The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-26
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY, APRIL 2G, 1858.
A very important individual in the Councils OF

very important individual in the Councils OF
the Nation, is the Honorable - Hill of the til
Wongressional District of the State of Georgia, as
recent occurrences have demonstrated. For months,
the Kansas question has been agiatng the country,
consuming an immense amount of time in its settle
ment and begetting much of bitterness and sec
tiona feeling in its discussion. For months, it
has occupied the attention of the two Houses, to
the exclusion of every other subject, and to the
great hindrance of public business. Honest men of
all parties have protested desire to this trouble
some question settled, and the country relieved
from further suspense upon the subject Two DIFF
ferent plans for its settlement have been proposed
in Congress. One has received the sanction of the
Senate; the other, that of the House. Each of
these honorable bodies while manifesting decided
preference for its own way of settling the business
has signifed its willingness however to AGREE, if
possible upon a compromise between their respec-
tive views. Accordingly, a Committee of Confer
ence has been appointed and to this Committee
has been confded the delicate task of deciding
upon such a compromise. ma jority of the Com
mittee have agreed upon plan, which has been
reported TO the two Houses. This plan possesses
for national and conservative men, at least one
very decided recommendation, that of being equally
disasteul to the extremists of both sections to the
Back-Republicans and to the fire-eaters Through
out the whole country, the hope appears to have
been cherished by moderate men, that this report of
the Committee would be at once acted upon, and
that if possible, way might be thereby opened to
satisfactory settlement. This hope, we are sorry
to say, must be once more deferred. One Mr. Hill
it seems, who happens to occupy seat in the
lower House, has ''private business at home" of
an urgent nature, which requires his immediate
attention, and accordingly by vote of the House
the subject is postponed until after his RETURN
The postponement, it may be added, was carried by
the votes of the opposition against those of the
friends of the Administration, and of the Union.
who were in favor of proceeding at once to
the consideration of the question. Verify, a
modest man is Mr.. Hill-his modesty is quite
equal to some mems assurance. He has ''pri-
vate business at home, and accordingly the
public business, the business of thirty millions of
people, must wait until Mr.. Hill has got through
his ''private business and is ready to attend to
theirs Yet Mr.. Hill is ''servant of the people
d pitIlouC SeutleItil, no uOuDl, WnO Tor the good
of his country, has consented to make sacrifice of
himself and of his personal character, by occupying
a scat in the House of Representatives. We should
be surprised at the facility with which the House
acceded to Mr. Hills desire to have the business Of
legislation suspended to suit his convenience S we
were not aware, rs we have just stated that the
postponement was voted by men who in their
hearts, if we may Judge by their actions, are OPP
posed to any settlement of the question, and who.
for personal and partisan purposes, wish to keep it
open for future agitation by stavng off It's consid-
Grafton until the end of the session. In this design
they have partially succeeded. We only wish Our
readers to know upon what pretext and by whose
votes the present settlement of the question has
been defeated. Mr.. Hills tprivate business re-
qulrlng his presence in Georgia, was the pretaxt:
and the votes of the two representatives of the city
OF Baltimore were among the votes by which the
motion to postpone was carried, and in fact
were decisive of the question. If, therefore.
there is to be further agitation upon this subject
more suspense on the part of the people, and more
intriguing and engineering on the part of Lecomp-
tonltes and ant-Lecomptonites in Congress, The
public may know where and upon whom rosts
the responsibility of this further delay in the settle
ment ola question which the public interests re-
quire should be laid at rest at once and forever.
In addition to high degree of modesty and
keen perception of his duties as a legislator and a
public servant, observe that Mr. Hill has dcci-
ded taste for melo-drama. Mr. Gartrell. also. of
Georgia, objectng to his colleagues demand for q
postponement, Mr.. Hill rushed furiously at him,
crying out Where will you have your grave
yard, sir, ntimating thereby his intention not
only to kill the said Gartrell, but Ito sc him de-
Gently buried 1t was Il delicate attention on the
part of Mr.. Hill, worthy of Sir Lucus O'Trigger,
whose kind inquiry as to Bob Acres possible choice
in the matter of grave yards, gave that redoubtabe
hero great uneasiness. However, the Scrgeant-at-
Arms conducted Mr.. Hill back to lis seat and Mr..
Gartrell was spared the necessity of indicating
then and there his wishes in respect to his place of
seputure. The Objection proved unavailing, and
to oblige Mr. HILL and at the same time to throw
another stumbling-block in the way of the settle
ment of the Kansas question: the House agreed to
postpone, by vote of los to l05.