Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-02-26


Hall. This fact, backed by the frmness will
which he has so far resisted the efforts O
Messrs' diddings and Greeley to force hin
TO enlist under their banners, are the secret
oil the undying and ever-evident hostility en-
tertained towards him by the Republicans
a concerted and systematic effort to lesser
MS influence with the country and in the hal
has been pushed from the first Monday of De
cember last, in hundreds Of newspapers, BY
the fifty or sixty Washington correspon
dents" who are bound up with the fortunes o.
the Republican organization. These attacks
have been cordially responded to by the con-
ductors of the anti-slavery party press, in
the avowed hope of bounding him out of pub.
lie life, if the passion for serving in Congress.
does not prove stronger in his heart than re.
pusnance to playing second fiddle to the lead.
ers of those who propose to obtain power by
demagoging on the most dangerous prejudice,
and the worst passions of the most ignoran,
and really brutal classes of the community
We know that, notwithstanding the frmness
with which he withstood their spurring lash.
ing, villifcation, and appeals to vote for Mr..
Banks, they are just now chuckling in their
sleeves, under the firm belief that after all,
they have bagged their game; or, in other
words, that he is on his knees to them, prac.
tically. They say that the fact will be made
plain in his support, however reluctant that
may be, of whatever their leaders dictate
as their policy in the Kansas contested cleo
ton case, now occupying public attention
His proper position, while there is an opposi-
tion majority in the Chamber, would have
been at the head of the Ways and Means
Committee, on which he. has had great ex-
perience, and acquired more reputation than
has been achieved by any other opposition
member on it, in, perhaps, the last quarter of
century. He entered Congress as a Wing,
and at the death of that party turned up
member of the Know Nothing brotherhood,
with whom he is now in full communion. At
home, he has for many years been the law
partner of ex-President Fillmore, who is not
his superior in ability, if his equal in states
manlike attainments. Personally, he is very
popular with all in the Hall, except the Re
publicans proper, who hate him intensely, as
We explain above, because-in plain English
they fear him as the is said to fear holy
water; as they know that his synpathies being
all against them, his active exertions in CD.
position to their schemes throughout the ses.
sion, will amount to positive insurance oftheir
overwhelming defeat one and all.
Mr.. Winslow of North Carolina, a new
member, is the immediate representative of
the Secretary of the Navy, which accounts
for his assignment to the Naval Affairs Com
mite So far, he has not participated actively
IN the transaction Of affairs In the hall. At
home he is famed as being one of the soundsst
and most successful lawyers in the State. and
Tor years he held high rank in its Legislature
His training as legislative statesman, there.
fore, gives him great advantage here, which
ne will doubtless improve in due time. We
expect to find him eventually taking high
rank in the Hall.
Mr.. Seward, of Georgia, is now serving his
second term in the Hall. If We are not mista-
ken, year or two before coming first to
Congress, he was member of the Wing party.
He is at this time, however. in full communion
with 'the Unterrifed." Mr. s., is an impet-
uous gentlemen in debate, in which he fire..
quently participates; generally on the spur @
the moment, and particularly when sectional
questions arise. At home he is a member of
the legal profession, and has received the bene-
fit of that system ofpolitical training which at
the South is generally consequent on the prac-
tice of the law.
Mr.. Davis, of Massachusetts,, is probably
the youngest member of the House; certainly
the youngest in appearance. He does bust
ness commercially in Boston, and resides in
the Essex district, which, under the late Know
Nothing excitement, sent him to Congress He
is understood to adhere to the Gardner wing
of the Know Nothing party of his State. So
far, he votes steadily under the lead of Messrs
Giddings and Wade, the Cog and Magog of
abolitionism in the Hall He has not parti-
cipated in debate here, as yet; nor, from his
previous training in public affairs and his pro-
fession at homo, have We any reason to i'm
aSine that he will strengthen his party ora
torically. 1t may, however, turn out that, as
a business man, he will prove valuable in
Congress.
Mr.. Boycs Of South Carolina, was membe r
of the last House Alawyer by profession, he
was long in public life at home before coming
to Washington. His politics are shaped after
the peculiar school of South Carolina. He is
active on the floor when sectional questions
arise; defending the tenets of his political
school with great warmth on all such occa-
sions. He is understood to have signifsd his
sympathy with that branch of the isms of the
Know Nothings designed to compass the ex-
tension Of the naturalization laws. Though
not member of "the Order" the fact &c
which We refer above secures to him more Of
the regards Of the Know Nothings of the House
than is enjoyed by any other Democrat in tn,
chamber.
Mr.. Millward, Of Pennsylvania, is a mer