The daily union., 1856-01-16
Is THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, A LIVING
BODY, DEAD BODY, OR BODY IN STATE
OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION

OF SUSPENDED ANIMATIoNg
II is not little singular that while the Presidents
message has been hailed with universal welcome by
the people Of the United States with the exception Of
the abolitonss the republican majority of the House
Of Representatives supposed TO represent this same
pe has refused TO hear it read, and denounced
its presentation insult TO that honorable body.
This seems passing strange The President sends them
civil message in the exercise Of duty enjoined on
him by the constitution, and they say he has nsulted
them lie pays them the compliment OF recognising them
branch OF the Congress of the United States and they
affirm he has oyerreached even their constitutional rights
for they are no Congress and therefore his treating them
such is another insult
1t could not have been that those susceptible members
took exception TO the message itself for they refused to
hear it read and fthey had heard it. there certainly
nothing in il dsrespeetfu TO the House According 10 the
argument Of these gentlemen the message had not been
received yet member of body that swears IL has
existence and who therefore, could not without trans
crossing all the laws Of nature utter word on the sub
jec denounced it by Wholesale as the most dsreputable
public document that had enanaed from President
of the United States Il public document alsiying
the history Of the country from the organization of the
the present day in every essential partcu
lar" For member Of body that has no existence or
whose existence least doubtful and which is SO ex
ceedngly tenacious of lis noneny that il cannot bear to
be spoken to- this pretty WELL If ii talks thus while in
of suspended animation, what may expect when
it's galvanized into life and motion2
We shall not here enter into the question Of the entity
noncny Of Congress That one-haf Of IL is alive is
quite certain With respect TO the other half the fact is
disputed and denied by itself Generally speaking,
can tell whether they alive dead yet all the phos-
ophers have found it Impossible demonstrate their own
existence Descates supposed the nearest o
in his famous seesaw al think therefore exist though
the logic ia very much the elbows since have
better proof that thinks than that he exists If
however the demonstration were clear it would
hardly apply to the majority of the present House of Rep
resentatves which has declared itself only defunct
but that never had exsence The logicis defective
in another point for defy the expert logcan to
prove that the majority Of the members who voted them
selves thought all Of the nexpcable para
dox which they involved themselves by thus it
with malice prepense, knocking out their own brains
But let dodge this knotty point and briefly in
quire into this nexpressble insult this gross violation
Of the privileges of body which has not and never
had being according to its last dying declaration The
President Of the United States coordinate and equal
branch Of the government and equals have right to
speak each other provided they do it in decoous terms
1t certainly is insult to living and Il be is dead
in Of suspended animation he cannot justly take
offence At most it is only mistaking dead body for a
living one which is certainly rather compliment to the
former.
Again: il is only rejecting what every knows lex
cept he be knownothing) that of the most import
ant duties Of President of the United States epjoped
him by the constitution is that OF communicating to Con-
gess the external and internal Of the country and
If he deems il necessary recommending such
be desires may be adopted In the selection of his topics
be is left his Judgment and will and long he
rerains from any attempt dictate to that body its
ton on his recommendations the exhibition of any peevsb
pagmatica aecaion Of only proves that peo
Pile determined get into passion whether there is
any reason not
The message of the President to that honorable body
which, IL seems retains attribute OF existence but the
power Of speech is conveyed in decorous language
fined to topics Of great national interest," is neither often
sive in tone dciaoria in language On the contrary
will venture to say there is true American whose
heart and whose do not respond to it spontaneously
What then II that put certain members 10 such tow
ering passion Was 1t the dgnfed hrm and yet temper
tone OF that part which related the encroachmens
of Great Britain in Central America these ebul-
ons Of fothy spleen intended indicate my Lord Pal
merston that majority of the House Of Representatives
whether living dead is yet decded stood in such
attitude Of feroeious hostility the President that they
would not permit him speak them matters in
vovng the interests and honor of the United States
Was 1t the general prosperity OF the country, the salts
factory state of the treasury the reverena devotion
the constitution and the rights Of the States and Terrific
ries the deah-sroke aimed those secret and
open enemies who boring TO undermine and err
throw the great wachowcr Of liberty whose light is lu-
minaing the world7 Was II or all Of these that re-
animated this non-exsing body and occasioned such
shaking among the dry bones1
And here will venture to observe that In the general
intercourse between and man. the duties Of cvility
reciprocal II expect he treated with courtesy
we should be courteous In turn II is strange and
ous sight 10 those who complain loudly of having
been nsultea by the President in treating Congress as
living body and making 1t civil speech reoriing this
imaginary offence by Wholesale denuncatons Of bis mes
sage, and wholesale charges OF falsehood And what Ia
this atrocious violation Of the rights and dignity Of
body which repudiates Its own existence which, accord
ing TO its showing is destitute Of all vitality and
which, FAR Appearances indicate may remain in this
state Of torpor for an indefinite period
Every who reads this message win see at once that
Il mbodes information essential Congress and the peo
Pile and that Il proper that both should receive
it as carly possible. whole month had elapsed
since the resurrection of that ipanipaate bodytbat