The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-08-20
THE REVOLUTIONARY ACTION OF THE BLACK
REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE HOUSE OF REPRE-
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In our paper of yesterday published the procama
ton Of the President converting the two houses Of Con-
gress to meet on Thursday, the 2lst instant
1t is understood that all the members who here
Monday the hour Of adjournment had notice that
day at three o'clock We also took passing notice Of
the cause which led this state Of hingshe loss Of the
army appropriation BILL 1t was the initiative of the first
practical triumph obtained in the United States, Of
that character by political faction Our present form Of
government has endured since 1857 II is now sixnne
years We have heretofore passed through almost every
form and shade Of national parties but each seemed
to vie with the other in steady attachment to the cons
tuition and the Union II mmateral whether Hami-
ton or Jefferson Adams or Madison, led--whether
Adams or jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, or Polk
Taylor triumphed II was all the same Their differ
ences their contests and their umphs were either
to the policy to be pursued in the administration Of
national affairs the construction OF constitu-
tional provisions In these conflicts there even line
of demarcation which limited both parties, and beyond
which, WHOLE they ventured to pass The peo-
pie participated and looked with interest the exciting
Of the day and at the height and the termination Of
the btteest rivalry always congratulated themselves that
ours was the government Of written constitution, and
that this Union safe because there stood not In the
ranks either party solitary press single leading
man, who cunnngly devised schemes to dissolve 1t
plotted the shedding Of American blood to obtain power.
During this long period Of political contest no such at
tempt made If there the solitary hydra-head
of abotonism, it bigger than hands breadth,
and the patriotism Of both great parties reprcssed Its fury
and consigned it to insgnfcance aad heplesnesa In all
this time there Congress which failed to make ap
preparations for the support of all the branches Of the
government ~ ..&
But new state of things has taken place Men
calling themselves patriots and statesmen have devoted
their time their money and their talents fan the flames
of fanaticism The most hateful and dangerous Of all
of religion and politicians been
stored with an intensity which has been unparalleled
cept in the days Of mother country when heretc
burned and in own in which witches drowned.
BY sudden vigorous and widespread misrepresenta-
ton made to the honest people Of America they succeeded
in deceiving great body Of patriotic in the North
under false preences and obtained he support and
into the Congress of the United States with majority
Their first STEP outside Of that body they took In the
of the Emigrant Aid Society. The result was the
shedding of the first American blood by American brethren
in Kansas Men there armed to do that very deed
In the midst of it. and when the hopes of the backrepub
licans running high, when it seemed If would
spread by degrees until like the undulaons in lake
from the casting of stone the would be repeated
and extended, until they reached the utmost extremi
ties of our country. It was that moment that tried
the strength Of the construction of government
Mobs and military associations had resisted and de-
fed the civil power The Chief Magistrate Of the repub-
lie with firm and patriotic hand tempering justice
with mercy and executing the laws with vgor but mod
Grafton put end to the shedding Of the blood Of bre-
rem and with the return Of peace Kansas the ambitious
hopes of the black republicans began to wither The
spirit Of desperation seized them In this sprf they hare
laid violent hands upon the constitution, and peparaed
act in order 10 enable them to
civil war; and array vast section of this Union against
the other for the sole purpose of obtaining the possession
Of supreme power The process obvious and was to
be short .-.... ...-...... ..a ..-..s.
They voted against the appropriations for the support
OF the army in order to compel the President TO dis
band It. If this could be Effected then fhat Aopl for
which Mr.. Sumner hoped and prophesied against South
Carolina might have come like the sad wall of the
suffering and the dying first from Kansas and Missouri
and next from the border States. Revolution would
then have become fierce and universal The dread
Of the Executive Of this country was felt by
every man, from whatever quarter be might come
whose secret wishes and designs were blood and plum
der. The act refusing under the circumstances sup
port to the army, not emily evolutionary but was
moral treason against the government Besides II had
another aspect In order to effect proagate purpose
they willing to clothe the President with die,atoraI
powersto put Kansas under martial law--to place the
highways of country by land and by sea at his single
within effect to suspend the writ Of habea corpus and to
allow the right Of appeal from his will But this
only part Of the mischief contemplated The black
republican party believed that the Senate OF the
United States would in such proposition, and
therefore, plain that their true purpose was TO compel
the President to dsband the army and TO LET anarchy
come with all It's horrors. this is not So then thew are
playing puerle and fantastic tricks with edged and dan
yerous weapons nthey pretend y that the President
,ould still maintain the army and keep 1t in efficient con-
ition then their act was useless and nugatory and II
would have been graceful and digncd for them to
voted the supplies than have done that which could
accomplish nothing except the qualification Of their pride
md the expression OF their malice
But our President cannot fashion his opinions bv n
standard He will no doubt preserve
he constitution by setting the example Of respecting II
,imse and win take TO preserve the Union against
III attempts at its overthrow.
Let our countrymen cry aloud and spare not There
DO doubt that the blow has been struck BY the black