The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1856-08-20
Correspondence of the Charleston Stan.
dard.
WASHINGTON, AUG. II.

WAsHINsToS, Aug. IL.
The proceedings of Congress are becom-
ing deeply interesting as the sessions draws
to close. The signs OF the times are in
deed painful to contemplate; and to the
rejecting mind the perpetui,y CT our polit-
ical union becomes exceedingly problem.
atical. doubt not my readers taye no
ticed the extraordinary debate in the Sen
ate CT Thursday last, and the solemn man
ner in which that body presented to the
other House the issue--to ieccdc from ill
their Kansas provisos, or defeat all appro-
priations for the support and maintenance
of the army. The issue is not pro scented
on the merits of these proviscs, but upon
the fact Nhclher one House of Congress
has any right 10 force their particular
views upon the members of the other, on
subjects foreign to the bill under conside-
raton-in other words, whether the House
Of Representatives, differing with the Sen
ate, honestly 1t may be-, on the Kansas
difficulties, has any constitutional right to
say TO the Senate, "unless you agree with
Us on these disputed points, we viii defeat
the supplies for the public service, and ar
rest the progress Of the Government.-
Such has been the action Of the BLACK
Republican majority in the House, and
such has been the action of the Senate
and the issue presented by that body
The country will sustain the Senate, and
il the result BE- the defeat Of the appropr.
ations for the public service, one voice,
loud and universal will go up in condcm-
nation Of the wtetched revolutionary nc
ton Of the negro worslipping traitors who
could thus trifle with the Institutions of
freedom. The deiea, Of these bills may
well ctnbarras the governmeht-not Of
Franklin Pierce-but the government Of
the American people. 1t will do more,
how ever. Ii will embarrass the great
commercial interests OF the North, and
produce financial cricis which will crash
out every thing like Black Republicanism
even in the free States. The "shrieks for
freedom" sound well in tha ears Of our
Northern friends until they begin to shake
the prosperity Of private iortunes-until
they reach private purses-until trade and
commerce, ships and factories feel and suf.
fer the hgh,ing etiec,s-ihen, indeed,
will there he an "about face "O-and not
until then. AS Senator Butler justly and
eloquenrly said-"ariest the movements
o: the Federal government-stop all its
wheels and maehinery-and the country
would scarcely perceive the check-as the
strength Of the Union rests not upon the
action Of federal powers but upon the
might and stability Of State sovereign
ties"
Some Of the Black Republicans now
urg1 that they recede from their Kansas
provisos as they acknow edge their uncon-
stitutionality others, how crc,, declare
their readiness 10 run the ship OF State
upon the breakers. a few days more will
exhibit the facts pregnant with the high
est interests Of freedom and ci,ilization.-
Look to the revelations.
The House Of Representatives passed
the supplemental bill yesterday, for Ger.
tain civil expenses Of the Government in.
Guiding among other things an appropr-
alton of s3OO,o 900 for continuation of the
Custom House at Charleston.
The sessions OF the Two Houses are now
from II o'clock in the morning; and eve
ming sessions are held regularly. An i'm.
mense amount of business will he pressed
through in the next week, it being the last
week OF the session.
The election news from Kentucky and
North Carolina has driven the Fillmore
men to despair, 1t Is now believed that
Maryland is certain for Buchanan, aud
that Fillmore will not get n single South
ern State. IVANuoE.