Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-11-30
From the National InteIligencer.
The Re.axseinb blage Of Congress.

the canvass which mas JUST enoeo, and IN reckon
ing up and accounting for its results, as to have
been almost insensble to the near and rapid ap-
proach of the meeting Of Congress. Such has cer-
tainly been own case though we at least should
have reason to remember it, in view of the addi-
tional labors and duties which its annual arrival
necessarily devoves upon US. The session begins,
however, on Monday next and already the Sem
ators and Representatives are on the road from
every quarter to attend 1t.
The absence of any thing like the usual excite
ment in advance of theisession is caused, doubt
less, by the general conviction that no great ques
tons are likely to be decided a. it. Again, happily,
at Peace with all the Foreign world, there is no
question now to be decided of raising new armies,
and otherwise enabling the Executive to carry on
a war to which he public heart was always averse,
and on the termination Of which it has hardly yet
ceased rejoicing Whilst there is much legisla-
tion required by public opinion to be done and un-
done, il is yet known that the two Houses Of Co6-
gfess are notso constituted as at this time to ac-
cord on certain questions of higher consequences;
and that, besides, the hands of both Houses are
tied, upon questions on which they would concur
In representing the public will, by the known ad
diction of the present Executive to the exercise
of the Veto Power. 1t is hence not within the
range of probability that the Tariff, Protective,
or Internal Improvement questions, will be agta
ted at the coming session; nor indeed any other
question likely to give rise to much contention
less the President should in his annual Message
spring upon Congress some new question which
neither we nor the Public are now dreaming of.
The establishment Of Government for cur late
ly acquired Territories of New Mexico and Cali
fornia, is the only question which occurs to US as
likely to produce any excitement at this session;
and that rather because it did so at the last ses
sion, than from any other reason. The National
Election having in the mean time drawn much of
the fire out of that cloud, let hope that it will
pass over without any hurtful explosion.
Upon the whole, we anticipate "a quiet, and yet
busy session. The calm which naturally inter-
venes the election and the accession of a new
Chief Magistrate, is favorable to the dispatch in
Congress of that description Of business usually
termed private, though involving the highest prin-
picples of public justice, having been in fact al
ready for the most part carefully investigated and
adudicated by the several committees of the two
Houses. That calm of the passions is also aus
picous to all that class ofbusiness acknowledged
public importance, which has been for three years
overaid and stAed by war projects and operations,
and by the great mass measures which necessarily
follow in their train.
There is one thought suggested to our mind by
,Jy IF, Vyo ncf h.
| hold from our readers 1t will be the second of
the Thrtieth Congress; and upon its termination.
on the Sd Of March next, this Government will
have existed, unchanged in form. for period of
sixty years the expiration Of that term being sig
nalized by what has been happily termed " Rev
olution of Ten Hours the effect of which, when
fully realized will have been to restore the Gov
ernment to the plain and obvious track from which
it has been in practice, in many instances depart
ed from. How it may strike others, we know not; /;
| but in our eyes nothing can be more admirable
nothing more gorious-n view of the whole CIV
| ilized world, agitated and convulsed before and
around US, than this expression--so still, so in
stantaneous so universally acquesced in--of the
collective will Of three millions Of voters. What
more singular, what more imposing civil spectacle
could there BET What exempli6cation more de-
cisive of the consummate wisdom of those happy
institutions which our great forefathers bestowed
upon US They surely gave them, besides all their
wisdom, some hidden force of virtue. which men
must feel, but cannot guess; breathed into them
some strange spirit, some energy Of good, which,
like the unseen power of fermentation, works
soundness and sweetness out of seeming trouble.
In such a moment of public exultatation as
should. we conceive, hail each recurring exhbi-
ton of these admirable powers of our institutions,
all citizens should find high cause not merely for
admiration at process so wonderful, but cores
ponding goodwill towards each other, that shall
heal all personal hurts as perfectly the inward
force we have mentioned cures the wounds Of the
/ QUITE lLLUsTRATIyE.--A fisherman OF Beverly,
Mass. was accosted by afamous Free Soiler there,
with the inquiry So These are Free Soil fish. I
suppose1" To which the fisherman promptly res
ponded, I" Yes, rather guess they are, for they
have turned ttoo or three times since I caught
them. daily Neos.
i GooD.-The Legislature of South Carolina vo-
ted l2a for Cass to 25 for Taylor. The Savannah
Republican Of the 9Th inst. notices the matter