New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-08

friend in the interior writes that the freenen
of one Of the rural Districts of our State are med
tatiug the election of HENRY WARD BEEcHER @
their next Representative in Congress, although he
does not reside them and they have personal
acquaintance with hm-and correspondent asks
opinion of the matter We give il right heartily:
They could not do wiser nor better thing than that
proposed Mr.. Beecher is in tho prime of life,
searching and careful observer, earnest and faith
lu Republican, n f.arless and effective champion Of
Liberty and Progress sincere anddevoted Christian
philanthropist. That last word ought to be super
fuous, but, unhappily it ia MT We do not believe
any District has or can obtain more competent,
creditable representative than Mr.. Beccher. And
since it is the fashion Just the part Of those
whose Politics must be condemned by any vital Re-
ligon TO deprecate the iDtermeddling Of Clergymen
with Political affairs, we wish half a dozen o. our
ablest and readiest clergmen, matter of what de-
nominations could be sent to Congress to confront
the dencgogues who there make pother about drag.
ging doun Religion to the mire of Politics, and
scourge them into decency if not into silence And,
while we presume Mr.. Deecher never contemplated,
and does not expect nor DESIRE an election to Con-
gress yetifb should be elected without any actonon
bis part in the matter we think he would accept be-
But it is not merely on his account, nor even on
that of the religious aspect Of the case that desire
his election. deem it high time that the wretched,
narrow, pitnl practice Of confnng the selection Of
Members of Congress 10 the districts to be repre-
seuted by them respectively, were broken up aud
abolished. We know nothing that more potently and
constantly tends to bettle politics and legislation
than this. If Washington or Patrick Henry still
alive and in the fulness Of bis intellectual powers, it
would be practically held impossible to employ those
powers for the National veal in Congress- unless
the district wherein he resided saw fit to elect him.
There might be hundred districts that would gladly
and proudly be represented by either of these illus
trous patriots yet would feel precladed from choos-
ing him by the fact that he lived in another district!
Meanwh hile Stubs and Stork and Wiggesworth the
three noisiest lawyers Of the dominant party in tho
district would quietly arrange the order of their going
to Congress- and the people elect them one after tho
other, though perfectly aware that neither Of them
had mastered the fret rudiments Of statesmsnshiP.
but pacfed by the suggestion that they were " COCA
as the district aordedan assertion neither true nof
conclusive So long as there could be found cnzea
Of the United States better qualified than any these
that citizen should be chosen before them no matter
though he hailed from Maine and the district were u
Iowa.
We know it lie urged that Member ought to be u
mar with the wants Of his district and this may "
good for preferring resident Of equal csps
city to anonresident though none at all fr exc'sss
nonresident from the canvass. But in isct tnoi'
10 danger that Member will not sufficient! '.rr 49,
and devote hiwsef to "the shreks Of locality Inv