Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-12-14
Messrs. Trumbull and China.

resolution in the Senate tho object of which s
TO obtain full investigation by committee osAs
body of the recent outrage at Harper's Ferrr s m
resolution is admitted to be proper nv IL. Ing
Republicans themselves; and yet while n' vaet
this admission, and while pretending to be f,rs"s
to its passage, they are endeavoring to emh," '0s
the majority of the Senate by an amendment az
by Mr. Trumbul, of Illinois, providing for o. s'd
tigation into the seizure of some public @
Liberty, Missouri, in 1856, by some Misson,;a
and Southern men. This seizure of arms at 1a ''%
was, it is true, violation of law; but the dry '!
was small, and the arms were taken to be rs,,9 s
the Missourians in defending themselves .s.g
such Kansas bandits as old John Brown. Th H"S
significant affair, compared with the outr,.s !"
Harpers Ferry, has been allowed to sleep four r..
and is now brought forward by Mr. Trumbnns'
no other purpose than to embarrass the effort w
by Mr. Mason to have full and thorough Invest
ton of the recent attempt to use the arms If =
United States, at Harper's Ferry, against the n..
able and unoffending citizens of Virginia ~.
truth is, Mr. Trumbull and the black Repubr..
do not want an investigation, and the real ob;s.
the amendment is to prevent an investisatior
Their professions are worth nothing when not e..
tanned by their acts
While the national men in the Senate are bu
embarrassed by black Republican tactics, the Hon
of Representatives is in highly excited con,ii,s
on account of recent events and the political dvxo,
in that body. Neither party has clear maio,,r
The black Republicans number 10 to H. a.
Democrats 95 to 100, including the doubtful o,,,s
Lecompton Democrats; and the Southern opposso0
some % to "a. On the first day of the session ".
Clark, of Missouri introduced resolution dec,r;,.
that no member of the House who had endo,.,,
Helpers pamphlet was I" fit to be Speaker Botb
the members voted for on the first dav for SDs,l..
by the black Republicans have endorsed that pamDh
let to-wit Mr.. Sherman of Ohio, and Mr.. GROW
of Pennsylvania and Mr.. Clark's resolution va,
intended to apply to them. We can perceive M
| good ground of objection to the resolution r
speaks the truth, and was, we think, proper to h.
introduced. The Democrats and Southern American,
by uniting and voting for it as one man. could hare
passed 1t, and thus have cut off, by deliberate DE-
caration of the House in advance, any such mem
Der as Sherman or Grow from being Speaker. Bt
this view of the matter did not suit Mr. Gi]mer and
so he offered an amendment, the substance of which
is that all parties deprecate and ought to cease tbe
agitation of the slavery question OF course if the
amendment shall be adopted the resolution of Mr.
Clark will be deprived of its force, and the House
will certainly have said that the approval by mem.
Der of Helpers book, does not render him unfit for
the Speakers chair.
Mr.. Trumbull black Republican, embarrasss
national men in the Senate and Mr. Gmer, South.
ern oppositionst, embarraSses national men in The
House of Representatives, by parliamentary tactics
What prevents Mr.. Gilmer from voting for Mr.
Clarks resolution Does he not feel it to be true.
He denounces Helpers pamphlet in severe terms;
why is it that he will not so cote by sustaining Mr.
Clark's resolution? Is it possible that he expects
the Speakership himself and is counting in the end
on black Republican support
The contest for Speaker is really between Mr.
Bocock and the Constitution on one side and Mr.
Sherman and Helpers pamphlet and Dsunon on
the other. In this crisis the Southern Americans
continue to vote for Mr. Gmer 1t is not suffc
ent excuse that their VOTE added to the present vote
for Mr.. Bocock, would not elect him. 1t would
place him ahead of Sherman, and would most pro-
badly at once bring to his support every doubtful
Democrat in the House, and thus elect him But
aside from this, how can they reconcile it to them
selves to stand of and throw away their strength
when the only national party in the country is en-.
gagged in desperate, and it may be final struggle
in the House with the black Republicans? Dothg
expect the Democrats. who have nearly five times
the strength which they have in the House, to 20
them? We can tell Messrs. Gilmer, Vance, Leach
Smith, Nelson, and others, that if the Southern
people could take their places they would at once
cast every Southern American vote against John
! Sherman. They would vote for Mr. Bocock. The
would not stop to inquire whether the Democrats
cause, or the Know Nothing cause or any otha
cause would be benefited by their course; they
would look only for the best MEANS and adopt the
best means for defeating the candidate of the black
Republicans
II John Sherman should be elected, will MessE
Gilmer, Vance, Leach, and Smith have it in Their
power to inform their slaveholding constituents
tat they roed for the strongest man against him.
that they did all they could to defeat hims IsM
Gilmer willing to have it said, and to have it knSn
that while black Republican is endeavoring in one
branch of Congress to prevent an investigation into
the Hsrpers Ferry outrage, he is endeavorng in the
other branch to prevent direct and unequvoa
expression of opinion as to the character Of the men
who have endorsed Helpers book?
"DRUNMERs" RETURNING TO THE NoRTH-Ne
learn that one day last week number Of gentlemen
employed by Northern mercantile Houses to soh'
trade in the Southern States, met in Baltimore
their way to New York, Philadelphia, and Boston,
and while there number of gentlemen engaged ID
the same business reached Baltimore on their Wy
South. Consultations were held; the returning
drummer" reported the duh state Of trade in n
South, and indeed the impossibility Of doing 90!
thing for their houses; whereupon they all return"
home. This is good. Touch the pocketner''
fellow.citizens and the Union NAV be saved.