New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
apvnCH OF Saul sBURy, IN THE SENATE, UPON
SLAVERY AND SEWARD.


49, .. Oseszisnsl Correspondent.
wAsHIEeToS, April 2, 1860.
Happening 70 look into the Senate Chamber to-
aay. I was forcibly struck with the remark Of
RisAsrd Cobden concerning the Republican and
Democratic parties. The eminent Corn-Law re-
pe.ler SAID: "YOu Republicans lack pluck You
"uttsr the noblest sentiments, accompanied with
"the most deprecatory apologies, while the Dem
"ocrats proclaim atrocious doctrines with the
~boldest efrOntery. You need more pluck"
There is toe much truth In this criticism. we
had an exhibition of phase of it in the Senate,
to-day. Mr.. Salisbury, one Of the Senators from
Delaware, addressed that body upon the subject OF
Slavery generally, the question on the taps oelns
Mr.. JEFF. Davis's Caucus resolutions, WIN iu''u,
Eerable amendments, from varied sources, Northern
and Southern. .o
This Mr.. SALISBURY seems to be about sn average
s,sae,men of that sort of lawyer who might Try
horse case at isi prias with tOerable TACT or argue
n plain proposition at bano0 with moderate aoiniy;
There was nothing in the style Of his essay he read
ffom a uass of foolseap) TO mitigate OF commend
the undi,euised barbarian OF its doctrines upon the
spb;ect Of the rights of man, and the powers and
aut;es of governments in relation thereto. 1t was
commopplace in manner and dabOllcal in matter
Jeiufe and superficial specimen of rhetoric and
losic. hardly reaching the levelOf composition" OF
A Sophomore in Southern College, its only salient
features were the nhereI mquty OF ITS principles,
which would better beft an Agerlne cOrsar on his
bloody deck, welding dripping cutlass over the
heads of cringng captives, than an American Sena-
tor on the floor of Congress addressing the repre-
sentatiyes of free States.
would not do Mr. Salisbury injustice. The
speech he delivered to-day Gf it be not msnOmer
to call the reading, in mumbing tone, of an essay
the delivery of q specify was no worse in tone, nor
half as forcible in style, score of other Senate
and House speeches this session. Indeed by the
side of Mr. Davis's semi-civized sentiments clad
in the daintiest rhetoric and ToOmbs's volcanic
utterances plethOrc with passion and replete with
thought and CuIrys calm and gentlemanly state
ments of the most repulsiye and fendish doctrines,
the platitudes of Salisbury dwared and dwlndled
into rather diminutive proportions. Still, the da-
bolism was there, only the garb it wore was rather
sleezy and faded.
Br. saulsbary devoted portion of his perform
ance to running commentary upon Gov. Seward
career on the Slavery question, commencing witt
Ms celebrated (should not rather say, immortal
correspondence with the Virginia Governors twenty
ears and more ago, and coming down, step by
sep TO his recent speech in the Senate. He reaC
and criticised as severely as he knew how, extrac
frem those letters TO the Virginia Execu ives, which
will live long after all the Saulsburys are forgotten
and his Cleveland speech, and from his IRE
pressibe' production at Rochester, and so on
to the end While commenting upon the
Cleveland speech, and after asserting that 1t was
the germ Of the foray at Harpers Ferry he coupled
Brown and Seward together, and in tones OF
hissipg.hot sarcasm, proclaimed that, as in their
HIVES they were united in doctrines and purposes,
70 in their deaths they ought not TO have been d.
vided. If this broad statement that Seward ought
to have persisted on the scafOld with PrOwn, was
intended as a wittcism, it would have been fail
are and out of place on the stump in the midst OF
obi tad horn n tod nnh
in the heat of litical canvass. But, being de-
iberatey committed to paper, and calmly read IN
the face of the Senate, without the slightest
provOeatiOn, and in the absence of Gov Seward, il
simply proves this man Salisbury to be far bette
fitted to serve bacchanafans in vulgar tap-room
than TO address gentlemen in the Chamber OF th
United States Senate.
salisbury had but few auditOrs-sOme dozen o
fifieen. Joe Lane sat Immediately at his RICH
hand Joe, being naturally low fellow, chuekleC
at the idea of hanging Seward. Hunter loungeC
lstlessly few chairs away Being candidate fol
Charleston, he felt bound to pay seeming attention
to even so excruciating bore as Salisbury.
douglas kept bObbing in and out of the cloak room,
rs if nervOusy anxious les. Salisbury take him in
hand after be had done with Seward. FesseDden
and Wade sat at distance, cycling the speaker
with pOrtentOus scOwls. They were the only Re-
publesns who were paying any heed to what be
was nitering.
What an indubtable proof of the degeneracy Of
the times that man of such meager parts, Of such
low instincts of such base principles, should repre-
sent State 10 the Senate which could once boast a
James A. Bayard, Louis McLane, and John NJ.
Clayton The interests and the honor of Della
mare all clamOr for her deliverance from the system
of Slavery, and such politicians as Salisbury.
And yet she permits herself to be crushed at home
by the one, and disgraced abroad by the other.
auIsON. PRYOR AND PoLYGAsfY IN THE HOUSE