Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-04-06
The PostolIice Appropri ,tion Bill.

The Register, following the lead of the National
IH;gencer-one of the most respectable, and at
same time one of the most nsidious federal jour
Is in the country--abors to hold the adminlstra-
h. IF Mr. Buchanan and the Democratic party in
rsrcss responsible for the defeat of the Postofce
|,ropriation BILL Now it is well known that the
poSition' in the House of Representatives resort
T. every device to defeat this bill and to embar
- the government the administration and the
ca; lody cf the Democratic members of the House
! ing anxious to pass it. A bill aoas passed, and
! It 10 the Senate. That body considered it, made
! II. nGmcnts to it, and returned it to the House.
hat, then, did the House do? The black Repub-
ms headed by Grow and backed by such South
n Know Nothngs as Gi!mer and Vance, took the
round that the Senate had no right thus to amend;
bat in doing so it had trenched upon the Constitu-
! tonal rights of the House; and so the bill, thus
,cnded, was not returned to the Senate The
tosc refused to act upon it; but another bill was
r,rred, passed through the House. and sent to the
nate The Senate refused to consider this BILL for
mt Of time and no appropriation was made for the
StofIice Department. These are the facts. Now wh9
10 blame? Certainly not the administration or til
cst body of the Democratic members of Congress; !;
=. being in power and having control of the govern
cnt it is not to be presumed that they were ready
be mbarrass their own movements by refusing
%r.s to one of the departments oe the government
have done so would have been all absurd and
it, lai act. They could not gain by refusing the
Hcv could. Hence the course of that party in the
EcnSc of Representatives, aided by few fshy DEM
,ratS, who with the Southern and Western Know
things, gave to the black Republicans the major
V in that body; and sorry were we to see Messrs.
lmer and Vance taking the same course, and CO.
3crat;ng with these enemies of the South against
e government And now, after having thus con.
,fted and co-operated with the black Republicans,
,l having by their own act defeated the appropri.
ions necessary for one of the most important &C.
Entments of the government, they will have the as.
rlnce, and the Register will support them in it, to
ttcmpt to throw all the blame on the administra
on and the Democratic party.
The Register also censurcs the President for de
lining to call an extra session Of Congress- in ordel
make provision for the Postofice Department
he Register well knows that if he had called it i'm
cliately after the 4th of March, or at any time du
M the present spring, in time to have made th'
propriation for the fiscal year. number of th'
outhcrn States would have been unrepresented il
.c House, North-Carollna among them, and tina
be black Republicans would have had it all thei
wn way. Perhaps the Register and Messrs Vance
pd Gilmer would have been pleased at such stat
things. Between the desire to see the black Re
hblicans embarrass and arrest the government an
actual and active support of their men and meas
res, there is but one step. They haze already Sc
ously embarrassed it in one of its departments
nd tue men who did that deliberately, would arres
altogether and destroy it, if it stood in the way o
be consummation of their infamous designs T
'eh depth has Southern Know Nothingism sunl
nat it has come to be, in certain sense, only al
ly or helper of black Republcanism.