The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-05-21
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| Congress.
The Senate, yesterday, was occupied in the
consideration of the Deficiency BILL and the
| House of Representatives with business relat
ing to the Territories of the United States.
MIR. Hale, MIR. Preston King, and Mr.. Floyd
on the Compromise.
There have been two or three demonstrations
in Congress of late that seem to have escaped
the attention of our contemporary of the Union
We cannot but be surprised at this oversight
Our contemporary watches these matters with
more vigilance when they occur in the WING
ranks. He manifesis very great apprehension
lest the WHIGs should dodge the Compromise
at their National Convention. He is shocked
and chagrined beyond measure at the position
which General ScoTT occupies on this subject.
Buthe ignores what is going on in the ranks of
his own party He can find no words to waste
on the recent speech of Mr.. HALE in the Sen
ate, in which he warned all parties to let alone the
Compromise. The still more significant speech
Of Mr.. PREsToN KING in the House of Repre-
1t amounts to a solemn warning to the Demo
cratic party that if they seek To endorse the
Compromise at Baltimore, they may look out
for another Buffalo stampede. Coming from
| Mr.. KING, this announcement is all important
He is one of the most subtle and experienced
gammonlsh, and mapping out the Democratic
policy i'll a matter Of course way that starlles
nobody, but which is full of instruction to those
who understand his relations to the leading
| Freesolers of his State. Ii was on Mr.. KNEES
motion that the resolution of MAJOR Polk
was tabled in the Democratic caucus. We
apprehend that he speaks quite potentially
! for the convention, as he spoke in the caucus.
| But we have before us another speech to
which we would call the attention of the
| Union, as containing much that will tend TO
divert its an1ietes from the condition Of WIG
opinion 10 that Of the Democracy. Mr.. FLoYD,
Of New York, Democrat we believe who is not
classed among the Abolltionisis. made a speech
on Wednesday. which we find officially re.
ported in the Globe Of the following day, and
which, from It's eaborateness and set form
Of words, we suppose to have been written out
by the speaker prior TO its delivery. We al
lude TO this not with the purpose Of rejecting
upon this kind Of preparation, which is en-
trely proper and unobjectonabIe; but merely
to show that certain passages to which we
shall take exception were conned in the cool
Of the closet, and not struck out by the COLI
| sions Of debate
Mr.. FLOYD, then, following in the wake Of
Mr.. HALE and p. krSG, in prepared speech
assails the Compromise measures in gross and
in detail, and denounces them as the results of
a "truck and decker of principles between north
ern and southern politicians" in which he can
see no substantial, practical benefit that has
accrued TO either party. cit is my belief"
Mr.. FLOYD says. ''that the great body Of the
Democracy, both North and South, have been
dosed with this nduseo's compound until their
gorge rises at it.. and that this tcretched Com
promise, unimportant and deusive at all
times, and now stale, fiat, and Improbable
is, for the most part, kept alive by those who
have little other claim to public consideration
than their cOnnexion with it," He suggests
that the Fugitive Slave law, which received a
considerable Democratic vote North and South,
:" may have been intended as an experiment
upon northern serriiity 10 exhibit 10 The tcOrld
Tie profound depths Of intnHy 10 rhich poll
iicians can descend" This is an improve
ment on Mr.. R,NToUL's idea Of "eatng south.
ern dirt" Entertaining these views, Mr..
FLOYD Of course advises the Baltimore Con
venion TO let the Compromise alone, "to cul-
tiyatc a friendly feeling between" the Demo
Gratis Of the North and those Of the South; to
hanonze party action; edo all things for the
{ cause. nothing for men, and leave the result
| : TO Provldence-and the Democracy"
| Now the way In which Mr.. FLOYD under
takes to DO his part towards creating friendly
feeling between the North and the South is
little peculiar. His speech shows clearly
enough that the chief source Of his hostility to
the Compromise is hatred Of the Fugitive
Slave law; aud 50 bitter is this hatred that
even ia the closet he lashcs himself into fury
whenever he has occasion to speak or write Of
any lass Of men who deem the passage Of that
law in pursuance Of the Constitution.
First II all. he arraigus the clergy. A cIcr
gyman who differs from Mr. FLOYD in his
views ST slavery and the Fugitive Slave law,
in that gcnlleman's charitable Judgment, "de
ryes his inspiration more from the cock on
his sleepe Than from the dove on his pulpit"
pulpit politics." he thinks, rs poor stuff"
| For the clergyman 10 preach obedience TO the
laws, and observance of civil and constitutional
obligations, as an important part Of christian
duty, Mr.. FROM regards as a mean and fool
ish mcddling in things that do not fall within
his "high and holy functions" But while
J thus dcnouncIng the law-dnd order clcrgymen,