Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-06-11
THE ADVOCATE.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, FRIDAY, JUNE IL, $780,

LAST SCENES OF THE RECENT SESSION
OF CoNGREss.-The session Of the last
business day, Saturday did not close un-;
til six o'clock on Sunday morning.-The
scenes which marked it, as we are inform
ed OF their character, were disgrace to
the actors in them. The refusal of the
President to sign the Maysville and Lex
ington Turnpike Bill, drew on him the
resentment of some OF his friends who are
likewise the friends of internal improve
ment.-The Coalition party availed them
selves of their discomfort to force on him
a dilemma from which they hope he can
not escape without a sacrifice Of his con-
sistency, or of his popularity.-Uniting
themselves with those Of his friends whom
his rejection of the Maysville bill had dis
satifed, after 10 o'clock OH Saturday
night Bills were passed appropriating
upwards OF S50O,OOO, TO objects OF
internal Improvement, to be distributed
among 23 States and three Territories -
every State in the Union, except Kentuc-
ky, to receive portion of the bonus the
consideration Of which is to be a surren-
der OF the constitution. BY this manGu-
vre, the internal improvement gentlemen
hope to drive him into their tolls, or, f
he escape, then the Coalit;onists expect to
expose him to certain loss of support to
his administration in those districts of
country whichwil be defeated of the ben
ehts expected from the schemes of i'm
provement rejected by him. But the
character Of the President the firm tone
Of his moral and intellectual constitution,
are formed for such emergencies. One
of these bills, that making an appropria-
ton for the Rockville Turnpike Road
Company in Maryland, met with his
prompt and decisive rejection.-The 9TH
er bills of a similar char acter he has taken
time to consider. We predict they will
meet with no better fate and that Gen
eral Jackson will come out victorious and
triumphant from the embarrassments in
which his enemies and pretended friends
would involve him. Or, if he should Sink
in the conflict with sectional avarice and
ambition, his defeat will be the defeat al
so of the principle of the Union and the
Consttution.-They will "grace his fall
and make his ruin glorious. In this
state, his recent course has placed his pop
ularity on basis not to be shaken.
1t is reported in Washington that the Presi-
dent pending those deliberation on the Maysvle
Bill, was beset on every side by its friends
and his OF the system Of which it made a
part, urging upon him every motive of personal
consideration to secure his signature. His re.
ply was worthy of him 81 of the Cause;which he
so magnanimously sustained " gentlemen !" said
he 1.-THE people have placed me here under the
expectation that shall make the Constitution
the guide ofmy public conduct. II is Just
and reasonable expectation and shall not be
disappointed 1t is my duty not less than my in
cilnation to fulfill it and at whatever personal
consequences TO myself it shall be fulfilled "
Commentary is needless. This is languag 90 wor.
thy ola president of the United States, the
course which il indcate will assure him the
support of every Republican in the Country.
On the 9th ult. the House of Representatives