Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1858-02-12

tNtTl tlAN' otAlH " rtprtstntel on thc
above committees. while three of the SOW
ereign States Of this Union, ,o.wit Maine.
New Hampshire, AMI Massachusetts,, who
have six senators upon that loor. are en-.
tircly disiranchisod. and excluded from all
thcsc important committees. OF these ten
committees s,rcH have chairmcn from the
South and three from the North. OF the
flty.ninc places upon these committees.
thirty-sI are from the slave States and
twenty.ihrcc from the free States. Virginia
has her two Senators placed AZ the head Of
the two most important committees In the
Senate, while old Massachusetts, y entirely
kicked out OF the ring.
The above l'i comprises ten OF the mos,
important committees m the Senate. and
we leave our readers 20 make their own
comments after carefully looking over il.
Ba, TO come down TO the prcscn, Con.
gress, there is the same contemplate, sneak.
ing spirit in arranging the Committees The
Albany Evening Journal, in some comments
upon this matter, shows up the ridiculous
arrangement, as TO the ehairnan.hip Of some
OF the most important committees in that
body:
II says the Craftsmanship Of the Finance
Committee is assigned 20 Virginia. State
impoverished on the verge OF bankruptcy.
The Chairmnnship of the Commerce. Com.
miitec IL given "a Alabama-which never
Launches ship OF Military Affair. TO
Mississippi-wlerc there Is not fort nor
an arsenal! OF Naval Affairs, n Florida.
that never bull, gun boat ~ Foreign
Relations, 10 Virginia. for whose ports no
Liverpool trader has sailed in three years.
aud whose cOnsulships are sinccurcs! OF
Patents. 90 North Caroliua-which does not
take out dozen in year OF Post Roads.
TO Florida. where mail carriers foot IL
through swamps. with the entire mail In n
brooches pocket Of Revolutionary Pen.
sions, % South CarllIna-thc headquarters
OF tories in the Revolution, and of r6els ever
since OF the Library, 10 States where il
j, \ crime TO read the Bible. aud felony o.
circulate the Declaration Of Independence
The Journal adds
but New York. whose sails whi,en every
sea. whose men and money have been Law.
ished in every war, whose post Offices pay
not only for themselves. but for thosi It
hall dozen other States besides. and whose
tax payers pour more gold into the federal
treasury than the whole fifteen slave States
put ioccthcr-New York must be content
with the last place on one Committee, and
ibrneIt the las, on another. while especial
pains have been taken that she shall be
overruled In both
"Talk with a black democrat, and he
will toll you their party is F" National
and here is proof Of how much truth there
is IN all such bTalen.faeed assertions. So.
Gona''m stands out prominent in all the
acts aud dolngs Of tins anaiical organiza-
ton. Take, Tor instance. the committee on
oomm,rce, OF which Mr.. llamlin, has been
chairman for years up to the time he left
the blacks, and then you have that little,
arrogant, bitter irc-eatsr Clay, Of Alabama,
pu, at the head, and Senator lIamlin. and
the only national man upon the committee.
at the extreme tail. Then, again, that
committee is madc up in such way as to
give majority in favor Of repeating the
fishing bounties in order to rob our hardy
seamen. aud swindle New England out of
the rewards, that justly belong to her hardy
mariners. Tho majority Of the United States
Senate. made up Of black democrats, as a
body Of men, are the creates, set Of sectional
fanatics on earth. They are infinitely worse
than Cromwel!'s rump Parliament, and IL
they should share the same fate that bciel
their prototypes in Cromwell's day, 1t
would be blessing to the world, and erpe.
eially to the people Of the United States.