The daily union., 1856-01-13
FIRsr FRUlrs Of sECrIoNALIsM.

FIRST FhtlIS OF 5EtilUNALlSm.
The subjoined article from the Indiana Stale Sentinel is
of the comments suggested to the thought
full mind by the extraordinary enigency growing out Of
the condition Of things in the national House Of Repre-
senatses Il trans6xes the opposition and shows to
whom The direl responsibility exclusively belongs. Sec
tonalism has done the work. aud reapng its
frat bitter fruits The who tell that their ideas o.
freedou or, in other words their unconstitutional dognas
thoir oahs, and their obgationstha all these are
onalanswer this nonsrous statement in The daily
which they cast solid against onehaf Of their fellow
counrymen When historian shall proceed to tell why
ii was that these were voted into Congress he will
also be compelled to say that the movement which sent
them there contemplated exactly the dilemma in which the
country Is now placed ectionaiism The House Of Rep
,esenarss The dominant and e1clYsice mqjory-and this
whether it the Of republican Of American
Whenever the House Of Representatives is organized
who chosen preside its deliberations this
majority viii lay is iron hand upon the constitution
will attempt annul the laws Of Congress and viii array
itself against the rights of the States and the rights of tie
citizen This fact shows that however its divisions about
men may postpone the ultimate resort its extreme
projects Jet the it is enabled forget these d
visions the work to which orsewon viii be commenced
How monsrous then, in the face of these facts to charge
upon the democratic minority the responsibility of the dis
anizaton which prevails in Congress 1t s because the
democratic party is in the minority that the House
organize BY eeeting friend of the Union.
We leave the Sentinel TO tell the res of the story
Fmsr FRUITS or SECTION ,a--Ths second month of
Of Congress has come and is going, and still the
OF Representatives ID without presiding officer Two
three hours each day spent in debate and two
three in bAioting, when the members adou to
quarer and the people left foot the
thnus asaft Nerpr br-
fore such witnessed the of
The country has times since its organization witnessed
the stries Of contendng parties Angry debates the floors
of Congress have frequently occured but in all the stre
and of parties sectional feeling bad little to do.
The members of Congress the of
the other Of the national parties which then had
existeDce They struggled iur the triumph Of great
which they believed calculated advance the prosperity Of
the country and the happiness Of the people, without regard
to the section in which they lived.
But what do witness violent struggle is
progressing in which than hundred members
deayoing elevate To the speakershp of the House
whose only recommendation to their support his bitter
hatred southern half Of conedrracy. On other
question than this does he in sentiment with the
jority Of those who support him. They bauk ho
is anti Bank. They high-tard ne is ultra
reeader. They opposed to the independent treas
uyj he its advocate On all the questions Of the
day. in fact he h and always has been the autpode Of nearly
al those who supporting him. They adhere to him with
the stringent pertnacty, and it is OF the
ders of the day, and alarming evidence Of the signs
Of the times, that there single representative south
of Hason aad Droas line r uAoai these hundred aud odd
members tW What viii be the natural and incv
liable effect this Of things not owned down Sup
posing that the feeling exhibited by these northern repre-
should be the rule Of conduct OF their constituents
what would be the rcsutG No northern man would bold
intercourse with southern man. would refuse for
him, buy from him, Interchange the ordinary oiye OF
lie with ha Mutual arrangements between the people Of
the two sections would ensua and dissolution Of the Union
would only be inevitable but destabe for bold that
when the people Of the North aud South longer
together in harmony and they had better those
ties which exist only in and not in reality.
1t must be quite evident to all national that the
only refuge from this state OF things Il in the democratic
party. No other does present common platform
upon which all its members Of whatever section able
stand. la the triumph Of the democratic party rests the
only hope Of staying the mad tide OF fanatcsm which
ragged the country and filled the balls Of Congress
with men Of one idea and prineipe-luen who isolate
themselves from the southern people and their representa-
ves aud whose greatest ambition enbro two
on In violent quarrel The bossted nationality the
know nothing party has proven 10 be wl-o wsp-a
fgment Of the Imagination. Those who bad hoped that
organization would pat end to sectional strife have been
disappointed and will a he who think there hope for
such result from any other than the democratic party OF
the country"