New-York daily tribune., 1843-03-03
rhe Expirfug Congress.

Of the Expiring Congress greet iaJus1lee ID s'',.
uting the rejection by them OF Mr.. webster hA'
cheouer bill entirely to the fact that 1t was meas
ure rs John rver's Administration. Such an i'm
neacbnen, of the motives Of the greet Whg party
from the Globe or Argus would have excited no
surprise, because those journals make it their pro-
ession and pride vilify whatever is done by heiT
opponents. Agains, attacks from such quarters the
Wings may well defend themselves, for hostility Is
expected Blu, to be forced to fight, at once, their
foes and their friends to ward off the direct, man
ly blows of their ePen enemies and at the same
time dodge the side thru.ts of professed allies, is
a task TOO hard even for Whig soldiers. No Con-
eress that ever convened has teen placed in so dit
fcult position as that which is now so near It's
end every measure the majority has suggested or
favored h,s been met b. the bitterest and most
vulen. hostility Of the Loco Focos; end this war
fare has been aided we are sorry to say, not only
BY the small Hessian phaanx, whose political
support was always in the market, and who without
the leas, power to do good could by no possibility
iniure any but their friends, but also by large
portion of the Wing press Throughout the country
which has deemed it patriotic and mark oil nde-
pendence to vilfy their friends for no, achieving
impossibilities
The Commercial knows that the Whi5s OF TINS
Congress have been utterly powerless on all great
Gnes,ions of national policy. Their hands have
beer tied by the Veto They found very soon after
tie death of President Harrison that their wisdom
and their deliberations we're to be utterly useless.
They were to have no will Of their own and could
do nothing at all for the relief of tue country, ex
ccpt TO give the form of law to John Iylers ed,cts
and arm with the whole power of The nation what
ever command. it might please HIM TO issue. 1he
ques lion of National Currency The Commerciai
very properly deems ore of the first Importance
ard what Congress, we would ask, has ever mani.
tested so deep anxiety, or exer'ed themselves WIN
a, Jealous and patriotic devotion TO the public sooo'
to place the finances Of the nation upon sound
found alton, as the present ? They made repeated
and most earnest efforts to devise plan which
should afford relief; they chose to rush into no
rash experiments, to adopt no crude devices; but
adhered steadfas,ly and truly the outlines OF that
plan which all sound theory and all experience had
sroved to be SAFE They evinced the utmost anx-
ety to relieve it of all grounds Of objection, SUBJ
stantia or fanciful; and laying aside the dignity OF
sovereign Legislators, they even went so lar as to
consult the wishes AMI whims OF the Executive in
relation even to the phraseology and title of the
bill they had framed. And yet, the Commercial
says quarrel was resolved upon by whom,
we should like TO know. Did all these anxious at.
teppts at Cancellation evince determination to
quarrel on the part of Congress All theirPlaas
Nere contemptuously vetoed aud they were told
distinctly, and with the authority Of master, that
unless they chose to take the Exche1uer which
John Tyler offered they should have nothing.
And for not accepting the terms thus dictated,
as by conquercr the Commercial sterny rebukes
,hem They have again and again proclaimed
the reasons ehy they could never sanction the
Exchequer Scheme. They have exposed the tre-
mendous power i, would confer upon the Execu-
live: giving to the President. directly or indirectly,
the appointment of all its officers and to those
officers the authority to use the money OF the Ma
ton for Banking purposes; thus making The
scheme at once GoUernment Bank, and arming
it with powers which in the hea: of party conflicts
could not fail to be abused and made mos, danger
Gus to The rights and liberties Of the People
rney have showR that-thus potent for evil as it
l., thus clothed with power far more terrible than
the Sub Treasury Scheme which was SO emphutl-
cully condemned BY the People in lS4O-it could
do nothing whatever to relieve the country from
its distress and plant its business upon firm
s,und alton. Whenever they have spoken of the
plan at all it has been in this tone they have
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greater evil. than it even processes to remove aud
ioy this reason they have steadily refused it their
! ,anc,ion Ye, the Commercial chooses TO transfer
| 10 its own head, from that of the s,ol d ergan OF
tho President, a garbled slander upon Congress
and, in the face of facts to charge the Wings upon
its own account, with having rejected The Excite
ousr solely because it proposed by Mt lyier'
| This is utterly untrue and wantonly unjust,
| We do not believe there has been for years a
Congress whose members have been acsuated by
more pure and lofty desire legislate for the pub
lie good than this. They have been opposed in
their efforts their intentions sandered, their mo-
,;ves impeached and beed by pretended friends
slil moro grossly than by epen foes. Even those
4 who once bat,led most firmly and declaimed most
loudly sgainst the dangerous encroachmcnts oil
| Executive power have yilihed the Congress OF the
Na;ien for claiming any 20 r at all OF daring in
The least to eyince their consciousness OF its pos
session And yet, in spite of all this unexamr!ed
hostility, the presen, Congress has done an amount
,t business never surpassed, and evnccd a steady
endurance of misfortune and causeless opposition
calm dignity in the midst of struggles which have
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