New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-03
Uniou-Saving in Congress-first Days Deoae
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| election Of LINN BoYD Of Kentucky as Speaker,
I JoHs W ForNEY Of Pennsylvania as CLERK,
with the oid Segeant ALARMS ani Postmaster,
ard the Caucus candidate for Clerk. The ma
| chiuery had been well oiled, and worked with
| ont hitch On the very irst trial. Bu' before
uroce !inr to ballot, there was spicy de5ateon
Jnion- saving in general, Of which the true drit
AID puTon could scarcely be Transmitted 10y
/ Telegraph, so viii endeayor to give more de-
/ nbcIate snd lucid account OF 1t.
/ At the Opposition Caucus on Saturday eve
! mig. Resolve approving the Compromise mel-
| sures, as 4 final settlement OF the Slavery ques
ton, was submitted and on motion of Mr.. CART
! rrR Of Ohio, iaid on the table b. a decided vote
nearly two to one. The reasons very fairly
! given forthis course imported that the Compro-
misses had nothing to do with the election Of
officers Of the House. and that this was not a
proper occasion for passing judgment upon those
Peace measures but stronger reason. Gun
avowed,) for the course pursued was the general
desire to sooihe and conciliate those brethren
Who, especially from the South, had made SO
strong fight against the Compromises On the
occasion o. their enactment. and who sill regard
them with yery moderate favor. There were al
50 some stray brethren from the North TO be
won back to the common fold and L was wise
to treat their errors forboaringy
However. the fact that such vote had been
given, on becoming noised abroad, created gen.
eral buzz, and a few Bigler Wings fancled that
it afforded them an opportunity for master
stroke. so an anonymous call appeared IN the
| Wing papers OF today for Wing Caucus IN the
| Post-OMce Committee room at aiae this morning
"a, which hour many Members had not finished
their breakfasts, and not few were utterly ig-
norant OF the call. Several who had seen it sus-
pected cat in the meal and staid away. But be-
tween forty and fifty conyen ed-lorty-two Is the
highest number counted by any one whom have
consuted-and Mr. d. Outlaw OF y. c. was
called to the Chair. with HENRY d. Mo0gE OF
Pa as Secretary. A Resolve approving and sus-
tanning the Compromise measures in this totally,
as lnality, was moved by Mr. :. C. HAVEN OF
orr State. late law partner Of Mr.. Fillmore. now
President TmApDEU, STEVENS of Pennsylvania
opposed its adoption. ORIN FOWLER OF Massa-
chusetts moved that it lie on the table This
was voted down whereupOn several Members
took their hats but over thirty OF the eighty
five Wings remained and adopted them They
did not attempt to nominate candidates, but broke
up after a sitting OF thirty or forty minutes.
At T. the House came to order, aud pomlna-
tions fer Speaker were demanded. MAJOR POLK
of Tenn proposed and cuogized Linn Boyd as
a good Democrat and good Compromise man.
Hcreupon two or three Compromise Wings fan
ewing they saw an opening, rushed IN, my own
especial Representative, Hon. JAMES Brooks,
talking the loudcst He claimed that the Wing
party. by the vo.e Of thirty-odd in private room
had placed itself on Compromise grounds, while
the adverse host had rejected the Compromise
and stood nowhere He called on the latter
host TO come out, show their hands, let the Pee
pie know where they STOOD &c. &c, and not
sail under the equvocal flag OF Chase and
Preston King. blended with Gen. Bayly and
Linn Boyd He talked quite contemptuously OF
OF the Free soil Wings as a small faction which
must now swallow the Fugitive Slave Law or
be out OF the Wing party
RICHARD X. MEADE, of Va, answered very
forcibly, showing that the Northern Democracy,
if not wholly pro. Slavery, come far nearer being
so than the Northern Wings, and that II Slavery
would not trust the former it had no reliable al
lies Ill all. He analysed the vote In the Wing
Caucus, and utterly exploded the idea of the
South turning to the Northern Wings as the best
champions OF Slavery.
Col. RICHARDSON of H. followed on the same
side, but paid his respects more especially to our
Representative. He urged that the Ne'c- ork
Erpress had, not many years since, claimed Free
Soil support for the Wings as the true anti
Slavery Extension party, and that Mr. Brooks
himself, only in the last Congress, lodged the
vote on the final passage OF The Fugitive Slave
Law That law was sustained on its passage by
tcenfp.eigh Northern Democrats and only three
Northern Wings, and but one of the three had
found his way back to this Congress. Under
such circumstances he thought the South would
let the gentleman from NewYork tarry at Jerl-
cho' while before accepting him as leader and
councillor
Books explained, after fashion, bu, owned
that he regarded his vote against the Fugitive
Slave bill as HE most unfortunate act Of his hG.
The House en- Dyed broad grin at his expense,
aud | do think, if he made anything beyond
eight dollars to-day, II was not in the House.
Nor do | think any Compromise Wing capital
was made by the days operations Though
C,RELL of Florida, who split of from US last
Congress. came so far back as TO vote for 4 IL
Steyhers of Georgia man no longer elected as
or allowing himself TO be called Wing. Ifany
thing more was made, | should like to know
where That both Boyd and Forney gained votes
10y the discussion, was palpable
Finally, uncle JOSH CLIPPINGS rose to entreat
tic friends of the Peace measures, irrespective
of party to desist from rhis untImely and excit-
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agitation IN due time, and would take care that
opportunity should not be wanting for defining
positions but let the House be first Organized