New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-26

The Courier des Flats Uns must not undertake
to lay to the charge of democratic principles the
villansus outrages and scandalous acts which take
their origin from quite another source. The &C.
currences that are passing before us-cowardly
ass aults and rufian murders, peIpetrated by Mem
bers of Congress- in which not even the sanctity OF
the Senate Chamber nor the place of Senator is
respected-such events considered simply in them
selves are disastrous and distressing enough. 1t
i. unnecessary to aggravste the public alarm,
which such events must necessarily cause, by en-
deayoling TO create the impression, as the Courier
seeks to do that they are the natural and inevitable
results of the democratic system OF government
The intention of those who act thus may be friend
". but tie result does not correspond. The Nils
fortunes and the boils by which righteous JOB was
visited were quite sufficient TO try his faith and
patieuce. without the additional inhictiOn OF the
friends who came from afar to counsel and comfort
him. Besides-and this is what we principally OBJ
ect to-the effect Ia bad, though perhaps unlnteA-
tally So aince it serves to call Cd the public at.
ten,on from the real source Of the difficulty.
The Courier falls into great though common
enough mistake, in speaking Of sAe experiment OF
Government now going Oh in this country as sim
pie Democratic experiment, and that, too, tried
under circumstances peculiarly favorable, free from
the acknowledgements, the drawbacks, the cOmmittas,
the traditions by which every European experiment
of liberty must be greatly embarrassed. This is not
true representation Of the case There certainly
is in progress, in part Of these United States, an
experiment OF Democratic Government very much
of the kind above described; and We are happy t,
be able to say, that in those portions OF the Cmoa
whore this experiment is actually on trial, nothing
has yet occurred which need seriously shake tAe
faith of even the most doubling or the most tlmst-
not even the faith Of the Courier itsel-as to ti-
mate SUCCESS. II is not in New. England, Sew-
York. PeDpylyanis, Ohio, or any of the -.sing
Free States of the Northwest, that members oil
the legislative bodies shoot walters at the Breakfast
table and are permitted the next day to take their
seats as usual in the halls Of legislation, aa Inc
more thought Of and made much Of ii their co.,
leagues because they have dipped their hands n
blood. Ii is not IN those States that legislators
reoly to structures and criticisms OF the official
conduct OF themselves or their uacles Il newspa-
pers or Legislative speeches by ssealthl5 wayiay
Ing Ike thieves ard sssassins una-aed men,
striking them down se1se:ess, and bsatng them
sfterwari. Nor, if il were pOssibe az anything u
the .olt to happen in these States would the par
petIa,or Of such outrages b sustained BY the ap-
probation OF their special constituents and eneour-
aged By the plaudits Of tie Press st large.
TIE States which furnish the men guilty OF such
atrocities; the States which send TO Congress
members who vote in body against even inquiry
70 such cases; the Sts.es which sustain the news
psrer- enough some o' them a:e printed her, Il
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