The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-09
CONGRESS AND THE ADMINISTRATION

CONGRESS AND THE ADMINISTRATION
To hold our o,on on the Oregon question-to pro-
tec in obedience to the guarantees of our constitu-
ton, the State of Texas-to bring the government
Of Mexico to a recognition of our rights and set
Element of our just claims long since solemnly
agreed to and long outstandng-and finally, to car
ry out fully, in conformity with the acquisitions of the
constitution, the well known measures of our inter-
nal policy to which the democratic party is pledged,
and among which the constitutional treasury, and
above all, the reform Of the repenue tariff and the
graduation and presumption of the public lands stand
nspicuous-these are the great objects for which
this administration, ever since it came into power,
has abored and is laboring and in the accomplish
ment of which 1t has invoked, and still nvokes, the
indispensable aid Of Congress- Without that aid
nothing can be done Our Mexican relations will
soon come, in an imposing form, upon the taps.
Nothing is yet finished-nay MORE the end of no
one Of these measures is yet visible; and yet the
House of Representatives delays to take up the
tariff, and the Senate keeps the Oregon bill locked
up in committee, and mean time a proposition is
made in Congress 10 adjourn on the i3h Of July!
What does this mean' Are the democratic majority
have enumerated or insensible to their importance
This no man seriously believe.
We ask, with all possible respect, but with all
possible earnestness what fatal paralysis has struck
the democratic arm in our halls Of legislation Are
! we not the majority Are not clothed with all
the responsibilities Of the majority before the coun-
| uyl II our party fails to accomplish the purposes
Tor which the people placed it in power, must moi
the whole odium and scandal of the inefciency res
upon its shoulders To whom but to ourselves, as
| party, can we attribute the failure Who else is
responsible for III Does the Executive stand in the
way of any single one Of the democratic measures
n So let that measure be pointed out and lot the und
vded force of the democracy Congress rally at once
on that measure and formidably confront the Exec
utive in so false position! But there is no such
democratic measure In every respectful form OF
appeal the Executive urges Congress TO delay No
longer the full redemption Of its pledges to the
country. No man can lay the fault at the door Of
the President.
Reformers Of the tarif!-vindicators Of our rights
in oregon-men of the Texan annexation!-you who
would lin from the shoulders Of labor the load Of
taxation under which il groans!-you who, in the
face Of the unjust demands of England, would plant
yourselves indonitsbly on the territorial rights Of
our countryl-you who would stand up between
Texas and the assaults of Mexicol-democrats
of Congress, one and all i'm the name Of all
the noblest purposes which, as a party, you
united in canvass to accomplish-(we beg you to
waive all etiquette, and permit an humble citizen,
but freemen like yourselves, to address you y
II un0kn -
tom Delay i'ftdi Of peril Delay is sure disunion
of our party. Disunion is sure discontinue.
Will you tolerate that one great party object should