Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-02-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, February u,

see by copy of the IHtetLtgeneer, which
friend has Just handed me, that your types did
me sad injustice in one of the letters which
Isent you before going over to Richmond.
certainly never meant to pervert "the truth Of
history" so far as to say that the combination OF
Clay, Webster and Calhoun, resulted in Martin
Van Buren's triumphant appointment as Minis;
ter to England-but just the opposite Not 81
worse mistake was that of robbing Macauay
of the authorship of those lines about Henry of
Navarro, and placing them to the credit OF Ma.
cready. Clever genius as the last named is,
never heard of his making any poetic preten-
sions. So please be little more careful to rem
der unto Caesar his due in time to come.
We landed off the boat here at o'clock this
afternoon, and as leave to-nightfor the East, Il
must make the best use OF my time and your
space possible under the circumstances md,
that while / was over at Richmond, they have
been overhauling the tariff question pro and
con, and, as learn from some of the parties TO
the discussion, are no nearer settlement oil the
matter now, than when they first began the sub
| iect away back in the session. 1t is not proOa"
BILE that the demands OF Pennsylvania or the
tariff party generally, will be acceded to. 30.
arc down on and howl at the idea. Their couse
is to let Pennsylvania "slide il she wants to CO.
The StGtes ofthis city, says she mas been in
Obliged too much now in her anti States rights
demand, and that she has all along, heretofore,
been unsound in the pure Democratic faith. 1t
! is evident, from the audible and visible tone OF
feeling hereabouts, that Pennsylvania is expect
| ed, under the Influences of Cameron and For.
| ney, to go over, bag and baggage, to the oppo-
sition camp in 1860, and that all bones or boz
muses. thrown over to her, are Just that much oil
"loye's labor lost" That she will go seems a
foregone conclusion. A gentleman OF the party
in power, who occupies seat on the floor OF
the lower House, told me- as his deliberate con-
viction, that unless something was done, aud
| that right speedily, the Jig was up" Cuba,
| the tariff question, and the empty treasury, he
| thought, would do the work up in true 1870
| style The fact is, and candid men of the party
! here do not hesitate in private chats to ac-
knowledge it, the party has become nothing
more than tool in the hands of the Southern
"fire eaters" They mould it. Slidell, of La,
| is now ut this time the leader of the Democracy
| in the Senate, and next most influential after
him is jefferson Davis. You, and every body
else know what these men are. Cuba and Cuba
niggers and plantations absorb their thoughts all
the while. You likewise know that Keitt, OF
| S. c., and Stephens, of Ga, are the leaders in
the House. They are looked upon as more in
the confidence of Mr.. Buchanan than other
members of the party. In fact there IS no
administration party among the Northern
isms of the administration, and are now vir-
tually over with the opposition. Look at the
Pennsylvania delegation as proof of this
These men, as Democratic member said to me
the other day, cannot stand up before their poo
pleat home and at the same time do the bidding
of the Southern wing here. They have been
forced to the vote on this niger question.
Every year there comes some test more extreme
in its character, which they are asked to adyo
cate. Last year it was Lecompton-now it is
Cube, and the aaxt there will be repeal of the
laws making the slave trade piracy. i tsIl you,
was sorry and mortified TO see a son of Henry
Clay rising in his place and denouncing these
laws. He now is one Of the chiefs of the ex-
;remists.
| But enough about such matters. was no
little amused on opening out copy of the
States of this afternoon, to read the article which
enclose for you. Considering that it is paper
that delights to ridicue Europe court fiunkeys,
it strikes me as beng nice piece of toadyism.
Here it is:
| LIFE IN WASHINGTON.
Our citizens and sotourners were on Saturday
deceived into the enjoyment of a May.day in
February. So lovely and mild was it that in
our public grounds the bright eyes of the flow
ers peeped up from among their glancous leaves,
as If to ascertain the use and meaning of the
untimely warmth and sunshine.
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