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Correspondence Of the Press and Tnbune.1
WASHINGTON. May ., lEt0
The hail Of the House rang again yesterday
with the clarion tones Of John Hickman. It
was his great speech on Sectionalism, which we
hare all been looking for with unusual interest.
The Northern members gathered around the
eloquent orator and listened with that rapt at
tention which their affection for and yeneratiopa
Of him always cause them to bestow upon his
utterances; while the Southern members sat
mute, being awed, as ever, By the overmaster-
ing mental supremacy Of the pale and attenu-
ated figure Of him whom perhaps Of all North
crn men they hate the most intensely. Quite
q number Of distinguished Republicans from
abroad we're present ut the delivery Of this
wonderful speech, among them Gov. Denniaon,
Of Ohio, who pronounced it the best one for the
crisis TINT had been delivered in Congress dur
ing the present session. The warm and hearty
congratulations which were showered upon Mr.
Hickman when be had concluded are not often
e1amp1ed in the halls Of Congress, as common
as this ceremony has become. Although there
was, as there has been for week OF ten days,
slim attendance Of members present, forty
thousand copies Of the speech we're subscribed
for within the course Of few minutes, which
number will be doubled and trcbled when the
absent members return.
Nillson, Of Virginia, the man di9nifed aud
genuemanly member On the Democratic side Of
the South, replied to Nr- Hickman, meeting him
fairly and squarely on the Issue he had made,
and taking the modulated pro-slavery Southern
ground. The real question between the North
and the South-between freedom and slavery
between modern Democracy and the Republi-
can party-was perhaps never better stated.
Among other things, ,Millson accused the Repub-
lican party of being In favor of protection to
home industry, and Of those magnificent
schemes ofinterna1 improvement" which South
ern Democracy deems SO unconstitutional. {es-
peclally Senator Clay, Of Alabama, who, by the
connivance Of MIR. Douglas. is strangiing your
Chicago Harbor appropriation J The Building
Of Fncidc Railroad and such ike extravagan-
ces are included in these objects for seeking to
accomplish which Mr.. Millson, one of the South
ern Democracy, reproaches the Republican
party.
aid, announcing that the Democratic party has
ceased to exist, has caused the profoundest feel
lug among that harmonious organization in
this city. There is no disgusting the fact, that
throughout the struggle which the Democratic
party has made for ascendency since the John
Brown raid, the Herald has been its trusted
oracle. It has furnished all tho arguments for
all the leaders, from 1verson to Douglas from
the Helper book to the Shoe Strike. Every
Democrat here knows this aud the intelligence
that the Herald had proclaimed the death Of the
Democratic party few from mouth to mouth
last night With the speed Of the wind. Its effect
has been awful upon the faithful here. They
did not, as might be expected, break out in
fha huf foo1s I rot {ka
too true, their hearts sank, and in silence they
bore the crushing stroke. Had the events At
Charleston yesterday tended in any degree to-
wards harmonizing the conflicting elements
there, the effect Of the Heratd's artis would
not have been so great; but those sysnts only
truth.
The gentleman who telrzraphij9ron, ohar1es-
ton to the Secretary Of the RED blican National
Committee, said at the close 81 one of his dis
Of Alabama, one Of the most conservative Dem
ocrats Of the House. says this will be the last
Democratic National Convention that will ever
be held. English, Of Indiana, who has returned
from Charleston, gives it as his opinion, after
careful surrey Of The field, that no nomination
will be made there that can be considered as
the nomination Of the Democratic party OF the
country. You may bear similar expressions
almost any hour Of the day from Northern aud
Southern conservative Democrats. There is Il
terribly bitter feeling amongst the,n against
Douglas, who, they say, went to Charleston to
rule or ruin. Whether ha be nominated or not,
they say he has used the brief power in lis
hands 10 fntiict blow upon the Democratic
party from which it can never recover. They
say, also, that he is the cause Of the introluc-
tion Of the slavery agitation into the National
Convention, whereby the party is stu1tifed and
its professions beled. Ia short, the assertion
Of McClernand in 1854. that Douglas was zone
nf $t,o& ball. n$a
tors to the Democratic party" is, By Douglas
conduct IN reference to the objec: Of his aiabi-
| tion, proved to hare been true.
Meanwhile. the Republicans are confident,
and the conviction that theirs is the only party
which can now be relied upon to preserve the
Union-the only party which can properly lay
claim 10 nationaltty-is inspiring them with
courage and high resolution. Judge Mclean
is urged by the conservative men OF New Eng
| land and Pennsylvania as the man for the cri-
ses; and, in truth, think it will be Mclean in-
stead Of Cameron that will be urQtd By the
Pennsylvania delegation; Ohio, Of course,
would tLrow up both hands for Mclean. Her
delegates to Chicago, learn, if their seems to
be an impropriety in nominating Chase, will
vote nearly as unite for either Mclean or
| Lincoln,
There has been one thing made very manifest
by the tone of the eDemocsatiespeeches delivered
during the interval Of the Charleston Conven-
i
will make u united stand in favor Of free trade,
and against all river and harbor improvements.
The fierce onslaught upon Pennsylvania made
the other day BY Sydenbam Moore was one OF
the most open demonstrations Of this kind that
has been put forth. He said that State had put
| herself up to the highest bidder, and he was
opposed to the Democratic party making any
bid for her vote. The cloren foot ls, you sec,
beginning to stick out quite prominently.
lis amusing to observe how giugerly the
mid'lk mtn oi the Democracy treat political
subjects during the session Of the Convention,
MOI knowing what they will have to swear TO-
they are persistently mum. and arc not cage,
to claim, tile floor in Comnittee o. the Whole
The South Americans arc gathering for the
Baltimore Convention. The developments o
the Inst few days would seem to indicate thai
that Convention will be controlled By the mod
crate men Of that party. l am told BY those
who ought 70 know, that there will be- two an
desiringthe SUCCESS and the other the defeat 0
the Democratic party Of the former are tht
Brookses, tho Maynards aud the Botelers. O
! the !attaT nre the Stokeses, the Afal1orys, th'
Apderson's and the Davises. It looks now a
though the latter would hare decidedly th
upper hnnd there. If not, tue Republican part,
In MARYLAND will at once assume astonishing
proportions; for Henry Winter Da1is, AM
Webster, If not Morrison Harris, will Eepudiat
any Democratic Aid ticket and support til
Chicago nominee. WALpo.
| Democratic Victories.
No. !. The murder Of Drode1ick, .because b
opposed 4 wicked Administration and the e1
tension Of Slavery
q. The destruction Of tue Free Soutd{ {Sewsp.
peri in kentucky, because it opposed the e1ter
sion Of Slavery.
5. Arresting DR.. Breed, Of Washington Cit,
! aud placing him under As nO1 honds fnr Stain