Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-07-02
coRREspoApEHcE OF THE grAHDARn

CORRESPONDENTS OF THE STANDARD
WAsHNGroN, June 20, 1856. g
The political campaign took sudden start Saturday
last half dozen speeches Of political character having
been delivered in the House of Representatives. General
debate however, suspended Monday, the present
week having been set apart for the exclusive Of
Territorial business and the usual dscursve discussion hu
ing given way the real business before the House. The
Kansas bill has been up to-day Mr.. Ste
OF Ca presented his views length the bill under
being that to admit Kansas under the
Topeka Constitution The black Republicans are disposed to
press tn Pill to VOTE hoping to pass it in the House,
sent to the country Of peace place the
sponsibiy for the continuance disturbances in Kansasup
on the Democratic Senate According
the success OF this scheme is certain Mr.. Ha
ven and Mr. Dunn have both ntmated pretty plainly their
qnwneness to sustain this revolution, and the
House SO nearly balanced on this question that single
In the mean time during the week. several propositions
Of which, together with the original bill reported from the
Committee Territories, have been referred that Com
port may be expected Monday, and that the bill then
will be pressed to its without
lay You therefore, expect passage some night this
coming perhaps during The small hours Of the morning
as in the Of the Nebraska itself two years ago The
regard fundamental principle Of the Nebraska bill that
ne people that Territory and Of Kansas shall decide the
interests butt will adopt the neesssov
fairly and free from consau what that decision
from and to he snrs 81 hsr
action with regard to the only question at 1t will pro-
vide for the formation Of State Constitution and its admis
sion as State with such Constitution it NAV see proper to
adopt census will be taken the legal duly regis
and all outsiders denied the permission
All these provisions contained proposition of Mr.
Toombs, which. many of its features will probably be
adopted by the Committee If the people of the Territory
would quickly away and if this bill protect them
from improper interference the will found
10 quiet In the Territory and the supremacy of law
The black Republicans pressing the bill admitting Kan
sas as State under the Topeka Constitution and doing
are Prejudgng their own case At their instgatou Com
mission to Kansas for the express of
supposed that nothing more would be done until the
sion had presented report and its of the Kansas
disturbances No report has been received and find
that party in the House urging the Of their bill with
nordnae anxiety as though the expected report might not
fully sdan the revolutionary action of the Topeka Conven-
ticn.
One of the Territorial bills under consideration during the
week. has been that providing for the adm of Oregon
State is probable that Oregon and Kansas will present
themselves at the same tme perhaps Free the 9TH
or as slave State In this the political equilibrium be-
egon will be the second Of the tier of States destined
present country and its free tuons the Pacific
coast of the Rocky Mountains the course Of time
the extraordinary growth Of the golden California.
During the week Mr. Hunter delivered an able address in
the Senate, partly upon the Brooks Sumner affair." in
which he took the that had been committed
in making personal collision between gentlemen
onnan D0n Houses OF This
and discussed when the subject taken up the House
representatives week after next There to be
ifest improperly that personal affair between ndvid
uas should be the occasion OF arrang States like South
Carolina and Massachusetts, against each other, these
turn omenting strife between the North and the South The
House Committee raised to investigate this affair have
ted in favor of Mr. Brooks expulsion; but this be
done only by thirds VOTE it will fail possibly major
y will then condemn him to imprisonment In this event
through writ OF habeas corpus the whole matter may be
brought before the Supreme Court and examination had
OF the privileges the House for the question, what
privilege, turns this whole controversy.
may here noted that since Mr. Sumner made his
nanf offan hosh
Senate and the importance of upon the
cense Of speech that has become gned
ted States he decided that the presiding officer OF the Senate
had power to call Senator orde thai priv
practice in the Senate The small number of members of
that body their and dignity seemed to make stringent
rules unnecessary Mr. Summers violation Of Senatorial
propret has fixed attention this and the
have amended their rules that the duty of the
President Of that body call order any person who
duges in improper license Of speech fhis
rule had been ioce Mr. would have been checked
the uerance OF epthets dsrespecu his peers in
Senate.
The truly national position of the Democratic party and Of
Its nominees on the Presidential teke apty illustrated
the direction OF the pol tica discussions in the House.
Black Republicans from the North attack MIR. Buchanan
Know Nothngs at the South also attack Mr. Buchanan.
He the national candidate while others may be called
good and true every where who seek only to
the Constitution and the non should declare themselves
Buchanan and Breckenridge The Presidential
war between national and two sectional parties
Mr. Fillmore has reached home, and authoratvey
na ne Will mol decline to run he Will remain
the hands OF his friends Fremont has accepted his nominal
on and have his associates Tor the Vice Presidency,
Dayton and Johnston Stockton has also accepted Nothing
has yet been heard from Mr.. Rayner Of he should
accept BY and BY perhaps, Stockton and Donelson will
cline and then there will remain Fillmore and Rayner
genuine Know Nothing ticket But at all events advise Mr.
Rayner to accepts something out of yeti and
Doneson should not Decline he alone and along
the sailor said, in gang by himself Mr. Benton stump
it in Missouri ostsbly for Buchanan but the Benton
Benon just in proportion the injury done the
Presidential ticket In New York Hards and Sos have
ted in calling joint State Convention and union electora
ticket will be arranged that will unite the divisions
the Democracy for the campaign and New York o
| Buchanan.
As Of your contemporaries express anxiety
the the Democratic candidate for the Vice Presidency
lest he be not constitutonay qualified that taxi
in advising that he the youngest chose
for this distinguished post yet not ineligible either for thu
want of experience He thirty five Of ag
the 2lst of January last and will consequently be
thirty when required to take the proper oath tn,
1 18th of March next MECKLENBURG,