain
And thought Of the husband far away,
She should meet no more at the close OF day;
Ofthe hearts all torn and the hearth laid waste ;
And, like David of old, " said in mine haste,
Some THINGS that fain would repeat below
But the Compromises say plainly, " No
Forgive nv rbyming, Mr.. GREELEY | did not
mean ~ do II; but the case OF tins poor woman
affects me much; and sadness seeks rhyme for ex-
pres, sion 1t was looking on this poor mother weep
ing for her children that determined me To come 70
Washington. | wanted TO see what the descend
ants OF our Revolutionary fathers looked Ike,
when in Congress assembled to devise ways and
means for extending the area OF such deeds OF
Chivalry 60 now into their great marble won
der and wander through its magnificent rotuhdas
aud halls its labyrinths OF stars and passages
gaze on its wonders OF art, and before me RI every
turn fits up the shadowy apparltlon OF that s0r
row stricken face. see the humble form OF that
servant woman sku.king hither and thither as
though she would escape to her children Al e!-
sry turn an impedment prevents Then there Is
n dead cold wal. There, IN the open passage
stands group of sentincs strange looking semi
nes too-chlldren and plying men, ana beautuu >
kind hearted women. There are many OF them
who would scarcely kill a worm, who would weep
that poor bird should be taken from her nesllings
but they will all form themselves into phaanxes,
with brlstling bay onets and naked swords TO pre-
vent the stricken mother iy Ing TO her chiid ny
is it sol Why is the voice OF Nature aud OF God
SUPPRESSED within US and hidden 10 he silent II
is that we may hear what the compromises say
and how honorable gentlemen talk about lew
more compromises. You, with the rest Mr.. GREE
/ LEY indulge n gcncrOUs spirit OF compromise.
1t is considered very praisevorthy TO do so; and
no doubt YOU are a very clever man; but IN this
matter your generosity does not cost you much. 1t
is very easy for YOU or any other Northern gentle
man. TO make Il bow to a Southern gentleman,
and in the spirit OF the "most generous compro-
mise agree that he may tear mother from her
babes and set her up on an auc'lon-biock To get
money to buy n race horse or gold cham and ban
ish her forever from all she has known or loved
You are nothing the poorer when The deed IS cone
4 IL a l.,a 20 Hoo nm
on to foot the bill; and il not unrequcnty costs one
of them the last remnant of HE your iormer gen
erositv had made a scene Of suffering and ton.
am little thick in the skull, and never could
understand nice distinctions in etiquette or ethics
When Mr. HARRIS of Tenn. rose the other day
with all his powers of oratory-a burning eoquence
that required those glasses OF water to prevent It's
bursting out into a flame-plcaded Tor " the rights
of the South" Just sounded to me as II he had been
saying. Gentlemen, we have rlght-a natural
/ and inalienabe right, to whip women and sell
babies Our Revolutionary fathers died on the
battle field to establish the glorious principle OF
women whipping and baby selling. Our lmmor-
tai Constitution was found to secure to us ne eX'
ercise of these nestimabe privileges; ard |, Slr,
L. Mr. HARRIS of Tenn. 10 now proclaim myself
the valorous champion OF American woman
'scourging 1t is our privilege, SIR We OF me
South here on the floor Of this House, claim the
right to sell our children with our sheep and oxen
We, Sir, il is Who can and do and &c ~ sell our
daughters to infamy and traffic in the bodies and
souls of our brethren-lea OF our brethren,
Sir-of those for whom common Savior
has shed his blood-Oi those who with us are
Joint heirs of immortality. We, Sir, ire will
carry them 70 the shambes remembering that
'inasmuch as we do it unto the least OF these His
brethren we do it unto Hun We will there b0rfer
for gold the very Son OF God himself We 1t IS
Sir who sell upon the auction block the image OF
God for handslulof silver coin We are the rear
less champions who will dissolve TINS mon
All union between ourselves and the spnlt OF
Freedom abroad in the earth-the favor OF Heaven
and the approva of all good men, for this our priv
/ 'ilege of selling men and whipping women
| could make nothing else OF II, Mr. GREELEY. l
know these are the rights for which the South con
/ tends | know 1t is qIite as common and respect
able for a Southern gentleman to horse"hIp MS
washerwoman as to smoke cigar. Know thls
for have lived there; and all the eoquence and gas
conading about Southern rights and Constitutional
compromises resolve themselves 10 this one point
the right to hOrsewhip a womsn and sell her baby
Every concession YOU make about guarantees IS
lust that much of yielding to this clamor But the
mail will soon leave have SO much to tell and
am So often interrupted cannot get time TO tell IT.
JANE @ SWlSSHELM.
A SwISpLER--A complaint yesterday pre-
| ferred before the Chief of the Police by Messrs.
Tiffany, Young Ells, jewelers. OF broahWaN'
against man calling himself DR.. VIM. II. HUI,
charging him with having on the 2sth OF March OBJ
tanned gold watch and chain, valued at 500, by
false representation 1t appears that he stated to
the firm that be had Just finished taking lectures at
the Medical College and was about starting for
Baltimore his native city. and wished 10 take the
watch and chain as present to bis sister. He
stated that he had funds in the City Bank of Batl-
more, and gave tie firm check for the amount,
which check was sent on by them and returned
protested. This fellow it appears has recently ar
rived from England, and just previous to his en-
barking he obtained twenty five sovereigns from a
Mr. CIV. Vanstavren by representing that he bad
funds in the Farmers n Mechanics Bank OF Batl-
more. For the loan OF this money be gave Mr.. V.
check on that bank Mr. V. arrived here short
time since and sen, the check 10 Baltimore for col
lection when he ascertained that no such bank was
in existence there This precious scamp IS at large,