New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-26


seems eXtraOrdlDar, 10 Northern civilization.
thas man who is Of sufficient distinction
to 10 elected TO Congress should cboo,,
life q brOil. sDOud sssUn,o zoe b. sriug OF man
bent Perpetually 81 getting up q rsw or e sh,
Yet such Is the character Of some of the Ssa.hsrn
representatives, and such are the mn ,-bo lad
and chsMpoD toe movements for the extension Of
Slavery. Northern mea here arc thus thrown into
pOsition which eGacts line OF conduct qui.e for
eien 10 their ordinary habits. There is di,posi.
ton in Congress 10 accommodate itself 70 this na
ctssity, witch the eIigencies Of the battle see n
70 require.
The excitement 10 regard to the attack on NJ.
Sumner bas hardly abated in the least. A crowd
went to the Sebste and House TO- iay q, Spanish
crOwds flock 10 bul-fgh. il expectation Of some
thing ID that line. Bat they we're not grstifed.
The Sena'e waa fall, digrifed and tame. Mr.
Wilssn gave a narrative Of the occurrence Of
the day before, and left to other and older
Senators to propose action thereon. pause
ensued, and the President OF the Senate wa, pro-
ceediIg to the regular business before the Senate,
when Ar. Seward seeing no one else disposed 70
move, offered be resolution which vas adopted.
The Committee it propo.ed to raise was voted by
the Sens'e, and It's members taken wholly from the
democratic" side Of tho chamber. It's compost
ton was inspired b. Weller, Dougla. and Mason,
and was intended as discourtesy and nsulpto the
opposition.
The Slavery extension men are determined 10
slight, crowd, and exa-p-rate their opponents all
they CAP. But if thy huuiljate them it will DO
the fsult Of the Anti-SaveIy men themselves
There is general conspiracy ali round to "sGo-
due all VITO venture 10 question the godke char
acttr of Slavery. 1t takes the form OF personal
assaults on individuals in addition to political dis.
francbiscment, and it msy be expected to end 10
assassiDaticn The conflict is real, though net
people may not appreciate it, and if the party Of
Slavery succeed in their present arrogant determ-
nation it requires great stretch Of vision to
that the Union will sooner or later 20 to pieces in
consequence.
The scene in the Senate to-day was hu initiating.
Not man OF that whole body rose to express the
honorable and patriotic Indignation that is every.
where felt over the outrage upon q Member, aud
the Dissertation of that Chamber by the violent and
bloody proceedings Of yesterday. In the face of
the country and before the world, Member of
the American Senate sitting in bis seat, bad been
struck down and left @elteripg in his own blood,
and no man rose 10 indicate the ssnctity of the
body, to condemn the outrage, or reprOve tho
act. Where ia pride Of country Where is the
blush of shame, where the yirtuous indignation of
the true American patriot, which ought to have
shcne 20 cobspcuously on such an occasion in that
body All, all sunk, so far as the aority is con-
cerned in hateful idolatry Of an institution and
submission to Power which sbames the character
ofthe nation by its existence. And on the part of
the minority by-what shall we say Was it lack
of spirit or bOdness or what was it From what
ever cause, let it sufice to say, the Senate was
dumb over an indgoity sufficient to make the
bones of Henry Clay rattle in his coffin.
In the House. Mr.. Campbell, very resolutsly,
and in a manner which occasioned much con mem
dstion on the floor, pushed through resolution of
inquiry in the case which prevailed by 2S majority.
Mr.. Clipgman stOutly opposed it. Mr.. Brooks
tried to get the floor and seemed quito excted |
and when the previous question WAS called on the
resolution, a violent but brief effort was made TO
kill it by fac,ieus opposition. After little tins
the hostility Gained down, and the extreme South
ern men, deeming discretion the better part of
vslor, relnquished their oppositon-oeing. how
ever, sustained in it to the last by few Northern
douehfaces.
resolution was offered by Mr.. Stanton in rela
ton to the proceedings in Kansas, and ordering
Judge Lecompte before the bar Of the House, but
which was withdrawn in consequence OF the Speak
er's decision that il was not privilege question.
MIR. Stanton will renew the resolution on Monday,
when it will be in order.
The President sent message TO the House to-
dsy in answer to the inquiry respecting the move
ment of troops upon Lawrence. Ii simply referred
to the accompanying documents from tho War De
pagtment. Mr. JEFF. Davis, who administers that
branch of the Government, takes the opportunity
to insult the House by referring TO its phraseology
in the resolution, in contemptaous manner. the
House asked what had been done by the army IN the
way Of enforcing the supposed laws OF the sup
posed Kansas legislature. Nc. Davis replies BY
telling US what has been done toward enforcing the
laws of the 'rea Legislature of Kansas. Slavery
il on 1t. high horse in every official quarter and
treats all opposition-even that of Congress-wlth
lofty disdain. We have come 10 the era of not
only plantation manners but plantation discipline.
II is the latter which it is expected will "subdue"
the North. J. p
THE BROOKS RUFFIANISM-DELEG
To CINCINNATI.
From Our Own Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Saturday, May -, 1856.