The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-03-27

present expense for future advantage; and theie
is not man in the community WHO'S not IN the
habit Of reducing this principle to practice in
his private affairs.
Every body knows that this whole nation Is
baked, brought up against stump, by mal-ad-
minstration of the Government; and the only
question is, whetherit is better economy TO stay
stock-stll in this predicament for eighteen
months to come, or be at little cost TO get start
ed again in six monlhs7 This is the simple
and the only question. The loss of year to
the business and prosperity of this nation would
be countless millions; the cost of setting all
agoing again, by an extra session Of Congress,
would perhaps be quarter of a million Nay,
not so much II would be little more than the
amount of mileage for members TO and fro. For
it will be seen that all the business done at the
Extra Session will be so much subtracted from
that of the regular session, so that the number Of
weeks of which the former may be composed will
be so much taken from the latter. If the Extra
Session should extend to three months of next
summer, it will prevent running out the regular
session from spring to autumn. This is doubt
less fair view of the case.
But suppose it were not, and that the nation is
to becharged with the whole expense of this ex-
ira session, without abridgng the next all themo-
ney will circulate among the people, who very
much want it in such hard times as these. IL
will add so much to the business Of the country
and be blessing instead Of injury. Admit
that it comes from the people, it goes back again.
and is so much better than lying still, and doing
nothing.
Il Moreover, as before suggested, it anticipates
year-yes, full year-in restoring the nations
prosperity, by the adoption Of those measures
which are indispensable to it. If the measures
necessary TO this end should not be taken up till
the regular session, they would not be determi-
ned and settled till the end of it. that is, in the
summer or autumn Of 1912, whereas they will
now be fixed by the autumn of this year.
4 Moreover, the whole country, thrown all aback,
till ruin has swept over il, must still be forced to
pause in the midst of these ruins, till the policy
) of the Government and its great restoring mea-
sures shall be known and settled. The enter
prise OF the people will remain at stand still,
and the great machinery of the business, trade.
and commerce of the country will lie ungeared
useless as the lumber of farmers garnet. All
that makes public prosperity must wait, till the
+ Harrison policy is maured, and the new high
way of the nations onward career shall be
opened.
! What, then, is the mileage of the members,
going to and fro for an Extra Session compared
with this amazing estimate Of disadvantage 1t
is but as feather in the balance weighed against
the ridge of the Alleghanies. Nay, as before
shown, it cannot be made to appear, thatthe peo-
pie would be whit the poorer, even though an
extra session were not necessary for such grant
objects.
The nation has risen in its might for change,
not,only Of men, but of measures, to save the
country from.absolute and irretrievable ruin. We
have suffered and groaned under the most dcs-
tructive policy that nation ever endured, till IT
could be endured no longer; and now, that the
Government is changed in name, shall we pause
in bringing in that redeeming agency which we
have been aiming al in this mighty struggle
Shall we stay unnecessarily a year longer in the
midst Of that ruin that has oyertakenus2 Veri-
ly we thought the mind Of the nation was made
up. If not, why, then, let US go back restore
the rejected kiss the rod that smote us, succumb
to the authority Of our old masters, and rafy for
ever the doom which we had so much depreca-
ted 1t forpard, or backwards and for our
selves we say, forward let us march. The peo-
pie of this country will not violate the principle
which governs their private exigencies, by declai-
ming against the expenses of an Extra Session
of Congress, in such an exgency Of the ma
ton.
: All this talk, this bugbear about the expenses
; of an Extra Session. when public interest may
seem to require it, is as baseess, it is purve,
demagogical, and un-ousiness like. II is libel
on the good sense of the nation, and presuppo-
ses, that The people have not capacity to discern,
that the true economy of public affairs is based
on the same principle as private concerns Have
not thepublic discovered, that true public econo-
my, as well as public safety, required change
of administration And can it be imagined that
they will be satisfied if the Government brought
into power for this purpose, shall pause at the
very point where their task begins, and defeat
the end for which they were appointed?
RELIGIOUS VIEW OF THE INAUGURAL
From the Nelo York Observer (Religious.)
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