New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-02
The House on Monday.


There are cory r1mo,s chasing each other 10
Quick succession through the land, Of Appreciated
strife and carnage in the Capitol on Monds y-oi
pistols b be snapped and Bowie-knlyes b. bs bran
dished, il majority Of the Peoples Representa-
tives see ct TO vote that Slavery shall be excluded
fron, the Territories or even that California sbaiI
come promptly into the Union. One telegraph
pr diets thst blood will Aow Ike water-snother
that the Southern Members will relnquish their
seats 10 q bOdy--and - on We do not repeat
these rumors TO lit them into conscqueEce-iar less
10 intimate that they have any foundation IN truth
We mention them only that We may protest against
the counte nance given them b. silence On the part
of the Southern Members and great majority
of the Southern journals by whom they ought to be
promptly discountenaDced and branded as GROUND
less lies That the Southern Members do not intend
any outrage 90 abominable a. the commencement
or the provocation Of murderous aiiroy IN the
Capitol, is clear enough but they ought to reps
and disavow the bare possibility Of At with horror
Their silence in such crisis Is Of Itself mora
treason 1t argues that though they may loathe
the use Of revolves and sword canes to carry their
point in the House. they would not object % a tn
urnph won by the apprehension Of such immeasur-
able crmlnahty.
More than half the time since the Fedora Con
situation was adopted have tie Representatives d
the ascendant Eastern States been in minority
IN Congress They were beaten in the election Of
jefferson in the purchase Of Louisiana oyerrued
and almost ruined by the embargo dlsregarded ~
the declaration Of War in l5l2 with Great Britain
in the adoption OF the Protective Policy Of 1862
again in its substantial overthrow after they haJ
coulopned their pursuits to its dictates in the
election OF Jackson in the the Bank
in the Annexation Of Texas and in the War
upon Mexico. To these acts aud measures they
offered a decided but constitutional resistance
Nobody ever feared or imagined that their
Representatives in Congress, ON being out
voted there, would start up aud run a muck AT
their opponents like parcel Of drunken Malays-
They di once talk a little Of Dlsunlon and II very
nearly ruined them. Admonishcd by that lesson
they lett such talk thereafter to the extreme isna
tics OF either end OF the country
Why should it be credible thai the South may
resort 10 violence or Dissolution VIII a battle IN
Congress or Dsunon anywhere give them creator
securities tr Slavery than they now possess p
Win it give them dominion over California or New
Mexico Will It convince any ono now adverse
that Slavery ought IN be extended. or fnghten into
submission any one who believes that it ought not
VIII il incline any 10 compromise who would other
wise stand out no the contrary every way
II the objurgations Of Berrien and Mansum, the
svery tones of Mcdowell and Mel ane, cannot win
converts 20 Slavery Extension It will be madness Ia
try the fash OF cold steel, the concerted abandon
ment of seats, or anything Of the high ialut!ng
order. The South is stranger IN orators than IN al
most anything else, and it Will be dclirium on her
part to appeal from the frateInal counsel of free
men TO the detested last argument of Kings
Nay 1t dishonos her to have II suspected that she
is willing to profit, NOT indeed by the chances OF
bloody collision, but 10y the fear OF 1t.
Let all then possess their souls in patience, and
see what another tLegislatiycl day may bring
forth We want to see Slavery expressly eN.
cluded from the New Territories, provided there IS
a chance OF it's establishing itself there but We
want it kept out of them at any rate If there is
majority in Congress o our way OF thinking, We
expect to see it evinced by the Yeas and Nays l
beaten on either issue, we shall submit and We
will not Islander our antagonists by presumlnc that
they viii do otherwise. The topic oi difference has
been fully argued we demand the Previous Cues
ton of Congress Shall California rs she NOW Is.
without as oNds, be admitted into the Union p
You tina, are IN favor, please to say AYE