Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-04-06
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THE TWENTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS

ne NoShlhgton correspondent OF the
New \ ork American thus speaks of the Con-
gress whose public labours have just ceased:
The Wing Congress is remarkable for MANY
peculiar circumstances distinct and apart from
political characteristics or acts. Ii has now
oeen In actual session more than one year and
quarter, being now III the sixteenth month
OF Its Legislative labors. No other Congress
ever sat twelve months. This has set more
months. more weeks, more days, and more
hours than any other since the beginning of
the Government. ithas made more speeches,
done more business, received more petitions,
examined more cases, made more reports.
printed more documents, acted on more reso-
lations, passed more private bills, rejected more
private bills, passed more public bills, into
acts and laws, rejected more public bills, had
more bills uetocd, effected more and greater
retrenchments, caused more reforms in the
parliamentary rules, lost more members bv re-
slgnation, lost more by death, than any pre-
vious Congress. THIRTEEN have died. Sc
VEN have lost their wives by death during this
Congress. NINE have married since their
election. TWELVE or more have lost their
children by death during that time Sepen
Senators and ttcetDe Representatives have re-
signed. Of the twelve Representatives so re-
signing, three have been reelected 10 the same
seats in this same Congress.
Ot the more distinguished men in this
Iwenty-Seventh Congress, one has been Pres
ldent and one Vice President of the United
States two have been Secretaries of State.
one Secretary Of the Treasury, one Secretary
OF War, one Secretary of the Navy, one Post
master General, two Attorneys General, four
Ministers Plenipotentiary, two Speakers of
former Houses of Representatives, fifteen Gov
errors and Lieutenant Governors of States and
Territories. Six more have been the candi-
dates Of their parties for Governors ofSrates.-
Three have been unsuccessful candidates for the
Presidency. Three are now avowed candi-
dates for the Preridency Two others have
in former periods been the candidates of their
party for the Vice Presidency of the United
States.
Of the Members of the two Houses of This
Congress, three were Members of Congress-
more than forty years ago. Others have been
Members for more than twenty wears in nm
broken succession. Several others were Mem
5ers more than thirty years ago Several o.
theirs more than twenty years ago. Three are
more than seventy years Old. One is only
twenty-eight.
OF those who have been Members of This
Congress and have been eminent i'm the public
service, and who will not be Members of the
next need only name CLAY, CALHOUN, Pres
ton, Sergeant, Granger, Fillmore, Satonstall.
Morrow, (among the living,) Southland, Lewis
Williams. and Lawrence, (among the dead, y
to show that the next Congress cannot replace
10 Inc country what it loses in this ] might
lengthen this list by the addition ofnanv faith
iul, devoted, distinguished, honored and be-
loved patriots who now leave the public SER
wee, some for brief interval, no doubt,-but
too many for ever. The aggregate of fame
stability, fidelity and worth which this Con
gress. has exhibited to the country, has been
rarely equalled, -neVer exceIled.0 =
o vi the doings Of the tweniy-soventh Con
Igress we may condcnse brief abstract from
the details given by this writer.
The twenty -Seventb Congress sat some
tour hundred and ffly days--passed more
'han Jour hundred bills into Acts (nearly twice
as many as any previous Congressional
more than t'co thousand reports, and circulated
several hundred thousand copies Of valuable
documents among the people for their inrorma
ton on public affairs
! The Wings found the annual expenditures
OF the Government some hirty-nine million,
OF dollars. They reduced them last year &c
t,centy-one millions, and this year to Seventeen
fD'lllons. In this estimate the Post Office ex.
pendItures are not included-nor the intercs
on The Van Buren, National debt