The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-10

49, "a my power 20 move to auspend the rules;
AID believe thlaR WAC htjtIstE TO the flooF
the Chair has nd fscognised ne
"The sssAxE1scalled thspntlel1In to orders
and said: IT thekhair had Ia Eight % respond.
ne could give SEASON why hes sodasthing more
than outof orddr.s
ssMr. arAnron. Very well,
ssThe shsAxEn. The gentlsman hout Of order
and will take his seat.''
II will be remembered that MI. STANTON, Of
Tennessee, is one Of the most able, active, and
influential of the DEMOCRATIC members Of the
House. The same may be said of Governor
BRowN. Now, will the Union pretend for a
moment that the Republic ever published any,
thing Of Mr.. Speaker BoYD rejecting upon his
official character so severely as Governor
BRowN and Mr.. STANTON havesrefected upon
Pit2 Mr.. STANTON says that his conduct has
been such that members would be justified in
absenting themselves altogether from the House;
and Governor BRoWN says that which, if true
the SPEAKER considers should entitle him Mr.:
BoYD) to vote Of censure! ,. 49, q I.
Now as to the House and its manners. We
never compared it TO a bear garden. e Mr..
FLoRENcE, an Independent Democrat from
Pennsy lvania, not having the fear Of the Union
before his eyes, gave the House this character
not many days since; and we, have little ques-
ton that if he had been appealed to on the
subject Mr.. BoYD would have thought Mr..
FLORENCE "not strictly in order" The Onion
must settle this point with its friend Mr.,
FLORENCE. We are only responsible for what
we say, not for what the Union says that we
|say. In our Judgment the House is not bear
garden. There never was a bear garden on
the face of the earth that could have been kept
open without better discipline among the bears
than Mr.. Speaker BoYp maintains among his
friends. r59d syad faaa 'sdw "a S7g lste7
What we have said of the House is simply
this-that certain DEMO CRATIC members whom
we have mentioned have been guilty Of inter
posing unnecessary obstacles to the transaction
|of public and private business. Does the
Union deny this2 Does not every man Of in
telligence in and out of Congress know it to
be truce
Not able to deny the fact, the Union under
takes to assail our notifies in exposing and
commenting on it. This is an old trick of
dialectics When you are driven to the wall
in an argument assail your adversary's mo-
tives. The, first alleged motive is DISPOSE
ton to disparage DEMOCRATIC majority for.
political effect" If we can succeed in show
ing that certain DEMocRArs obstruct the pub
lie business, the Union is shrewd enough to
perceive thatit will be apt to injure the DEM
ocRATlc party, and give their opponents the
advantage. This will be very natural con-
sequence. But suppose this to be the motive,
and the only motive, of our statements, how
does this affect them? Does it touch their truth2
But again, the Union charges us with sspri-,
vate resentments" against the chairman of the
Ways and Means. 1t acquits US in one place
of ''the impulse Of an ephemeral anger, 2 and
balances this acquittal by an Indictment for
''private resentments." We never exchanged
a word with the honorable chairman In our life.
We have never transacted private business of
any name or nature with the committee or any
member Of 1t to the amount of brass far
thing. As to the "private claimso to which
the U1sson alludes, we assure our contem-
porary that we never looked at the pri-
vate calendar, that we know nothing Of its
contents, and are only by accident acquainted
with the name of one individual interested in
any such claim. Our attention was called to
an application of General ROBERT ARMSTRONG
for pension Of thirty dollars month for his
services and sufferings in quelling an Indian
invasion. We saw that an effort was made to
withdraw this very meritorious claim from the
SPEAKERS table, and that it only received
about forty votes in DEMOCRATIC House
Here was gallant gentleman, who had killed
with his own hand Heaven knows how many
Indians, and with little band of fifteen or
twenty put five hundred painted sayages to
dight-wounded, suffering, and in humble cir
cumstances, and he could not get his petition
for. this miserable stipend even considered in
the House Of Representatives. And this, not
withstanding it was vouched for by General
JACKSON ~.
We confess that we have sstender regardv
for the private claimants before Congress and
does it lie in the lips of General ARMSTRONG,
himself a private claimant, to sheer because by
the disorganizing and revolutionary conduct of
certain DEMOCRATIC members private claims
"are threatened Nth disastrous fate g, Is
that matter for the Union or any public
journal to exult oyer2 Is General ARMSTRONG
the only man who can have an honest demand
against the treasury? Is he apprehensive that
there will not be money enough in the treasury
to pay other honest debts and settle his print
ing accounts Does the Union, after taking
into its capacious NAV all the printing Of the
Senate and House, and gobbling up half
dozen printing offices with all their men and
machinery, now employed on the work of the
Executive Departments this sleek re
preventative Of the DEMocRATIc maiorities in
Congress undertake to set itself up against the
righgM adjudication Of private clain.se Does
our petitioner for pension of thirty dollars
month intend to use the Influence of his journal
to prevent action on all demands but his o,cn 2
We wish to understand this matter. Is nothing
to be paid for but public printing And is no
body to be considered an honest pensioner but
General ARMSTRONG?
Our contemporary is disposed to compliment