Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-01-05

WASa2NoIVN NEWo AMI uVoS1k
The HARDs MEETING VERY HARD FATE
INDEED.-Just before we went to press yester-
day as We announced in a few hurried lines,
the House laid the preamble and resolution of
Mr.. Cutting on tho table, by vote of 1Oi to
66. This was cruel action, under the circum-
stsnces-really heart-rendins; inasmuch as
it amounts to prieking the bubble of misrep-
resentation as to the Congressional strength
Of the anti-Administration Democratic move
ment, which the Herald, Sentinel, Richmond
Ezaminer, I'D omne gems in the newspaper
line, have been so long endeavoring to initiate,
as it were. The point sought to be obtained
by these newspapers, was to make an anti
Administration Democratic party out Of dis
appointed Office seeking materials from Maine
to Oregon; and it was deemed wise to asser-
vate the country into the belief that consid
cradle portion Of the Democrats in Congress
wished God speed to such an organization.
Peter the Hermit'-a rampant aboltionist
up to Taylor's election, Taylor in Taylor 3
| time, Pierce man when the election Of P.
became dead open and shut game, and ''very
Hard" indeed since Secretary Guthrie revoked
his promise to give him q cIerkship, ION find
ing that he was by no means proper subject
for his patronage has letter in the He1ah.i
{of New York; Of Tuesday last, which fully
exemplifes the game Of these parties. He
swears by his beard 0or peter the Hermit
should wear very long and conspicuous
beardJ that this and that nameless Southern
Democratic Senator and Representative de-
clare to him their intention to bolt shortly.
| unless the Cabinet are turned neck and
h1a1 oH "a.
more such balderdash. In all quarters of the
country, gentlemen who have been disap.
pointed in getting Office have been stufing
the newspapers with stories of combinations.
emeutes, proRuncimentOs in embryo or IN fu-
| t"ro. These dark eonspiracies-''vo VOLCANOES
under the Presidents feet" octave been
thus so confidently predicted, that many sim
ple-hearted and soft-headed people have be-
lievcd that there might he something in the
stories.
1t will be remembered that from the meet
ing Of Congress to this hour, the Star has
secuted the idea that there was serious ,lisaf.
lection among the Democrats of the House,
that Is, disaflection which would result in
finding half dozen members not from New
York, who were elected as Democrats, who
would venture to take ground with the New
York Hards against the National Adminisira-
ton. Now, mark the result The test has
SoSh iuhy "hu ioi udue =.
who Is conceived by some of the Uards to be
even more effective man than the Hon John
hccler, the Hard leader, has made the grand
movement of his party. The Sentinel has
been groaning over the removal of Bronson
for months past. The UeraM has been as in
dastriously incorporating that act, and the
Richmond E.ramtncr has been siusLing its
authors with blackguardism without stint,
about it, for u long time. The House are
In thp RI al l.
preamble with all the " whereases' attached
that might be necessary to give currency (if
sdopieD to the idea that in adopting the M.
the House had censured the Administration
tor Bronson's removal. Protesting that he d d
not consider yesterday the time or occasion
proper for the argument Of the questions in
volved in his movement, he did argue his
own side deliberately and with consummate
ability. Ills speech was n series of SUPPOSE
tions adroitly framed to lead directly to the
inference that all his friends contend for in
the Bronson case, is right; and all that the
Administration have done in the matter of the
difficulty in the party in New York, is sig
naLy wrong. Apparently dreading least the
special pleadings On which the whole of his
effort was based, might be upset in breath
as 1t were, he took care to move the previous
question at the conclusion of his own speech;
thus to cut off reply. He forced the House
son, solely upon his own showing of them
The vote was given and, alas for their hope
OF making new Democratic, but anti admin
istratiOn party the Democrats Of the House
marched up in solid column-the New York
Hards and the two Messrs. Stanton and MIR.
Bayly, of Va, alone, of all the Democrats
present, failingt0 vote that the Secretary had
''sarved EN- right
Mr.. Wheeler was to have followed this move
ment of Mr.. Cutting, with the great speech on
their side. The House went into committee
OF the whole to hear it; congressional and re-
pOrtorial curiosity was on tiptoe. The gale
ries: too, were crowded-loaded down-with
politicians, and the fashion and beauty
of the metropolis. Mr. Wheeler rose, and all
we're we'll nigh breathless with interest and
excitement, straining their necks to catch his
words. Mr.. Wheelerarose, "a We say just above
and declined speaking on tina. occasion :,
Now, the truth is, Mr.. W. is as cunning as a
fox; or, to use parliamentary phrase. he Was
too sasacious to make Mr.. Cuttings blunder
worse for his friends. The case had fairly
been tried, and decided fatty against them.
The great guns of the HernLa, the .Stni,uel.
the EramiMer, the Albany Argus, &c, and
the adroit speech Of Mr.. Cutting had failed to
make what might be considered the slightest
impression upon the integrity of the Demo
cratic party in Congress. Their powder and
$3.50 A'A oSSu VAPOhoCu
down single Democratic bird, who was not
theirs without the firing of q gun. So, Mr..
Wheeler instantly realizing that discretion il
the better part Of valor, declined putting his
'' foot in it, also. 1t was bad enough to have
the 8 Hard" cause bungled into the dilemma
involved in the manifestation. utterly beyond
question. that the Democracy of Congress elm
phaticaliy repudiate it, its issues, griefs and
labors, without opening a debate in which
twenty gentlemen stand ready to knock from
under it the subterfuge Of principle, on which
1t has protested to stand up to this time Sem
sible man, Mr.. Wheeler, to know when to let
bad enough al>ne. All new members do not
understand So soon, and so clearly, the phiios-
ophy OF saving the pieces
1t strikes Us that to vote with s'the partyn
on this occasion, went overwhelmingly hard
with half dozen gentlemen, who, however,
came to the scratch. Aye" ratified in their
ihroats, as they uttered the magic word, A.
though 1T chOked them. These are gentlemen
with private grievances against the Admins
tratiO:-all about the offices to which their
brothers, cousins, or immediate political re.
tanners were not appointed, in accordance
with their earnest solicitations
We have only to add, that yesterdays work
in the House proves how completely the New
York Herald, and journals of it's kidney, have
been deceiving the country, as to the real
strength Of the Administration before Con-
gees; and how signalIy correct the STIR has
been, in all that we have published on the
same subject. We make it rule in what we