Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-05-09
CONGRESS, AND THE WORK BEFORE IT
(pnon oum DAILY PAPER OF MONDAY rAsr.l

fPRoa DAILY PAPER MONDAY LAST.
In reference to the great mass and the import
ance OF questions of domestic and internal con-
cernment now before Congress-, we noticed in our
last rumor which had reached us Of disposition
the present Session much earlier than il could be
brought to close if the majority should seriously
endeavor, at this session, 70 pass tariff bill.
This suggestion by us of an existing rumor, the
realization of which we represented not as proba-
BILE, but "quite possible" is set down in the 60
vernment paper Of Saturday as "a Wing scheme, Z
"an unblushing and outrageous proposition" the
monstrons prodpction- Of "a Wing brain, Wing
counsels, conceived in "folly," and in an insidi-
Gus spirit" &c. @
This is all mere bald assertion, having, SO far as
our knowledge or information extends, not shadow
Of foundation. No VINO has come forward TO
propose any such measure, nor, for any thing that
we know, does any Wing desire it to succeed, if
proposed by the opposite party. For our own
part, we trust Congress will moi adjourn until they
are able to leave the foreign relations Of the coun-
try in more satisfactory condition than they found
them, or than they now are and, when the two
Houses do adjourn, that they will not anticipate
the constitutional period for reassemblng least
not SO to bring the members here from their
homes and occupations early as October. The
proposed adjournment of Congress SO early as in
June is therefore proposition or fayorie OF ours
That suggestion, upon which the government editor
pours forth such torrent Of obloquy, originates,
as we said, with leading Democrats in Congress,
nd IN thopo rofo he pofth a ctra-
ton for information as to their motives and pur-
poses. They will perhaps let him into their coun-
sells, of which zoe know no more than what COM
mon report says.
The government paper seems to have taken up
the idea that we desire an early adjournment of
Congress to defeat the proposed reduction of the
tariff Not so. We do not so much fear the adj
versaries of the great American interests involved
in the tariff question as to be afraid to meet them.
We feel an entire confidence in the ability of the
people, through their Representatives, TO protect
themselves upon question like this, which comes
home 10 their business and their iresides, and con-
Germs the food and the raiment Of the humblest in
dividual in every class of society which depends
upon the wages of daily labor for daily bread. No:
let them come on, and do their worst. We shall
at least have the whole people for interested spec
tators Of the contest and, should victory side with
the enemies Of the protective principle, we shall
have the consolation of knowing that the PEopLE
have in their own hands the power to redress such
an abandonment of their interests and will not fail
to exercise it.
Were we capable OF being governed by party
considerations merely, without reference to the
general interest Of this great Commonwealth, we
should desire no more effective arms against the
now dominant party than the party itself would
furnish us by the twin measures of the prosraton
of the Tariff and the establishment of the Sub
treasury system.