New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-24

bpt expressive phrase, one Of "the best posted
men in the House. Convince him that any measnre
is worthy ard right and hswlll not only give " ms
VOC but Will support IL with zeal and discretion
Though he never occupies the h0or IN maAog
speeches he il one OF the most industrious and
valuable Republicans IN the BODY. In pro,
trsc.ad contest involving the supremacy oi
Freedom or Slavery. like the Decompton struggle,
h. il of the same class Of combstants as the cee-
brnted eoros so much praised by Wellington IN the
Peninsula " no always fought best toward the close
of a long snd doubtful day.
Alphabetically last on the list stands MI lhomp-
SON an able lawyer, ripe scholar, the most eeans
and powerful writer and the moot racy and polished
| rbetorici.n in the New York delegation, whose
speecbes Use out of the dead sea of general Con-
gressonsl oratory, like lighthouses on the head
lands of the ocean--conspcuOus for their aon!Iy'
| taste and elOquence.
Rur we must leave the New York delegation
vithou. being able 10 say all that We "osd oi Ii,
and close our rambling sketch by aoire reference
10 the repre- sentatyes of two or three other oIa.
still combining ourselves TO members VINO lelne
al the end Of this session. w,
csnnot INTO detail. and will only instance Dr.
Cb1fee and Mr.. Knspp, OF Massachusetts, botn
sbreUd industrious and trustworthy; and Mr. I'LL
man of Msine a gentleman oil rare endO" mebt' :,
thoronob in his examination of questions, careful
IN bis deductor O. firm in his attachment To radical
RenubIcsn principles, and bod IN their enuncla-
ton. ard winning many friends by genial social
ousIities With Washburn and Morse of Maine,
Morrill, of Vermont, and Dawes, Bafhnton ana
Gooch OF Massachusetts, Of the present House, al
ready prospe ctively reinforced by Adams, Eliot
and Train of Massachusetts,, and soon 10 be
strengthened by elections IN New-Hampshre,
Rhode leland and Connecticut, the hereditary
principles of the land Of the Adlmses, Hancock
Sherman. Lar gdon and Stark, will suffer no detrl-
ment in the next Congress.
The Republican losses in New.YOrk will be re.
paired by Spauding, Sedgwick, Humphrey, Beale,
Lee and their compeeTs; while the allied OPPOSE
ton will be further strengthened BY Reynolds,
Briggs and Carter.
A mass of dough-faced trash sloughs of in Penn
syvania and New.Jersey. Valuable new members
come in, at whose head stands Thaddeus Stevens
the tpt cis terror of Buchanan. Re returns to
deepen the enduring mark he made in Congress
many years ago. 1850.
Though OHIO parts with the services Of Glddings,
Horton, Bliss Mott and other able Republicans
vet with Wade Stanton Sherman and bingham
of the old members, and Tom COTwin of glorious
memory leading the new, she viii maintain her
position as frst-class State III the cOniederacy
Oh, that score Of such men as Stevens and Cor
win would in this crisis, return to the theater Of
their early fame
While iseretting the absence of Mcssrs. Billing
hurst and Walbrdge of the great North West it is
consoliDg to know that the place of the latter will
be filled by our eloquent friend Francis W. kel-
loeg Wemake no note Of Howard and Biair two
of the strong men of the present House, because
we think they Will be promptly restored To the
seats ont of which they have been swiDdled, and
therefore they belong not to the list OF retiring
members.