Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-12-30
sectlonalIsm IN me r,unse.

While the Democratic DisuDionists in
the House are pushing forward their sec
tionalism by refusing TO vote for Northern
man for Speaker, the Democratic Senate
has shown its determined proclivity 70 sec
tionalism in the arrangement Of the Stan
ding Committees, a matter fully discussed
and prepared in the caucus Of the party
SO outrageously onesided are the Commit
tees, that the old Democratic Plain Dealer,
which like balky horse occasionally stalls
in the party traces, cries out that $50 far as
that body the GSenate is concerned, there
is no North, no. East, no WestP 1t is
all South, SoUTH, SOUTHF And yet tho
Editor as delegate to the Charleston Con-
vention will fraternize with the "all South"
aud support with zeal worthy better
cause the nominee for President the "SouTH,
SOUTH" in its potency over doughfaces,
"thumb screws upon the Northern Dcmoc-
racy." Douglas has gone back to the en-
brace of his Lecomptou boa, and his dough
ty champion on the Reserve will be eager
for the sacrifice by the 23rd of April, the
month Of All Fools Day.
1t must be admitted that the infamous
conduct Of the Democrats in the Senate in
the arrangement of the Standing Commit
tees, is enough TO try the patience of the
the most submissive of Northern "hewers
Of wood and drawers of water" TO the
South The Senate is a body of sixty-six
members who represent thirty-three equal
and independent States. Of these States,
eighteen are free, and fifteen slave. The
free have a white population Of over l3,0O0,-
600, the slave, white population of about
100000. The free 100000 of electors;
the slave a little over 100000. OF the
twenty-five committees to which legislative
business is distributed the free States, un-
der the rule of equality and Justice, ought
to have the chairmanship, and majority
of members, of at least thirteen of them.-
| How stand the facts touching the commit
tees Just announced9 The list is as follows:
On Foreign ReiatiOns-Messrs Mason, Douglas, Polk
On Finanes-Messrs Hunter, Pearce, GWn, Bright and
| Hammond.
On Commeree-Messrs. Clay, Bigler, Toombs, cIngman
| and Salisbury.
On Military Aairs-Messrs. Davis, Fitzpatrick, John
son of Ark, Chestnut and Lane.
On Narat 4farsMessrs. Mallory, Thompson, slidell,
| Hammond and Nicholson.
and Powell.
On Poste6ees-Messrs Yulee, Gwin, Rice, Bright and
! On Pn5lio Lands-Mrs johnson Of Arl johnson of
Tenn, Lane, Pugh and Bragg.
and Hemphi
On iadiaT A6airs-sessrs. Sebastian, Brown, Fitch,
On PensiORs-AIessrs. Thompson, Clay, Salisbury and
Powell.
On Revolutionary ClaimS-Messrs. ToOmbs crittenden
On CiaiHs-M,essrs. Iverson, Mallory and Bragg,
| On the District Of ColHmbia-Messrs. Brown, Mason,
I johnson Of Tenn. Yuee and Kennedy.
On PateHts-Messrs. Bigler, Thompson, Toombs and
| Hemphill.
On Public BHildings-Messrs. Bright, Davis and Ken
On TsrritOris.-Messrs. Green, Douglas, Sebastian,
70 AIdi Coniingent Expenses Of the SsnGts-MessrS.
johnson ofTenn. and Powell
| On PriHting-Messrs. Fitch and Davis.
i On ERgTossed BtHs-Messrs; Lane and Biger.
On the Library-Messrs. PeArce and Bayard.
How are twenty-five committees, forci-
bly, remarks the Evening Post, of which
the chairmanship of sixteen is given to the
slaveholding members, and the chairman
; ship of the six others to members who side
with them in politics. Not a single COM
mittee of any importance is assigned to the
free states, either in the Craftsmanship or in
the majority of its members. The Repub-
. licans, who have twenty-five representa-
tives in the Senate, or considerably more
than one third of the whole body, are al
lowed two members on each committee of
seven. Could anything be more sectional
than this?
The slave States have fewer people, fewer
votes, fewer representatives than the free
States, and yet they take majority of the
committees. In the foreign relations of the
! government, those questions of peace and
, war, amity and commerce, in which the
, great cities of the North, and its vast pro-
, ducing and manufacturing classes, are so
deeply interested, the business is initiated
and controlled by Mr.. Mason of Virginia.
, For its financial policy, the Senate looks
to Mr.. Hunter of Virginia. Commerce is
committed to Mr.. Clay, of Alabama; Mill
= tary Affairs to Mr.. Davis of Mississippi
? Naval Affairs to Mr.. Mallory, of Maryland
;, and so on with all the other committees of
mark. When you come to public bull
diugs, to patents, to engrossed bills and
:, such comparatively inconsiderable matters
y you find the democratic Senators of the
! free States (who do not adhere to Douglas
: notions of territorial government) compli-
T. !: mented with few chairmanships.
y y This one-sided, unjust and sectional poll
u cy is so obtrusive that Mr.. Pugh, one of the
; Democratic Senators, was himself compell-
:, . ed to protest against il; and he warned the
y Senate that if it desired to put down the
= prevailing agitation on the subject of sia,
: very, it must avoid procedures of this sort,
! the motives of which were but too trans.
S parent. When democrats of Mr.. Pugh',
: fidelity are obliged to rebuke this southern
sectionalism it is not necessary for us tc
. take up the topic.
Minnesota Republican Senator.
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