Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-07-03
THE BLACK REPUBLICAN HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVE


The people should bear in mind that the
Black. Republicans have an immense majority
in Congress- and on all ommittees-that Con-
gress has been in session for seven months,
and the House has literally done no business.
All interests, public and private, except such
as give plumber have been neglected. The
Republican House of Congress have been in
session for seven months, at an expense of
half q million of dollars, and have literally
done nothing. Not only SO, but they have pre-
vented the Senate from acting, by refusing to
allow the Senate to pass first the appropriation
bills.
The ostensible cause of this, is the alleged
want of authority on the part of the Senate to
originate an appropriation bill but the true
cause is, that, by giving time to examine bills,
il would interfere with their schemes of plum
der. Thor object is 10 jam all matters into
confusion at the end uf' the session, and thus,
unperceived to hurry through their plundering
schemes.
We speak emphatically in saying that the
AID the deliberately planned delay of business,
are all parts and parcels to cover up and pass
impoverished plundering bills. We invite the
attention of the watchful in Congress and all
over the country to this fact, that the Republi-
can House of Representatives is a plundering
band. We do not mean to say that there
no individual exceptions, but we have good
reason to know that all this excitement is in
tended, in part, to aid plundering schemes in
Congress, and to grasp State power, to plumber
there. The party has no thought of success in
the Presidential campaign. They know that
the people in the North are neither fools,
madmen, nor knaves, but that there is at the
North mass of national men, with patriotic
hearts, clear heads and clean hands, sufficient
to defeat the corrupt, the fanatic, and all their
dupes.
Let the people know, everywhere, that the
Republican House Of Representatives has
shamefully neglected its duty in postponing
to the last moment further action, and that it
is for the purpose Of plumber.
They are very busy in seeking to find out
what public measures are wanted by Demo
cratic members, for the purpose of coercing
support of their plundering schemes, as the
price of their votes, to an honest and proper
public measure
Stop their supplies of plumber, and the party
must soon dissolve. The strongest character
istic of the party is the changeless pursuit of
plumber, under cover and with the shouts on
their lips Of freedom, Southern aggression, and
other cries intended to divert public attention
but punderl plunder plunderl is the polar
star.
They have band of INSCRIPTIONS letter
writers, who use the columns of the papers
with which they. correspond, to forward these
plundering schemes, and denounce all mea-
sures, the supporters Of which oppose these
plundering schemes.
A conspiracy has already been formed to
oppose appropriations for the District, in order
to render them subseryient to their schemes of
plumber.
Their skill, tact, aud ingenuity, in engineer.
ing their measures through Congress, are truly
marvellous
Many protesting Democrat has obtained
contracts through them by division of the
spoils, little suspected by the Democratic mem
bers who gave their support.
The people at the North have Kansas, free
dom ofdebate, and Southern aggression, thrown
to them as tub to the whale, while the more
l. r. -. =. Al
on, labelled with these sonorous phrases