Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-09-22
From the Pennsylvania
The Next Congress.

proof of the condemnation Of The admins
tration. There never was just such re-
buke, according the North american, h,
talks very gravely of certain shocking
exposures which the new house is t
make. Mr.. Polk is regarded as utterly
overwhelmed--as utterly annihilated; ane
a characteristic intimation is thrown out
that if this result had happened in Eng.
land, change Of government would have
been the consequence--leaving it clearly
inferred that the institutions Of monar.
chy are preferred to our own. Nobody
will believe such 10 be the wish Of FEEDER.
al,sm any the sooner on account Of this
thoughtless admission.
But these partisans forget memorable
fact in our political history. They forget
that during the administration of jackson,
both branches Of Congress were changed
from the position Of devoted friendship, to
that Of malignant and perecuting hostility.
They forgot that in one branch he was
proposed to be impeached, and that in the
other that he was absolutely censured by
resolution, in violation Of all the forms
of the constitution, and all the dictates OF
Justice. All this they forget, together
with the fact, that notwithstanding the
hopes which these things inspired, few
short months saw the prostrste banner Of
Democracy full high advanced, and stream
ing over our victorious leeions--with the
cohorts of Federalism scattered to the four
winds Of Heaven.
1t is fortunate for the country that there
are those who recollect these things, and
the means also by which our principles
were temporarily overthrown. General
JAcKsoN's administration was singularly
intrepid and uncompromising. He open
ly grappled with wrong. He drove out
the noney.c changers. He refused to be
controlled or inundated. He trampled
down hoafy error with a sublime courage.
He crushed re.iilion and Inundated its
apologists and defenders. The storm Of
calumny burst over and against him fnri-
orsly; the weak gave way; the vocal fled;
the lreacherous OPENLY deserted. The
public mind was poisoned with industrious
mallgn,ty. Newspapers were paid to be
recreant, and pubic opinion, in alarm and
confusion broke wildly from its sccustom
ed channels, and before II had line to re
turn, new men had place and power. aud
the great I'D man tund h'm>elf with in
iu-lated majoritl~s against hun. How hr
,r,umphed the world knows; how his foes
were dashed from their giddy elevation.
il matter OF history. He was douhly vim
Dictated, as " ell in the results of his meas
ures.
II then this was so with an Executive,
who was unqnesli onably possessed OF I'M
bounded personal and military popularity,
has Mr.. Polk any reas n to complain ii,
fer briei season, and owing To very Pc
culiar circumst ,nces, a nominal mai rity
in the popular branch OF Congress, should
be reduced? HIS measures have also
been remarkably bold and radical, and
they have challenged all the means of at
tack OF an abandoned opp 'sit,on, whose
weapons consist chiefly in pane, asd all
its mulliiarious expedl.n's and devices
We are neither astonished nor alarmed at
the result.
Never was majority composed OF more
tiiscordant materials than that Of the new
House. To allnde to the materials, is at
eral success in the recent elections
There are the Abolition members of New
England. elected by combination be-
tween Federalism and Anti-Slavery--
There are the Slavery Federalists of the
South, chosen on the distinct pledge of op-
position to the Wilmot Proviso. There
are the anti war Federrlists from Penn
sylvania, New York and Ohio. There
are the war Federal,sts from the West and
the South. Maj. JOAN P. GAINES, now
in Mexico, and recently elected to Con
gress from Kentucky, by Federal votes,
will find himself the political bediellow
Of his political brother GlDDlNcs, who re-
CARDS all soldiers in this contest as MUIR
derers. Governor GAYLE, the war wing,
from Alabama, will find himself pulling at
the same oar with STEoHM, of Pennsylva-
MIA. who refused to vote supplies to our
soldiers while they were in the midst Of
peril. Thus, slavery and anti slavery
war and anti-war-will be expected to
mingle in delightful harmony iii sustaining
the Federal policy in the new House
How long will such materials hold togeth-
er? Through the session? Through a
month of it? Nay, through week?-
Let US not be surprised if they should ex
plode on the very frs, day they meet.
But the North american forgets the fate
Of Federalism in lS4l, after its sweeping
success the year before. For c,usrs, by
no means comparable to those who now
constitute the active seeds Of its dissolu-
ton, it was literally extirpated from Con-
gress and the nation. The Democrats ev.
cry where recovered their lost strong
holds, which they retained, with consist
ent and equal success, till l845. Our
present reverses are like the clouds that
dim the glorious sun at brief intervals dur
ing the long day which he gladdens with
his beams.
Wheeling Route accepted. THE Cincin-
natl Commercial of Friday last, SAYS