New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-13
rtir1 REPUBLICAN Committees,

No better indication of the temper Of Black Sc
nublcanism towards the South could te offered |
than in the formation of the Senate Committees of
the Congress of the Ur.tted States. Since the |
Fourth of March, that ,arty has had control OF the
Senate, partly in Consequence of the substitution
Of Black Republican ! for Democratic Senators from
the Northern States but mainly on account OF the
withdrawal of f0urteeti Senators from the States OF
the Southern. Confcderacy. No sooner was the
opportunity giver the Abolition party to Indicate
their amir tis towards the South than they eagerly
embrac ed it by putting at the head Of the COM
mite es of tie Senate the most obnoxious and rad
ical Of I'll Sheir Senatorial representatives,
Thus. we have at the head of the Committee on
Foreign Relations the notorious Charles Sumner of
Massachusetts, man whose personal and political
degradation no words can fifty describe. OF all
the party in the Senate, Sumner combines in his
oTn person more of the elements of meanness and
Fnallgniy than any one else in that body. a CON
'ceited shallow, superficial pedant. whose heart
/ enterains but one passion, and that is hatred Of
| the South, he is indeed rare specimen of Amer-
| can craftsmanship to undertake the exposition OF
the foreign relations of the United States in their
| highest and most dgnifed deliberative assembly.
A toady and a demagogue, seryile attendance
dancer upon all those of his betters who will allow
his approach. he is selected to occupy position
where he must reflect the utmost dscredit upon
the people and the nation which he represents
The Ministers from foreign countries who are il
Washington, and who are generally gentlemen
must be utterly disguised that the post of Chair
man of the Committee of Foreign Affairs should
be assigned to one who, both in his personal anc
political character, is so little worthy of respec
and consideration.
Then for the Finance Committee they have
q selected Mr.. Fessenden, Of Maine, who is gentle
man so far as his anti-savery fanaticism will per
j., nit him to be, but immeasurabiy the lnterlor
Hunter of Virginia, who has so long and so ably
filled this important and responsible position fo
J. Military Affairs they have chosen Wilson of MaSsa
Il chusetts, who has by some means acquired The
title of General though his business up to the time
he entered the public service was the manufacture
of negro shoes for the Southern market. He is
= indeed, a doughty warrior, paradng the streets o
u Washington with heavy sword-cane, as if in mo
:" nentary expectation of an attack when, in truth
>. nobody of any responsibility considers him worth.
~ of the slightest notice. Hale, of New Hampshire
is made chairman of the Naval Committee, an
4 Chandler, of Michigan, chairman of the Commute
q of Communicable former butfoon, whose pollt
cal morality is of the loosest sort, and the latter
a downright fool whose brain has never, even acc
IDENTIFY, conceived an original idea. The Judiciar
Committee is represented by Trumbnll of Illinois
If politician of easy virtue but of some ability
id and the Territorial Committee by that old rough
p rigid Puritannical, fanatica and bisoted Senate
S from the Western Reserve of Ohio, Wade, Wit
lie would extermnate the whole South at one dash
It it were only in his power. And SO on, down to tn
a bottom of the list.
e These are the representative men of Black Re
lie publicanism in the Congress of the Old Union
It What the South would have to expect if we ha
y remained in the Union with such men these a
E the head of affairs, controlling to considerabl
Al extent the legislation of Congress, our reader
J.; may easily decide. The development only shows
D. more and more, Low timely and fortunate was tn
e Southern movement by which we got beyond til
a reach of these malignant enemies of our section.