Plymouth weekly banner. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1856, 1856-08-28
Adjournment and Rs-aS3mbling of Congress.

6ieSS ouJoutucu oh IsAouuny VIC lOtds nav
ing finished up all the important bust
ness before it; with the exception of tn
Army Appropriation Bill. This bill
calls for eleven millions Of dollars for III
support OF The Army for the current year
The Representatives Of the people, find
ing that for the last nine months. ever,
effort they have made by way of legisla
ton to correct the high handed abuses o
the Government in Kansas, has been &c
liberately AMI Systematically defeated b,
a pro-s!avery majority in the Senate, de-
termined as q las. resort to use the clea
and undoubted privilege Of withholding
supplies. when they were satisfied tina,
those supplies were to be appropriated
for unconstitutional and oppressive pur
poses.
This they did. not arbitrarily. but in,
directly. appen]ing to the Army Bill q
proviso that the appropriation authorized
thereby should not be used in support Of
The pretended Legislature of Kansas, which
Legislature this same Congress a few
weeks before had declared to be spurious
and illegal-that mono Of the money voted
should be drawn from The Treasury for
any purpose, until the persons now llle-
gally held in arrest in that Territory. un.
der charge Of treason. were discharged
from custody by the President. and all
prosecutions for political offences CON-
menced under the authority of the Border
Ruffian Legislature. were abandoned.
The call for this stand on the part of the
House was imperative. and its effect con.
elusive. 1t is beautiful illustration OF
that provision of the Constitution which
makes the Representatives, of the people
The guardians of the public money; and
thereby always supplies to their hand an
available CHECK on q headstrong Presi-
dent and q corrupt Senate. No array of
facts. 70 arguments. no appeals Of reason,
no pleadings of patriotism have had the
slightest'infuence to stay the wild and
mad purposes OF President Pierce in his
administration to subdue the territory Of
Kansas 10 the dominion of slavery. He
has in despite Of the constitution. in des.
pite of the pledges upon which he was
elected and inaugura,ed. in despite of the
boasted principles upon which his own
party pretends TO be founded. in despite
Of every genius Of true Democracy. per
sisted in Withholding from sovereign ma
jority their guaranteed rights-righ,s
guaranteed by the seine authority by
which he holds his office, and due to the
same men who gave their votes TO place
him in the Presidential chair. His pre-
rogative as the chief magistrate. and com.
mander in chief Of the army. have ens bled
him 10 do this. And with On arm thus
made strong, he has unscrupulously used
his power to uphold anarchy and revolu.
tion. The Representatives of the peo-
pie. in their sovereign right which lies
back of, and is anterior. TO all the delega-
ted rights of the President, have properly
interposed. They have touched that
arm-tsken from it its sinews, and de.
prived il Of strength. This they clearly
had right to do, and it has been nobly
done.
Bat the President, PROSTATE, defeated
of his prey. chafed and desperate; on the
very day that Congress adjourned. issued
his proclamation calling an extra ses-
sion. to convene in three days (Thurs-
day the 2lst) with kind Of implied GEN.
sure Of the House for adjoining before
they had performed their duty. and de-
handing that they return at once to their
work. What does he expect to gain by
this9 Does he suppose that The House
will be frightened into submission. and
with cowardly spirit proceed humbly to
undo what they hare so righteously done?
He cannot be deluded by such verdant
expectation. On the other hand. has he
wisely concluded 10 terminate his HOSTILE.
~ TO the rights Of the people by acquies-
cling in some wholesome provision for the
relief Of Kansas? All his antecedents
and his inherent obstinacy forbid this sup.
position. There is to our mind but one
explanation to this movement; and thu,
is. that his money loving satellites may
have another opportunity Of pocketing a
few Thousand extra dollars by way OF con.
structirc mileage.
That the House will be firmer than ev-
er in maintaining its ground, we have no
doubt; for its dignity. as well as its hon.
est convictions of the public good, is now
put in issue. LIE, them still be true to
their oaths and to the PEOPLE. Let them
still withhold the public money from pur
poses of public corruption. Let them
again say 10 the slave.holding and slave
| ridden Senate, "You may persist in clog
ging the operation of a legitimate snt