Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-04-02
Tho pos,ofice Appropriation Bill.


Tho Rtgister, following the lead Of the National
r,t,u;afncer-onc of the most respectable, and at
,n,e time one of the most insidious federal jour-
IN the country--labors to hold the administra-
= Mr. buchanan and the Democratic party in
,nrrcss responsible for the defeat Of the Postofice
..,r-;ation bill. Now it is well known that "the
.,.t;on" in the House Of Representatives resort
1 ., every device to defeat this bill and to embar-
-,.s the government; the administration and the
-. h,.v Of the Democratic members of the House
s,.ry anxious to pass it. A bill scas passed, and
.s.,t to the Senate. That body considered it. made
,on,lm.nts to it, and returned it to the House.
What then did the House do? The black Repub-
,;.,ns headed by Grow, and backed by such South
know Nothings as Gilmer and Vance, took the
.,r,d that the Senate had no right thus to amend;
.,,t IN doing so it had trcnched upon the Constitu
.,,., rirhts of the House; and SO the bill, thus
,u,onaea vas not returned to the Senate The
,,,,sc refused to act upon it but another bill was
n-pnarcd passed through the House. and sent to the
S,,.e The Senate refused to consider this bill, for
want Of time and so appropriation was made for the
p,stofiee Department These are the facts. Now who
ito blames Certainly not the administration or the
Great holy of the Democratic members Of Congress;
FAY being in power and having control Of the govern
uet it is not to be presumed that they were ready
too mharrass their own movements by refusing
means to one of the departments o. the government
T.. have done so would have been an absurd and
suicidal act They could not gain by refusing the
,rpropriaton, but the black Republicans thought
thew could. Hence the course of that party in the
HouSe of Representatives, aided by few 6shy Dem
,.r,ts who with the Southern and Western Know
ysthinrs, gave to the black Republicans the major
;tv in that body; and sorry were We to see Messrs
Gilmcr and Vance taking the same course, and co
o,eratne with these enemies of the South agains,
the government. And now, after having thus con
sorted and co-operated with the black Republicans
and having by their own act defeated the appropri
atoms necessary for one Of the most important &c
partmcnts Of the government they will have the as
suancc, and the Register will support them in ii, t
attempt to throw all the blame on the administrs
ton and the Democratic party.
The Register also censures the President for dc
Ching to call extra session of Congress- in ordc
to make provision for the Postofice Department
The Register we'll knows that if he had called it i'm
msliately after the 18th of March, or at any time dr
ring the present spring, in time to have made tn
appropriation for the fiscal year. = number of til
Southern States would have been unrepresented i
the House, North Carolina among them, and tbs
the black Republicans would have had it all the
Own way. Perhaps the Register and Messrs Vant
and Gilmer would have been pleased at such stat
ofthings Between the desire to see the black r
pubicans embarrass and arrest the government an
an actual and active support Of their men and mea
uFes, there is but one step. They haze already S
ronsly embarrassed it in one of its departments
and the men who did that deliberately, would are
altogether and destroy it, if it stood in the way
the consummation of their infamous designs.
such depth has Southern Know Nothingism sur
that it has come to be, in a certain sense, only
all! or helper Of black Republicanism.