Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-01-13

was HOW tnc nONcIHIlCut was 10 Dc carried
on, and by whose add Mr.. Gushing would
say to gentlemen of all parties in that House,
and more especially TO gentlemen constitut-
ing the majority in Congress, if you wiH Got
cooperate NTH the President in earning on
the Government, which is your highest duty,
he must SEEK THE AID OF YOUR ADyERsA-
RIEs. Renewed sensation, laughter, and
cries of that's it ~ chats itr' good
bye P' If you Wings (said Mr.. Cushing)
will lock the wheels of Government, | trust
aid will be found in the Democrats and
thus aud thus only | present the question to
the House. The House was for a time in
no little confusion, though apparently more
in mcrriment than anger.
Thus, Mr.. Gushing went on to observe,
we had presented 10 us, in these United
States, a great career of ambition and its
end was the eliminating point of human
greatness, at least in this country, if not the
very highest ascent to human ambition in
Christendom. And if they looked round,
he knew not how many competitors were
striving for the prize he doubted if he
could count them on his fingers. A voice,
"Five.] Well, say five. "A voice, "Name
them do name them P'1 t"Oh do r'1-
Their "name is Legion !" In this state of
things, Mr.. Gushing said he knew not how
far parties might split, whether from differ
ence in opinion or from personal relations.
He could see in the race for the Presidency
no individual who, so far as he could Judge,
presented an overwhelming, irresistible
power. Looking to overt acts as the crit
erion, he should say there was no such com
petitor. He understood there was to be a
Wing Convention, aud there was also to be
a democratic Convention and he did not
know that they might not agree. A laugh.
But there was certain buddings-some ear
ly blossoms of discord-which might lead
to a doubt what would be the precise course
of these conventions. However this might
be, this he did know, that during a year and
a half to come there must be great popular
emotions and discussions. Whether a can
didate might be nominated by each conven-
ton or not, this he knew-and why should
he not say it ! he thought on the whole he
had better say it Several voices, ''oh, yes,
do say it do Il wouM not be for the po-
iticat interest of any one of the parties to
carry on a rery furious Udr against the Id
miniStrdfiOR and its friends.
Here Mr.. Gushing was brought to a pause
by peals of laughter, and cries of "Ah,
that's a tender point"
Mr.. Gushing said he considered it as ma
terial that there should be a frank under
standing on these matters. There was men
in the Administration, or connected with
the Administration, who at a proper time,
might have a word to say. lie did not, to
be sure, know whether their opinion would
be potential ; but this he knew, that of all
the elements now in tumuituous and con-
hicting motion in the national caldron, in
the grand political seething pot, the most
potential of all was the Federal Government,
@cries of ooh, yes-it has the offices P-
No not by the distribution of office, not by
the power of patronage. No he went deep
er-it was by the constitutional power of
the Federal Government. Let gentlemen
go back to the extra session. An important
measure had been proposed by the Admins
%tration a committee had reported upon it
it was pushed alone through the Houses,
when to, there came a UetO! There were
consequences yes, and the relation held
by Administrat alton measures TO the action OF
Congress showed that there was a power
which the constitution gave to the Federal
Government to act upon events and affect
results that was a hundred fold greater than
all its power of mere patronage. The proof
of this was found in the fact that while these
very results were in progress the patronage
was in the hands of the late Cabinet. He re-
Cured then to the position ne had taken that
there was in the government itself a power
full element of control, soaring far above all
influence of patronage or of individual men,
and which acted in controlling the national
policy. 1t was in the relation of the Presi-
dent to the legislation of Congress. All
had seen how it acted npon the present
Congress he trusted in God it might never
so operate on any other. He trusted the
series of collisions which had happened be-
tween this Congress and the Executive de-
partment of the government might never oc-
cur again. But il, through the faulty oil
parties, it ever should, it was easy to see
that it might lead to the same operation over
again, and that an equal amount of control
both over men and over events, might again
be exercised.
For himself, Mr.. Gushing desired that so
far as he had the power, and was not forced
out of the line he had marked for himself, to
attend wholly and exclusively to his legisla-
tive duties here, to the discussion oflaws for
the public veal, casting aside, yes, not
merely casting aside, but trampling beneath
his feet, despising, splitting upon all mere in
cidental party questions. He hoped the
House would take its onward march upon
the straight and narrow line of legislative
business questions, and that their only strife
would be who should most faithfully obey
the voice of their constituents and best pro-
mote the happiness and welfare of the Unit
ed States.