Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-04-11
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
J ts WAsnnoros CrT1, April 6, 1860.

against the action Of the House in lnstitutng lts
starchamber Gourt, is beginning 10 have saiuta.y
unscrupulousness Of black Repubtcanism Several
opposition journals, have openly denounced the !
course pursued as illegal and unwarranted by any
precedent in the whole history of our country while
the eloquent remonstrance Of Mr. Buchanan receives
their cordial appreciation Yet this demonstrations
al procedure will be persisted in under the drec
ton OF John Covode both the accuser and judge.
Perhaps no man is better fitted for the dirty work
undertaken than this same Covode, who, If his own
State journals are to be believed is an INSCRIPTIONS
partzan wholly destitute Of every honorable instinct
and perfectly reckless in the use Of means to attain
his party ends. 1t is asserted that since the OPEN
ing OF the campaign Of 1885, no less sum than one
hundred thousand dollars has been disbursed by
him. as treasurer of the black Republican fund, for
electoneering purposes, and that this sum was ex-
pended in q manner from which an honest man q
would have shrunk. The sinister designs of this
miscreant vllier are becoming so transparency dis
gushing in their ofensveness to elicit from some
few Of his own party presses strongly condemns
tory editorials even Greeley of the Tribune is APP
palled at the lengths to which this mans partisan
malice and fendish personal hatred is hurrying him
on In his examination of Collector Schell Of New
York. he insisted, among his other impertinent re-
quirements that Mr. Schell should produce list in
his possession of all contributors in New York City
to- tho fund raised to carry Pennsylvania for Mr..
Buchanan at the October election in 1856. This
Mr. Schel percmptorily refused to d. when the
committee, at the instance of Covode determined to
invoke the power of the House to coerce him to &C.
liver up this paper The arbitrary exercise of ire
sponsible powers, now sought by these star-eham-
Der nquistors will be appa, emit when it is under
stood that the collection and disbursement of this
money occurred when the nop Collector was then
prirate citizen of the City of New York, and in no
way amcnable TO the federal government for his &C.
ton in this matter.
Listen to Greeley, commenting on this proceed
ing: II the object is to fish out evidence on which
to base prosecution, We object that the mode is
Illegal unconstitutional and The whole procedure
fraught with danger TO the rights of every citizen.
We speak thus freely because the subject is of the
gravest Importance while our relation to the parties
in conflict enables us to do so without exposure to
Misrepresentation; the committee who are pressing
them to the wall are our political friends. But right
is right, and this procedure seems to us quite
other thing 1t is an attempt to make party CAPT.
tai by an abuse of porer-a dangerous stretch cfa
doubtful prerogat,re The fact mag as seelz be stat
ed that this phoe business Of dereloping political
scandal by legislative Investigations has been about
ru" into the ground: Intelligent, tair-miaded men
are grouing sick Of it." Exactly, Horace, you and
your entire party of woolly-head liberators are
"growing sick oft" Quite likely, since none of
the many investigating committees have been able
to elicit any testimony rejecting upon the admins
tration Of affairs by our venerated President
The bill for the prevention and punishment of the
practice of poygamy in the territories of the United
States and disappearing and annuing certain acts of
the Legislature of Utah. has passed the House in the
form reported by Mr.. Nelson Of Tenn. The bill pro-
vides for punishment on conviction of polygamy
fine not exceeding $500, and Imprisonment not less
than two nor more than five years and annuls the
ordinance of the provisional government of the State
of Desere incorporating the church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints, passed in 1851 and annuls all
acts and laws which establish maintain or counten-
ance the practice of polygamy, called spiritual mar
rage, however disguised by legal or ecclesiastical
solemnites. sacra,nents other contrivances. The
vote stood ayes 149, nays 60. Leach, Vance, Gil
mer and Smith voting in the affirmative, and Messrs.
Rufin and Branch in the negative. Mr.. Craige was
not present being confined to his room by indspo-
sition. and Gov. Winslow being, l believe paired
off, This bill has yet to undergo the ordeal of the
Senate, and trust may be defeated or so amended
as to obvatc serious objections to it in its present
form, The power of Congress to pass penal act
of this character is than doubtful and the pre-
ccdent it establishes is unsafe and dangerous one
The substitute of Mr.. Branch, of N. c., which was
voted down, seems to me to go as far as Congress
can. lcgitimately, and at the same time it would
doubtless prove cfticacious in suppressing poly
gamv His substitute proposed to repeal the law
far as to take from the people the powers of legisa
ton and vest them in legislative council to be ap-
pointed by the President; ard Disappearing and an.
nulling the law establishing the Latter Day Saints.
This it strikes me would have been the least ohjec-
tionabe and most prudent mode of disposing of this
troublesome evil The present bill will as the Utah
delegate declared, only arouse these people to a
be enforced, and instead Of applying corrective,
we may only increase and complicatc the difficulties
already attending this vexing question.
After the passage Of this bill, Sherman of the
committee of Ways and Means reported loan and
tariff bill, when Parson Lovejuy of ILL.,, obtained
the floor and delivered spec H. which, for blasphe
nous raving and outrage upon every sense of de.
cency, has no parallel in the history of repre-
sentative body, dEgraced it often has teen by the
! disgusting defamation and manners OF republican
lunatics. The most reckless and impious express
sions that ever Dropped from the lips of the hoary
headed traitor Giddings, or the vilcst and most
damnable doctrines that were ever promuged by
the incendiary Wendall Phillips, are almost con,
seryative in tone and sentiment when compared
with this negro-stealers speech of yesterday. For
obvious reasons would not quote some parts of his
speech, they are too offensive and horrible to BE-
scattered abroad but will merely give a'specimen
Of few of his moderate expressions. Speaking Of
the Democracy UNFOLDING and defending slavery, he
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"f carried out in the universe it would justify the
angels in enslaving man because superior to man
it would justify the archangels in cnsaving the an
gels in turn, and transform Jehovah into infinite
iuggernaut, rolling the huge wheels of his Omnipo
tence axle deep amid the crushed and mangled DO
dies of7men;" he declared that the South had only
been saved from barbarism by intermarriage qoitl
nerthern aoomen J; that he would steal negro when
ever he could lay hands upon one, and gloried thai
he was now written down" a thief; and that h
would bridge over the chasm that yawns between
the hell of slavery and the heaven Of freedom with
the carcasses of his oppressors. A scene of tn
greatest disorder and excitement was manifested
during the delivery of this infamous speech, and a
one time general collision seemed inevitable
"liar %" scoundrel" and like epithets sounde,
amid the din and uproar; the Chairman sent for tn
Speaker and reported the state of affairs, when par
tial order was restored. This man Lovejoy is rep
resentative man of the majority of his party. !
far, fbo~o so.o ,rbo ovhihit moro moderate m,