Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1841-09-23

OfNew Y Ork, and RAYNER, of North Coroli-
ma, on the part of the House.
When, on motion, the meeting adjourned,
to meet again on Monday morning.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 13, 1871.
The meeting assembled, pursuant to adj
tournament.
Mr.. KENNEDY, of Maryland, from the COM
mittee appointed for that purpose, reported
the following Address:
FELLow-CITIzENs: The Extra Session of Con-
gress has, at length, been brought to a close
The incidents which belong to the history of this
session, and especially those which have marked
Its termination, are of nature to make SO strong
an Impression upon the country, and to excite So
much interest in the future action and relations
of the Wing party, that the Wing Representa-
tives In both Houses of Congress have thought
1t their duty, before separating, to address their
constituents with brief exposition of the cir
cumstances In which they conceive themselves
to be placed by the events which have recently
transpired.
This session of Congress was called as almost
the first measure of that illustrous and lamented
citizen whose election to the Presidency was no
less significant of the general sentiment of con-
domination of the acts of the preceding Admins
tration, than it was expressive of a wish for an
Immediate and radical change in the public poll
cy. The improvidence of those who had lust
been expelled from power had rendered it inevi-
table; and the country hailed the meeting of
new Congress as the sure pledge Of relief from all
those evils which the disastrous incompetencv
OF the men at the head of affairs had brought I'M
omit
The People desired the early adoption Of the
policy which had been promised them by the
Wing party. That policy had been brought to
the consideration OF the country throughout con-
test OF nearly twelve years. duration, maintain
a. WIFI Ipax ,InI Iar 4 "a
Were illustrated by the precepts and practice of
the most eminent and patriotic of our citizens in
every form by which they were able to address
themselves to the intelligence of the People. No
one Inexperienced these principles; they were
identified with the labors ofthat great party whose
unparalleled success was both the token and the
reward OF the general confidence of the nalion-
They promised reform
LIST. In the restraint Of Executive power and
patronage;
I'd. In the wholesome regulation of the curren
cy and the advancement of the interests of indus
try; and
Sd. In the establishment ofan economical adj
mnlstration of the finances.
They proposed to accomplish the first of these
objects by limiting the service ofthe President to
a single term; by forbidding all officers of the
government from interfering in elections; and
by voluntary selfdenial, on the part of the
Chiai Magistrate, in that excessive use of the
slve to the country as an instrument of party SUI
They hoped to achieve their next object by the
establishment of National Bank; by an adjust
ment Of the system of duties upon moderate and
permanent scale, adapted nearly as practicable
to the interest, and conformable with the views
of every portion of the Union by the establish
Inent OF a uniform system of bankruptcy; and by
the distribution of the proceeds of the public
lands amongst the States--a measure recommen-
ied not only by considerations of Justice to the
States themselves, but also by sad experience
OF the embarrassment produced in the currency
resulting from the administration of fund of
such variable amount as an item in the ordinary
revenues ofthe Government. The establishment
81 an economical administration of the finances
'hey expected to attain by cutting down all USE
ess ofhces; by enforcing strict accountability
of the public agents; and more conspicuously,
by making exact and adequate provision for the
ascertalDment and eventual liquidation of that
public debt which the past Administration had
created by permitting their expenditures to over
run their receipts, and which they had concealed
rom public observation by the easy device of re-
Peated issue of Government notes.
These were the prominent points to which the !
policy of the Wing party had been directed, and
which constituted the great issues before the coun-
~ IN the recent Presidential election. We are !
ware that our adverseries in that contest now
ieny these issues, founding their denial chiefly
lpon the fact that no formal manifesto was put
orth to declare the terms upon which we insist
ID. We chose rather to appeal to the widely-dif-
used knowledge of our principles which had
'een impressed upon every mans mind in that
oDg struggle of years gone by; with which one
,arty had been identified, and of which it's very
laIne was an exponent.
1t need not be said that, in a representation
pTead oyer territory of such extent as that COM
rehended by our Union, and exhibiting interests
o diversified, what might be called the charac-
'ristic principles Of the Wing party, throughout
us vide sphere, should be subject to occasional
dependent upon local influences;
nd that twas incumbent, therefore, upon the
irty to move together in d spirit of mutual con-
ssion and accommodation of sectona! dif;,ren-
IS Of opinion, ii need not be told that, in the
stem of measures which we have enumerated.
nhicting views might naturally exist between
g Representatives of distant portions of our /
epubic, and that only by the yielding of minor {
terests to the establishment Of the general good,
tire harmony was to be obtained in the action !
Congress. This was natural, and to be eA | +
cted. But we feta proud consciousness thayAp
the patriotism the party all such difficulties d
uld vanish, and that the demands of an enlar- h
welfare wouid be met and fulfilled, through c,
virtue Of that spirit Of compromise and for p
rance, that liberal and comprehensive senti- p
NJ self.depIal and concession, which rests p