New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-09
MANUFACTURERS, MERCHANTS, AND
BUSINESS MEN IN THE HOUSE.
from an Occasional Correspondent.

from an Occasional Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. G, 1860.
In our boy hood we learned from Hume that the
person who presided over the tribunal that con.
demned Charles T. to the seat id, was zone Brad
4" shaw, lawyer" We have ever since had great
respect for the legal profession. In his celebrated
speech on American taxation, Edmund Burke, in
sketeaing the character Of Grenyile, the author of
The Stamp Act, attributed in part tie failure OF that
minister to eresee the disasters which sprang from
thatmeasurc, to his having been trained to the bar
"If such man." said the great orator, " fell into
"crrors, il must be from defects not intrinsical;
" they must be rather sought in the particular
habits Of his life which, though they do not alter
" the groundwork OF character, yet tinge 1t with
" their own hue. He was bred to the law, which
ais, in NY opinion, one of the Fret and MODEST Of
human sciences: 3 science which does more TO
quicken and inyigorate the understanding, than
all toe other kinds of learning PIT together; but
it is not apt, except in persons very happily torn
to open aid to liberaize the mind exactly in the
same proportion"
Probably ihree-lourths of the members of the
House Of Representatives are practieing lawyers.
Doubtless pretty strong infusion into the halls of
legislation of the varied learning, the habits OF
patient investigation, and the aptitude for public
speaking which characterize gentlemen Of the robe
is valuable; yet, not less important is it, that they
should contain liberal share of those who have been
educated into and are familiar with the nutiform
industrial pursuits OF the country. We are happy
to know, that while the reputation of the probes
sional side of the House wall be ably sustained, it
also confirms n large number Of businessmen"
reureseniing the various branches of Commerce,
Manufactures and Agriculture. II is Of these that
we now propose to speak. Confning ourselves to
The Republican side OF the Chambers and, from
The necessities of the cose dealing with our subject
in q very summary manner.
New. England, the Yorkshire Of the Union, has
sent TO Congress several men engaged in manniac.
lures. Lynn, the famous shoe mart, is represented
in the person of Mr.. John b. Alley. The sons and
daughters Of Old Essex, with its sterile sol and
roek bound coast, have grown rich BY handicratt
eInplOymeDis on land and by drawing wealth from
the depths of The sea. When McDufie, twenty.
five years ago declared that the only safe basis Of
society was that in which capital ewned labor, aud
proposed that the shOcmakers and Inackerel.catch-
ers the yeomen and mechanics, OF New-England
should be reduced 10 slavery, Quaker Whittier sec
ended The suggestion in fiery lines, of which
We quote couple Of stanzas:
Ho! fishermen Of bsrblehea5i
Ito! Lynn eOrdwsiDers, leave your lealherl
LLaEttT Inc yoke Ia kindness fDade,
And CLARK your needful chains togethor
Lot Lowell mills their thousands Weld,
Down Lot the rough Vermon,er hasten.
Come hoin The workshop aud the field
And thank ~ for each chain ws fas.en
Mr. William POrcler Niles, q philosophio FIRE.