Mobile register and journal., 1841-12-02

On Monbays next, will commence the second
 session of the first Wing Congress. Ifthere be any
 truth in political signs, is not unlikely that before
 the close of the Congress, the party which the be-
 ginning was all-poweriul in both houses, will be Inca-
 pable of commanding working majority in either
 Certainly if they pay respect to the declarations of l the popular will, brought to them in tones mpos-
 sble to be misunderstood, the same declarations to
 which at the late session, assigned such ndspu-
 table force, when it was supposed that they cheered
 on the dominant party to the accomplishment of its
 w'shes-if they are consistent in giving the ho-
 mage which they exacied then, to the results of popu-
 lar elections-tere will be an immediate change of
 policy; and the First Whg Congress will, in the
 first six months of it's existence, cease to be Nhig- | The working of this problem is at hand. The dis.
 tant members have been for some time mov towards
 the Capitol; and in few days, the whole body of
 Congress will be re-assembled--hut under what diff
 ferent auspices from those under which they came to-
 gether in May last. Then, triumphant party-frcsh
 from the field, where they had totally, and all ap-
 pearance, rrecoverably oserthrown their rivals
 came up with songs of rejoicing to take possession
 ol the sovernment-to parcel tle spells of victory to give the Law and the lash to the yanquished; and, backed by an unexampled popular vote, to build up schemes of power, stretching far into fntury, as though they had taken a bond of fate-and in the pride of their hearts, felt themselves beyond the chance of reverse. In the midst of their boisterous and ntolerant exutatlons, the Democrats stood DOW erless, but nevertheless raising their voices in un ceasng warning against the dangerous designs of the despotic majority-in the confding trust that one | day, reason would once make herself heard in | those hals and the people themselves come up to the rescue. On one side, was the ntoxicaton of sn- 1 bounded joy, and the anticipation of long possession of power and place; the other, the gloom of pro- found regret, and the stenness of determined oppo- stion.
 Seven little months have passed, and mark the change! The huge combination which fought with such unhesitating zeal together, while united by Il common sentiment of hostility the late adminstra- tion-crumbled into fragments as soon as complete success made it necessary to understand each others purposes At the very first test their cohesion gave way; they lost confidence in each other the moment they were required to determine how they should use the power which they had successfully combined to seize. They reproacled each other with mutual de- cept'on' ana common frauds upon the people; they taunted each other with pledges made by one part of them, with the intent to be disavowed by another; and conceaments agreed upon for the sake eyading important questions before the people. They scram- bed greedily for the spells of office; and by their insatlae cravings, shortened the days of the Chief in whose name they had been led on to success And while, by these disclosures of sortid purposes and practices, they losing the respect of the country they instituted series of political measures vast and dangerous, that aro se o some of the, most ardent friends, and filled the whole people with the greatest alarms. monster Bank, organized as central monied power under the eve of the Exc cutlve; funded debt to give strength the machines and rally around il, the mighty influence of associated wealth, at home and from abroad; an increased tariff to build up other class interests of capitalists and forify the entrenchments of political influence built upon moned combination; a formal surrender of
 the public lands, to tempt the cuprdity of the State governments, and enlist them repress the murmurs of their constituents the increase of indirect bur- dens, to which they submit, in order to ma pain the new system in all its branches of Debt, Tariffs, Distribution and Bank: these spread before the nation as the policy of ie Congressional majority, ""oh, at the tte sessiOn dictated al the of their leader, the law to the party and the President.
 Happily. the firmness of the President m adhering manuliy, amidst the general derections from princ- ple to the pledges of his life and career-arrest- ed the consummatien of the chef of these which, the rest are incomplete; and suspended the fate of his country till the people could be heard for themselves. Disappointment, dis senton, wrath and denuncato followed; and in the midst of the discord, the party which had lately been in the Legislature, and in the elections, went before reused people for their instructions at tine polls.
 The decision has been had. From one end of the Union to the oer wherever the forms of law would allow the authoritative expression of the public opi- nion, it has ben of unqualified condemnation of | he extra session, its leaders and their policy Dis 'ster aiicr disaster has overtaken them; State after State has deserted them. Their ad,ersaries, almost without beat of drum, have driven their friends from 'os every ioothold in the country and at this day. hough in possession of the forms of power by Con- ress that does not speak public sentiment, they ar