The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1856-01-03
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HoRAcs GRxuEs writing hom Washington
City to the TJ,tune. gives the following intcs-
esting sketch of some Of the members Of the
present CongrSs;
have no, yet found time to take = look at
tho Senate. Or rather il organized and a2liournei
to-day before | could look in upoa Il; hut the
House to-day. while unchanged in its material
aspects, presented some strong contrasts with
that OF five or six years ago. Virginia and
South Carolina alone ctain large proportion
of the members Of that day; of New forks
thirty three. ] think all are changsI; 80 h il
with Massachusetts,, aud. in fact all New Eng
land though Vermont has transferred Messrs,
| Collalncr and Foote to the Senate Holmcs Of
=. g., Butler King Of Ga.. and Wilson Of n.
H., have niigrated 10 California =. Mckay oi
n. g.. Gov. Mcdowell Of Va. Mr.. Mor~r oi
la. AMI ID. p. King of Mass, with others,
doubtless) are dead AMI il seems hard 20 real
ixe that Messrs Grinnell. Rockwell, Hudson.
Ashmun and Winthrop. Of Mass. ARE alive aud
active hut al absent and their places filed by
men with single exception) utterly unknown
out Of their State In iH49. | have not tor
years been able TO think of the ioasc without
associating Herewith the tall figure aIKl earnest
face Of Father Venablc Of n. g.; yet he too
has been two years away with his colleagues, the
veteran A. II. Shcpprd and the urbanr t'cn.
Barrngcr Toombs Of TIA. and Brown Of Miss.,
have been translated TO the Senate AMI at leAst
thrcriourths Of the scats wcrc filed to-day by
mn who had never been in CongrySs up 10 DE
ccmbcr 1S4g.
Yet the faces arr not all new. From about
the old spot, at the extreme lch Of the Chair
rises the head lsomcthing graycr) Of Joshua II
Giddings, who was accounted an old membcr in
'4s- ., and Is now the undisputfsl Father Of the
House, He is somewhat older than he was. but
in all beside the very same. Gen. Bayly OF
Virginia is beginning TO rank IA veteran,
though the ffosts Of age have hardly touched
his head Clngman OF North Carolina holds
on here. though he has turned his hack upon
himsrli.' and now wages deadly war on the
principles and comrades Of his better days..
And here too, is the eight, trail form and pale
radiantly intellectual face of Alexander Ste
phcns of Georgia, Wing no longer, even in
seeming, but the best tactician and the acutrst
logician on the floor, who, if born and rearcd in
some State uncursed by Slavery, would have
! will not think Of what he now is and Is 10 be
IlDNtH NyVUD, VI nu., uus uHStt ntSWAtS sus
one House since 40 then Union" candidate
for Governor and elected mainly by Wing votes
in defiance Of the bulk Of his old party and now
be is back in Congress, Democrat and Anti
Know Nothing, He is very able though NOT
Of winning manners. and has probably touched
his highest round on the ladder ol ambition
understand that the Southern State Rights
men protested against his being supported for
Speaker and they viii be sure 30 mark him
should hc ever be presented on National
ticket
Mcssrs McMullen. Of Va, and Cobb Of Ala.
were in the House eight years ago, and are here
yet distinction which think they owe ra
ther TO inlomitablc good temper than to trans
cendant ability. They are both Southern Dem
ocrats Of the more moderate school. which serves
20 admit. abstractiy, that the Union has sonF
other purpose beside the capture and return d
fugitive negroes. ] wish they would discover
what those objects arr.
There are more new members in this Housf
than IN almt&t .pf before, and some Of them
seem likely TO b. rsant mbcrsl. Among these ]
count Cen. Quitman u Mississippi not = sii'rcc
iire-eatrr IN appearance, but seeming rather q
quiet, elderly iarncr OF planter, with hair and
unshorn bcard becoming silvery born New
Yorker, but leaving our State while il still up.
held Slavery, and a deyout, uDgnsstioning Jlie-
vcr that some men were made 10 b. other men Z
chaitles- also Mr. lake *. y of the same
State, u tall, large boWslathIetie specimen II
the kial Of men they get up in new eountries,
where nature Is bounteous AMI all things have
room 10 grow. Richard Mott 81 Ohio. IL aBotl.
,r Of the large framed new members Free.
Soil Democrat of the Quaker faith who insists
that his election TO Congress was o mistake.
since il was something that neither h. ser any
one el-c ever dreamed u till just bcior il oc.
eurrvl wish could hope that such mistakes
are likely a. bccome cannon. Anon Burl
ingion. of Mas, Is young man of whom the
country has heard somewhat and IL likely 10
hear NOR.
INK sFs ATE.
The first ihosght herr IL inevitably of the great
deynriel---of Clay AMI Webster. Calhoun and
Forsytb. Silas Wright aud PoiDiexter. whom
with ys.tzcr eyer and frsbcr heart. more
hopeful spirit. ] saw sitting here oB my first
visit. nearly twenty years ago They have
passed away from earth, with John DAVIS and
Roger Huntington. J. T. Morcbead. I'bcp-,
I'reniis. and many others who have since flied
their s,a,s while Corwin and Ewing q Ohio.
Tyler aisi Ryes f Virginia Benton II Ma
souri. Mangum and Banger n North Carolina,
though still living, have goDc into rtirmenf,
and no longer cliallsDgc the public regard No.
n i not merely that ] look throagh dimnsr
eycs ani regard with calfnrr interest, more
languil puls. know that the Senate ~ s3j.
,s-iaSlby the mosi unswerving Eianiards. was
ablcr thao that ~ 1855.
Perhaps iris Senate is compoacd n younger
msn than that " twenty years ago bat doubt
il. For here siis GeEerni Cas-. q veteran Who
has alraiy pas-d the seventy years allotted to
man, looking heavier and dulier than whn
first ssx him, but stili unwrinkIed and bealiiy.
a striking example of the conservative power oi
rigid Temperance, even though confronted By ib'.
distraction. aDd ansietis of political If
Herr il Mr. Criiicipbn rtnrDd again, alter
many yicixd,udsz. looking vidbly okir, and
with seeming scar On the right ssb ~ his face
which mars his pbys;ospomy, bat who SEEMS -
alert, az sangrline, ~ ready io preliminary tilt,
a. IN hi< viyacioas prime. A Ia John N. Chy-
ton Who. ! am cnnfsient. wss sitting bre
twenty year. ago-i know nO' bow mnch bss
ger-he looks better. bartisr. brisker. and tss-
itiyr,y younger today than te did wben be sft
the Seriafe IN is49 TO browne Ge1srsi TsyIors
SECRETARY of state. Hs circumference u niil
grusrous. bu, hc Looks ~ II there were many
ycars iis and xork In him. ] ,rusi thsre may h..
John =. Halls rosy f.ee lights up ,he ssu.
lie o.,ce more, and his ban@Uus eommsn,s On
shaicver b going frward ~rve greatly 10 ~
beve 'be soIsmn daliD~ which hahitaaliy
brosls over this haunt NJ F0syyizm. Hale nd