North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-19
CONGRESS.

The term of the present Congress will expire on
the 4th day of next month. The next Congress will
be the Thirty. Second and will meet in December
suing. We give our readers, week by week, sketch
es of what is transpirng in that body. We see but
little if any occasion for explanation or comment in
relation to their proceedings.
The Slavery question has thus far been wisely per-
mitted to Sleep This is the true course the part
of that BODY and it is with which the South will
be satisfied 1t is all have ever asked or deman-
ded of the Representatives of the people and of the
States.
The signs it is sad are favorable to the establish
ment of Slavery in California strong Slavery par
ty has already sprung up there and this party, it
seems to US, increase in influence the people
of that State perceive the importance of slave labor in
working the mines. 1t is notorious that slaves make
the best miners and the hot climate of California
will doubtless be found well adapted to the African
race.
Let US hope that Congress will permit this Slavery
question to sleep on. Let US congratulate each 9TH
er, as Southern men, that we have had some three
months respite from a war upon our rights waged in
the halls of common Congress And whatever
may happen, let trust that brighter and better
day is ahead for all. The thunders have been
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but the cloud-the cloud still hangs threateningly
around the whole horizon. While, therefore, we hope
and condeas best may, it becomes also watch!
A Washington Correspondent of the New York
Herald gives the following as embodyng what the
present Congress will and will not do:
"Mr. Bayly, Chairman of Ways and Means, called
the attention of the House the fact to-day, that the
following appropriation bills have yet to be acted
upon, TO wit:
The Civil and Diplomatic bill.
The Army bill.
The Navy bill.
The Post Office BILL
The Fertilization bill.
The West Point Academy bill.
The Indian bill.
The Revolutionary Pension bill.
The Naval Pension bill.
These are the indispensable annual appropriation
bills necessary to keep the wheels of government in
operation and the $4,000 dependents upon the
ury their stated supply of bread and butter. They
have be passed, and they have all first pass the
House before the Senate touch any one of them.
In the meantime, the Senate can amuse itself on
cheap postages and the deficiencies OF the last years
appropriations. But we have our misgivings res
pectings the following subjects =
The French Spoliaon bill of FIVE millions.
The Ebony steamship line to Africa.
The Rio Janeiro and Philadelphia line.
The San Francisco and Canton line.
The Free Farm bill, for settling every body the
public lands free of cost.
Whitney's Pacific Railroad bill.
Benton's magnificent project.
The River and Harbor bill.
The subject of Home Protection.
The bill for a Western Armory.
And numerous others, public and private. Sever
al of these. however, could be passed readily enough,
if the House could geta fair swing at them but two
third being required to lift bill out of its order,
if any member should object, makes the extreme
ly doubtful. If We get cheap hostages and the
nua appropriations. we shall be doing very well. All
the rest will be clear gain. Cheap pOstages will also
be clear gain.
We understand that Mr.. John G. Rives has secur-
ed large share of the public printing, under
tract, for the Congress, at prices less than Fa
Their Ritche's. If this be SO, Father Richie must
have made money, Rves must calculate for in
dennty for all losses, under the idea that Mr. Richie
will be Unidentified. This sort of thing will be so
till we have national printing Office
We may rejoice at one thing, and that is, that the
present Congress is not likely to do any harm. That
embraces good deal.