Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-09-03
The Army Appropriation Bill Passed!

The army appropriation bill, without the freesoil
nrovso, has been passed-the President and the
Senate, by their rmness and their devotion to the
Constitution, have at length triumphed. The COM
bpation of traitors and revolutionists in the House
has been broken up-the Constitution has been saved
from violation, and the government still exists
On the 3Oth, in the Senate, Mr.. Crittenden's bill
toater and amend the KansasNebraska act, was laid
on the table, yeas %, nays IL. message was then
received from the House informing the Senate Of the
passage of the army BILL On motion of MIR. Hum
ter the Senate struck out the House proviso, yeas
g. nays T. The bill was then passed. Soon after,
message was received in the House from the SEN
ate, informing that the Senate had struck out the
proviso The House, under the operation OF the
previous question, concurred, yeas lO1, nays 9S.-
We have not received the vote in full.
The two Houses then adjourned sine de-
The amendment proposed by the black Republic
cans to the army bill, provided in substance that the
President should not employ the army in Kansas in
enforcing the laws, and that indictments pending
against abotonists in Kansas for treason, should
be dismissed If this amendment had prevailed, the
character of the government would have been at
once changed The House would have usurped the
right of controlling the army, and would also have
trenched upon the province of the Federal Courts.
BY depriving them of the right to hear and deter
mine as to the constitutonality of laws, and as to
the crime of treason. But this monstrous usurpa-
ton has been prevented and the government in the
full exercise of all its rightfu powers, continues to
go forward. 1t has been prevented by the frnness
of the President and Senate in adherng to the bill
without the provso and by the patience and fdeli.
ty with which the patriotic portion Of the House Of
Representatives stood up against factious black
Republican majority. All honor to President Pierce,
to the Senate, and to that noble band of Northern
Democrats who have again staked themselves for
the Constitution and the laws. while such Southern
Know Nothings Reade and Puryear, of this State,
we're absent from their seats!
Every one now sees and feels the injury which
has been brought upon the country by the Know
Nothing movement. Observation-Disclosures of these
black Republican members of the House of Repre-
sentatives are Know Nothings. The movemen.
commenced in the North. 1t broke up the old Wing
party and it gathered its strength from the ruins"
Of that party, and from the refuse and the scum of
feesoilers and Of disappointed Democratic Office
seekers. By of its oaths, its secresy and its
midnight plots and management it surprised and de-
feated the Democratic party of the free States, and
obtained possession of the House of Representatives.
Behold the result the House abolitionized, the
government the verge of dissolution treason ram
pant defiant, and the laws and the Constitution set
at naught Who believes that the old Wing party,
under the lead of Clay and Webster, would have
pursued such a course? No one. This, then is
one of the fruits of that intense American senti-
mem" which has grown out of the ruins of the old
Wing party-sulphur and ashes, as deadly as those
Of the sea of Sodom and Gomorrah.
But the day of these traitors will soon be over
The Democracy Of the United States will soon take
charge of all the branches of government; and then
as heretofore under their auspices the laws will be
maintained, the Constitution protected, and the
country saved from the evils of faction and anarchy
SHOOTING AFFRAY IN GoLDsBoKoUeH. learn
that on Saturday evening last William T.. Dortch
Esq, of Goldsborough, shot William Robinson. ESQ
Editor of the Tribune, in the streets of that mace
and that Robinson seriously if not dangerously
wounded. Mr. Dortch, We learn, shot Mr.. Robinson
twice, dscharging both barrels of his gum the sho,
taking effect in his breast and shoulders. Mr.. R
then advanced with revolver, and Mr. Dortch also
drew revolver, when the crowd interposed and &C.
parated them. bitter personal feeling has existed
lot some time between these gentlemen but the i'm
mediate cause of this difficulty was no doubt an ar
uce about Mr.. Dortch in the last number Of th,
tribune. Much excitement prevailed in Goldsbor
ough.
~ Our Representative, Mr.. Branch, has returned
70 his residence in this City. We learn that Mr.
0ra'ge passed up the Railroad on Monday morning
Vn MS NAV to his hnnna in Saliahisu