The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-06

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II The pure end exalted administration of Mr.
Buchanan has not had TO suocumb before the re-
publican opposition that was arrsyed against it
In Congress, but has come out of the contest
with higher degree ofpower ard popularity,
it need not thank for that those who should
bave proved themselves its most staunch and
unfiinching supporters And If in the next
Presidential election it will so happen that the
banner Of democracy cease to be the signal Of
triumph, the defeat of the party will have to
be attributed to the perverseness, personal am
bition, and insubordination of these same men.
In the election ofSpeaker ofthe House of Repre-
sentatives, the administration party showed
itself to have working majority over the CON-
bined opposition, Of from twenty to thirty;
and yet there was not single public mea-
sure recommended by the President, or requ-
site to carry on the wheels Of government, in
which, through the crotchety detection of some
unmanageable democrats, the votes of members
of the opposition were not required to make up
q majority.
That was strange condition OF affairs, and
one which must have been Notifying in the
highest degree to the administration and to
every true friend of the democratic party The
detection was primarily exhibited when the
President recommended course of proceeding
In regard to Kansas which he honestly deemed
the safest and wisest, and the one best calcu-
lated to restore peace to that Territory and put
on end to strife and agitation throughout the
country. But no sooner was the course indi-
Gated by him attempted to be carried out by
Congress, than score or more of reputedly
ardent democrats few off at a tangent in both
houses, and those of the House of Representa-
tives, by allying themselves with the opposi-
ton, frustrated for months the patriotic effort
of the President to put an end to the dis
graceful feud which had too long subsisted
throughout the country in regard to lot
of political vagabonds in distant Territory.
The world knows by what means compromise
was at length effected, by which many of the
renegadee came back into the democratic fold,
but still too few to save the administration from
being indebted, even for the passage of this com.
promise measure, to some opposition votes.
Still more curious circumstances attended the
passage of some of the deficiency bills. Although
the items in these bills were for expenditures
already made or for debts incurred on behalf of
the government, under democratic administra-
ton, and although they emanated from a demo-
cratic Committee of Ways and Means, numbers
of democratic representatives arrayed them
selves in determined hostility to these bills; and,
strange as it may appear, their passage was due,
at length, to the votes of large portion of the
opposition united to those Of the administration
party that were not disposed to this crotchety
course of action, over the votes Of the minority
of the opposition and Of the democratic recu-
SAINTS
So it was, too, in relation to the expenses Of
the Utah expedition. Were it not for the
patriotism and independence Of party exhibited
by republican and American members, Brig
ham Young might be still ruling in Salt Lake
City, for aught some Of the democratic men,
bers Of Congress cared.
In the bill passed for raising four regiments
of volunteers, which the President subsequently,
found he might dispense with, and which he,
therefore, did not call into service, the support
of republican members was freely given, and
operated to counteract the hostility of come of
the professed friends of the administration.
The amendment Of the Senate 10 the Naval
Appropriation bill, directing the construction
Of five steam sloops of-war, was amended in the
House on the motion, we believe, of Mr.. Coch-
rane, by increasing the number 10 ten but the
amendment to the amendment was carried
Oh Nr-I u IN
Conference that was subsequently had on dis
agreeing votes to this bill, compromise line
was struck substituting seven for ten, and this
substitution was confirmed almost unani-
mously-et least, the opposition came not from
republicans.
SO, too, ia respect TO the loan bills. The
main opposition TO them came from unmansge-
able democrats and constitutional hairsplitters.
When the last bill for the fifteen million loan
was before the House, it was amended on the
motion of republican member from Michigan,
by increasing the amount to thirty millions, on
the ground that less than the latter
sum would be insufficient to supply the deficit
the fiscal year. And this amendment only
failed finally because, by parliamentary arti-
fee which had to be resorted to in furlherancc
of business, all amendments were cut of, and
the bill was reported from committee in its
original shape.
We think that this array Of facts, taken from
the history Of the last session OF Congress, and
which might be enlarged cd I5itun, will satisfy
every one of the truth Of the statement with
which this article opeps-that Mr.. Buchanan has
little cause to thank the democratic majority in
Congress for the success of administration and
government measures and that IL the demo-
cratic party sustain defeat In the next
Presidential election, that defeat will be due
10 the characterization and eccentricities of