Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-05-20
From as National Iafeifigsaeer Of Nay ii.
THE APPROACHING SESSION OF CON.

THE APPROACHING SESSION OF CON
GRESs.
Within three weeks from the present
date. the new Congress will have assem-
blcd at the Capitol, according TO the Pro-
cIamation of the late lamenied President,
issued few days after he entered upon
the administration of the Government.
The near approach Of the Session ma
,uraly SETS rs TO thinking Of the purposes
for which it has been called together, and
the measures which are likely to occupy
its attention.
AT peace with all the world, possessing
in profusion all the elements of national
ana individual prosperity, this people had
yet been for several years suffering under
circumstances so adverse to both, that a
sense ofthe pain at length reused them to a
perception ofthe necessity ofexertlng their
own power 10 relieve themselves from il
In a case IN which the disease in the body
polite was so visibly the consequence Of
mal.administration of the Government,
the remedy was too obvious to be missed
or mistaken. The power Of the People
was applied accordingly; and they DIS
missed from authority the chief agent who
had by Encouragement forfeited all claim
to further confidence, and installed ano.
iher in his place.
This change of one President for ano-
Their was not in itself the Reform in the
administration OF public affairs desired and
expected by the People, but it was the
means by which the Reform was TO be
brought about. 1t was removal of the
original cause Of disease, the first care Of
every skillul physician. That great pur-
pose has been accomplished by the Peo-
Pile. What is next to be done, the devils
ing and enacting OF those measures which
are necessary TO restore to the deranged
functions Of the Government, and thereby
TO the industry and enterprise of the coun-
try, their natural and wonted vigor, is a
duty which devolves upon the Represen-
iatives of the People in Congress.
II was therefore that President HARRI.
SON found it necessary, within the second
week OF his official term, TO issue his Pro-
clamation, requiring the Senators and Re-
representatives. to meet in the Capitol, in the
city of Washington, on Monday the 3lst
day of May, " in order to receive such in.
formation respecting the State of the u.
Mon as may be given them, and to devise
and adopt such measures as the good of
the country may seem to them, in the ex.
ercse Of their wisdom and discretion, to
require" The reason assigned for this
convocaton of Congress is, that sundry
important and weighty matters, principal.
" growing out of the condition of the rev.
enue and finances of the country, appear
to call for the consideration of Congress
at an earlier day than its next annual ses-
SON."
Such are the terms Of the Proclamation
issued on the 18th day of March by the
late President. His lamen,ed death has
indeed, devolvcd upon another the duty
of meeting the Congress thus convoked !:
but the motives of this early summons OF
the Representatives of the People remain
as expressed in the Proclamation. And
an undoubting confidence is entertained
that President TYLER will exert all his
Just authority to carry out the Reform IN
dicated by the popular vote, and ratified
by his own declarations in his late AID.
dress to the People of the United States.
The extraordinary occasion, therefore,
Tin the language Oft the Constitution upon
which Congress has been called together,
is the condition in which, upon coming into
Office, the present Administration found
HE reuenuc and finances of the country.
There is the seat of the disorder. II is to
these functions ofthe Government that the
efforts at reform by Congress, at the com
ing Session, are to be mainly directed.
The disorder in the revenue aud financ-
es consists, in the first place, in derange.
ment of the currency, commerce, and ex-
changes Of the conntry, produced directly
by the impolitic measures Of the two last
administrations and secondly, in a de-
ficiency Of revenue consequent upon that
arrangement.
Ii is not necessary now to go into re-
view of the impoltlc measures OF the late
Administration by which this mischief has
been wrought-to relate the history ofthe
demolition of the old National Bank, be.
gun by the illegal removal of the public
deposites; Of the effect Of the artificial ex-
element confded by them to initiate I'M
naturally the ability of the State banks !;
of their lavish discounts to spectators in
public lands, public stocks, &C.; of the
flood Of revenue Cverrunnng the public
chest from sales of public lands thus slim
ulated ; of the consequent necessity of dis.
posing of a surplus revenue by distribution
of it among the States of the specie cir
cular intended to check the sales ofpublic
lands, but having the effect to explode the
State banks, which the Government itself
had induced unwisely TO enlarge their dis
counts; of the thrice rejected, but finally
touchdown panacea, the b-Treasury,
the last in the train of disastrous expert.
ments, the fruit Of ignorance of civil af-
fairs and an "iron nerve" united in one
President, and Of overweening confidence
and fabulous reliance on predestinatIon
in his successor. Every reader is al
ready familiar with the history of those
administrations the last Of which, pre-.
sumptuously disdainng 20 follow the ex-
amples fits predecessors from WASHING
TON and JACKSON, treated politics as a
game, upon which it siaked the whole
prosperity Of the country, trusting to the