The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-10


less bucyancy sess sold q, ST. 80 SIT 70 aud prime
si4 20 sI4 81 closing at the inside figures Sugar.
advanced about &C per ID, with sales OF 600 90 ct
rates given in another Column. Coffee was quiet Freghs
continued to rule dull Grain in bulk aad bags was taken
Tor Liverpool at AID -four at L. 3D. and cotton at I'd
To London, some cheese Was taken q, Cos.
SsSns OF the Tines-.ssur Present Factions and
Revolutionary Congress.
The rufians cutthroats, burglars and thieves,
and the scenes Of violence and crime with which
our great cities appear to be now overrun, in
dictate fearfully demoralizing laxity in the en-
torcement of the laws and very painful state
OF public morals. Occurring, too as this reign
of terrorism does, in the midst of the most ex-
tensive religious revival in the history of this
country, we are only the more convinced of the
unsettled, feverish and uneasy condition of the
public mind. There seems to be neither q sense
OF security IN eociety, nor anything like conf
dence IN our political system amongst US. And
of all the monstrous evils of the day the present
wrangiing, squabbling and reckless factions OF
Congress are the most suggestive Of ruflian as
tendency, mob law and general anarchy.
We begin to think that Matteson, when he
said, as alleged. that there were forty members
Of Congress who could be depended upon as
black mail committee to levy their tolls upon
every bill, was not very wide of the mark The
very act Of whitewashing this convicted
lobby jobber gives a strong coloring
OF plausibility to this report. Apart from
this dirty business however, we have evidence
enough. in all conscience, in the public proceed
ings of the present Congress. to denounce ii as
the most inbecile, demoralized and corrupt that
has ever assembled at Washington. It stands
upon the verge Of that diseased and revou-
tionary arrangement which is the normal con-
dition of the legislative bodies of Mexico, Mica
ragua and the South American republics The
pitful sectional and factious broils and disputes
which have marked the doings of both houses
at this session, have disguised the people and
diseraced the country.
From the origin OF the government down to
the administration Of poor Pierce our political
parties and public men were divided upon grea
practical questions and solid political princi
Piles. But since his day the parties which had
existed upon principles have crumbled to
pieces, and the results are now before US 10 the
miserable and detestable demagogues, cliques,
sectioDalists and factionists that rule the roast
in both houses Of Congress. Guided by neither
consistency nor decency, they stultify or debase
themselves with the most wretched pettifogging
upon this that or the other bill, a. if they we're
elected for the express purpose of trampling
down the administration and the government.
right or wrong.
With such evidences before us, are we not JUS
tilted in the belief that the Southern fire eating
faction are malignant and reckless traitors to
the Union: That the Southern Know Nothings
are but apack of dirty hucksters In the market
for seleg That the Douglas faction are nothing
more than squad Of disappointed spoilsmen,
instigated only by the basest motives of re-
venge: and that The whole ungsdly crew Of the
black republicans are but gang Of noisy hypo-
critics and false pretenders of negro philauthro-
by? Whatever may be the answer to these
questions, We doubt whether there are one hua-
bred men in this Congress who are governed
by strictly patriotic or unseihsh motives.
1t would be n good thing If this Congress
could be at once dissolved and another elected
forthwith upon the practical issues Of the day
and the practical exigencics Of the government
If we are bound hesdlong to the deplorable
anarchy Of Mexico, the sooner we know our
fate perhaps the better: but If there be the re-
quisite self sustaining moral power among the
people to arrest this downward tendency of
things, this power cannot be exercised too soon.
From the results Of the first four months Of the
present session We think, at all events, that the
earliest possible adjournment till next Deem
Der will be accepted as great relief to the
country. We have had enough for one year of
this iactious, sectional, disunion and demorali-
zing wrangling. Anything for change.