Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-02


| once and again have been guled and deceived
"a set of professions, which Moslem and Hin
| doc. Jew and Gentle may all profess with
equally safe conscience-which may include
| in their embracing folds, all discords and har-
monies of breed-and unite in one grand and
lofty diapason the svDices of all whose common
cry is-''Great is Diana of the Ephesisns."
If farther historical proof were wanting of the
utter faithlessness of these professions of unity
in National sentiment, which are boosted of, in
the precise ratio of their measureless insinceri-
| ty, we might find it in the present organiza-
| ton of 1.-THE Party in Congress. By what
| tenure does the Democratic Speaker of the
House of Representatives hold the Chair =
| Mr. Bayly, of Virginia, is witness of the in
cipient steps Of that organization-of its secret
| springs and movements-whose opportunities of
| knowledge We're ample, and whom anger seems
to have stung into sincerity. Taken to task
rather smartly at home for his own part in
those scenes, with which we have no concern
but only with the facts he states) he delivers
himself in away as straight and downright as
ever the Ghost of Hamlet's Father spoke, when
come right from his prison house. He had the
honor to be proposed for Speaker himself, he
tells us, by gentleman from New Jersey;
but-'I promptly requested him to Withdraw
my name, which he did. I did not choose
to be passed upon by a caucus composed
in part of such men as RaatoM and Pres
ton King" The whole doings of that eau
| Gus, indeed, by which Mr.. Bayly would not be
| passed upon, deserve to be preserved among the
| memorabilia of the times. The firm, direct and
patriotic conduct of the Wing Delegates, at the
| commencement of the present session of Con-
| gress in regard to the compromise measures
stand in striking contrast, indeed, with the shut
| fling and dodging-the trickery and evasions
| which MIR. Bayly saw enacted, but puts from
| him with all the ceremonial clearness of Pha-
| risee. They went to Washington to declare an
honest faith in the measures which gave peace
to distracted country and they did SOTO give
an open and manly support to a President who
had planted himselfand his administration upon
their success, and they gave it. But how with
the party of platforms and principles! Some
there were of them who felt a true sympathy
with these eminently Wing measures, and they
proposed to say SO, and to act They would
have Resolved" that these measures g are re-
garded as final and a permanent settlement of
the questions therein embraced, and should be
maintained and executed as SUCH" Well may
Mr.. Bayly ask "should any Southern man have
objected to such a resolution p But why did
Southern Democrats, not few, along with the
Freesoilers oppose it Because, says Mr.. Bay
~, they houghta out Of place and properly be-
longed to a National Contention. Out of place
Out Of place for men to say they love the Union
and will support the men and the measures to
preserve it Pray, is it ever ''out Of placer for
man to say he honors his father and mother {?
| Wake him up at twelve o'clock at night, and
| if he knows them he can say that Out of
place IN Congress, where men are called to act,
but altogether in place in Contention, where
| they are only required to make ''a Platform. y
Mr.. Bayly gives the true reasons why that reso-
luton should not only have been introduced but
adopted. He says: ga National Convention can
| exercise no Legislative powers If the Fugitive
Slave Bill can be repealed, it must be done, and
the Democratic party freed from the odium
1 VI Iildo CohhOCtloH' VII II0
Freesoilers were permitted to have their way,
for their votes in this Presidential year could not
| be dispensed with and although Mr.. Bayly
tells us that the fact that the Rantouis and Pres
Ton Kings voted for Mr.. Boyd ''did not impair
his confidence in him''-''they had their o,en
uieDs TO carry out, and he not responsible for
| their course.'' Yet all this 'smade him more
| emphatic ia reprobation of the composition of
the caucus II was determined to manifest
! my disapprobation of the admission of Freesoil-
ers in Democratic Caucus, in the most pointed
manner, by voting against the nominee, dIc.''-
Yet that nominee gets the honor-the next to
the highest, some think, in the Repphlic~-and
holds it-by the conjoint voices of Democrats,
Freesoilers and Disunionists!
And what is the moral of all this? The same
authority draws it in manner we shall no
dispute. Free-soilism and Disunionism, he
says, "pust be kept out of the Democratic part
ty'' by Congress, and we thought it peculiarly
proper that those alone who could not act upon
the matter should declare their purposes in re-
spect to it." ave knew that the passage Of
the resolution in caucus would prevent the in
PRODUCTION OF the subject into Congress &c,
land we knew its failure in caucus would cause
it be introduced into the two Houses. Be
sides, it was known thai a considerable number
of members of Congress, claiming to 5e Demo-
Gratis, had been elected under pledges to vote for
the repeal of the Fugitive Slave bill, &c. in
other words, to reopen the Slavery agitation
One object Of the resolution aoas to exclude then,
from fellowship Nth the Democratic party, and
free 1t Of the odium Of their connection Nth 1t.
We could not expel them by name. We could
only do it by adopting principle which would
exclude Them" But the 'principle' was not
adopted, nor were they ''expelled.''
IF it is admitted as an important element the
party viii be defeated and well deserves to be
defeated in the next Presidential election. -
But will he teach us the process of elimination