The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-07
ans ysay the stase-PoWer
EftzIeS tie EatiOE.
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y list st5tt%1 upon u SatAe - u 'ii-
dsniEdni party.
,fr IIaniin, Of Maine, protested against
the lisl ~ unjust, dlspfOPortlonate, and
sectional. Ia said
.ilha ere the fscts? We have sixty
two meub1rs cf the Senate-tEirty-two
arc from tua Nou-S Slal ehoiding States
thjrtg ere ir2n the Sl4yeholding States
Tie Whole uuii.bcr OF place, upon con-
raitces is QUE lundred and twcnty-six
.%umsrically. upon an eIuh rePreEsnta
lion, tkers should be assigned To Scna-
tori from the Slave States sixty one PAGES,
and to Senators from the Free States six
ty-fv-. The cast. although il has been
siighsiy modified this morning, think is
Eot substantially changed As it vas
rnada and presented 10 the nIinority, /
suppose the changes viii not exceed one.
BY rhst cast there were assigned to the
Slave State. aixty-seren, and to the Free
States hfsy-n,,a,' showing Il dlsprop2rti3n
81 ten '+lo whole number of commit
tees Of the eeRate is twenty-tvo. Of
these committees, there are from the
Slave States 10 be found majorifies on
thirteen. and maiCriticS Of bat uiuc from
the Free States and Of these nine, where
raAjGr!tles arc composed of Senators from
the Free States, three are wholly uHim-
portaut--thc Committees On InrolcI
Bills, EngrJssod Balls, and to Audit snd
Control the Contingent Expense Of the
~enate-leayiue. therefore in fact, the
proportion Of thirteen 10 six
"Tracing the mattcr along still further,
Gnd that the party With whom ] act
upon this floor consists ol twenty, being
v..h.g fract;ou Of one .hild Of the Sen
ste. They are entitled, uJ0n terms Of
s1uality, to thir.y-une rlaces upun the
seumiitcos they have thinv-tLr-o as
signed to. them. Seven of those thirty
tLrce are on the uuimportaut committees
to which have alluded, leaving them
actually but tw,ntv-six on COMMITTEES Of
4nv considerable iBpo,tarce. Gnd that
OH sixteen committees of the Senate the
chairLcu a.e scccted from the S!ava
State, and op sx froa the Free State,
find, to guard the succession tor ] en-
some to no other conclusion), precisely
an equal number Of men from the Slave
states stand second upon the committees,
to insure the SUGGESTIONS, when, by d.
Gl;uation, resignation, 0; the expiration Of
tbeig term, they shall YjtAdr4Y from the
Senate.
"But numerically, although important,
i: is n matter Of much less importance
than the particular manner in which The
individual committees are cast. With
Only two exceptions (and comparcd with
the others, they are somcwhat uuimport-
anti, the great, the principal committees,
That reject the Government, that estab-
hsh lts policy abroad and at home, are all
cast wFh muorltlcS Of Southern men
II j. significant fact; it Is a fact preg-
AAnt with mi-che.; it is . fact Of which
the country VIII not fail to take notice.
tg?v, sir, that the executive and Judicial
departments Of the Government are now
at the foot OF the slave Power
a"Hero We have the Committee on For
eign Relations, that shapes and directs
The foreign policy of the Government we
have the Committee on Military Af.irs,
that looks to It's Army we have the Com
n1ittee on Naval Ait4irS, that has charge
Of It's Navy; we have Committee on the
Judiciary, which gives construction to
laws, and shapes the policy (so far as the
Legislature may) OF the Government; We
hud them all constituted of majority of
mon who represent the Siaycholding
States: ] make no objection personally.
want these facts to 20 10 the country,
that they may know the mode and man
aer in which the legislative business i,
prepared and shaped, and how it j. that
i IS perselt4,l to the behcsts and made
to subseYc the purpose Gf she Slave IN
tercgt in this country. Who cannot sae
the object to be accomplished plainly
foreshadowed? The najqrity qf tile Sen
ate, it is frankly conceded, are entitled to