New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-25
The Coming ses-ien .
O'Clock.

The almanac-maker who, in view OF the
annual assembling of Congress, may diver
sify his January and February calendar
with "Look out for high winds and violent
'tempests about these days" will not often
be thercupon convicted Of false prophecy.
We are an excitable people, fond of crisis,
thriving on ruin, and generally SO eager to
save the Country that we would rather
push her into moderate danger than lose
the luxury of assisting her out of it, Our
public men vie with our tapsters and tape
sellers in devotion to our Glorious Union
Orators who dignity their perorations with
devotion to the Union are morally certain
of cheers, and Poets who wind up their
Jingle with the like patriotic sentiment are
very likely to be tolerated, and commend
ed, and almost read. We are bound hence
forth to have the Union savedat least twice
year, whether it needs saving or not. And
if it were not that the love of saving 1t IS
so all but universal we would venture TO
suggest Reform which we think would
20 very far to render future sacrifices and
sufferings in behalf of the Union unneces-
sary-nomcly, the percmptory curtallment
of the well-named long Sessions of Con
gress.
Nine-tenths of the sectional ill-feeling
and jealousy which pervade the Country
and threaten the stability of the Union are
generatedby Congressional Speeches, which
the People pay some $4,000 perday odnd
listeners for (dog cheap at that !! and then
some fifty dollars per column to three
Washington papers for publishing. All the
pro-Slavery' and Abolition hatred and
fury that are generated by operations out of
Congress bear no proportion to those which
are directly melted by infammatory Con-
gressional Speeches. If the longer Session
of each Congress were rigidly limited to
four months, and the discussion of Slavery
in any form expressly forbidden by the
rules of either House, (leaying every Mem
Der free to vote on every question present
ed but not to open his head respecting
Slavery except to utter Yea or Mayo
the safety of the Union would not afford a
decent excuse for another Castle Garden
Meeting in the course Of q century, and the
arduous abors of the Grand Committee of
Safety might at once be forborne.
We speak thus seasonably to urge those
who concur in this view to unite in con-
certed effort to have all manner of Slavery
and Anti Slavery discussion in either House
postponed to the third month of the present
Session. Should any Member see fit to sub
nit a proposition affecting Slavery, let tbe
voted on in perfect silence without excite
ment or agitation of any kind. But we
trust the commencement of agitation On this
subject will be left to the Propagandists of
Slavery. We of the contrary part can GER
tainly afford to leave the argument where
ii now stands; while who really expects
any favorable action from the present Con-
gress Now we would very much like an
essential modification of the Fugitive Slave
Law, but we do not believe any good can
be achieved by thrusting that subject at the
outset upon the consideration of the very
Congress which passed the law. We
would give much to see the Boundary of
Texas straightened; but is there natural
probability that such result can now be
secured As to Slavery in the Territor
les, we say, Resist at all hazards any at
tempt to plant it there; but let US, while
maintaining perfect candor with regard to
this subject not needlessly and perhaps
mischievously call upon Congress to med
die with it so long as inaction shall appear
to subserve our purpose. He is not the
most effective champion of Free Soil in
Congress who makes the most ado about it.
The Session now at hand is inAexibly a
short one-barely ninety days in duration.
OF these the first thirty are generally tri-
fled away, as we trust they will not now
be- We want far cheaper Postage, both
for letters and periodicals; correction at
1 least of some of the grosser and more glar-
ing absurdities in the present Tariff; the
Freedom of the Public Lands to Actual
Settlers under conditions fatal to Specula-
ton; the Retrcnchment of Congressional
Mileage and other wasteful items of Pub
lie Expenditure and some more efficient aid
than has of late years been given to River
and Harbor Improvements. Three months
seem to us a short period for the accom-
pIshment of these Reforms; but let US
have these first, and Slavery (f at alb af-