The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-06-29


the foreign aspect of the bank. the committee
thought it expedient 10 allow it 10 deal in for.
eign bills of exchange, which are the barome.
Ter OF the state of our foreign trade.
I SCENES AT WAsHINGToN.-Asl low as the STAN
dard of political morality has been reduced for
! few years past those who have kept the. eye
upon the movements at Washington, must De as
tonished at the prohigacy which has been mani
tested from certain quarter, to thwart the pur-
poses for which the present congress has been
convened. In The agitation of the question about
abolition petitions, certain portion of the loco
party have foated about as circumstances de-
manded, and been found voting now on this side
of the question, and now on that, with the obvi-
ous design Of impeding the progress of the gov
eminent in relieving the country from the incum-
bus of their detestible experiments. In the first
insta nee we find them voting to drop the 21sr
rule, then reconsidering tie vote by which this
des irable result was accomplished; and when at
length Mr. Stuart Of Virginia, to end the conro-
versy, made his motion, The effect of which would
| be, 10 defer The consideration OF the whole sub
| ject of abolition petitions to the December ses-
sion, which was finally successful, fearful that
northern and southern wings you'd unite in
common desire to effect the purposes for which
the extra session was called, these loco's were
found, regardless of all consistency, casting their
votes fol the perpetuation Of anarchy and disor-
der. Every loco with theexception of Mr.. Mathiot
of Ohio, who voted on the 7th to,rescind the 2Ist
rule. completely changed his ground, and on the
14th, IN Mr.. 'Fornances motion TO reconsider, vo-
+ ted 10 undo what they had helped to do only one
wetk previous. Not only upon this, but upon
every similar occasion, the high priests Of Loco
focoism have put in requisiIion all their legisla
tive gglery, TO clog the action Of the admins
tration upon measures demanded for the public
good. If any doubt assertions let them
examine The journal of the legislative proceedings
and they will find that it was Mr.. Ingersol, To-
Co from Pennsylvania, who moved reconsider
alton Of the vote rejecting the 2lst rule, and Mr.
Torrance, another loco from the same stale, who
moved TO reconsider The vote adopting the rules
with Mr.. Adams's amendment as part OF them.
United with these, were the great body OF
loco members from The North who NOV
ed from one side Of the political field to the
otEer, as the success Of The game their leaders
we're playing demanded their vibration. This
disposition to procrastinate is further evinced
from The fact. that motions for ad ournment and
the propositions for delaying The business of the
House have found In them willing supporters
We have tile doubt that most of the whi-s both
from the north and the south came TO Washing
ton with full determination 10 accomplish the
business Of the nation. Unhappily the firebrand
of abolition was thrown in among them. The
south unreasonab!Y insisted upon the odious gag
rules. The locos eagerly seized upon the advaD-
tages which might be derived from the agitation,
in destroying the harmony of the wings, and in
ddstriously famed the fame. For few weeks
the objects of the plotlers seemed near their con-
SUNNI .tion. But, thank Heaven, the eyes OF the
wings were at length opened. They saw that
TO delay and conquer was the object Of the jes-
iructves, and have wisely suspended the consid-
Grafton OF the disturbing subject 10 the next ses-
sion. 1t is well they have dane so. The peo-
pie will not. and ought not to be tantalized by any
sort OF delay. Long seven hour speeches for no
toriety, like that of Mr.. Wise, will bring nothing
but popular indignation upon the perpetr ators-
The people want action, but not empty declama-
ton a5 Ut the sanctliy of southern rights, while
northern and western rights re utterly disregar-
ded. They want reform, and saluary measures
7 10 relieve their enormous suffering, or they will
abandon the men who indulge in idly bullying
each other, while they should be relieving their
dstresses. How dare two hundred and fifty rep
resentatives of the sovereign people, turn deaf
ear to the calls of seventeen millions Of their con-
stituents involved in gloom and anguish? How
dare they ieopardize their own political existence,
and bring the country back under the yoke of that
reckless faction, who are daily croaking about the
scism in the whg ranks as disgracetul TO us and
the country. Under the efficient guidance of the
patriotic Clay, the senate has throughout display
ed promplitude in the dispatch Of business E.
qually honorable to themselves and their coun-
try; and should anarchy again reign among our
immediate representatives, the voice of the peo-
pie should thunder loud enough to be heard IN
their legislative halls, demanding immediate &C
ton, and in case OF refusal, bidding them begone
to make room for better men,.
We subjoin the following statement of the vote
cast on the motion of Mr.. Torrance, as taken
from an editorial article in the Vermont Watch
man which will probably be found correct by ref
erence 10 the Journal of the house.
"The following locos from the free states vot-
ed on the 18th in favor of Fornance's motion TO
rescind the vote by which the rules of the last
session with the exception of The 21st inst. were
adopted for the time being.
MArNE.--Lale6eld, Lowell, A Marshall
} Clifford
n. observation-disclosures Burke Eastman