The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-26
From the Baltimore sun.
LOOK TO THE SENATE.

LOOK TO THE SENATE.
The determined action Of the Senate of the United States
its resistance the kansas proviso attached the
army bill by the House OF Representatives of the
most Importance. 1t of those acts whose signi
canoe only be partially estimated the moment but
which in the future stand prominently amidst the
ords Of the past commemorative of the triumph Of great
principles the narrow acous and most dangerous
purposes of reckless The disappointment the chagrn
the phrensy Of those who thus foed in their attempt
to reyoluonize the character Of government may be
gathered from the with which they refer to the nteg
rty Of the Senate At late speech by Mr. Burlingame in
Boston, he is reported as follows; 4
awhen we shall have elected a President as we WILL
who will not be the President of party of section
but the tribune OF the people, and after have exterm
mated few more miserable dough-faces from the North
then, u the slare Senate tcH not gps gay p grind
be0een The upper and neither milestone Of our po,ca.b
The spirit OF these remarks betrays not merely plen
u lack of patriotism but the most besotted indifference
the perpetuaon Of the Union It is The language is
that Of msdman and would think could only be utter
ed to madmen with the expectation that would be respond
ed to with approval Better however that IL should be
spokenar better that the people at large should well
understand the Of that hostility which threatens
every department Of the government that is subser
Went TO anacsm-than that 1t should succeed with its
fell and pernicious designs hidden from the public eye or
only partially matured in its distorted womb.
No Ia going blindy into the ensuing election for
President and therefore should fail to exercise his
Judgments that he may aid in the preservation
our institutions they If the design rupture the
Union does not actually suggest many Of the fanatcal ut
which reach through the press 1t is beyond
doubt that there design the part Of many subju
gate their policy whatsoever they may find in the
institutions Of the country to conflict with it, If the
we have quoted above could only power commen-
surae with the intolerance OF his spirit he would have set
his heel like the verest depot upon that gallant body Of
which foed the revolutionary action Of the House.
He holds at naught the presoptve rights Of each depart
mont OF the government As member Of Congress, he
would usurp supremacy the Senate and the President
Of the United States crush them for their adherence
the conservative principles Of the government de-
structon around him, and shrek with sort Of maniac
delight tho ruin he had made The human material
Of which tyran made is by extinct in
this republic.
Unbappily Mr.. Bnringamo is but the type OF large
class actively engaged in fomenhng the worst passions
and intoxicating the widest theories amongst the people
Of the North and East There is no tone no purpose Of
Cancellation In anything they say do. They affect to
have thrown all this away. In the words Of Gerrt
Smith, the time for II has passed. Admit that these de-
monstratons for electioneering effect; that they
afu Of sound and fury !" but admit that
they signify nothing If they less much less than
they express they mean much than has hitherto
been attempted. And they admonsh us In due season
what required Mt our hands They prove how essential
Il is TO the peace OF the country that such party with all
m display Of strength and confidence should be defeated
They show to the importance Of weighing deliberately
all political and personal predictions that VIC may
the best influences to promote the success Of
onsl and they leave to infer the weight of re-
sponsbliy which attaches to every southern man and
every southern State in this campaign in coming TO the
of the Union from the hands Of those who would
seize it only to destroy. We must make no mistake in
this conjuncture Of affairs. blunder at such a time
might be fatal and IL not fatal blunder in Maryland
contributing result all deprccste and should de-
pore would leave indebe stain upon her escutcheon
and Of sereproach almost oo ntolerabe to be
borne Let look to the Senate and emulate iis firm
resistance the encroachments Of anatlcsm and that
any sacrifice Of minor political and personal preudces
ptepopscspions,