Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-02-28
The Committees.

The Washington Union, the organ OF Frank
Pierce is desperate over the fact that there are
but few selections for Chairmen of Committees
from the Slave-holding States. In its issue OF
the llth, it says:
1T will be seen that no Southern man has
been appointed Chairman of single Important
Committee, if we except the selection OF Gen.
Quitman on the Military Committee. The
Representative of the strongest Anti'Slavery
district in the United States could pay no
higher compliment to the Democratic party than
by this ostracism-of its tried champions but
it will be seen that no favor has becu extended
even to those Southern men who agree with Mr..
Banks in regard to secret oaths and obligations.
We look in vain for recognition of the talents
of Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky, Or OF Per
cy Walker Of Alabama. The whole scope and
design of Mr.. Seward-that of consolidating an
Abolition North against a minority South-ls
subsersientIy assisted by Mr.. Banks in the ex-
clusion Of tha representatives of the South from
leading positions on leading Committees.
e." No important Committee 1t is strange,
surely! Why, we should have had to record
that selections were made from the South and
the Black Democratic party, for Chairman upon
every Committee, if Mr.. Aiken, or Mr.. Orr, or
Mr.. Richardson had been elected Speaker! And
why not give the victory to those who have gain
ed, as well this session, and in this way, as last
or next, or the Pro-Slavery party in any time
Of their SUGGEST Did the Union suppose that
the long 6gls for an Anti-Slavery Speaker was
going to benefit the Pro-Slavery party in IN
event Of an electionl If the result had been in
favor of Aiken would the Union have consented
that single Chairman of the important
Committees should have been given to an Anti
Slavery man!
A better compliment could not have been Civ
en- Mr.. Banks than the following conclusion o
the Union article.
1.-TWO grave charges lie at the door of Mr.
Banks, both fastened upon him by irrefragabl
evidence-we allude to the declaration in whic
he fancied contingency where he would b
willing to let the glorious Union slide, and t.
that other revolving doctrine in which he sub
mitted the question of the absorption of tn
races to suggested test We are now enables
to see that neither of these were the impulsiv
} outbreaks even ofaholition enthusiasm, but tina
, they were the welcomed conceptions of hi
heart and his brain. That man should /
willing to let this Union slide, who thus, for tn
first time in American memory, cody proceed
to ignore and to insult fifteen sovereign states
this Union, and who, without blenching, exc
cises powers conferred upon him under tt
laws, not merely to encourage cruel interte
ence in the affairs of others, but to fetter and
, paralize those who are thus interfered with
we can well believe that such man is willir
to let the Union slide. And, also, when ii
same man appoints at the head of the most ii
G portant Committees in the House demagogu
0 who have grown grey in obscene obloquy of Il
people and the institution of the South, it
easy to conceive how fully he believes in t
+; doctrine of the absorption of the races, accor
ing to the scientific and phiIosophic sense pr
: sented by him in late speech in the House
, Representatives.
i Such is the brief view Of the first step in t
4 proposed administration of the Federal COVER
: ment by the sectional party of W. II. Sewal
!, We shall have more to say OF it hereafter