Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-08-21
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.


of the Republic who cares more for his country
than his party, will commend the recent pun
lie action of President Piercei in relation 70 the
extra session of Congress, and applaud the
calm statesm anship and dignifed tone which
charaterizes the Message to Congress which We
this evening spread before our readers.
The President by his proclamation summon
ed factions, embracing too many recreant rep
resentatives, back to a discharge of those most
imperative public duties to which they had
been shamelessly false. He babe them re-
turn, thereby giving assurance that such men
cannot and shall not, so long rs he yields ex-
ecutive power, take steps which inaugurate
revolution and disunion, and then q from the
consequences of their action like frightened
camanches. He charges high public func
tionaries in Congress to come back and recon-
slider their deeds of faction and treason to pub.
lie duty.
The message which he transmits to these
recalled and returned recreants is a clear, ex
plicit statement of the reasons which make it
the paramount obligation of Congress to come
back to duty and "to provide for the common
Defence" and to support the President in
every measure appropriately belonging to his
high Office He makes it so clear that he who
runs may read that this Republican House of
Representatives have neglected to provide for
one of the vital objects for which this Union
was formed.
We predict that no man, not besotted by
partizsn rage and folly, will rise from the
reading of this message without emotions Of
wonder and amazement at the action Of the
Republican majority in the House. And yet,
strange to say, party thus rash in its public
action, thus needless Of constitutional obliga.
ton, thus regardless Of public law and duty,
thus devoted to partizan ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
personal gain, is aspiring to WELD not only the
legislative, but the judicial and executive
powers of the republic!
Let US congratulate ourselves that there is,
in this crisis, at the head of the Government
man who has the sagacity to discern the
plans and purposes of Republicans in their
disuniOn work, and who has the nerve to
grapple and bring to the light of day the mid
night assassins Of the Constitution and the
Union.
The following Is the message:
FsIiorc- e,nzens Of the Se.ate
and Hoxse Of Representatives,:
In consequence of the failure of Congress,
at it's recent session, to make provision for the
support Of the army, it became imperatively
incumbent on me to exercise the power which
the Constitution confers on the Executive for
extraordinary occasions: and promptly to con
vene the two Houses in order to afford them
an opportunity of reconsidering a subject of
such vital interest to the peace and welfare of
the Union.
With exception of . partial authority
vested by law in the Secretary of War to con-
tract for supply Of clothing and subsistence,
the army is wholly dependent on the appro-
priatiOns annually made by Congress. The
omission Of Congress to act, in this respect,
before the termination of the fiscal year, had
already caused embarrassments to the service,
which were overcome only in expectation OF
appropriations before the close of the present
month. If the requisite funds be not speedily
provided, the Executive will no longer be able
to furnish the transportation, equipments and
munitions, which are essential to the effective.
ness OF military force in the field With no
provision for the pay Of troops, the contracts
of enlistment would be broken, aud the army
must in effect be disbanded the consequence
of which would be so disastrous as to demand
all possible efforts to avert the calamity
1t is not merely that the officers and en-.
listed men Of the army are to be thus de.
prived Of the pay and emoluments to which
they are entitled by standing laws; tn at the
construction Of arms at the public armories,
the repair and construction of ordnance at the
arsenals, and the manufacture of military
clothing and camp equipage must be discon-
tinued ; and the persons connected with this
branch of the public service thus be deprived
suddenly Of the employment essential to their
subsistence. Nor is it merely the waste con-
sequent on the forced abandonment of the sea
board Notifications, and of the interior mill
tary posts and other establishments, and the
enormous expense of recruiting and reorgan-
izing the army, and again distributing i. over
are evils which may, it is true, be repaired
hereafter by taxes imposed on the country.
But other evils are involved, which no ex-
penditures however lavish, could remedy,-in
comparison with which local and personal in.
Juries or interests sink into insigni6cance.
A great part Of the army is situated on the
remote frontier, or in the deserts and noun.
sains Of the interior. To discharge large boz
dies Of men in such places, without the means
OF regainiug their homes, and where few, IL
any, could obtain subsistence by honest in
dustry, would be to subject them to suffering
and temptation, with disregard of justice and
night most derogstory to the Government.
In the Territories of Washington and Ore.
gon, numerous bands of Indians arc in arms.
and are wasing war of determination against
tho white Inhabitants; and although our troops
are actively carrying on the CAMPAIGN. VIC