Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-23
By the President Of the United States Of 4merica:
4 PROCLAMATION.

Whereas. whilst hOsttes exist with various In
dian tribes on the remote frontiers of the United
States, and whilst in other respects the public peace
is seriously threatened, Congress has adjourned
without granting necessary supplies for the army,
deriving the Executive Of the power to perform his
duty in relation to the common defence and security,
and an extraordinary occasion has thus arisen for
assembling the two houses of Congress: do, there
fore, by this my proclamation convene the said
houses meet at the Capitol, in the city of Wash
ngton, on Thursday, the 2Ist day of August, inst,
hereby requiring the respective senator's and repre-
senatves then and there to assemble to consult and
determine such measures as the state OF the I'm.
ion may seem to require.
In testimony whereof have caused the seal of the
SEAL United States to be hcreunto affixed, and
signed the same with my hand.
Done at the city of Washington. the 18th day OF
August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifty Six and the independence Of the
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By order:
W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.
1t will be seen from the foregoing proclamation.
says the Washington Union, that the President has
felt it to be his duty, in view of the failure Of Con-
gress to make the necessary appropriations for the
army, to convene Congress to meet again on Thurs
day next. No one who thinks of the disastrous con-
sequences of disbandng the army under existing
circumstances can fail to the necessity for this
measure. The consti tuition imposes upon the Pre-
sdent the solemn duty of seeing that the laws
executed, and to this end provides him with mill
tary force for the common defence and security OF
the country. But Congress has failed to provide
the means of supporting the men who compose the
army. The constitution does however authorize
the President extraordinary occasions to convene
Congress; and as this is the only remedy in his
hands for securing the means of maintaining the
army, and, through that branch of the service, of
preventing disastrous consequences, he has promptly
and wisely resorted to it.
resort to this extraordinary remedy, continues
the Union, has been forced upon the Executive by
the persistence of portion of house of Congress
in measure which we have again and again char
acterzed factious and revolutionary. 1t has been
persisted in with full knowledge that it would de-
feat all appropriations for the army, and thus leave
the public peace unprotected of requiring ex.
ira session of Congress. The revolutionary meas
ure had no legitimate connexion with appropria-
ton bill. The two houses agreed on the appropria-
ton bill proper, but the House insisted on annexing
an unusual and unconstitutional condition to the bill,
and persisted in it until, finally, factous minority
resorted to the means of defeating the bill which we
detail in another article. We have now practical
Illustration of the spirit which actuates the repub
can leaders. 1t no longer be questioned that
they resolved to rule to ruin the government
1t is not necessary to conjecture whether the same
spirit will not produce the same result at the extra
session. That is matter for Congress. The Pres
"ent has his duties to perform under the constu-
uon, and he has resorted to the only power that he
possesses to the laws executed and the peace of
the country preserved. Ifthe House of Representa-
senate and the President and by that prevent
INC execution of the laws and the maintenance of
peace, the responsibility will rest where it properly
belongs. The President has done his duty; the
Senate has done its duty, and will do it again the
House has taken enc perilous step in revolution,
and tremains to be whether it will be repeated
dispatch dated Washington, Aug 20, saws: It
thought that the majority of both Houses of Con-
sress arc here but not enough to engrat Kansas re-
Anctive provso or the army bill The extra ses-
Son will not probably last beyond Saturday, and
may terminate on Thursday 0he 21st)
ARSON AND UNIoN.-We learn from the Sheri f
VI Union that Mr.. Myers K. N, beats Dr. Terry,
Dem, 2 votes for the Senate in Arson and Union.
were inlsled by correspondent in stating that
,ere was tie between them The impression was
''a' 'hey were tied until the official vote was com.
pared