The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-15
rae DYING srnueGLE or THE AGIrAroRs.


their energies and Of taxing all their ingenuity to escape
the overthrow with which they papably threat
ened The only hope LEFT them is in keeping alive the ag
tatiou which they subsisted for than quar-
ter Of century Each successive presidential election has
been marked by an advancestep towards final issue
which either give abolition triumph at the sacr
fee Of the Union sink the fell under load Of
popular odium that will forever deprive him of the power
harm The Nebraska bill the last step in the prog
that brought the country the final and conclusive
Issue. On this issue abolidonism, under the Of
black repubncansm stakes its further existence 1t is
wonder therefore, that struggles with all the energy Of
desperation ..s. aa8s .aHs... .a.
The hopes of the conspators rest in being able to
make the action of the congressional committee in Kansas
available for the renewal with increased intensity of the
sectional agitation which swept the North after
the passage of the Nebraska bill If the blood Of religious
social fanatcism be heated by the appliances
growing out of and connected with the congressional mis-
sion the doom of black republication is certainly written
There never was time when so great responsibility
weighed upon national men. Up to this moment they
have marched without break in their lines reading firm
y to the music Of the Union and present compact
as brave and confident army, glory
battlefield The enemy Sees feels and acknowledges the
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patriots Every device has been adopted TO excite ealousies
dstrusts ordinations and dissensons in ranks but
whilst few of friends have been guilty of ndis-
cretons the great body of national have stood firm
unmoved in their purpose to meet the issue full in the
face and to maintain the democratic organization intact.
We have said that the sending of commission to Kan
under the pretext of getting proof decide contest
ed election really designed to obtain materials make
ms sectional 1t becomes
u.s. therefore, watch carefully all that purports to ema
nate from that commission from any of its attaches
w noticed yesterday the fraudulent effort to create the
impression that Mr. Oliver the only national the
commission disposed to sympahize with his back-re-
publican colleagues on the committee We have to
expose still infamous attempt to produce ex-
element The New York Tribune publishes des
patch dated at Lawrence, Kansas Territory, May sth
which says that the congressional committee has been
assaled by attempt arrest Governor Reeder who
is the prosecutor engaged in submitting testimony
to said committee" And how does the reader suppose
the committee was assaed and for what the prosec
tor sought be arrested and by whom this assault
and this arrest attempted? The despatch furnishes the
answer as follows "Reeder first subp@naed to to
Lecompton to give evidence complaint before
grand jury but refused be dragged away from the in
veStigation on this preext" Wonderful man. this Gov
enor Reeder The federal court is sitting in Lecompon
charge of crime made against body perhaps
of the Governors friends and he is subpunaed to give evil
dence before the grand jury and Governor Reede refuses
to obey the process of the legislature of Kansas but of
the district court of the United States And for this
ssance of the authorities of the United States writ for
contempt of those authorities was issued and this writ
for this offence the marshal undertook to arrest Gov
Rut of ia
Last night writ served him, while attending the
sngs of the committee by deputy marsha-said writ
charging him with contempt of the subpoena aforesaid
He appealed to the committee for protection and advice
The committee decided that they had jurisdiction in the
premises but the majority essrs Howard and sberman)
expressed the opinion that Gov Reeder protected by
his privilege" Protected BY ,chat priegsP Who ia Gov
Reeder that he is liable to be subpUnaed to give evil
dence before grand jures Those immaculate black
publicaus Messrs Howard and Sherman, think be has
some privilege that protects him Learned and able COM
sellers of the law What burlesque upon legal proceed
ugs to send such specimens Of law knowledge 10
investigate the affairs Kansas. We did not know before
that there was prged class amongst the anti-savery
as we'll as the pro-savery men But Messrs Howard and
Sherman say that Gov Reeder has pririlgs that places
him higher than the United States law Mr. Seward says
that the shareholders the privileged class in this
country It may be that Gov. Reeder joined the priU
Eged class by purchasing dozen or Of likely ne
groes We cannot suppose that Messrs. Howard and
Sherman or Gov Reeder could resist the broad laugh
that would be excited IL it supposed that either
Of them seriously believes that Gov. Reeder's absurd
professions TO a in Congress, delegate as
senator protects him from giving evidence before grand u-
res although that evidence might convict Gov Robinson
or some other perpetrator Of the crime Of treason,
The same despatch announces another thing which
shall not regret TO have confirmed; Judge Lecompte
charged the grand jury Lecompon last Monday indic
all the rceSate officers and members Of the State legia
ture as guilty of high treason We say shall not
greet to this confirmed II high time
that rebellion and should be brought to the bar Of
justice or at least It is high time that the question should
be made and settled whether 1t be rebellion treason for
portion Of the inhabitants of Territory to resist and
set the laws aud constituted Authorities Of the Territory
defiance We hope that this question win be tried and If
the crime OF treason has been committed we trust that
example will be made Of Of the rngleades who have
sought their personal aggandzement by exciting their
followers to usurrection and rebellion
We hope further that the ends Of justice may not be de-
eated by the sudden departure Of all the champions who
have bravely deed the laws and loudly proclaimed
their purpose 10 resist to blood. The New York
Tribune is shedding outrage perpetraed by
''rufRaps' at Lexington Missouri Governor Robinson