The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-04-02
THE LATE WING CONGRESS.

The Globe of Saturday has one Of its charac-
teristic articles upon the last and the present
Congress, charged, as usual, TO the muzzle with
venom and malice towards the Wings of the
9th Congress Hear him:
"Never was a public body more degraded
than was the last Congress by its extravagances,
frivolity, inconsistency, violence. want OF deco
rum, &C., and by the character Of the men whom
il permitted to direct or control its action"
Poor Blair! Poor, impoten,. venenous ma
lignor How fortunate tina, the reputation for
truth psracity, impar,iality, amiabiily, iorbear-
ance, placable temper, desire to do good to all
men, pie,y. and love of Mr.. Clay and his friends
is co-exiensive with "the great Globe ITSELF"
:" If The present Congress has not always pre-
scented the most perfect decorum, it is q paragon
of proprie,y when compared with its Wing pre-
decessor." m
No ubr Of ii. Every body knows what
"a paragon Of propriery" the present Congress
"Some disorders there will be in every legis-
lative body. they are inseparable from popular
assemblies
Such as attacking reporters and beating them
lie number one lie number two; lie number
three, and 50 on, up to lie number ten. But these
are trifling matters. and "inseparabe from po
puar assemblies" especially when made up o.
Welers, Wentworths, Duncans, &c.
Legislation was then" during the last Con
gress) perfect farce, for the rights OF the mi
nori,y were so much disregarded, that the chair.
man Of the Finance Committee, in introducing q
bill to establish national bank, actually pro-
posed that discussion should be brought TO a
close, by the action Of the gag, on the same
dayw sers
The bill alluded to was the exact bill which
had been discussed and passed by the House,
with the exception of slight modification
which required no discussion. But in his haste
to find fault with the Wing Congress, Blair for
got to remember the introduction few days ago
into the House, by Mr.. Dromgoole, head man,
though not Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means, Of a bill to repeal the Distribution
act, Of his application Of the GAG, and by its APP
plication, At every stage of the bill, forcing it
through, and passing it, not only in one day, but
in the course of about two hours!
We know Blair's love of justice and fairness is
so great, and his conscience sensitive in regard
to speaking the truth, the anhoie truth. and moth
ing but the truth, that he would not have failed
10 mention the above little fact for the universal
world, and the public printing TO boot, had ne
not accidentally forgotten it. We do not blame
him--no, not in the least, for we know there are
some things he cannot remember "no way he
can Ak it." There seems to be no room in the
chamber of his brain for them. For instance,
he cannot remember that he advised and urged
Mr.. Clay to vote for Mr.. Adams and forgetting
this, il daily abusing Mr.. Clay for having done
%. Neither can be possibly remember that he
once owed the United States Bank $4,000,
which he compromised by paying about 5000,
or one cent on tie dollar. Nor can he remember
that he denounced the Treasury scheme as
oos at the most dangerous plans ever conceived
70 increase Executive power. and steal away the
El~des of The people. Nor eas be TenemSer