New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-17

kading Wing journals, had their hopes fixed upon
being the successors, a. am informed and were
somewhat disappointed when they ascertained thai
the mantle had fallen upon the shoulders Of Mr..
HALL alone. II is, however, not improbable that
one Of them may 90 into the editorial department
~ SUD to the responsible Editor
The nomination OF joan r. BARTLETT OF X /.
AZ Commissioner to run the Mexican boundary line,
m the Mace of JOHN b. WELLER was not acted
,pou Yesterday by the Senate as was anticipated,
The rumor is among the outsiders, that an opposi-
ton has sprung up that was not anticipated No
thing of fbe Kind, however, will prevent the con-
6rmstion of Mr.. BARTLETT.
The minority of the Galphin Committee are not
yet ready with their Report and will not be before
Friday Of this week. The majority conclude that
there was neither legal or equitable obligation on
the United States 10 pay this claim. They also
maintain that the interest should under circum.
stances whatever have been paid, but If taken out
Of the general rule that in such contingency interest
should only have been computed upon the principal
Of the debt from the period when demand was first
made upon the Government for it. That demand
they show never was made until in the year 1887,
and that the allowance from that period back to
1873 was without precedent and without shy adj1-
dicstion usage to sustain it. The minority insist
that the United States under the provisions Of the
act of 1885, voluntarily assumed the position of
Georgia, and should be required to do what Georgia
osgbt to have done. That Georgia, having received
the Trust Fund which was more than adequate To
pay the debt and interest dozen times over, was
bound by every principle Of justice and by every
moral obligation to have discharged this debt and
O. she had been enabled TO shirk out oft, and had
succeeded in getting the Government Of the United
States to step into her shoes the latter should act
with that justice Georgia was bound TO do, bat
failed to perform and discharge the debt principal
and interest to those who held the claim. Large
numbers of both reports will PROFESSIONALLY be
pababed, when the public can determine for itself
who has the right on their side in this controversy
There are efforts making here TO suppress, If pos
sible the publication Of the Southern sectional pa
per- These efforts are making by few leading
men Of both parties from the South, who clearly dis
cover that if the project is persisted in, it must in
evitably lead to oblter alton Of all National party
lines, and the substitution therefor Of geographical
dvisions exclusively. Some Of the ultra Northern
men, regarding both The Republic and The Lateli-
senoy as entirely too Southern in their preferences,
are for starting Northern paper to advocate pure
BY Northern principles offset to the contem-
plated Southern organ and the rest Of the city pa
pers at present published here. Who cannot see
that this state Of things will lead to consequences
that viii fiji the land with mourning, from one ex-
uemity to the other If every spark of the Con
sevative spirit of the country is not quenched the
People should rise in and protest against be.
ing anayed into sectional parties the one against
the other either for the qualification OF political
pirsnts and demagogues, or to contribute to the
morbid, sickly appetite of a wild and ungoyernabe
fanaticism. There must be mutual yielding and
generous torbearance, the one with the other or
We shall be involved in an intestine controversy,
that will make the gibe and the jeer Of the civil
lied world. The idea Of enforcing the doctrine of
Non-Action, when Texas has already, by single
stride, extended her jurisdiction over half of New
Mexico, carrying with her the institution of Slave
y, 10 death to all hope Of excluding Slavery from
that Free Territory. There must be action-and
prompt action, too and such action only be
succes sfully had under some such Compromise as
has been proposed by Mr.. CLAY. Things have gone
too far now for US to do as would wish the
danger is not distant one but is present; and we
are now driven to do the best that we can under
the circumstances The Compromise may be ev-
.eyihing bat satisfactory to the rec States, but
the great point to be decided is. whether our cond
ton will not be worse il the Compromise is rejected
than If some plan upon the basis Of Mr.. CLAY's
proposition shall succeed KSox.