Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-06-27
POLITICAL.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
THE SYSTEMATIC DENUNCIATION OF
CONGRESS BY LOCO FOCOISM AND
IrN ALLIES.

CONGRESS BY LOCO FOCOlSM AND
IT'S ALLIES.
Our readers will not have failed 10 remark the
settled purpose of malignant misrepresentation
and ferocious abuse of the Wing majority in Con-
gress which anmates that portion of the Public
Press which is openly or covertly devoted 10 the
cause OF our adversaries. No grossness of nn-
truth or injustice is spared to effect this object
or the spirit and tenor this foul conspiracy, the
.Neto York Sun is prominent example, and the
following extracts from its leading article of yes
erday will exhibit the wny in which it earns its
Wing li'isl patronage of $4,000 per annum:
"Ihe present Congress came into power on
the fourth day of March, ls4l, and from that time
until now, a period of nearly fifteen months, it
has been almost constantly in session, or travelling
to and fro al the public expense but what has it
done for The benefit of the country? What can
did man will deny that the country would, upon
the whole, have been much better Off Congress
had not met at all The great mischief it has
done more than counlerbalances the little good
which it could not well avoid doing.
"Their first object appears TO have been to keep
themselves under pay, al the highest possible rate
their second to embarrass the Executive by all
the means in their power-heir third TO squan
der the public treasure and disgrace the nation
tas as in them lay. They attacked the national
credit by dividing and throwing away the public
domain they rushed to the repeal of the indie
pendent Treasury Law before any practicable plan
had been devised to take its place. they passed
Bankrupt Law, excepting from its operation the
swindling corporations, for which it most nee
ded they raised the Tariff, increased the Nation
al Debt, aud are now seeking to strike down the
Army and Navy, at a most critical moment in the
condition of our foreign relations. They perse-
we're in leaving our National Finances without a.
ny regulation, because they cannot ride over an
IincOrruptble President and tasten upon the coun-
try grent Bank and moneyed oIigarchy, which
J above all things the People detest
! ave do not mean our censure toSbe ndscrlm-
mate. There are many great aud good men in
Congress; hut they are overpowered by unprln-
! c pied factions and combinations that are willing
TO sacrifice the Nation for party purposes. Such
n slate of things is the natural result of the I'M
wholesome excitement aud lamentable debauchery
Of the public mind which was produced during
| the canvass OF 1S40."
Let us first see what Justice there is in these
wholesale ordinations. !. Congress commenced
lis Ezra Session on the 3lst of May instead of
the 4h OF March, and adjourned on the 18th Of
September so that it has been in Session in all u
lttle over nine months instead of NEARLY fifteen.
| Whatever of good or evil there may have been in
holding the Extra Session. Congress had surely
no control over it-no power to do otherwise than
assemble AT the Presidents SUMMONS And, so
far from that Session being protraced, there was
a constant clamor kept up by The Suns party al
The hGSie with which business was driven through,
the despolism of the One-Honr Rule, the taking
bills out of Committee by party vote, &c. &c.
From first TO last, the W hgs did all that men
could do finish the business laid before them by
the President as speedily as possible and adjourn
while the Locoiocos resisted, prolracted, talked u
ganst time, piled vexatious motion upon motion
all for the express and exclusive purpose OF con-
suning time and delaying if not defeating any ac-
lion whatever. Yet all the time linus wasted The
Sun now up against the Wings Finally
the Session would have closed nearly month
sooner, if the President had not thought proper TO
Veto the Bank bill. The Sun opplauds that act
yet abuses Congress for remaining longer in Ses-
siun, under the necessity 1t imposed, to perfect
measures which were in like manner nullihed. IL
this fair? Is il honest?
"Their first object" says The Sun, "appears &c
have been to keep themselves under pay at the
highest possible rate" Is this Just? Who does
not know that this rate was fixed by others many
years ago, and that il is precisely the same as ha
been paid every preceding Congress since The Sui
was in existence without murmur from that pa
per? We have labored, we shall still do all in gu
power to effect reduction of their pay no matte
which party is in power but the Suns sconom,
is stimulated only by chance 10 cast odium upol
Wings for doing what their opponents have lonl
done without encounlering a murmur from tina
quarter.
"Their second object" says the Sun, dis Il
embarrass the Executive by all the means in ihei
power ?" Is this true Which party has provi
ded the Ways and Means for carrying on tn
Government We appeal TO notorious facts
the Yeas and Nays regularly and succinctly pub
lished in this paper TO show that every Revenue
and Loan bill required by the Executive has bee
passed by the Wings alone, against the yehemen
and harrassing opposition of the LocoiOcos, am
the greater number even of the peculiar friend
of Mr.. Tyler2 We dare The Sun to publish tn
Yeas and Nays on these measures of vital necessi
~ to the administration, and show what party ha
been factious in the premises.
"Their third object" says The Sun, sis 9
nation as far as in them law" "Squander tn
Public Treasure ?" How? Where? There .
not single department Of the. public 'err's' u