New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-14
OUR CITY CONGRRsSMRN TO THH
HON. JAMES HUMPHREY.

sci: the ingenious self-distrust OF on unh9ck-
| neycd schoo-boy; the meek personal disparage-
merit and selfaccusaton Of sin-cOnscious saint,
each and all command our admiration. Yet be-
| yond and above oil these tower the rsticencs
and establishment of a veteran politciau-an
| eager, lifelong devOtee of the loayes and fishes
| of ofiice-especially if be commenced his ednca.
| ton in our City Ward caucuses and committee
! rooms, and graduated with all the honors at
| Tammany Hail. Need we add that our regard
| for the Hons. John CocAane and DAN Sickles
ranges somewhere between enthusiasm and VEN
erationl
The House of Representatives has recently
raised q grand Committee of Thrty-three to con-
slider the perils which now beset the Union and to
devise measures of relief or precaution To this
Committee, each State contributes one Member.
Mr.. Speaker Pennington, while endeavoring to
select, 80 far as practicable, the moro moderate
and conciliotory members of every party, saw fit
to designate in every case representative of the
predominant political sentiment of the State-that
is, of the party to which its people had awarded
their confidence at the late Election. And.
though Messrs. vallandgham and MClernand
chose to complain Of this course, in behalf of
the political minority in the Northwestern
States We think its propriety is obvious
even to the maddest Fire-Eater. This is
no timo for reciprocal deception and if
anything ia to be said or done to placate
the Cotton States on behalf of New-York or Of
the North it should be said by those in whom
New-York and the North have freshly reposed
their confidence and who may fairly be supposed
to speak with authority. The Speaker, there
fore--we presume, after consultation with the
Ansiority OF the delegaton-appointed the Hon.
James Humphrey as the Member of this Grand
Committee from the State of New-York. Aud
that is selection eminently fit to be made, aud
which gives very general satisfaction
1t does not seem, however to have pleased
our City Delegation, because it does not give
the minority of the voters Of our State pre-
cedence over the majority. Our City has six
Members in the present House, all of whom sup.
ported the Fusion Electoral Ticket, which was
beaten in the State by nearly $4,000 majority.
In the City, it had about 10000 majority on it's
side, being all but two to one; yet not one Of
these eminent Congressman managed to get re-
elected, though nearly or quite every one OF them
ardently desired to be. OF course, the six are
in commanding position, and they cannot re-
frain from dragooning Mr. Humphrey accord
ingly.
The iustrious discarded begin by apprising
Mr.. II. that ave think the time has arrived
"when an efec'ual stop ought to be put to all
"aggreesive and irritating agitation of the
| Slavery question at the North" Considering
that the People Of their own and of nearly every
other Free State have just given a rousing ma
jority for what these gentlemen are pleased thus
| to stigmatize, this expression Of our Members
| deliberate Judgment must be at once influential
| with the North and consoling to the South. 1t
| is much the same as though Gen. Benedict Ar.
mold had written to DIR. Franklin at Paris in
| 1882, setting forth the terms on which he would
| have peace made. between Great Britain and her
| revolted Colonies.
| The HonOrsbles proceed to say:
any points Of federal relation to the peculiarly
Southern institution Of negro Slavery which give rise
scienous sentiment the North OF moral responsibility about
aud therefore to Of supposed duty to deal with the
subject according theories variance with the sentiments and
conycors Of the South regard to IT, think that those
points M TO be disposed by conclusive constitutional settle
mtnt 10 relieve ccnSciencs a tie NORTH OF that
feeling Of responsibility aud Of consequent supposed right and
| duty"
| Who authorized Messrs. Sckles & Co. to pre-
! scrite for uneasy conscences 2" May not the
| possession of some sort Of conscience, however
cary, be fairly presumed requisite for thegreat
responsibility thus assumed How ia q consti-
"tutOnal settlement to relieve 'uneasy con-
d" sciences" unless such settlement shall accord
with their convict ions of right' Very easy con.
sciences might possibly imagine that wrong had
been transformed into right by conclusive
constitutional settlements" but what Of that
The whole need not physician, but they that
are sick If Messrs. Sckles & Co. must bend
themselves to the novel task of quoting :" I'M
easy conscences," they should make their BAN
| dsge az large as the wound, and not attempt to
heal salt rheum with catapasn only adapted
| TO a pmple.
The illustrious Six continue to think, and to
retail successive pennyworths of their cogitatons
| 0s follows:
1--WE think the South canuo, be expected remain and
that 1t will remain associated In confederation with liked
Anti Slavery majority domination from tho North think
that in reversed circumstances people would no. remain
10 relation of conquered submission power anifa.,Iy
hostile and m, uscpg their vital Institutions and fundamental
| rights"
lis that reasonable The South upb ds
! Slavery, iustifies it, cOmmends il, The NJ H..
after full and fair trial, long since abolished
and still repels it, because she found and still
deems it unjust, impolltic, pernicious, demoraiz.
| Ing II the South has q clear right to retain it
| in accordance with her convictions has not the
Nth M oIcar n RIGHT 10 forbid and resgt IL in