Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-12

into office. Such laws have been SUPP orted
by Bell and Seward, and their party la q n
gress. The debt has been created by them in
opposition to the votes and wishes of a ma
jority of the Defzocratic party in Congress"
"An opposition Congressr" When was there
an opposition Congresss 1t has been so long
since there was one, that really we have for
gotten the date of the last one. Congress, we
believe, consists of Senate and House of
Representatives. In the present Congress
the Democrats have 80 out of Ga members of
the Senate-a majority of IA. In the last
Congress, the Democratic majority in the
Senate was still larger.
Now, we have already called attention to
the fact that the remarks of the Union and
American are limited TO the appropriations of
the last and present Congress. Its language
is: "Look over the appropriations of the last
and present C5ngress, etc.' The Democrats,
therefore, having had large majority in the
Senate during the last Congress, and having q
large majority in the Senate in the present Con-
gress. we are at loss to understand. and we
respectfully ask from oar contemporary an
explanation of the meaning Of, its statement,
that '.the present administration has been bur-
dened with appropriations made by an Oppo-
sition Congress" What appropriations, and
when were they made? What Opposition
Congress" does the Union and american refer
to, and when did such Congress exist?
Mr.. BUCHANAN, we have all along supposed,
found large surplus in the Treasury upon
bis accession to Office, of which surplus as we
had also supposed. considerable portion was
expended by his Secretary of the Treasury
in buying up at premium United States
Bonds before they fell due. Hour then, has
Mr.. BUCHANAN's administration been "bur-
dened with appropriations made by an 'Oppo-
sitiOn Congress-
The Union and american further alleges as
we understand it. that ''the debt has been
created" "by BELL and SEWARD, and their
party in Congress-" ain opposition to the
wishes of a majority of the Democratic party
in Congress"
What debit" The deficit in the treasury
of last year? If so, what were the laws
which occasioncd that "debt." and which the
Union and american charges Bell and Seward
with having pushed through the Senate,
in the face of clear Democratic majority in
that body Of IA votes or upwards. How
could that possibly Be? In the Senate there
are 80 Democrats. 20 Republicans and 5
Americans and Wings. How could Bell and
Seward then. if they had been so disposed,
and the whole of the opposition Senators, rs
\ ID III 4
Seward, we say, under such circumstances,
have pushed extravagant appropriations
through the Senate. in the face of a Democra-
tic majority of IA votes? They could not
have done it, unless at least Democratic
Senators had allied themselves with Bell and
Seward" and the entire Opposition in the
Senate, for the express purpose and with the
sole intent of passing those extravagant APP
preparation Jaws" which, we are told have
so "burdened" the present administration.
viii not the Union and American publish the
names of those recreant Democratic Senator's
in number--who went over to BELL and
Seward and aided them and the minority OPP
position to pass these Objectionable laws?
And here very interesting question
arises, of which we ask a solution at the
hands of the Union and American. 1t is this;
If 80 Democratic Senators, with Democratic
President, who possesses the veto power,
proved themselves unable to protect the
public treasury against the extravagances of
rs Opposition Senator'S of what earthly ac-
count to the people is the Democratic party?
In conclusion, we put it TO all candid
readers without respect to party. if the con-
dition of the Democratic party, as described
by the Union and american, he not a condition
of utter incomretency aud hclplessness so
far as the protection of the peoples money
against waste and prodigality is concerned?