Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-10
vAsH1EeroN NEWS ANp aossrp.

| '-o AOHo 'SoeAoA II AoW regularly pIV'i@es
cd. The members for the most part prefer to
be home in the fall rather than in the heat OF
the summer, when the condition Of the ther-
mometer is likely to interfere materially with
the transaction of active business. This Is the
key to the indisposition of the House to adopt
the Ssnate,s proposition to begin the recess
early in July. At the rate at which business
ia transacted in these times it will not long
hence come to pass that they will take NO re-
cess from the meeting Of new Congress to it
termination. Indeed it will be found that
much Of the business before them will be dis
posed Of in too great haste, or receive the Sc 60
by this summer, more especially if speeches
for Buncombe are to continue much longer to
be the order of the day, The only possible
plan On which to lay the foundation for the
business like transaction of the affairs of Con-
gress, will be to adopt the English Parlia-
| ment's custom of refusing to permit gentlemen
| to occupy the time Of Congress with set speech
es, who, after one or two trials, show that they
| are not likely on taking the floor, to shed real
| light on the subject formally under considera.
ton. ..
hsndacity.-We use strong term; yet, by
no means too strong for the facts on which we
propose to comment. All others except the
ingram abolitionists, have some respect for the
figure they cut before the eyes of the world.
They, however, seem to take pride in proving
by their acts tn their professions one and all,
are hollow-disingenHo being stamped
on the brow of all they do, as it were Theo-
dore Parker and Wendell Phillips got Faneuil
Hall, and there incite ignorant fanatics and
vicious lazzaroni to pass a resolution that they
will rescue the negro Burns, in doing which,
an hour afterwards, they murdered Batchelder
and endangered the lives and property of hun
dreds of the peaceable and unofsnding of their
fellow citizens. Next morning, the ground
swell of public opinion, aroused by their pro-
curement of the riot and murder, seemed on
the point of threatening violence to their per-
| sons and property. These preachers Of peace"
who, on the day before had invoked murder
and rapine, instantly applied to the civil au-
thorities for protection. They piteously depre-
Gated the mob-law, when, apparently, about to
be applied to them, which the moment before
| they invoked in aid of their warfare on So
ciety and its laws So, too, do they manifest
a like spirit Of craven Inconsistency here For.
! perhaps, twenty years past, one member of the
House Of Representative has been in the con
slant habit of losing no opportunity to insult
| the House as body, to set at defiance its rules
Of dccorum, and to treat with personal inso-
Il oil H. ..,.sI
him upon business before the body. His bear,
| ing in the Hall became proverbial years and
years ago. Having thus put himself oat of the
pale of Congressional courtesy and society, as
it were, his insults have been passed over, on
the ground that abuse from him was praise
for honest and patriotic public men. This i'm
munity from the personal responsibility t.
which any other member so conducting him.
self would surely have been held, has induced
him to presume upon his license to malign
falsify, backbite, and abuse his fellow mem
bers, until as he (Mr. Giddings) remarked in
the abolition meeting in Boston, recently, he
has found twenty years Of such labors Insult
cient to kick Southern members into consider
ing his personalities worthy of being resented
He has openly avowed his hostility to the
constitution, and proclaimed his willingness
to violate the laws which he has sworn to re-
spect and obey. His boast has been that b.
and his are above and beyond all laws excep
such a. are to their taste-such as hat is,
: Hour after hour he has occupied the tim
of the House in repeating over and over again
his plea for liberty for the Abolition press t
utter not only treason, but blasphemy withou
stint; denouncing every criticism essaying t
point out the fact that the ISLANDERS, vitupera
tons, sweeping falsehoods and treasonabl
i spirited attacks On the constitution Of the land
of those newspapers, for an infringement
G Of the liberty of free discussion -
81 Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker like
the moment the Washington Union CONNER
upon his conduct as it deserves, be forgets Ii
b feigned love for free discussion, &c, and j.,
1 peals to the House for protection, as thou :,
his conduct had been such as to give him. c
all men, an immunity from criticism "
. need hardly assure the distant reader tia
u the mendacity Of this appeal, under sush cir
cumstances, has really astonished most of tn
members of both houses. AS accustomed a
u they have been to the strange things he hs
IS been so long doing in the Hail, they were n,
e prepared for any such total disregard of tb
appearance of consistency and integrity ,
purpose, as this appeal involves.
s What we write above is in truth, the kew
10 the refusal of two thirds of the members pre-.
ent, on the day before yesterday, to extend
10 Mr.. Giddings the usual courtesy of parmissio
to reply to the excoriating personal remaI
made upon him and his course by his colleagu,
- Mr.. 0lds
The Decision Of the Court Martial u,t
Col. Gates and Major Wise-We herewi,
G. present the public with the General (officia
o. Orders upon the verdict of the Court Marti
ge in the celebrated steamship San Franci 81
% case, as we'll as in the recent case of Mai
re Francis 0. Wyse, Captain Sd Artillery II
civil, as well as the military reader, will {
ly them OF great interest, indeed. We have
Il room for comment upon them:
ar GENERAL ORDERS, WAR DEPARTMENT.
ADJurASr GESERAL's OFFIc
NO. I. Washington, June ), le54
al lat the General Court Martial which CO
n vened at Fort Columbus, Harbor of New Yo7
| pursuant TO especial OrdsTS'' No 10