The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-04-06
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From the National Iafe'tigencer.
TIE LATE CONGRESS.

Tor asceDd8ncy, lis different organs, too hap.
py apparently TO fiad single political Top.
&c upon which they can agree, are unani.
nous and clamorous in their decunca,ion
Of the Wing Congress, whose term has
just expired. By persons whose judgments
are, in some cases, utterly blinded by their
prcjIdlces, and BY others who want the
power of mind TO Discriminate between tho
bad and the good that Congress has done,
the Wings are beratpd aud abused without
rhyme or reason, aud without any attempt
to show IN what particular they have erred.
Such vague and wholesale condemnation
shows only i'll will aud worse temper, and
is not entitled TO reply.
To the general character OF merely ma.
lignant or frothy defamation against Con-
gress, there are, of course, some excep.
lions; amongst which We noted and laid
aside for use, some days ago, an article in
the New York Erenipc Post. In which
something like specification OF the misdeeds
and omissions of the " hies is attempted
IN Justification Of the rrptoaches cas-, open
them.
The article 10 which We refer sets cut as
follows: THE REIGN or TIE WIGS -
Congress closed its session yesterday. Tie
Wing dynasty is eEded. In two short years
the standard bearer has fallen, the log cab
ms have been sold fer taxes, aud the hsr;
cider has changed to vinegat." 1t coutin.
ues thus: "Alas all their professions,
their union, their log cabins, their hard CT.
der, and their coons, have shared the same
melancholy disastrous fate" And Il closes
IFS specific charges against the " blgs as
follows: We might 20 through the whole
list OF their public acts, and compare them
with their promises, and each would prove
not only a failure, but disastrous one TO
the country"
From a journal SO distinguished as the
Post is, not merely by its position al one of
the great central points of wha, II calls Re.
publlcanism, but by the acknq wledged abl.
lilies Of All accomplished editor, one might
have expected, surely, if not something of
candor towards the conduct Of an opposite
party, at lensl some gleam Of public feeling,
some token Of patriotic regret, over the dis.
asters which 1t pain,s-dIasIers certainly
as we'll those of the country at large as Of
the Wing party in particular and over
which, nevertheless the Post exults instead
of deploring them. melancholy omen
must we hold il, and fit TO cast a double
gloom over whatever is sotnbre 10 public
affairs, when party whose long career Of
misrue and havoc had received, al least,
momentary interruption, fattering itself
with the hope of re.ascension into IFS former
power Of mischief, announces, with eviden,
qualification that the work of good which
has been promised has failed that the
glad hopes when dawned upon Us in ls40
have again been completely overcast; that
the Wing success has been but glimpse
Of sunshine swallowed up IN deeper gloom
and that, in short, the country remains in q
state of depression and distress almost as
forlorn as when Locofocoism, yet unrebuk.
ed, ruled and ruined the land.
Let us, however, examine more nearly
the long indictment which the Post prefers
against the Wings. |, strikes US that there
are few counts 10 it which the Grand In.
quest Of The country ailI no; ignore, as soon
as il has had time 10 scrutinze them, either
because what is alleged is not proved, or
because, when proved, nothing wrong is es.
tabllshed for which Wigs are Justly re.
oponslble-unless II be admitted TO be wrong
in them TO repeal the Bankrupt Law IN de.
ference to the will Of The supposed majority
of the People.
FIRST, the Post announces that al The Wing
dynasty is ended" Wen, be it SO but
what dynasty, then, has begun! A Demo.
cratic one? OF course; for why else
should the country be called on for Loco.
foco jubila'ion Surely the party which
holds that there is no shelter for the public
good except under the shadow Of lis wing
cannot be thus haillpg any thing less than
the triumphant establishment Of IFS own
principles Yet, can The acquisition of a
majority in the more popular branch of the
National Legislature (all tina! the "Demo.
Gratis can beast of, it even OF that amount
TO a change Of dynasty For our part, we
have always looked upon that royal term as
applicable to the Executive, not the IIegis.
latve power, so that any thing which could
be called Wing dynasty ended when the
present Chief Magistrate placed himself in
opposition to the party which brought him
into power, and sought TO gather around
him party Of his own.
IT, then, the Wing party have lost the
control of public measures, have the Loco
focos found III Not yet. Our troubles
may be ended, but theirs are just beginning.
Hitherto ",he fixed constitutional fact
has wrecked those measures which the
" higs deemed mos; efficient of pubic good.
Are no, our opponents, granting them all
he success they claim, now to encounter
/? Do they hope for better success in The
conflict with Executive power?
Blu, the Post proceeds to say that two
hort years have sufiiced to dissolve toe
whole Wing party and then it eniarEes
Nth vast satisfaction upon the slender De.
,ree in which Whggery has been able,
,oinst the whole force Of The Executive pow
II and of a strong and INSCRIPTIONS oPposi
ion, TO cure in two years all the Ill thet
{ Democracy could lnAict in twelve