OCR Text |
Show la- t... . praticoiiy re-ieiLt u.ot v,.- ,.lw.i;.s ln:h..-...d, thai' ii' p.-...t. d l.!.-..l.; in Cjngr v, f I j.i. 'i'i.r,"i V- ' ' ttinon, ic ii'A U) Lh.' . '..i.;j .h . i. No :vi:hcieiit rea-jii hafl ' -jf t'.-i ,0.d wh hU -Undtn- in t:. Il-iv -..iji!d l.-e 'j'1-..rtioiual. aiid wt: U.i'.e re.i-,ijn (u U.IiMe tint many ofj .i:- I'. l.'j-A ihmj ill- i-i w no at ui.'i time ..pp.j.-ol it to lj: tiieirdnty U enai-l luv?: h:.i r:ht t. ni..ml":r-i.ip, h iv--1 ir.'f.-utiy ha I ample -an .: to -U:ir,"j! ' th.:.f DUI.'J . I WJ bllttoU-h'J.il-g on th'j p-L.t . yi r.; d. hrtti.jn which li:f "rii.- iupp.jrt.l in Wa-hii,yt..j.i during t;n: Winter, no douht indm-fed tho f-.ir, in some mind.-, ih.d. Mr. 1 .' onion w.. i r.-ally a douetuil-i laan, ' Uj vice mid immorality, and mi-1 lit t-j -it hi tin ir mimacuL.te midst. 1 ! li it oi'late thrv i.a-. j k-.inul to the i-'iiilr.-.ty. 'J In y have v.a'.ohcd our L'-:l-.;.iU.- n.irro.'.iy and iiavo decided lh.it iio i ' in'nrh Wortlii'.T man than aiiy of Loi,.v w!io iiavo d-famed and vnhiud h.in. Tiay liavc been com-p. com-p. ii- I to adui.t, that for entlemiinly h. aiiii', h"iioL-ahh; depjilmrnt, and a'.tciitiuii tuduty, lie i.-i the i"er of the bj.it aaio- thin. They have learned t' 1 iv-rpevL and admire- him Cir his ex-ccll'.nt ex-ccll'.nt (jualiti' s of mind and heart, not lr.-.-i to. hi for his hih moral char-n char-n In-. Ciiltiiatt -1 American- arc as miict a.-, any people in the world to assign a man to his appropriate place, and tho ohs-.Tun men who make up tho ''' 0 mi ruber of the House of Hepre-sentativen Hepre-sentativen aie llu exceptions. Ti C r- um: in-tiueliu readiness wnich would place some of those who have houg'nt the decapitation ol our Dele-' Dele-' ;,'ate :n Hie cutalosue of vicious char-;ucteiv, char-;ucteiv, has assigii'jxl to Mr. (Jannon a lo-itioii of high moral and nienbil l-e-spectahility. It wiil bo found that whatever notion Congress may take- in reference lo the i-jualiiications of Delegates, will not he aimed at Mr, Canuou. He will terve out his time in spite of the howls of our luca! mob, whether that mob piiiniie their wicked and malignant, malig-nant, e. m i-e here, s here their schemes are uudcrsb.HjJ. or traiiaior their un scrupulous cilorts to the capital of the nation. This is evident not only from the refusal of the House to instruct in-struct the committee to report on the c.ise, but from the bill of Mr. Smith, of New York, which undertakes to deli no tiie ijualilications of Delegates, but exempts all present Delegates from its provisions. U is an unfair measure, but it does not .:arry ili injustice in-justice lo the extreme of an attempt to unseat Mr. Cannon. e do nut anticipate Lhe passage of this bili either now or hereafter, :w we arc satisfied that the sober second thought f Congress will determine, if it has not already done so, that there could ! he no justice in a law of this nature. But whatever Congress may deter-'inine, deter-'inine, we are happy in the conscious-ne;? conscious-ne;? that the choice ol a'vti.-d majority of our cit;,:. u- for D.-h a(' in Con-fL. Con-fL. has rfuii for himself a high rcp-jutali.ut, rcp-jutali.ut, :iliko for a'-'i'i'iv and for inonil |