Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-01
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

The Policy Of the Extra session The
action Of the House on Saturday last amply
vindiestes the wisdom of the policy Of the
President in calling Congress back to Wash
ington. There is no estimating the evils that
would have Immediately resulted to the pub
lie interest from the failure to enact the army
appropriation bill. We mean in this imne
date connection, the ultimate cost of such a
calamity to the national treasury. Perhaps
ten years Of time, and fvefold of the money
appropriated in the bill, nigh, put the mill
tary service Of the government in the condi.
ton OF usefulness, discipline and preparation
fer the proper discharge Of all its functions
IN which 1t now exists, in case Of its lately
Threatened dishandment and utter disorgani-
sat'on. But the disasters Of that sort that
wtuld have flowed from the triumph Of the
scheme Of Virtual revolution, which the finn
ness and energy Of President Pierce defeated
are IS nought compared to those 10 have re-
suited from the success of the game Of the
Republican party in its influence on the polit
ical future Of the Union
Disunior, swift and sure. could no, have
failed to have been its consequence 1t would
have amounted to proof that hereafter the
General Governments power aud influence,
despite the opposition of the Executive and
'ne Inlted etates Senate, can at will be used
by the anti-siaYery majority Of the House to
work Its will over law, constitution, Justice
and even common decency, against the guar.
anteed rights Of the slavehOIdirg States. With
such proof staring them in the face, and with
the knowledge which they tho SOUTH now
possess OF the firm determination Of the great
Republican political party to carry out the
purposes Of abolitionism one and all if thew
would submit, it is not 70 be doubted tn they
would promptly have adopted measures Of re-
sistance, which, in turn, would have produced
aspeedy dissolution Of the present COZ federaey.
IL carnot be that the President and his con-
shtutlonal advisers failed 70 comprehend all
these facts. Indeed, their frmnes, and On.
ergy, as displayed throughout the irwin,
struggle, satisfied US that their e1er;ions w.,o
to ward of the dread contingency to which
we refer.
We know that more or less Democratic men,
oers Of tie House, and few Of the Senata
ANXIOUS TO be relieved from the irksomeness
u 'nelr protracted residence here, fretted and
lunea not little under the restraint of the
oaiie1 session, Of course under the belief that
PVin' c'1ld not be successfully carried out;
winch idea was the result rather Of their own
anxiety 10 get away, than Of the wan, n N.Y..
dom IN the uufinching deteru,ina,;on 80 a.
President to discharge his whole dutv 70 b.
trust, as involved in the controversy
suit, however, has satisfed-more than ,.,,-
fet-all whose hearts beat in unison With -
principles Of the Constitution threatened bv
the dedicated revolutionary scheme, embracin,
the Southern Know NOthings of Congress. A.
well as ell the Democracy.
Fremont and Robinson. California
papers by the last arrival comment in pretty
pam terms upon the letter of Fremont pub.
hshed some months since endorsing the boeu
"oVeTnor Robinson of Kansas. Asa snecimer
OF ther comments uTon that letter We nresen,
TIE Stars readers with an extract from, 81
san FIaIcifco GIo6s, Of the 18th Of Ju,v nj,
which, IL will be perceived, substan,;s,.. >,
We litter all we said when the miss;vs in oros
h'n '@~ the Fight, concerning the Calirorn
history Of Robinson, his disgraceiul oonn..,,or