The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-04-25
THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE PEOPLE.

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THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE PEOPLE. e
The country is tired Of agitation. From one end
of it to the other the feeling of the people is OF IA
tigue, oathing, and disgast with the whole pending
quarrel At the South they prefer deeisioa of the
interminable dispute one way or the other they
are profoundly reckless which way; but they arc
desperate for decision, whatever it may be. AT
the North, they are even more fatgued and disgust
cd with the ntroversy than at the South for at
the North the conservative of the people are
in direct contact with the unprincipled dema-
gogues and agitators who mako this question their
meat and drink, The conviction 10 general among
the sterling yeomanry that the leaders Of the aga
ton are too vicious and rotten to be tolerated and
that the movement itself is too idle and impractical
BILE to be countcnancod by conservative men,
The result Of thirty years Of agitation has been to
demonstrate aboltionsm TO be only the most arrant
denagogueism and to create favor and gain
defenders for the slavery institution at the North,
than II ever had before Thousands of respectable
and sturdy citizens who have been lured into the
abolition movement at different stages Of its prog
ress, have united in it only to be convinced Of its
vicious futility, to be disgusted with the unprnei
pied men who control it for base and selfish
purposes and to repndiate it at last with unattera-
BILE loathing and disgust The tide Of anti Slavery
has had its flow and now the ebb has set in with
rush. The effort of the abolition party in the pres
ent Congress has been to stay this subsiding move
ment and, by the aid of timid men from both
tons who have not had the disccrnmcnt 10 detect the
real condition of the question have thus far succeed
ed in damming the current in Congress but among
the people, the agitation has lost all favor and buoy
ancy, and the little check which the receding food
has sustained in Congress- only makes the flow the
more swift in the country where there no obstruc-
ton t'Ae'%ft
The country is tired Of this Improbable and ex-
asperating controversy; and will have no more of
it. The administration has met the wishes of
all the conservative people of the country in earnest
" recommending and urging It's prompt dsmssion
from the deliberations Of Congress- and when those
members from one part Of the country and another,
who some for one reason and for another, have
succeeded in preventing its settlement thus far and
keeping alive this question solong and unnsoessa-
rily shall return home 70 their constituents, they
win realize tile depth Of the popular disgust which
exists for the agitation and find themselves stranded
upon the beach of % wasted excitement, instead Of
riding upon the full tide of. buoyant popular feel
incgg lsiHSs trd mi 8iisNgtiier :, iAsstfbs
The very efforts to which the various enc
mics of the administration have resorted, du-
ring, the winter, to parayze its action and lis
credit it before the people, will insure it a
triumph before the popular tribunal such as no ad-
which it has adopted SO popular with the honest
Of the country as the Jealous, earnest effort
it has made to prompt cessation of this ag
tation. There is no course il has or could have
taken on great question Of public solcitude which
the people of the country at large heartily APP
prove, or have accepted or appreciate as a higher
evidence of its devotion to the great interests Of
the country, than it's of policy in the Kansas
affair There are none of its acts which the democratic
masses Of the country regard az more orthodox po-
litically, or expedient practically than the whole
series of measures which It has taken the delicate
and complicated affairs Of Kansas .s ,as ,.,.,, q
The constitution dsvolves upon Congress- the duty
Of final action in the admission Of Kansas into the
Union, and Of taking the final steps in concluding
the settlement of this Kansas imbroglio. Had the
constitution devolved this duty upon the Executive
the question would have been finally ssttled months
before now the disgust of the people for this Kan
sas controversy relieved and the peace Of the Union
fully established But for wise purposes the constit
ton delegated this responsible function to Congress-
The great body of the democratic party in Con
gress have strenuously sought to effect the prompt
settlement which was 40 desirable in ITSELF and for
which the people were so solictous. The RESPONSE.
bity Of all the trouble that has ensned and may vet
ensus from their failure in this effort isnot upon the
administration is not upon the faithful democrats in
Congress who have so nobly sriven TO perform their
duty il is and win be with the members, of every
shade and name, who have combined together to
hwart the measures Of settlement that have been
brought forward in Congress-, ~ ig,vj f
No President could ever look with more compla
ccncy and honest satisfaction his public conduct