The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-05

Tho Aums.isss ass~n and the DemccsaaIc
pAssy.

Tho Auns.isss ssa~n and the DemccsaaIc
P~ssy.
IT. pure end existed administration Of Mr..
BuchsneD hes not had to euccumb before the re-
publican opposition that was arrayed against it
| in Congress, but has come out of the contest
with higher degree of power and popularity.
| il peed not Thank for that those who should
have proved themselves its most staunch aud
unfipcbing supporters. And If in the next
Presidential election it Will SO happen that the
banner of democracy cease to be the signsl 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 of the House of Repre-
septatives, the administration party showed
itself to have working majority over the COM
biDed opposition, of from twenty to thirty;
and yet there was not single public mea-
sure recommended by the President, or requi-
site to carry on the wheels of government, in
which, through the crotchety detection of some
uDmanageable democrats, the votes of members
of the opposition we're not required to make up
a 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
an 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 q score or more of reputedly
ardent democrats few off ct q 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 q lot
Of political vagabonds in distant Territory.
The world knows by what means compromise
was at length effected, by which many of the
renegades 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 demo-
cratic Committee of Ways and Means, numbers
of democratic representatives arrayed them
selves in determined hostility to these bills and,
strange as 1t may appear, their passage was due,
at length, to the votes Of q large portion of the
party that were not disposed to this crotchety
courre 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 augbt 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 counterfeit the hostility of some of
the professed friends of the administration.
The amendment of the Senate to 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 to ten but the
amendment to the amendment was carried
chi lv IN &c
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-at least, the opposition came not from
republicans.
SO, too in respect to the loan bills. The
main opposition TO them came from unmanage-
able democrats and constitutional hairspiitters
when IN last hill iJr the fifteen million loan
was before the House, II was amended on the
motion OF q 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
and meet the expenses Of the government during
the 6scal year. And this amendment only
i"beo nD"'y "eS'"ec' " Parliamentary arti-
fee which had TO be resorted to in furtherance
Of business, all amendments were cut of, aud
the bill was reported from committee in its
original shape.
We think that this ,rray Of facts, taken from
the history Of the last session Of Congress, and
which might be enlarged ad Ebiturs, will satisfy
every one of the truth Of the statement with
which this article opeos-that Mr.. Buchanan has
little cause to thank the democratic majority in
Congress for the success of administration and
government measures, ard that II the demo-
cratic party sustain q defeat In the next
Presidential election. that defeat will be due
20 the Standardization and cccentricities Of