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FROM THE NATIONAL INTE1LIGENCER.
CONFESSIONAL MHIG MEETING

SOINUESSlONaL WHltI NEE llNOs
At meeting of the Wing members of the
Senate and House of Representatives of the
9th Congress of the United States, held in the
city of Washington on the 18th September,
1S4l.-
The Hon. NATHAN F. Dixon, of Rhode
. Island, on the part of the Senate, and Hon.
JEREMIAH MORROW, of Ohio, on the part of
the house, were called to the Chair, and Ken
meth Rayner, of North Carolina, Christopher
Morgan, of New York land Richard w. Thomp-
son, of Indiana, were appointed Secretaries.
Mr.. Mangum, of North Carolina, offered the
following resolutions
Resolred, That it is expedient for the Wings
of the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States to publish an address to the
People of the United States, containing sue
cinct exposition of the prominent proceedings
of the extra session of Congress, of the meas
ures that have been adopted, and those in which
they have failed, and the causes of such fall
ure together with such other matters as may
exhibit the condition of the Wing party and
Wing prospects.
! RESOLVED, That committee of three on the
part of the Senate, and five on the part of the
House, be appointed to prepare such Address,
and submit il to a meeting of the Wings on
/ Monday morning next, the 18th instant, at
half past eight o'clock.
And the question being taken on said rcsolu-
! tons, they were unanimously adopted.
Whereupon the following gentlemen were
appointed said committee Messrs. Berrien, of
Georgia, Tallmadgc of New York, and Smith,
of Indiana, on the part of the Senate; and
i Messrs Everett, of Vermont, Mason, of Ohio,
Kennedy, of Maryland, John C.. Clark, of New
York, and Rayncr, of North Carolina, on the
part of the House.
When, on motion, the meeting adjourned,
to meet again on Monday morning.
; MONDAY, Sept. Is, 1641.
The meeting assembled pursuant to adjourn.
ment.
Mr.. Kennedy, of Nd, from the committee
appointed for that purpose, reported the fol-
lowing
| FELLow-CITIzENs The Extra Session Of
Congress has at length been brought TO a close.
RI The incidents which belong TO the history of
this session, and especially those which have
marked its termination, arc 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
Representatives in both Houses of Congress,
have thought it their duty before separating
to address their constituents with brief ex
position of the circumstances in which they
conceive themselves to be placed by the event!
which have recently TRANSFERRED.
II This session of Congress was called as al
most the first measure of that illustrious and
lamentcd citizen whose election to the Presi.
dency was no less significant of the general
n sentiment of condemnation Of the acts of tho
preceding Administration, than it was expires
sive of wish for an immediate and radical
change in the public policy. The improvi.
dence of those who had Just been expelled from
power had rendered it inevitable; and the
country hailed the meeting Of a new Congress
as the sure pledge of relief from all those evils
which the disasterous incompetency of the men
at the head of affairs had bro't upon it.
>. 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 throug hout
. contest of nearly twelve years duration, main
tanned with unexampled devotion; and its
, principles 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 to the intelligence of the Peo-
pie. No one misapprehended these principles;
they were identified with the labors of that
great party whose unparalleled success was
, 10th the token and The reward of the general
confidence of the Nation. They promised
reform
LIST. In the restraint of Executive power and
, patronage;
I'd. In the wholesome regulation Of the cur
, rency, and the advancement of the interests Of
/ industry; and
f Sd. In the establishment of an economical
, administration of the finances
J They proposed to accomplish the first Of
these objects by limiting the service Of the Pres
ident to single term; by forbidding all officers
of the Government from interfering in cleo
tons and by voluntary self denial, on the
part of the Chief Magistrate, in that excessive
use of the Veto power which had recently be-
come so offensive to the country as an Instru-
ment Of party supremacy.
They hoped to achieve their next object by
the establishment Of National Bank; by an
, adjustment of the system of duties upon a mod
crate and permanent scale, adapted as nearly
as practicable to the interest, and conformablc
! with the views of every portion of the Union !;
by the establishment of uniform system OF
bankruptcy; and by the distribution of the pro-
ceeds of the public lands amongst the States
. a measure recommended not only by consid-
erations of justice to the States themselves, but
also by sad experience of the embarrassment
produced in the currency resulting from the
administration of a fund of such variable a.
mount as an item in the ordinary revenues of
the Government. The establishment of an
economical administration of the finances they
expected to attain by cutting down all useless