The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-12-10
The xxxvIth Congress.

The first session of the Thirty sixth Con-
gress assembled at Washington on Monday,
the 9TH instant. AS yet we have no tidings
of their doings, but presume that the House
of representatives was promptly organized
and is now busily at work.
We anticipate a stormy session. The late
elections at the North have demonstrated the
strength of the anti-slavery sentiment to be
largely in the ascendant. The Republicans
have handsome plurality of the members
of the House, and will use it to good advan-
tage in showing up the frauds, populations,
and shortcomings generally of the present
pro-savery Administration a
The elections, too, that have been held in
the Northern States, have demonstrated that
the Opposition are abundantly able to elect
q President next year. This, of itself,
would be sufficient to set the Southern fire.
eaters foaming, had they no other pretext.
But the Harper's Ferry affair gives them
Just the chance they want. Now look out
for threats of dissolution, and general
"boiling over" The only chance the De-
mocracy have in the present Congress is to
bully and brow beat the Republicans from
their duty. That they will attempt it, who
doubts But will they succeed? We
card was pretty well played out in 1856,
and in the last Congress, while the Lecomp-
ton Constitution was pending. Like all the
other dogs, it has chad its day" 1t was
once so powerful that for our Southern
brethren to threaten to destroy themselves
was to bring the North on its knees at once,
duplicating them not to do Il Theodore
Parker once said that the threats of the
South to leave the Union was like the threat
Of the paupers of New York city TO leave
the poor houses and set up for themselves
They never intended to attempt, even, a dis
solution of the Union. They dare not if
they would. Barking ours don't bite.''
John Browns INVASION" too, which
promised to be High, low, Jick, Jack.
game" for them, has turned out badly, and
their abortive attempt to make political cap
ita out of it has reacted on them. But
they will learn no sense from these things.
They will only buster and froth the more.
SUMNER, too, has got back, restored near
ly if not quite to his primitive vigor and
health. What an eyesore he will be to
them! What a score he has got to settle
with the peculiar institution for the in
dignity, and months of exile it has occa-
stoned him. He will pay the debt, with in
terest added but not in Kind. His will be
the ''cane" of eloquent truth, which he will
strike upon their heads with terrible effect.
As soon as the first howl is made by the
Southern members about dissolving the
Union, then we may look to see weak kneed
and soft-spined folks crying don't we'll
vote the Democratic ticket if you just
won't" The Union saving machinery will
be put in motion at once, for the purpose OF
echoing and re-eching the cry.
We shall keep our readers well posted in
regard to the doings and sayings of this
Congress. They will doubtless be erich.
rare and racy" beyond anything of the kind
ever before enacted by any Congress. Look
out! And people whose nerves are weak
mad better not read at all-or at least in
small doses.