New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-25
WASHINGTON.
Talk in ConRress-Kossuth.
Of The ". Y. Tribune.


WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 10, 1851.
Ifanew DecalOgue were to be given to
man and the Mount Sinai OF its delivery was
anywhere near Washington, we are persuaded
that number one of the series would be "THoU
SHALT NOT TALK"
Congress is a very wicked body, know, and
deserves frequent and severe chastisement, but
| am not prepared to say that it deserves the
severe affection OF FooTE's endless diatribes.
can believe in a mans deserving to be hung or
be damned, but | can't go the belief that any
sinner can be so vile as to deserve TO endure the
hearing of all FooTE's speeches. If the advo-
Gates of capital punishment believe IN the Ut
most severity of punishment let them quit hang
ing people, and put them where they must listen
to FoorE daily And if our ships OF war ind
they must have a substitute for the cat let FooTE
be sent for to talk to the sailors In both cases
we fully believe the agonzed victims would
speedily wall out, in more dismal accents than
suffering humanity has ever yet found togive ut
,erance to its woes, My punishment is greater
than can bear
The concerns of government are really con-
Germs of business but our most oihclOuS members
of Congress do nothing but obstruct 1t 10y their
CAB and this is not the worst of it. Their To-
Quacity is Infectious and TO those who don't take
the disease, it becomes a fountain of monument
hasphemies If Congress would adopt the plan
Of the British Parliament and devote the day to
,.,k and commence its session, at five In the at
ternoon, perhaps less tine would be lost. But
il il hard 20 find remedy for chronic diseases.
President FILLMORE expresses the OPINION
that Congress has done all that 1t need DO anu
will do as regards kossurH and his mission
Every brain works out It's own problems, ana
each is apt to be satisfied with It's own processes
and its own results. But there is common
placedness in the world that thinks 1t grasps
subjects when ii really N no wise lannon's VI
appreciates them or dreams OF their relations -
woodpeckcr that with grea, hustle ana ac.iV-
NV has driven abou, and about The cTcumer' nee
ola tree TIL 1t has picked all OF the insects out
oft. flies to another, doubtless thinking 1t has
exhausted It's resources. And so II has, so far
as the woodpecker is concerned. But 1t Is ex-
hausted of nothing but its woodpecSer resouT-
ces The tree still remains. waiting the mold
ING hand of skill or genus, that shall bend and
have been preparing IT.
Is il then TO turn out mere barren fact that
KossuTH was invited TO America by Congress,
has received the National welcome through the
authorities that bear sway for the millions, who
compose the Nation, and is only TO leave his
track like the foot. prints OF duck In the mud
is his advent upon our shores and his comIng
departure, the mere opening and shutting OF a
door upon its hinges Or is II potential cir
cumstsnce, like the dropping of the seed by the
husbandman, or the irving of the clouds by the
lightning he inevitably followed by widespread
results
The sublime spectacle we now behold. and the
world behoids, Of a single individual rising out Of
the very dust beneath the feet of the giant deS-
pots OF Europe, and, single handed and alone,
without any material weapon, or any ADVENT
hous and Of whatsoever nature. mounting TO an
elevation where he commands the gaze of sll
mankind, and boldly but yet modeStly declaring
has purpose of attempting 10 oveIiurn the most
powerful of European mOnarch,cs, and giving
freedom to their enslaved subjects, and 50 de-
elarng himself as 10 iniuse elveu' faith IN the
breasts of millions all over the world, from the
highest TO The lowest of every creed and every par
party wherever the grea, sympathetic heart OF hu-
manlty bestS-THAT HE WILL ACCOMPLISH MS
PURPOSE this Is, TO be sure, 40 ovory day occur
renee. And when gTea, Government Ike ours,
Acknowledges the man and recognizes his ms
sion, rs Il has done by its acts, II Is Impossible
that its first step shah be is last, unless IN the
nscrutable designs o. Providence, the great
hungarian shall suddenly cease to 1--we. JSP
Marble for the Capitol-New- York Canal Con-
tracts.
Cousspoocencs Il TIE " IIibAne
WASHINGTON, Fl.Ay, Dec. 10 1851.
From authority which dcefn reliable, |
shdsnssno ,ha, the Scientific Committee appointed
'osest The various kinds OF maraie offered by the
competitors for the con,las, ,o furnish the mate
ha Tor the outside Of the new wigs 10 the Capitol,
nave got through With they experiments aud laoors,
ssc have reported II favor Of he Ecrcnont marble.
qosned IA Massachusetts,. az beng, IN All respects
we best marble fer grea, public building which
been ofs tor srArG-~',oa IL this be true,
Nc = nj q est ~ officially with
- mhe' ,'-i afSs aSar~ NE contract
S1hcxAs, vy. SNltFgN a Co. wbo are the
nses, bloc. ol ,se Esrenor' rs-ale
speasLs cts Ton Pablo works brings
% mind the gamor that GrorcglAw, the Ocean
s'ssA Mail millionaire, is likely 10 got, =, Albany,
"e Whole batch Of contracts for the Erie Canal