The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-05

idea of the colonial settlement and future grandeur OF
America. And how many are the noble names OF the
chyalric and gallant Frenchmen whose memories still
live along that line and whose descendants among
the best and patriotic of the present inhaoi'-
ants of North America In a word, do the fullest
justice to the greatness and glory of France and of French
men, not forgetting the pre-eminent parliamentary debaefS
like Berger Theirs Guizot Victor Hugo and muittudes
of others of our day. unsurpassed in all the qualities oil
debate by any living men in Great Britain in the United
States.
But with all this the fact remains unmistakab that the
French seem wholly unable to get with deiberave
public assemblies which, the hands of the English and
the Anglo Americans constitute the chief instrumenay
and the type were, Of free government We In The
United States from the first foundation OF the colonies
have had and have successfully managed parliamentary
agent of government During all THIS long
period France has been wholly without ben as in The
regns of Louis KILL XIV and Nv In the reign OF LOUIS
XVI parliamentary assemblies came up as governing
power in France But what apower Compare the French
with its ntermnabe succession OF desperate
factions each succeeding devouring its predecessor
its awful Reign of Terror its Wholesale saughters of its
own members and of the subject people, and the mprac
cable establishment Of the Directory with which it erm-
mated compare all this with the tranquil energy the
stern bu, beautiful dignity, and the sublime results
of the American Continental Congress; compare Wash
ington surrendering the amightness Of his military,
backed by his moral power at Annapolis, with the ex-
pulsion of the councils from their halls of delibera-
ton by the soldiers of Napoleon compare the score of
ephemeral constitutions of France with their equally
epheneral parliamentary assemblies, each OF them either
nauguratcd terminated by foreign or By civil war =
compare all these with the SYSTEM order and stability OF
the constitution of the United States and the Congress
which is its representative imbodment run over the MS
tory of the last seventy in France and compare IL
with that of the United States and contrast the career OF
parliamentary assemblies in and in the other and see
whether the parallel will afford to the conductor OF the
Courier es Flats Unis the housandth part OF an inch ON
which to stand to utter his paly against the Con-
gress Of the United States
No the Courier des Eaats Uns is chargeabe, in this,
with one of two things either gross aud stod ignorance
regarding the character and actions of the present Con-
press as manifested at its last session. else II macously
and wifny pervers the truth Of eerve and conem-
tble compaisance towards that imperial regime Of q
SPECIFICS legislature and suppressed press which now
obtains in France.
As for the present Congress hazard nothing in say
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illustrations of our country such Calhoun, Clay and
Webster no longer tread Its halls with the accumulated
glories of long life of high service and higher fame upon
their heads yet that in dignity Of department IN large
experience and accomplishment oratorca and business
ability and in patriotic devotion to the public interests,
the present Congress worh continues the great success
sion of eminent parliamentary assemblies which do honor
to the history of the United States
,f fapat t.iGr
stormny and fretng in its reasonable rage finds it
venen to berae and belle Congress does the Pres
den and as does the constitution itself and the Amcri-
can Union We expect this from the bedlamites of that
class who are doing everything in their powerbut hap
PLY in van--o oyerturn the federal government destroy
the constitution and conSgn the United States to all the
horrors of serve and Of civil war Malignant assaults ON
the President of the United States and Congress
be tolerated in them, cankerheared and corrupt Ameri-
cans as they are it is not toerab in the columns of the
Courier DIES Eats Lns
If it were true as the Courier falsely asserts that the
deliberations of the last session could be resumed in the
single for the organization of the Territories OF Ne
braska and Kansas it would have done enough for its
own illustration 1t is either sheer ignorance or miserable
faction which supposes that to be little for even whole
Congress to do Whoever depreciates that is either gno
rant of its nature wuly pcrvers it in blind hatred OF
constitutional government To organize those Territories
was to prepare for sefgovernment region of country
which may be compared in extent and value to the whole
Of France itself Such event could not be accomplished
without debate and discussion in land like ours which,
unlike France enjoys free speech and free press But
was accomplished without the two three civil wars
more or less and the miscellaneous quantity of judi
cia deportaons which woud cost to ac-
complish any such great event in Europe Iii wholly
overlooked by these shallow praers about the time occu-
pied in doing this that it involved not only series of acts
of mere legislation by Congress- but also the negotiation
by the Executive OF dozen treaties with the Indians in
the vast region of country between the Rocky mountains
and the frontiers of the State of Missouri All this great
mass of public acts would be quite sufficient if nothing
else had been done signalze the deliberations of the
late session of Congress
Nay If we look only TO the solitary fact that the law
for the organization of Nebraska and Kansas had for its
fundamental idea that great principle which abolition a-
na,icism seeks in vain to keep out of vievpamey the
conservation by law of Congress Of the right of acon-
which hereafter may constitute sovereign members of the
American confederation il this alone be regarded let US
consider how many embattlcd hosts-how much carnage
of nons-how much commissions ia States aud govern
mcnts would require 10 establish such principle Of self
constitution in any of the most wreched corners OF the
whole continent Of Europel II would take greater
number of vast armies of half million on a side,
and half century of desperate warfare like the great
thirty years war which depopula,cd half of Europe,
a.. IL,