Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-01-22
Democracy BY A HIGH PRIEST OF
THE ORDER

We copy the following truthful picture from the
Washington T. S. Journal, the locofoco paper that
did MT get any of the Public Printing:
The DoingS Of Congress. We have headed this
paragraph with soecism-a contradiction in terms.
Doings Of Congress There never could have
been greater msapplic0tion of terms used, had
the vocabulary of our language been searched
through DOngs- how. where, upon what
occasion, have the army of county court takers,
who fill our halls oflegslation done any thing save
that which they ought not to have done =? They
have been in session nearly full month-it lacked
but single day of it at this present writing, and
all that they have done may be comprised in two
llnes-they have passed the joint resolutions for the
admission of Texas Wonderful industry I'm.
bounded assduity !! Unparalleled labor! : No
wonder they were compelled TO adjourn for nearly
whole week, at an expense to the country of near
ly three thousand dollars day, in order to recu-
perae their wasted energies, and rest their over
tasked inteects
Done We forget ourselves We have entire
ly overlooked the astounding and overwhelming
discussion, which consumed nearly two whole DAYS
upon which the whole fate, prosperity, nay, the We
ry existence Of the nation seemed to have depend
cd the vitality important question whether super
intendent OF the folding room should be appointed
by the door keeper or be elected by the House
1t cost the country only about six thousand dollars
and affords another striking proof of the sincerity
ment and reform" We are a great nation" a
free and enlighteneP people,
Patience under ponderous evils is doubtless Vir
tle at any rate the American public practice it TO
an unhrard Of extent that of Job was not ga cir
cumstance" to it. lssachar, the strong ass, lying
down between two burdens, so graphically dcscrb
ed in the good book, was only type, figure Of
things to come. The facts preshadowed forth so
many centuries ago, stand before our eyes in all
their startling distnctness and horrible deformity,
/ The camefs mute and accomplishing submission
/ finds faithful counterpart in The people Of the u
nited States, in resting without rcmOnstanCe re-
buke on the wrongs imposed by dishonest leglsla-
tors They either have not sufficient intelligence
to comprehend the treachery of their public agents
here, or they lack the moral courage to express
their indignation at its constant practice. They
are as dumb as a hampered sheep; stand with their
hands in their pockets, volceess frozen mum
my while their own money Is squandered with
reckless proiusion, upon the most trivial objects by
those who have solemnly sworn to support the Con-
stitutlon!
What has Congress done? They have inflicted
a stab upon the Democratic party, in the election
of Public Printer which will require all the artl-
flee aud chicanery, all the trickery and fraud, which
| these gentlemen Of the law know so well how to
use upon all occasions, when the people call them
20 an account for their glazing msdeeds-to pre-
vent its being fatal and deadly for the next twenty
years. At the wish and will ofone man, they have
wickedly surrendered their personal independence
changed their previously fixed determination to
| divide the Public Prnlng-and heaped the whole
ponderous load of public patronage upon the heads
of a single iirm-gaye the printing TO the hgheSi
bidder robbing the nation thereby Of one hundred
thousand dollars per annum, and then talk OF econ
omy and retrenchment in the Government. Did
ever the world witness q case of more bareiaced
hypocrisy than this d?
Little as we think of the intelligence of ihe A.