The Cecil Whig., 1843-03-25
POLITICAL.
From the National Inirliigeneer.
THE LATE CONGRESS.

is III the struggl, of It's Presidential can
ddates for a,cendency, its different oi-
gans, too happy apparently to find sin
sle political topic upon which they can
agree, are unanimous and c!amorous IN
their denunclalon of the " hi, Congress.
whose term has just expired. BY per
sons whose Judgments are, IN some cases
utterly bInded by their pIej JUDGES, aut
by Others who want the p"Aer of mlnt
to discriminate between the bad aud the
gooI that Congress has done, the Wing.
are belatd and abused with ut rhyme ol
reason, and without any attempt to >hov
in what particulars they have erred. SnrI
vague and wholesale condemnation shows
only i'll will and worse temper, aud /.
not entitled to reply.
To the general character Of merely ma.
lignamt or frnthy decIa" alton agains
Congress, there are, of course. some tX
ceptlons; amongst which We noted ant
land aside for use some Gays age, an ai.
ticle IN The New York Ersqing Pest, u
winch something like specification OF the
misdet ds and omissions Of tie Wings is
attempted, in justification OF The repruach
Is cast upon them.
The articIe 10 which We refer sets oul
rs follows:
"Tne REIGN or THE WHrcs.-Congress CO
sed is session yesterday. Ihe Wing dynasty lE
ended. In tao slort ears the stluuard Uuargr
has fallen, the log caDlus lave been sold Ior tax
rs, and the hard CIDER changed to vinegar" II
continues thus: "fi,ds al tnclr professions their
unon, their log cabins, their nard cider, and
their coons, have Shared the same melancholy
disastrous late" Ano /. closes It's specific char
ges against the Wings as follows: I'VE might
20 through the w!ole LIST vi Their public II, -,
and compare them with their promises, and each
would prove not only failure, but d.s4E.Isns
one 10 the connlry."
From ajournal SO distinguished as the
Post Is, not merely by It's posllIun Ut one
ui The great cenlial p"ll,s ut What II calls
RcpubIlcauI>il., but by Ihe acknowledged
ablllIicS of All mEiIshed ed!tul, one
might la t expected, surely, if noI some
Ihlng al ruudor towards Ihe c"liuucl ol an
opposite party. ut last some 81 am "l
pubi!c lreIlnS. some l"nPn ut paltl"Iic re-
grel, over the disasters which II paints
disasters certainly as wei! those of ,he
country a. large as of the Wing party Ill
particulars; aud over whlch, nevertheless, &,
The Pos! eXulls instead OF depIormg ihenl.
A melancholy omen must we hold ii, and
ii! to east u double gloom over Whatever
is sonIbIe in publ c affairs. hen rarly
whose long career of mlsrule and havoc
had received, al least, II nnnsnlury InIe!-
rupllon, tlalIellug itself with The hope ui
reascenslun into its ioiner power of mis-
chief, announces, with evident gra!itCa
lion, that the work of good which had
been promised has failed; that the glad
hopes which Gawued upon H. in lS40
have again been completely overcast; ;tiras
The Wing success has been hu, a glimpse
Of sunshine swallowed up in deeper
gloom: and that. in short, the country ie-
mains in II stat of depression and dis
Iress almost as lorlorn as when Lncufocu-
ism, yet unrebuked, ruled and ruined the
land
Let us, however, examine more nearly
the long indictment which The Post PIE
iers against the Wings. 1t strikes us that
there are iew counts IN il hich the Grand
Inquest of tie country will not ignore, as
soon as ii has had time to scrulIlze them
either because " hat is alleged is not prov
cd. or because, wheE proved nothing
wrong is established for whch The Wing,
are Just lv respun ble-untss il be adml
ted to be wrong in them 10 repeal The
Bankrupt Law in defiance tn the will nI
The supposed majority of the Pc pie.
First, The Post d nouncts That "lhe
Wing dynasty is ended" We'll, be Ii 50;
but what dynasty, then, has begun2 a
Democratic onc2 OF course; lnr why
else should the country be Gale! on lor
Ioc"loco juh'IaI"n2 Surely the party
which holds that there is no shel'er ion
the public good except under the shadow
ol lis wing cannot he Ihus haIing any
ding less than The triumphant re-eslah-
i>hmont Of lis own priuclpes! Yet, cau
the acquisition OF maj"Iny IN The more
popular branch Of the Nan nal l.eg,,la
lure GALL that the "Demucra's" Can boast
OF, if even "i inaO amount To II change "i
Dynasiy?-F"r our part, we have always
locked upon that royal Term as applicab!,
To lne EAccuNFc' lot lle Legislature pow
er; so that any thing which could be call
Ell wing dynasty ended when the pre-
sent Chief Magistrate placed himself i'll
opposition to The party which brought hun,
INTO power, and soug hit to galEer around
him party of his own.
II, then, The Wing party have los, the
control of public measures, have the Ln-
coCocos found il? Not yet. Our tr"u
hles may be ended, but theirs are just be-
ginning. Hitherto "Ihe fixed cnnsl''u
lional fact" has w.ecked those measure
which the Wings deemed most efficient
of pubic good. Are not our opponents.
granting them all the success they clam.
now To encounter ii? Do they hoe tnI
better success in the conflict with Execu-