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THE VOICE •OF THE TIME.
OiI•ILLES MACK AT
Day unto day utters speech—
De wiso, oh ye nations and •bear
What yesterday tolleth today,
'What to day to -the morrow will preach ;
A• change cometh over our spheto,
And the old goeth down to decay.
A new light has dawned on the darkness of yoro,
And men shall he slaves and oppressors no more.
Hark to the throbbing of thought,
In the breast of the weakening , world!
Ovor land, over sea, it hath come;
The serf that was yesterday bought,
To.aay, his defiance bath hurrd,
No more in his slavery dumb;
And to morrow will break from tho fetters that
bind,'
And lift a bold arm for the rights of mankind.
. .
Ilerk to the voice of the Time!.
The iitultilkole think-for themselves,
And weigh their condition each one;
The drudge bath , a spirit suhlime.
And whether he hammers or delves,
He reads when his lobor is done;
Anillearns, though he groan under penury's ban;
The; freedom to think is the birthright of men.
But yesterday, though he was confined.
To breathe it was peril or death,
And it sank in the breast where It rose;
Now free as the - midsummer wind,
It sports its adventurous breath,
And round the wide universe goes;
The mist and the Cloud from its pathway are curl'd
And glimpses of sunshine illumine the world,
The voice -of opinion has grown;
'Twos yesterday changeful and weak,
Like the voice of a boy. ere his prime—
To-day it has taken the lone• • . •
Plan orator worthy to speak; •
Who knows the demands of the time; •
And to morrow 'twill south in Oppression's cold
Like the trump of the seraph to startle 'our sphere
"Be wieo, oh, ye rulers of earth,
And shut not your cars tr. the voice,
Norallow it to warri you in vain;
Trite froedom of yesterday's birth,
Will march on its way.and,rejoiee,
And . noyer be,conquer'd again,.
The day has a. tongu,o—ray,the hour. utter speech;
Wise, wise, will ye be, if yo learn what they teach.
EaLIC3O3,aI&3IaDQIEN
POPULAR ERRORS IN MEnicins.—By
an, Edinburg Physictan.—Many people
put great faith in the wholesomeness of
tutting only one dish at dinner. They sup:
peso that the.mixture ofsubstanees prevents
casy. - digestion. They would.not:-eat -fish
and flosh,, fowl and beef; animal food 'and
vegetables. This seems a plausible notion;
but daily.. practice shows its- absuidity.=:- .
What dinner sits eagier on the 'stomach
than.a -slice orrevted or boiled' mutton;
and carrots or turnips, and the' intliSpensa;'
ble'potatn? What Man OVer felt . theverSe
for a cut of cod or turbot:- folloWed by
beefeteak or a dine of roast beef find pud;
ding. In short, a variety of wholesorne
fond does not seem incompatible at meals,
tf one do not eat too much—here the error
lies.
It is a 'Comma practice with bathers;
alter having Walked an a hot dity to the sea
aide, to sit down on the cold domp rocks
till they cool, before going in the water. , —
This is quite '
erroneous. Never go into
the' water if over-fitigued, or after profuse
and long continued perSpiraticip,. but 81-
wnyti prefer plunging in while the first .
drops nf perspiration are on yoUr , brow.
'There is no fear of sudden transitinnit front
heot to cold tieing fatal. any nations run
froni the hot hnth and plunge naked two
the snow. Whet is to be feared 14 1141:1(111
cold nfter the exhaustion of the body. and
while the animal powers are not suftlosent
to produce a reaction or recovery of the
animal haat,
azautwlrazatgazaao 2 ) QEL Ora I eighll2
. 01211.1 ) f 1 1 2(0243,ra a ea, acklaqb
' There is a favorite fancy of rendering
Lifants and farther advanced children, bar.
I dy and strong, by plunging them into cold
I water. This will certainly not prevent
Istiong'infants from growing stronger, • but
it will, and' often does, kill three out of
every five. Infants always thrive the boat
with moderate warmth, and a milk warm
bath. The same rule applies to the cloth.
ing of infants and children. No child should
have so light clothing as to make it feel the
efrectrrof Cold; warm materials, loose and,
widennade clothing, and exercise, are India
pensable for the health of the little ones.—
But above - all things, their heads should be
kept cool and generally uncovered.
Many people so laud early . .rising as
would lead one to suppose that sleep was
ono of those lazy, sluggish and bad - practi•
ces, that the sooner the custom was Libel-
Fished the'better. Sleep, is as necessary to
a man as food, and as some do with one
third the food that others absolutely . re
quire„'so five hours sleep is sufficient for
one, while'another requirteseven or eight
hours'. Some men cannot by any possibili
ty sleep more than four or five ,hours in
24; and therefore, true to the, inherent sel
fishness: of human nature, they abuse all
who sleep longer. No ono should be taun
ted for sleeping eight hours if he cau.
_Many people do net. eat salt 'with their
fond, and the, fuir sex have.rt notion that
this substance darkens the coMpleXion.—
Salt seems essential to the health of every
human being; more . especially in moist
climates. Without salt the body becomes
infested with 'intestinal worms. The. case
of a lady is mentioned in kmedical journal,
who had a natural antipathy to salt and
never used it with her food; the consequence
was, she became .dreadfully infested with
these animals. A punishment once existed.
in Holland, by which criminals were denied
the use of salt; the same consequence fol
lowed with these wretched beings. We
rather think kprejudice exists with some
of giving little or no-salt to children. No
practice can be more cruel and absurd.
A LAVGIIABLE ADVENTURE.—The New
Orleans t'icayune tells a pretty good story
of the catching of a newspaper thief. Af.
ter describing a hook devised for drawing
papers from under doors, the editor says: I
“This brings to our minds a laughable
adventure that ono of .our subscribers told
us of some time since. Ile happened to be
up taking a snutrof morning air through the
blinds, very early, when ,he detected one
of these juvenile thieves grapplieg very
earnestly for the newspaper under the door.
A large catfish line and hook happened to
be handy, and in an instant it was noiseless
ly dropped out of the window over the boy,
who was on his knee immediately beneath,
Here was a novel sort of, fishing and grap
pling going on! The boy had just hooked
the paper, and was cautiously drawing' out'
the corners from under the door, when • up
went his heels and down went his head upon
the stone steps, as the big catfish• hook
caught his pantaloons, which were lottu•
irately strong enough to hold him up with.
out, tearing. The , little thief gave out a
Sudden scream, for the surprise mine like
lightning, and the knock upon his head tip.
on the step had frightened him half to death.
Our friend lifted his strange fish just high
enough from the ground to prevent his
hurting himself, should his pantaloons tear.
and then tied him, lalive and kicking,' and
quietly wont - to bed again. The young
thief screamed and kicked until he alarmed
the whole neiohborhood, when he suddenly
!tore his trousers,' and .ran atlas if a legion
wore at his heels. He's cured of hooking
for the . rest .of his born daysior we're mis
taken." .
Wimerrarta.— Of all the contrivances
for making, music, none has been so much
neglected In proportion to is real worth, as
Whistling. Almost every boy can whin•
tile, and almost every man soothes himself
in all his reveries with this natural instru
ment.• Some persons, oftener negroes than
wbites E acguire the power of giving great
force to sounds uttered in this way, and
there is often so much interest in this, that
a few 'blasts from a pair, of thick, black lips,
Will attract the attention of all who are
near. - We once knew ,a young , man .who
was highly accomplished in : thee perforrii.
once of vocal and instrumental ;music but
never could he . interest . ,his= audience so
much as when he whistled. Two octaves
aro easily coinpassqd )by . the whistle, and
sounds, may he uttered- with an empha
sis and sweetness which no, instrument
can equal. There is more in this natural
power than has been dreamed of.' It .*ants
'only, what' it very seldom receives, cultiva
tion. We propose that somebody who has
cultivated his own whistling powers should
open a school; and now that musical con
certs run low, we will engage, that a con
cert of well trained whistlers shall succeed
perfectly. It woald- be . well to hurry a
little about the matter, for times are coin
ing when wo may all whistle.-,--Jour. of
Copunence.
POPULARITit.—There is no creature so
popular us the species of serpent called the
devil. Elia followers are numerous and his
children are the great ones of .the earth.
A, roller boy of a printing office summon.
cd his employer for five , dollars, due him
for 'labor. The judge decided for • the
plaintiff on authority older than any thing
to be found in Coke or Blackstone—on the
well recognised, maxim • that . "the devil
should have his due."
G. wslogn\TosiON movrarr, an:TOR Er. ratormaarron.
gs The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, is above all other . liberties."--:Mwrorr
THE POWDER VS. THE PATRIOTS. — The
Sayracuse Journal says, - ‘.in relation to the.
powder Which exploded on- the ill•fated
night of the 20th ult. in this village,. the
assertion that the patriots owned or had
any cognizance of this powder,-is wholly
false; and it is time , the idle rumor was
silenced. The story, that the patriots were
or are contemplating a rescue of McLeod
from the proper 'authorities in this State, is
a perfect humbug; and we have some evi
dence to justify the assertion that it was got
up and circulated for that and no other pur
pose. If McLeod was confined, as he ought
to be, and as the law contemplates—in close
confinement, instead of enjoying the Privi
leges ho is now allowed at ‘Vintesboro' in
ranging where he almost pleases—there
would be no danger of•private assassination
by some one of a few refuges in the States;
and as to his being harmed by the Ameri.
can Patriots proper, we give no credence to
such unfounded statements."
A NEW LAMP Off...—lt it said that e:•
cellent lamp oil can bo extracted from In
dian corn, of a better quality than a large
proportion of the real 'article, and less ex•.
pensive. The matter should be tested.—
If such can be done, the immense crops of
corn which glow almost spontaneous in the
western States may be turned to profitable
account. The whole world could be sup
plied with oil in this way- The farmers
would find . a litter . market fortheir suPplies
of corn —the pitetico of manufacturing
whiskey from it, would be discouraged, and
the means always placed within _the reach
of the peeple'ofsupplying themselves' with
light nt a cheep rate; Arid how grateful the
whales would be with such an arrange
ment! Would'nt they spout eloquently at
their benefactors.— Louisville (Ky.) Ad
oertiser.
CURE FOR CORNS.-A subscriber to
your Valuable phpar told me a few* days
since how he had cured several corns,which
had compelled him to wear 'ninepins. He
paired' them off with a sharp knife, bathed
them freely with Slug. Turpentine, and
laid upon them a linen clot n which he fre
quently wet with turpentine. ‘ In a few
days the corns came out riot and branch,
to the great relief of the sufferer. The re•
medy is simple, attainable by all, and from
its effectual cure in the case cited, is wor
thy ofa trial by such as ate suffering, from
these painful visitants.
"Tenn Jon."--"Job printing! Job Prin
ting!" exclaimed an old Woman, the other
day, as ehe peeped over her, specks at , the
adVertising page of a country paper: "Poor
Job, they've' kept him printing, week ntfer
vireek(ever since 1 first leiirned to read,
and if he wasn't the most:patient man that
ever wee, he never could have,tricerd it so
long, nohow!"
JuDGa BArnts.--The Village Record
says--‘‘The value of a gond and irreproach
tible life, was never more fully exemplified,
than in the present Gubernatorial election
in Pennsylvania. Judge Banks is one of
the rare instances, in, which en- active
public and priyate life, bids defiance to the
closest scrutiny! Nothing has yet been
disclosed by the vilest tools of the opposi
tion, which Can be either tortured or ex
aggerated into a dishonorable act. Whigs
of Pennsylvania, you have reason , to be
proud of your candidate. He will be a
bright. example, for your children; and his
goad character is the surest pledge that he
will honor the Gubernatorial chair."
THE Monmorts.—Two Mormons have
recently been baptized; one for. Gen. Wash
ington, the other-for Gen. Harrison. The
doctrine of this strange sect is, that a bap
tism of one el their members by authority
of Joe Smith, their leader and prophet, is
sufficient to redeem one who is deed, from
a state of suffering, or hell. Accordiag to
the belief of these' fatities, Washington
and-Harrison have now been admitted to
heaven, by order of ;Joe Smith.
THE SHOWER OF FLESH AND BLOOD--
The . Nashville Banner of a late date con
tains a long communication from Professor
Troost in relation to the "shower of flesh
nod blood," so called, that lately occurred
in Viillson county, Tenn.'. The Professor
visited the spot as soon as he lietird 'of the
Occurrence, and; of course, he speaksfrorn
actual observation. He says that a portion
of the substance that , fell was undoubtedly
animal matter, but he , does not' think that
any, part of it was ••b100d.% He.explains the
phenomenon by the supposition that a whirl
wind may have taken up a part or the
whole of a dead animal in a . decomposed
state, and brought it in contact with 'an
electric cloud, in which it was kept in a
state appreaching *to a partial fluidity or
viscosity, until it finally descended in the
form and manner heretofore described.
Cottiosrms.—The editor of the Dubu
que (Iowa) Express has in his' possession a
petrified cucumber, which some miners dis
covered' embedded rock, twenty' feet
below the surfaCe of the earth. 'A petrifi
rattlesnake'was alto found in the same
neighborhood, between two layers of rock.
He lay in loose coil, and was probably
about four feet long.
Ttra GREATEST.--Tho greatest pleas.
ute in life is love; the greatest' treasure,
contentment; the greatest possession henith;
the greatest ease, sleep; thetteatest medi
cine, a true
—.•Gi0....-
From the Yolk Republican.
GOV. PORTER'S BREECHES POCKET
This is one of the most • capacious and
retentive receptacles of which we have any
knowledge.. It is not only as greedy as
the grave, but it is as unyielding too.—
The fate of two or three measures of pub.
lie interest passed during the last session of
the Legislature is
.evidence of the truth of
our assertion, It will be remembered that
Gov. Porter vetoed the' firif bill previding
for a change in the mode of appointing
Canal Commissioners. To this :subject
pfiblic attention had been anxiously direc
ted; the great increase of officers •on the
public works—the enormous excess of ex
penditure over revenue, and the glaring
mismanagement of those - costly lines of
improvement, had convinced men of both
parties that there must be something radi
cally wrong in the system on which they
were conducted. In fact, it was evident
that they were used for party purposes,
to furnish places fur political paupers, men =
dicants. bullies and mercenaries, and jobs
for political pets, instead of with an eye to
the public benefit and to saving something
for the commonwealth which had been so'
deeply involved in debt by their construc
tion. Men not only of ono but of both
parties in the Legislature concurred in this
view; but the Governor did • tint--his. veto
killed one bill, and the second which was
presented to him for his signature within
ten days of the expiration of the session,
remains quietly deposited in his breeches
pocket there tosleep soundly no,doubtuntil
the commencement of another Legislative
Session. This qualified kind of veto,. by
which Gov. Porter prevents the profile
from electing their own Canal Commis•
eionere, and retains the favorites. in ()Wipe,
is as effective, though not so bold, as that
other species of executive prerogative
which he used so lavishly last winter.
Another message which found its way
into the same unyielding receptacle under
like circumstances withthe former, was a
hill regulating the places of holding the
General Elections in various districts
throughout the State. Such bills as these
have always been hitherto considered
measures of course. It was never appre
hended—it has never previously happened
—that after passing the ordeal of legisla
tion, they would perish in the hostile herds
of the . Executive. They are passed for
the couvenience of the people— to enable
them more easily to attend the polls, and
exercise the elective franchise; but Gov.
Porter-sees differently, and so he claps the
bill of the' last session into his pocket
and keeps it there.
* . • ! • • • • • •
Another bill which passed the Legisla.
ture, and was presented to the Governor
within ten days before the adjournment ,
.
was one for . bringing suits against 'Daniel
Sturgeon, late State Treasurer, for the re
covert/ of $2OOO paid by him on the Gov
ernor's warrant without authority of law,
to. James M. Porter, his Excellency's
brother, and Ovid F. Johnson, Attorney,
General, as well against Holbrook, Hen.
lock & Bretton, and flutter &•Bigler,prin.
tern of the House ofßepresentatives during
the session of 1840, for the recovery of
about $4OOO from each firm, which !het: ,
overcharged the State for one winter's
work, as reported by the Committe on A.c.
counts of that body. This bill, intended
to bring the famous illegal warrants to the
test of a judicial examination and decision,
and to restore to the Treasury of the State
the sum of about $lO,OOO, of which it hod
been robbed in the opinion of theiLegisla•
etre, was also fobbed by the Governor, and
sleeps the sleep of•death in his possession.
He dares not to submit his conduct i n
drawing warrants on the State Treasury
without authority of law, to the judicial
tribunals. He knows that it would not
stand the test of an impartial scrUtiny. He
will not permit the political leeches whom
he has fattened on the public Treasury to
be compelled to disgorge their unlawful
plunder, for he knows that unless he shields
them while filching the money of the Corn
monwealth, they will be no longer faithful
to hint. The tie that attaches one to the
other is altogether sordid and mercenary
Swiss troops, they fight in Porter's service
because the best pay• comes to them from
him, not indeed; out of his own pocket, but
the State Treasury. What! shall he who
pardoned his hired vassal in advance of
wen arraigned on a charg e el libel;
permit him to be brought up before a Judge
and Jury on a charge of extortion on the
public Treasury! Not so—Governor Por-
ter sees the same darling Rutter in ono of
the members of the firm which overcharg
ed the Legislature for its German printing,
as he saw in Adams county for slander;
and having saved him once, he will krep
the tango ofjustice from him again. These
printers are his partizans, therefore they can
calumniate whom they will and impose upon
the State as much as they will, for the Ex
ecutive ,shield is thrown over to protect
them. The bill under which they are to
be compelledlo disgorge is in his Excel
lency'a Breeches Pocket—there to remain,
Unsigned, while the plundsrers of the State
Treasury labor in his cause and exert them
selves tnrough their papers ,to secure the
re.election of their generous patron !
r.stre 1.1 Som...
He who knows the world will not be too
bashful. He who know, himself will not
be too impudent.
Beauty deserts us, hut virtue and talents,
the faithful cornpanions dour lives, accom
pany us even to the grave.
ADDY! ESS
•
OT the, -W. Member.s.to
the, - People.
MONDAY, September 13, 1841.
Mr. KENNEDY, of MDryIIMEI,
.from i:10
Committee appointed for that purpose, e
ported the following Address:
FELLow•CITJZENs:—The Extra Session
of Congress has, at length, been brought to
ti close. The incidents which belong to
the history of this session, and especially
those which have marked its termination,
are of a nature to, make so strong an im
pression upon the country, and to
,excite so
much interest in the future action and re.
lotions of the Whig party, that the Whig
Representatives in both Houses of Congress
have thinight it their duty, before separa
tine, to Address their constituents with a
brief exposition of the circumstances in
which they conceive themselves to be placed
by the events which has recently trait
spired.
This session of Congress was called as
almost the first measure.of that illustrious
and lamented citizen whose election to the
Presidency was no less significant of the
general sentiment of condemitiktifin of the
acts of the preceding Administration, than
it was expressive of a wish for en immedi
ate and radical change, In the public policy.
The improvidence of those who had just
been expelled from power had rendered , it
inevitable; and the country hailed the meet
ing of a new. Congress as the sure pledge
of relief from all those evils which the dis
astrous incompetency of the men at the
head of affairs had brought upon it..
The People desire the early adoption of
the policy which had been promised by the
Whig party. That policy had been brought
to the consideration of the country through
out a contest of nearly 12 years' duration,
maintained with unexampled devotion; and
its principles were illustrated by the pre
cepts and practices of the most eminent and
patriotic of our oitizees in every form by
which they were able to address themselves
to the intelligence of the People. No one
misapprehended these principles; they were
identified with the labors of that great par
ty whose unpin-elicited success was both,
the token and the reward of the general
confidence of the nation. They promised
reform—
Ist. In the restraint of Executive power
and patronage;
2d. In the wholesome regulation of the
currency and the advancement of the inter.
esti of industry; and
3d. In the establishment of an economi
cal administration of the finances.
They proposed to . accomplish tbe first
of these objects by limiting the service of
the President to a single term; by. forbid
l ell officers of the Government from in
teifering in elections; and by a voluntary
self denial on the part of the Chief Megis
trate, in that excessive use °Me Veto pow
er which bad recently become so offensive
to the country as an instrument of party
supremacy.
They hoped to achieve their next object
by the" establishment of a National Bank;
by an adjustment of the system of duties
upon a moderate ; end permanent scale,
adapted as nearly as practicable to the
interest, and conformable with the vieos of
every portion of the Union; by the estab
lishment of a uniform system of bankrupt
cy; and by the distribution of the proceeds
of the ptiblic.lands amongst the States—a
measure recommended not only by consid•
erations of justice to the States themselves,
hut also by a sad experience of the embar
rteiament produced in the currency result.
ing from the administration of a fund ofsuch
variable amount as en item in the ordinary
revenues of the Government. . The
.estab
lishment of en economical administration
of the finances they expected to attain by
cutting down all useless offices. by color
' cing a strict accountability of the, public
agents; and, more conspicuously, by ma
king.exact and adequate provision for the
ascertainment and eventual liquidation of
that pliblic debt, which the past administra
lion had created by permitting their, expen
diture to overrun their receipts, and which
they had concealed from public observation
by the easy , device of repeated issues of
Government notes.
These were the : prominent points to
which the policy of the Whig party had
been directed, and Which, constituted the
great issues before the country in the repent.
Presidential election. We are aware! thut
our advefearies in that contest now deny
these issues, founding their denial chiefly
uprn the fact that no formal rnantlfireto Ayes
put forth to declare the terms upon , which
we insisted. We chose rather to appeal
to the widely diffused knowledge of our
princiPles which had Peen impressed upon
every man's mind in that long struggle of
years gone by; With which one party had
been identified, and of which its very name
was an exponent.
it need not be said that, in a repreventa.
Lion, spread over a territory of such extent
as that. Comprehended-by our Uniou, and
exhibiting interests an diversified, what
might •he called the 'characteristic princi
ples of 'the Whig party, throughout this
wide sphere, should be subject to occasion.
al modifications dependent upon local influ-
ences; and that it was incumbent, therefore,
upon this party to move together' is a spirit
of mutual concession and accommodation of
sectional differences of opinion. It need
not be told that, in the systemof measures
which we have, enumeinted, conflicting
views might naturally exist between the
Representatives of distant portions of our
UPX.Mairti ci - F (Do tieb'o
Republic, and that only by the yielding of
minor interests to thet establishment of the
general gond, entire harmony was to be
obtained in the action of Congress. • 'This
was naturaloind to be expected, But we
felt a proud consciousness that in the patrio
tism of the party all such difficulty would
vanish, and that the demands of an enlarg
ed welfare would be .met and fulfilled,
through the virtue of that spirit of compro
mise and forbearance, that liberal and
comprehensive sentiment ofaelf denial and
concession, which rests of the heart of our
confederacy, and which constitutes the liv
ing principle of our Union. Before the
appointed day arrived for the .meeting of
Congress, end at the expiration of but one
short month from the dayof hisinauguration,
our beloved President was snatched from
us by the graspof death; too soon for the
happiness of his country, but not too soon
to awaken in our bosoms a deep, and awful
sense of the irreparable loss which we have
sustained in the deprivation of a great and
fror.d man—not too soon to convince us
how long and how bitterly our country is
doomed to deplore this heavy. misfortune.
In this our calamity, we hoped in find con
solation in the character and principles of
him whom the Constitution had designated
to fill the office of the departed chief. It is
true, that towards that individual, even at
the moment of hie .selection for the Vico
Presidency, no very earnest public atten
tion had been directed; and it is equally
tiva that but a passing regard was bestow
ed upon the current of his previous life and
opinions. We only , knew him ,ae one
professing to be a member of the Whig
party, and as seeking to identify himself
with thosqgreat leaders of that party whose
opinions and principles were deeply en
graved in the moat conspicuous acts of our
political history end were read and under.
stood by every citizen in the land. In this
connexion, where he had sought to he pro
minent, we discerned what . we conceived,
and what doubtless he meant, to be ,si
pledge of faithful adherence to the cardi
ml doctrines for which we struggled, and
with which the hopes of the country were
indissolubly bound up. We hoped to find
consolation also in the fact that his acces
sion to the Presidency brought him into
cnmrnnnion and intimate political fellow
ship with the chosen vanguard of the Whig
party—the first selection made by Gen.
HARRISON of a cabinet, distinguished for its
paramount ability, integrity and fidelity to
the glorious cause in which we had conquer
ed—a Cabinet eminently crowned with
the public confidence, in Wh0111,411 MOP trus
ted as in the very embodiment of the princi
ples of the party to which they- belonged;
who were inseparahly associated 'with, its
glory, end in whose generous and berme.
ble relation to the President ire had ,the
security of wise and -prosperous counsels,
and he the pledge of a co-operation which
should enable him to accomplish all that
the Nation desired.—These hopes Were
still further enlivened by the encouraging
tone
,in which the, President referred, in
his first address to the Nano!): to the "ever
glorious example' afforded him bythe fathers
of the.great Republican school, and the de
claration of his determination to walk in
the path which they, pointed out.
In the indulgence of those, hopes, Con
gress entered upon its !shore. By adopt
ing rules for the despatch of business con
formable to the emergency of an extra ses
sion, and in the , view of the great amount
of legislation which the times required, we
have been enabled to, achieve all and even
more than all, that our constituents could
have demanded at our hands. Tara leading
and great measures of this ,session have
been under discussion,'in Congress and out
of it, for many years past, and little remain
ed to be said beyond a repetition of former
debates. There was nothing ,in the cir
cumatanceil or position; of either party in
Congress to require, or even to justify, pro
tracted discussions: and the majority, there
fore, felt themselves entitled to give to the
extra session the character of a Congress of
action end decision, rather than one of de
bate; and we feel assured that in this effort
we have done no more than respond to the
just expectations of the people.
First, in urgency among the bills passed
during the session, and that to which the
public command most imperatively drew
the attention of Congress, was the repeal of
the Sub-Treasury Law. Our next care
wait the enactment of the Land Bill. - • This
was, followed by an act converting the
Debt--which the preceding Administration
had entailed upon the country into a Loan of
twelve millions of dollars, which is limited
for its redemption to' a period of three
years. Associated with this measure was
the Revenue Bill, rendered necessary
not only as a. provision towards the extin
guishment of the loon, but also as indispen
sable for.the supply of means to meet the
ordinary and necessary appropriations or
Cie year. The Bankrupt Act, se earnest
ly and so long solicited by a large and mer
itorious class of our citizens, has been pass
ed-under circumstances which cannot but
reflect the highest honor upon the Repro
aentatives of-many of the sections ol the
country. Ass measure standing atone, it
might perhaps have been destined to a fur
ther delay; but being brought, es it was
into that senes of measures which wets
supposed to embrace the scheme of relief
which the nation at largo required, it met
from aW hig Congress that support of which
the chief argument and highest value are
derived from the respect which every one
felt to be due to a 'comprehensive peliey,
whose scope should include every , interest