The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-03-04

ti}s1 with that structure, that you must notDnly
reconstruct society, but the materials or. O
wE,ch society is formed, before you can get nc
of-i;l We show him better way COT toru
20 srself to the great law of Justice, do AZ you
wssld wish to be done by, ans you will ced,s t.
be STAKEHOLDER. Live ia perfect harmony SSitl
yosr "organic structure" and you wiz BE-
nesther slave nor slaveowaer. r
HE DEFEAT OF THE ARMY BILL
The First Great Measure Of ;hs Administration.
Tue defeat of the Army Bill in the Senate i,
a s,vere blow to the Administration. II, had
Sc Is heart upon the measure, and could Gard
ly ,ubt of its success in body in which f<was
nc inslly sustained by thirty-seven out six
ty,. 70 members. The Washington o, ion
CO, nenting On the opposition to il, give, ut
te.--ce in vulgar terms to the indignant q Of
the administration; IN
st is not at all surprising that the Black Re-
put fcans should pursue this course, and ihat
the neophytes, who have been recently 4iti
ate into their mysteries, and who ,worshi , so
det5utly now at the dusky shrine where Gree
leS4 Abby Kelly, and the Senator from lew
He g pshire, kneel and cry aloud-it is ma ,ral
ENC Tgh that this conglomerate brotheri God
shF I'd pig together in the same sty. But 10
wo ~ of especial wonder that Demo' rats
she d be found to vote persistently with lem
to Z feat the measures of the Administra ion,
ancS the attempt to enforce upon it mea ure
ane policy which would only embarrasJ it,
anc which was intended by its supporters TO
EN- x.rrass it.
.fhe true friends of tho Administration
me -ure did wisely and nobly in killing the
n1tyt ter which sprung from toe loving enbra.
cesasf Douglas, Hale, 4 Co., and in throying
the responsibility of the disasters which. may
foll1y upon the right shoulders"
Ia,its blind anger, the UniO,. strikes at friends
as veil as foes, for the substitute it SO bitterly
derppnces was the work specially of Mr.. Pagh,
of Ohio, and Mr.. johnson, of Tennessee; and
no ne did more to defeat the original bill han
MSfoombs, of Georgia. Possibly the AID ain
is>-stion may succeed, by fourishing its ship
al 1T the ears of these Senators, in brin 3ing
tb 8 to repentance.
be record of the proceedings on this amy
biz anything but Aattering to the Admini5tra-
tidS. First, it submitted project for Large
ans permanent increase of tie standing Amy,
invs'yng numerous appointments, th-cagh
which the President would have been abb, to
brihe his patronage to bear decidedly On the
corEEe of legislation. The Cenmittee on Till
tar Affairs, majority being friends of the
President, rejected the project, and thro Ugh
their chairman, Mr.. Jefferson Davis, repo ted
another bill, the frat section e which prov led
for adding thirty companies to the regular
arEay, two to each regiment; the second secaOn,
the President to raise the nep Der
of t,a rank and file of each company whes in
the field from fiftysix TO nine.y-six- The W role
number, thus added, would be 1000, making
TIL OCULAR army twenty-five thousand string.
tt increase was to be pernanent-no pro-
vie ] was made looking to future reduct Jon.
Ii reasons urged in support of it were, the
net tsities Of the service, and the wants of the
cous Try. The Republicans wers united in OPP
position to any permanent increase of the .gu.
lar qrmy, and it was soon found that the -Ad-
min jtration party could not be rallied in jup-
port of such policy.
AS for the project of the Admipistratit ., it
was hardly treated with respect. Mr.. win,
on the 9th of January, moved it as a s, osti.
tute for the bill of the Committee, but = re-
ceived only eight votes, and of them two sere
cast by members who thought it wouls be
easier to kill the substitute than the orr. inal
bill.
After many debates, in which the oppos lion
to the bill reported by Mr.. Davis grew Sire sger
and stronger Mr.. Toombs Inoved to strike out
the first section, 80 as to reduce the numb of
troops demanded, from 1000 to 1000.
Mr.. Davis, anxious now for the fate o. the
measure, pledged himself ia withdraw the Sec
ond section, if the first were permitted to stand
and Mr.. Biggs, of North Carolina, agree to
vote against striking it oft, with the der
standing that provision sbouldbe moved ma,
king the increase temporary.
February llth, the motiGn to strike on the
first section was lost-yeas'2 Is, nays 26.
Yeas = Messrs. Bell, Chandler, Coli mer,
Crittenden, Dixon, Doolitthe, Durkee, f, 5sen.
den, Foot, Foster, Gwin, Hale, Hsmlin, Har.
Ian, Houston, johnson of Tennessee, !ting,
Pearce, Pugh, Simmons, Snmnet, To, mbs,
Trumbull, Wade, and Wilson-25.,
Ndys-Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Biggs, Big.
Ter, Bright, Broderick, Brown, Cameron, Clay,
Davis, Evans, Fitch, Hamr5ond, Hunter, liver,
son, Jones, Mallory, Masoo, Polk, Sebs tan,
Seward, Slidell Stuart, Thomson 6f Nov Jer.
sey, Wright, and Yulee-26. -
A provisO was then adopted, PROPOSE by
Administration Senators, making it the d, ty of
the President to reduce the army az the e.,d of
two years, or sooner, if the sxigency of tn, pub
lie service required, to its present 'force, and
the second section was stricken out,
February Is, the fourth section of tb bill
changing the order of prom elton, vas ST cken
out, on motion of Mr.. Chandler o. Mict igan,
Senators Hunter ard Masol Of Virginia, ,ting
with others FOR the motion. .;
By this time, the bill had betn rae cally
changed-frst, so as to provide for an in, fease
of only four thousand men secondly, to 1vide
for temporary, not permsnent, increase land
these changes were the joint work of Rs. ubli.
can and Administration Senators. A Z rma-
nent increase of the standing army was a. ainst
the feeling of large majority of the SEM ;e.
The question now arose, shall the in, ease
be of regulars or volunteers? Or. Eilson
moved substitute, proposing the employ ,nent
OF volunteers but subsequently yielded hs own
project to one Of Mr.. Johason of Tenn ssee
fot the employment of volunteers, not to a .cea5
three thousand men. At the same TIM. Mr.
Hunter gave notice of Substitute, pro- ding
tot the increase of regular troops, to the raum.
Der of four thousand.
The question being taken on Mr.. JohI ,on,s
substitute, February 18th, it was lost: