Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-12-29
Loek to the senate.

Lock 10 the senate.
! The telegraph announces the following
COMMITTEES in ihe Senate: Mr.. Mssen re-
mains as Chairma1 of the Committse on
Foreign Affairs; Mr. Clay do. on Com
merce; Mr.. Yule do. on Post Office: Mr..
Green do. on Territories; Nj. Mallory do.
on Naval Affairs; Mt. Bayafd do. on the
Judiciary, and Mr. Brown do. on the Dis
trict of Columbia.
These constitute all the important Com
mittees Of that body, enough to control
the entire legislation of the country, aud it
will be seen that the South hare got them
all So far as the organization of that
body is concerned, there is Hno North, no
East, no Westf 1t is all South, SouTH,
l.SOUTHl Sectionalized, the COMMITTEES
stend thus:
Foreign Affairs-Mason, of Va, SOUTH
Clay, of Alabama, SOUTH
Post Offices-Yulee, of Florida, SOUTH
| Territories-Green, of Missouri SOUTH
Naval Mallory, of Fa., SOUTH
Judiciary-Bayard, Of Delaware, SOUTH
District Columbia Brown, of Miss, SOUTH
This makes pretty showing up of the
country of Southern clanishness and Sec
tioralism. By cottoning and sugaring to-
| gether in Congress and Conventions, the
South, by unity of action, melted by a
unity of interests, have so far controlled
Presidents and party issues, as to put the
Democracy of the North, East and West
in false positions before the people. The
result has been TO drive the Democrats
from the free States out of Congress, not
being able to stand on Southern platforms
or cope with Northern Opposition. Every
turn of the Southern thumb-screws upon
the Northern Democracy has decimated
their numbers, until now, so far as the
Democratic party is concerned, the South
have undisputed control in both branches
of Congress.
In inveigleing Old Buck into his Le-
compton policy, the South would have
blotted out the Democratic party North,
but for the powerful and timely interfer-
ence of Senator Douglas. As it was, it
made a slaughter-house of the free States,
carrying every one of them over to the
enemy save one, and that one was where
the defiant leader of the Northern Democ-
racy resided and carried on the campaign
in person against Buchanan, Black, and the
Black Republicans-alias the World the
Flesh and the D-L
1t tore down a towering Democratic ma
jority in the House, it has nearly obliterat-
ed the Democratic majority in the Senate,
majority that has stood triumphautly
against all opposition for near fifty years
Lecompton sent Senator Jones, Senator
Wright, Senator Shields, and Senator Pugh
into retirement, and substituted Black Re
publicaus in their places. 1t will soon end
the days of Senator Bigler, Bright, and
Fitch; and will leave Douglas the last
Democratic Senator in the body from al
the Free States, the "sole survivor of his
race" No new Democratic Senator can
ever be elected from any Free State who
in any way indorsed that fatal measure
Douglas is the last Commissioned on The
list, and if the present Southern dynasty is
to be perpetuated, in, '64 he will be the
only Democratic Senator representing ans
portion of this ConJederacy. North of Ma
sons and Diron's Line. At present the
South have the President, Vice-President
and Cabinet. Does any one doubt that
The south have a majority of Supreme
Court. Does any one doubt this? By
their late action in the Senate they have
control of our Foreign Relations, our Ter
ritories, Naval Affairs, Judiciary, &c. And
still this same South are threatening to
dissolve the Union because they are per
secuted people. The little State of Flori-
da, which has not one-half as many voters
as Hamilton county, is honored with the
Craftsmanship of two Senatorial Commit
tees, Post Offices, and Naval Affairs, while
Ohio with more voters than Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and
Georgia put together, has nothing. And
yet yet it is the South who are continually
ranting against sectionalism.
| - go that some power the gift would give u.s.
To see ourselves as others see u.s.
1t is in vain to look to Congress for the
correction of this most glaring and most
daring evil. The Press and the People
must apply the correction. The Charles
ton Convention is The tribunal before which
such questions must come and be tried
There, the people who make Presidents,
Cabinets, and Congressmen, speak directly
through their Delegates. Let the country
press, too, throughout the Northwest and
throughout the free States, be heard on
this subject, and the sooner the better
Unless this sectionalism is done away with
the Democratic party might as well dis.
band at once. The people of the North
will stand no such vassillage at this
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