New-York daily tribune., 1843-11-25
uonor to the wings Of Mississippi!

OF KENTUCKY.
Honor to the Wings OF Mississippi!
The Wings of Mississippi are beaten, but they
should be prouder Of their position IN defeat than
of the most brilliant victory. For two successive
Elections, with hardly an exception In their RANKS
they have fought the battle of Honesty and uooo
Faith against Knavery and Reputation. Some
few knayes who had crept IN among them nave
crawed out, dreading to be taxed or TO De Oh tne
unnouar side; but nine-tenths OF the "iloie
,,rty have stood firm on the side of Uprlghtness'
.vb;je nneteen.twentieths of their opponents nave
voted On specious but Aimsy pretexts' to rod '''e
,raa;torse of the State. Here is one OF '''ese
touchstone questions which show VIVA. ,., tne =ies,
.oo,;,,. ,,rtes are made oE-Glorlous wings oi
M;ssssppi how nobly does your cohouo' '"'-
.r.a. with that of shufiing, palterng indiana :,
.y1 ,u's ,r;l vet triumph, friends and how prouo
Ia, In se YOUR triumph How the hearts OF all
honest men will rejoice over it! Who woulo not
80 half mile out of his way to shake hands with
one g Of the noble Wings OF Mississippi
The New Congress.
The XXVIIIth Congress assemblies IN the zap
tn, at Washington on Monday the 4th OF Decem-
her The change in its composition from that OF
the last is probably greater than at any tune SINCE
the MASSAGE of the famous Compensation Act IN
1916. Eleven out of Fiity-two Members OF the
Senate. and One Hundred and Sixty-four out OF
the Two Hundred and Twelve Representatives
were not in the last, though some of them have
been Members of preceding Congresses
We do not think the new Congress compares
advantageousv with several of its predecessors
The loss of such men as Clay, Webster Calhoun
and Fillmore, would be felt by any Legislative
BODY. Messrs Stanly OF N. c., saltonsta OF
Mass. J. c. Clark of N. Y. A. FL. II. Stuart OF
Va. q. n, Smith and Lane of la. }. l.. Williams
and Caruthers of Tenn. Butler KING OF 6a. A.
Smith of Ct. Slade of Vt. and several others we
lose with regret. Mr. Colquitt Of Ga. one ofthe
abest of the Loco-Focns leaves the House 1of
the Senate, where Mr.. McDufie OF 5. e. appears
to revive at least the memory OF his ancient
plories. Andrew Stewart of Pa. returns to the
House after an absence of fourteen years; Messrs
yinton and Vance of Ohio were also distinguished
there wears ago. so were Wilkins of Pa. French
ofKy. and Dromgoole of Va. ILLINOIS sends an
entirely new Delegation to both Houses; Missouri
ditto 1--WE beleve) with the exception OF her inter-
minabe Benton; Vermont is represented by new
men. single Senator excepted. Indiana mas one
Senator and one Representative the same as last
,oar. Connecticut and Maine each Senator
only. There are several new men OF whom we
are led TO expect something them Messrs
Marsh of VT. Morris and Burlington of Pa. Sam
nle &c Ind and Hardin of Ill. OF the new Loco
Focos, VIC believe ex. Gov. Dunlap of Me. Messrs.
Catlin of Ct Kirkpatrick Of N J. Tibbatts OF KY
and Robert Dale Owen of la. are among the
ablest.
We do not think great deal OF important busi-
ness is likely to be consummated this WINTER
There will be concerted and desperate assault
on the Tariff. but we think the Wing ascendancy
in the Senate will save that vital bulwark Of our
National Industry from essential injury, though
we expect to see runous bill got through the
House. The Incorporation Of Texas with our
Union will be Dressed by President Tyler and his
body. guard, possibly backed by the Calhoun inter
est but we do not think our Van Burenltes can
be coaxed into the support of the measure, even
by the hope of inhaming the Anti-Savery feeling
of the North, and so driving off some thousand
Wing votes to the Abolition party, while their
own partisans stand any thing. We have stronger
apprehensions that some rash, head-strong step
with regard TO the appropriation of Oregon will
be resolved on, pressed as it will be, by the dis
contont and love of wandering adventure SO pre-
valent in the West We fear some bill will be
passed, involving the Country IN heavy and
never-ending expense for what will prove of no
adequate value. Why should we not now offer
TO Great Britain that VIC will relinquish all claims
TO Territory West Of the dividing ridge OF the
Rocky Mountains if she will do the same, leaving
the whole Country between California and the
Russian possessions to be settled by whom it may
as an independent Nation, framing IFS own Gov
ernment, under the JOINT protection, so long rs II
NAV be needed, of the two Countries now claim
ing it Such a REIMBURSEMENT would reflect
more honor on either Nation than twenty victo-
ries and the conquest of Continent.
We only hope for one good result from this
Congress thorough Reform of our Post Office
system, involving great reduction of the Rates of
Postage. We would like some General Retrench
ment also, but we shall be well satisfied with
Postage Reform alone.