The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-06
Our Washington Correspondence.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 1852.
xossxth- Congress-7he House Mi~ority-Ag'ta-
tiom-Excaement-Li Of Subscribers to the Con.
gressiowal Dinner, &c.
Tho appointed Introduction Of Kossuth to the
Senate today, was postponed till Monday next.
The postponemsnt lie, no doubt, the result Of the
failure of the House to adopt similar welcome to
that of the Senate; and it has been made in the
hope that to-day TO- morrow the House will have
acted on the resolution for the committee Of five to
wait upon Louis Kossuth, and introduce him into
the body. Otherwise, the welcome to Congress will
be sided affair-leaving one house In favor OF
Hungary, and the other on the side of Austria and
Russia
The tactics of the minority Of the House, In oppo-
sition to the resolution of Mr. Cartier, on Wednes-
day, dscloses new game of revolutionary efficiency
in the hands of minority large enough to control
quorum of the House. The plan is. when the
question is being taken, for the minority to with
draw from the Honse, or refuse to vote; the House
IL thus left without quorum, and call Of the
House takes up another half hour. On the call, a
quorum appears to be present but whom they pro-
coed to vote upon the resolution, the minority again
disappear, and the necessity is thus repeated for
another call of the House. There is no end to this
simple revolutionary plan of resisting the will of the
majority. Had this plan of action been adopted in
reference to the tariff of AZ, the tariff Of 49, the
bill could have been defeated-so of the Oregon
bill, ths Texas BILL the Mexican war bill, and tho
compromise measures. Not one of them could
have passed, had the minority, in each case, on
coming to the vote, withdrawn from the chamber,
and left the body without quorum. But this ex-
traordinnry mode OF resistance was deemed too
revolutionary, and too much like the French system
of rushing over the safeguards Of legislative govern
nent, which lie in graceful submission to the
majority, when all recognized modes of legitimate
opposition have failed. For tho first time, as q
systematic scheme Of resistance, this thing of with
drawing from the House, of refusing to vote, so
as to leave the House without quorum, was
adopted on this Kossath resolution.
The effect of this course of the minority has pro-
duced already considerable evaporation among the
majority; and throughout the country, it will react
in favor of kossuth, and most decidedly to strength
en- the free soil movement in all the North and all
the West. The agitation and the excitement in the
House will start up agitation and excitement all
over the country, which, it is not at all impossible,
will throw the direct question of intervention broad
cast into the Presidential election The ex RENE
opposition of the South is capital for the abolition
lists.
The minority are continuing their scheme of op.
position, and there is prospect that they will
coed ia defeating Carriers resolution.
In the meantime, the movement Of George
Briggs for . congressional dinner, goes ahead
swimmingly. The following subscribers to the
dinner, and the Com mitee Of Arrangements of each