The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-09-28

and which constituted the great issues before
country in the recent Presidential election.--
| We are aware that our adyersaries in that ccf.
test now deny these issues, founding their de-
NAL chiefly upon the fact that no formal mai.
ifesto was put forth to declare the terms upon
which we insisted We choose rather to ar.
peal to the widely diffused knowledge of oaf
principles which had been impressedupon every
mans mind in that long struggle Of years gono
by with which one party had been Unidentified,
and of which its very name was an expo
nent.
1t need not be said that, in representation
spread over territory of such an extent as
that comprehended by our Union, and exhibit
ting interests so diversified, what might be
called the characteristic principles of the Wing
party, throughout this wide sphere, should be
subject to occasional notifications, dependent
upon local influences and that it was incum-
bent, therefore, upon the party to move togcth-
er in a spirit of mutual concession and accom-.
mediation of sectional difference ofopinior,
1t need not be told that, in the system Of
measures which we have enumerated, cen
flicting views might naturally exit between
the Representatives of distant portions OF our
Republic, and that only by the yielding ofmi-
nor interests to the establishment of the gen.
eral good entire harmony was TO lie obtained
in the action of Congress. This was natural.
and TO be expected. But we felt proud con-
seriousness that in the patriotism Of the party
all these difficulties would vanish, and that thu
demands of an enlarged welfare would be met
and fulfilled, through the virtues of thai sfirii
of compromise and forbearance, that liberal
and comprehensive sentiment ofself-deniai and
concession, which rests at the heart Ui our con-
fedeTacv, and which constitutes the living prin-
cipes of our union. Before the appointed day
arrived for the meeting of Congress, and at
the expiration of but one short month from, ilI;
date of his Inauguration, our beloved President
was snatchcd from us by the grasp Of death:
too soon for the happiness Of HIS country, but
not too soon TO awaken in our bosOmS deep
and awful sense of the irrepal abe loss which We
have sustained in the deprivation Of gfcat
and good man not loo soon TO convince us
how long and how bitterly our country is DOOM
cd to depOre this heavy misfortune. In this
our calamity, we hope to find consolation in
the character and principles of him whom tho
Constitution had designated 70 fill The office Of
| the departed chief 1t is truo, that towards
that individual, even at the moment OF his Sc
lection for the Vice Presidency, no very eafDcSt
public attention had been directed and ii is
equally true that but a passing regard was be-
slowed upon the current of his previous life
and opinions.
We only knew him as one protesting TO be-
a member of the Wing party, and as seeking
TO identify himself with those great leaders Of
that party whose opinions and principles were
deeply engraved in the most conspicuous acts
of our political history, and we're read and I'M
derstood by every citizen in the land. in this
connection, where he had sought 10 be proml,
nent, we discerned what we conceived, and
what doubtless he meant, TO be a pledge Of
faithful adherence TO the cardinal doctrines for
which VIC struggled and with which the hopes
Of the country were indissolubly bound TIP
We hoped TO find consolation also in the fact,
that his accession TO the Presidency brought
him into communion and intimate political
| fellowship with the chosen vanguard OF tho
! Wing party--,hc first selection made BY Cen
cral HARRISON of Il Cabinet, distinguished foT
/ its paramount ability, integrity, and fidelity
to the glorious cause in which we had conquer
ed-n Cabinet emincntly crowned with tho
public confidence, in whom all men trusted AZ
in the very embodiment of the principles Of
| the party TO which they belonged who ara
inseparabIy associated with its glory, end IN
whose generous and honorable relation 10 tho
| President we had the security Of prosper
GUS councils, d he the pledge of co-operatiois
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 nation, TO the sever glorious example"
afforded him by the Fathers of the great Re-
publican school, and the declaration of his de-
| termination to walk in the path which they
pointed out
In the indulgence Of these hopes, Congress,
! entered upon its labors. By adopting rules for
the despatch Of business conformable the emcf-
gency Of an extra session, and in 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. The lea.
ding and great measures of his session haze
been under discussion, in Congress and out OF
1t, for many years past. and little remained I"
be said beyound reputation of former debatcs'
There was nothing in the circumstances or POI
sition of either party in Congress to require, or
even TO Justify, protracted discussions and ihd
majority, therefore, felt themselves entitled To
give TO the extra session the character Of Il
CONGRESS of action and decision, rather than
one of debate and VIC feel assured that in
this effort we have done no more than respond
to the Just expectations of the People.
First in urgency amongst the bills past dd.
ring the session, and that to which the public
command most imperatively drew the notice
of Congress-, was the repeal of the SUBJ Treasu-
ry Law. Our next care was the enactment
of the Land Bill. This was followed by al
act converting the Debt which the preceding
Administration had entailed upon the country
into Loan of twelve millions of dollars. which