Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-09-06
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Despofic tendencies in the Senate and Execute
y of the United States .dymy ApproDriatio,
go Bill defeated in the Senate Neteme of tn
- Nsggr.rorshipping Democracy Fy1snes
bcf the Representatives, Of the People merit,
universal praise Of tie Republic Erfrc
Ssssieno of Congress called by Pierce, to com.
pei If possible the people to Surrender thei,
Rights into has hands for the establishneni
a.Ilof g Military Dsspotisns! iia .la assas.
,bsA sssg sWAsmserok, D. G., Aug. q, '5e.
: Dear Timex, Never, since the days Of Angus.
tus Caesar, has there been greater proclivitv
in government toward absolute despotism than
in the present administration and its lords and
masters in the Senate Chamber. Perfectly in.
sensate to every honorable principle of equity
and republican justice, they demand that the PEG.
pie shall surrender their inherent sovereignty into
their hands. Not content with all the powers Of
legitimate government, they seek to invest them
selves with full legislative powers, as well as
those executive. Having inaugurated a system
at variance with all theusages and standards Of
our past history, they wish to obtain the consent
OF the people, through their Representatives, to
their reasonable scheme Of Niger idolatry and
National despotism. To carry out their plan Of
despotism, they dare threaten the people, to COM
pei them by fear to submit to their injustice and
tyranny. But the Sovereign people yet feel con-
scious Of their sovereignty, and demand that this
grasping after power to subdue free institutions
in the infant States shall be held in check. even
if the despots in the Senate and Cabinet with
hold the appropriations from the Army, rather
than be curbed in their audacity and wrong
Ay, they will defeat the Army Bill altogether,
rather than not have full power to foster inva-
sions wherever they please upon private rights
and personal interests. By the votes and de-
bates in the Senate it is clearly maintained by
the Black Democracy that the Executive shall be
furnished with the power and the means to send
troops and munitions to Kansas, to encourage
the armed invasion Of nonresident shareholders.
disturbing the peace and melting civil war among
the settlers, affirming the validity of the laws
manufactured at the Assembly at Shawnee Mis-
sion; and in every possible form help to encour-
age tyranny and suppress the free sentiment Of
the majority Of the people there.
The Senate Of the United States haze defeated
the Army Appropriation Bin, simply on the
ground of their despotism being curtailed, by
proviso absolutely demanded by the great major
ity of the people, whose sentiments are now re-
aected by their Representatives in the House.
Nothing is palmer to the commonest understand
ing than this proposition, that the Pierce dynas.
ty, in the Cabinet and the Senate, have exercised
and sought more despotic power,--and have de-
feated the Army Bill, hoping to take some ad-
vantage BY the sudden recall to assemble in an
extra session Of Congress. o.
But the Representatives in the House have
stood firm as Giberaltcr, and will till 4th of
March next, if need. They know the willy power
of the Senate and the President. They UNDER
stand the whole scheme Of the Nullifers, North
and South, who grasp for power and place. The
idea to mationaliSe Slavery by force and fraud,
and cause every State and Territory in the Union
to permit its introduction, to and fro
and breeding Of slaves, is not thing that is hid
den under bushel,-it is spoken boldly and
swaggeringly on the house-tops. s,
It is this principle that lies at the bottom of
every other thing. This is what is aimed at in
the Kansas question, about to be settled BY pow
der and cold steel. 1t is to girdle the nation
the continent-with great Black Belt, and gag
every man on the subject of free speech, and the
Rights indefeasable in every citizen in the land.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Maine to
Texas, the aim is to quell the conscience of the
Free Citizen, and subdue all the powers of Repub.
lican Liberty into subserviancy to the despot.
ism of black democracy. It is not the regular
support of the government, in all its varied ma
chinery of Army, Navy and Civil purposes-no,
no; it is the strengthening by military agency
OF the Black Bear of Southern Representation,
that this nigger-worshiping despotism drives at
that by its fonding embraces the very life's blood
of Freedom may be crushed out. And are our
Representatives to recede in favor Of principle
so destructive of all our cherished insttutions--
that mocks at the Declaration of Independence
sneers at the sentiments of jefferson, Clay, Web
ster and the nameless host of worthless who stare
the glittering constellation of our historic past
God forbid! Rather let the Mad men Of des-
potism wreak their shame as other traitors have
done before them.a ei1l ~ 5gliiah8p la4
The persistency Of the Representatives, in their
course upon the proviso to the Army bill, will
continue through the, extra session which COM
menced to-day. They manifest no inclination to
move backward, but to ssINsIsr'' upon justice be-
ing rendered to our friends in Kansas, or else
leace the responsibility ~ith those uho ssadsere''
to crime and tyranny. If Congress will pass up
on the validity or invalidity Of the Kansas bogus
laws, which are direct violation of the Organic
Act, and the Constitution of the United States,
as we'll as the shame of our country, then there
may be no need of such proviso to hold in
check. the despotic tendency of the government.
butso long as this is not done, and no effort
put forth to rescue the people from the Ruff
fianism now raging in that Territory, it is vain
to hope for justice at the hands Of an imbecile
and tyrannical government. as l
The sfextra session.. called by Pierce, by brief
proclamation, on the day Of adjournment, speaks
as plainly as truth can UTTER, that he and his
Cabinet, through the agency Of the Senate wish,
above every other consideration, to establish
Military Despotism ia this country. Why strive
they to compel the House Of Representative to
yield to their dictation, when thc Senate does not
speak the present popular sentiments Of the
States they represent? But for the nigger re-
presentation from the South, in the AsreeJdtths
principle, at least one-fourth Of the Southern
voice in Congress would be wanting -and not
outstanding this fact, To-! what modesty these
IONS of the South" exhibit! Ever clamor-
ng for balance Of power--s'E 'Equilibfi1m Of re-
presentation, ,"-when they know As wen as any
hing that their "niggers" are no moro entitled