The true Democrat., 1856-03-04
From the Washington Union. The Standing Committees of the House of Representatives of the United States.


 From the Washington Union. The Standing Committees of the House o
 Representative of the United States.
 When the Know Nothings of the mortimer States threw themselves into the arms of abo litionism, and contributed all the requisite vote to place in the popular branch of Congress majority of men to act against the democrati party, the idea of an organization to cuntro the politics and the interests of the whole In ion, which organization should be confined [, minority of the people of that Union. thougl amaJorlty ot the free States, was boldly avowed
 Inc success of this first movement of north ern fanatlclsm, combined as 1t was with tha extended secret order, (which, strange to say SVili maintains Its existence in the south. ever with this fact before the public eye,) howeve alarming as symptom of the extremity tt winch abolition hatred and phrensy might bt carried, was generally regarded as the result ot impulse rather than of calculation. It vii be remembered, however, that in the column, ot the Washington Union we took early occa slon to signify that the beginning of such 2 movement threatened serious results to th, national tranquility The Albany speech O MT. Seward, delivered in October of 1853. in vokng the grand army of abolitionism in the free States to the conflict, proved that this sec. tlonal project was we'll berated scheme and that 1t wonl,! be carried forward at every hazard. The election of MT. Banks as speake of the House by an ercltsiue northern cote wa, the next development. We are now called up. on to behold the third, though not the last scene CT the drama. We allude to the standing com. mlttees of the House of Representatives of the United States, yesterday announced by speak el Banks Never, within the experience of the American people. has such an exhibition as this been made. Never before has any mar dared to desecrate the chair occupied by Mu. lenburg, Macon, Clay, and other patriots. by exercising the power he holds under the con. sttuuon-that constitution which acknowledge. and protects the rig ghts of all-that constitu- ton which extends alike over the north and the south--to insult the people of the south by proclamation which implies that these peo. pie are not entitled to share the common bles. sings of the U nion with their fellow citizens of other States
 Northern men have occupied that chair be- lore. but they have never misused the power conferred upon them to degrade and to outrage any portion of the people of the United States. But what others would have spurned with loathlng, Mr. Banks undertakes with deliber- ate compaccncy. Look at the list of stand ing committees of the House. published in another portion of this mornings Union. and there lind the justification for such language. Ot all the prominent committees, the people of the south inhabting fifteen States, have not been honored with single chairman Mir. Banks selects, as the heads of those commit tees to which are to be con6ded questions inn medately material to the people of the south -questlons involving not merely their interests and their rights, but directly connected with considerations of life itself-the most offensive and the most reckless fanatics of the free States; the very worst of those who, speaking of the people Of the south, propose to "give their roofs to the flames and flesh to the eagles"
 At the head of the committees on territories we hnd MT. Grow, of Pennsylvania, the suc- cessor of Wllmot, and far surpassing him in malignant antagonism of the equality oi the States
 The next on the list is Mir. Washburn. of Maine, as chairman of the committee on cleo tOns. This gentleman's ultra violence on the subject of slavery has made him notorious. To the Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, the most dan gerous enemy of the rights of the States, be- cause the most popular and apparently fair of v, manship of the committee of ways and means. As chairman of the committee on the iudicia, ry MT Simmons, of New York, is announced. The chairmanship of the committee on public lands has been conferred upon Mr. Bennett, of affairs has been placed in charge of Mir. Pen nlngton of New Jersey, who supported Mr. Banks so steadily during the long and trying ast ,I.l { Ohio, is chairman of the committee on claims; Mir. Meacham, of Vermont, chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia: Mir. Washburne, of Illinois, chairman of the com mittee on commerce; committee on Indian af- fairs, Mr. Pringle, of New York, chairman: committee of naval affairs, Mr. Benson of Maine, chairman; and on the committee of patents. Mir. Morgan, of New York, chairman.
 Every one of these men is the avowed and interruptions adversary of the rights of the States, and especially of the rights of the south
 It will be perceived 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 re- prcsemtative of the strongest anti-slavery dis trict in the United States" could pay no higher compliment to the democratic party than by
 
 be seen that no favor has been extended even to those southern men who agree with Mr. Banks in regard to secret oaths and obligations We look in vain for a recognition of the talents of Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, or of Percy Walker of Alabama The whole scope and design of Mr. Seward-that of consolidat- ing an abolition north against a minority south is subserviently assisted by Mir. Banks in the of bo of .I ,b from leading positions on leading committees
 That MT. Banks should adopt the novel and monStrous policy we have exposed, and then that he should complacently look forward to be peacefully sustained in the administration of his high duties-that he who starts with this declaration of war, upon the rights and the franchises of others, should look to be sustained by them in return-that he who prated; and hypOcrltcally prated, of desire to be impar- tial and just in his intercourse with the repre- sentatves of the American people, should dare to follow his pious fraud with the display O. malignity and of fanatlciSm which has disgrac ed his first formal step in the speakers chair almost passes comprehension.
 Two grave charges lie at the door of Mir Banks, both fastened upon him by irrefragablt evidence-we alude to the declaration ill which it COuGluSeuCy WHclc lc WOulu Dt willing to let this glorious Union "slide," anc to that other revolting doctrine in which h, submitted the question of the absorption of tn, races to suggested test. We are now enabled to see that neither of 'these were the impulsivt outbreaks even of abolition enthu siasm, bu that they are the well-conned conceptions O his heart and brain. That a man should b, willing to let this Union slide who thus, for tn, 4 to ignore and insult fifteen sovereign States o this Union, and who, without blanching, exer cises powers conferred upon him under th' laws, notmerely to encourage cruel interference in the affairs of others but to letter and to par alyze those who are thus interfered with-wt can well believe that such man is willing tt let the Union slide. And also when the sam, man appoints, at the head of the most impor tant committees in the House, demagogues wh' have grown gray in obscene obloquy of the pco pie and the institutions of the south, it is eas,