The Washington union., 1858-02-23
HISTORICAL PARALLELS.

The Philadelphia Press has at length thrown of all
disguise, abandoned all subterfugc, and taken iS
stand in opposition to the President and in defiance
of his administration 1t has marched of with colors
flying and drums beating--horsc, foot, and dra,
goons into the cnemys lines, and its place is vacant
in the democratic ranks. A decent regard for the
opinions of honest Pennsylvania has induced it TO
throw all it's intellectual energy and all its dramatic
power into the lugubrious pronnnciamento under
which it covers its withdrawal. Weextraot from and
condense the pretcntious document:
Yesterdays intelligence, that the committee Of in
vcstigaton raised in the national House of Representa-
tives the motion of Mr. Harris, OF Illinois, had decided
by majority that majority created by Mr. Speaker
Orr, in direct violation Of usage, well OF par@
mentary iaw-to restrict examination into the Kansas
frauds adds another load TO the mountain of injustice
which has accumulated since it has been decided to de
prive the people Of Kansas of their rights The same
despatch from Washington announces the rsmorul 9 tc
Distinguished democrats from office, doM aro,rc0y h~ms
"y oppose he 'a,o''o" Of me L'e0"p'o" e0ss''" at"' @
The annals Of politics will he ransaclcd in vain for
parallel to these extraordinary proceedings We begin 70
doubt whether, indeed this is land OF liberty and
law. The long catalogue of undcnied frauds IN
Kansas the infamous manner in which portion o. ns
constitution submitted; the refusal to regard tsm
to speak of the outages Of the proslavcy party before
the convention began its stings have excited deep
resisess and almost universal resentment in the ie9
States. "
General Jacksons name and example invoked In
support Of this determinations. more unfortunate au
thority could not be suggested at the present moment
General Jackson not only in favor OF fair play pu.
he had way of his in other matters. The Dulinos
Of the South understood him He made short WORK m
tl,cr fhrea and NV his hold
taught them not only his own strength, but also ae
strength and durability Of the Union they attempted
overthrow o
And, with all respect for james Buchanan, do not
hesitate to say that ii he had maintained the sla"
he took in his instructions to Governor Walssl
and in all his intercourse with that gentleman IP
10 November, 1S57-tbc doctrine broadly asserted
the Washington Uncn the administration s poDcJ VI
this great issue--bc would have united around hlm
body Of friends devoted and disnterested ms tha
who 30 long clung to his In the darkest days Of ms
career He would have consolidated all parties in TIE
North in his favor lie would have recalled into inc
democratic ranks permanent democratic States Name
New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, and Ohio
now, fear hopelcssly lost to the federal admnls
tion by the effort to force Me,n upon platform whTc
whole sursructurc Is open and scandalous fraud Inc
miserable handful Of dscontents in the South (h's f
at Cincinnati and his foes every part of his Po
icy that does not square with their own Procrse"n 1
actions) would have been Lost In the uprising OF the P
pie In the South In favor of the Union He has nov
ever, changed his course and now to the sorrow u 49,
true patriots the democracy also called upon w. "
change theirs. pain of accommodation; ana ~,
southern seccssonists boldly forth with their o
matum rnx LEcoxrroN FRAUD on pIsuSIor ,,,
" To TO the enterprise Of reading men out Oh Wv
party and the Introduction Of Gen Jack
name sanction for such undertaking. let US Saf
pose for moment that the old hero could rise from % m
grave, and watch the progress Of the decapat'on '"
presume the victims would range in this order: ,c
" ROBERT J. WALKER. STEPHEN A, pouTI,P cuaP
GEORGE BANCROFT, HENRY HORN, HENRY Chary Han
MAN, JOHN HICKMAN, OWEN JONES, WnSgr Wnasyr
BELLY, WILLIAM l.. DEWART, WILLIAM "oN'
GoMERY. :,
These efficient representatives of the democracy u
Congress to be read out of the democratic chulo
and with them twenty five of the most influential oe'
cratic papers in the States host Of able democrats "
The dirent counties Of the State young and old anun