New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-09-02
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ductive know IN tho history Of any legis-
11stiv6 body We INTERESTINGLY pronounce it
tte idlest. and most urhulent. and issueless Of
i aEl sessions Of the American Congress.
Int has il dome & We really are at a loss
I III answer 1T has done nothing il behalf Of
III tional Interests; and ~ has done little OF
nofhing. Tor Fear, in view Of IN approaching
dehfial election, the present Administration
ht deriv e some benefit from its action. It's
Il 81 ri NJ WINS democratic, and the party so
sffesented will be held fully responsible by the
4 country
HI Ras IN electioneering body. It sought to
eanSass the country in the echoes Of the halls Of
4 ~ II emitted the sulphuric flame of
4 anship, in the vilest libels upon the two
! ates for the Presidency, in yapid profess
Y IN III iotism; and the lost insipid declama-
II a against sectionalism. OF the noisy def
4 snces % loudly and bravely exchanged between
III Aboli tionists of the North and the Hotspurs
\ o III South, We have but little, Or we should
"a her phrase it, nothing to say We have
III Interest Id the Southern fre-eaters who
h ii ake 6crce n an upon the Bedlam Of Abolition
K ains we do not care how often Don Quixotes
SascicaIly charge upon those funnily helmeted
II basins
III Ne do hare that in the last session Of Con-
v rsas little d nothing has been done. and that
i'll nearly eight months, members have drawn
their Eli ht dollars per diem and their mileage,
ma TINT the country has drawn but the slender
w Icalcuiable result. We cannot believe that
plain, out-spok en-, common sense folks of the
country care one copper for the opinions Of
AisssTs Breck enridge Marshall, Orr, Giddings,
Hiatt, Gentry, Jones, Callom, German. Bayly,
etcss upon possible, probable and nominated can
ddiidatess "A candidate worth voting fora cam
sdidate who can be relied must be a man.
/ " bus d back history BY which, known to the
cotntry nt large, he can be Judged The people
ase nbandantly able to decideintelligently in the
premises, Without ngressioual diction
S But members Of Congress seem to think other
wise. of late years, they almost approach to
The curious extremity Of acting as a committee
IL permanence, chosen to arrange all details and
mark out the outlines Of popular action in
Presidential campaign. In brief, Congress in
every session preceding q Presidential election,
M nothing but the yulgarest and prosiest Of
3sscaba1s S@
This matter is very funny III our own dis
tyint. We may say without disrespect to our
clever ard competent Representative it
ccedingly difficult to induce d really able
snd influential gentleman to go to that Babel,
called Congress. Why these gentlemen some
ggof whom must know they are jackdaws in pea
cook fea theirs should assume SO much impor-
lance, is a puzzle to US.
selves privy council, d directing cabnl, the
1nsmbers Of Congress have really become the
most violent md senseless of agitators. They
ySstl mistak their just relation to the people.
HON they are nothing more than individual
gnnits But BY this assumption they necessarily
slbccome The breeders Of agitation and the pro-
notsrs 1t violence
& Wa illustrate. Some time since prominent
sdenocf atic organ, I've believe the Neworleans
Dimes, Of Tennessee, was to be called to the or
deal VI the duel, BY o terrible military gentle
sIns unless he reoanted certain joking remarks
safon General Pierce's fainting before the can
H0nry Of battle had begun, his resigning after
prolonged indispos ition, his uncalled for return
home, etc. This announcement struck us as
more terrific than any pronunciamento of Bonn
sbastes Furioso. 1t was to us as good as one of
Punchss Jokes. We knew Governor Jones as a
friend md acquaintance of many years; and We
knew him as d brave, high-hearted, high toned,
;court eous gentleman, who would not wantcnly
offend any one, but in the expression of his
opinion would shrink before noliving man. Any
ono who knows & Jimmy Jones could not fail
to be amused at this 6 military" man set up as
u scare crow to him and all other g obstrepo-
rous 4 wings.
This was amusing enough. But there is a
really clever and companionable gentleman, Of
the House Of Representatives, who, throughout
the session, sought to g vary the entertain
nent. We allude to Major VIM. H. Polk, Of
Tennessee, EARLY in the session, he was calling
for plantations, Z and it appears he was de-
tcrmined to go out, at the end of the session, in
d blaze Of glory The Major ought to go upon a
certain frog mission to France, which might find
an explanation in one Of his oft told anecdotes.
How ii the world so humorous a gentleman
could get into such bad temper is incxpliea-
able. unless we refer his cbulitions to Congress
sionaI atmosphere. But hear him on the 24th
August. We quote from the Baltimore Sun
r polk addressed the House hour in opposition to
Gen Scott In The Of his remarks be alluded to
bia COLES que, (Ndr. cuum saying that when that gem
ficmau animated 10 square in this city that Gen Frank
Pierce or his horse tainted. he lied.
- Mt Culom-I say that when my colleague insnuates
that have made false misrepresentation, he is liar
The Chairman called both gentlemen to order and great
sexcitl Ment ensued.
4 Nj Polk-Let the gentleman send friand to me- and
! tint will do.
Mr p then proceeded to show that Gen Scott was no
more at for the Presidency account Of his military
than the ground Of his civil merits. in
cornectjon charging understanding between Gen,
3oatt ana Gen Santa Anna during the Mexican war
MI N hite Of Kentucky inquired OF the gentleman il
facts coxd be produced to show that an understand
existed in the Mexican war between Gen Scott and
M polk replied in the Affirmative He understood that
% gentlemen was to be put forward to attack him. and
III snifld receive him with open arms lie would say tc
the aenteinan from Kentucky that his (Mr f's) pur
roe WIS not to engage Ia personal connect put ne NAG
iearned thar be had been ptted to asa nm ne wouid
fs the gentleman that he understood the rules whicf
honor their part OF the country ana wien III
sskcd he would answer him , ;.,a
Mr. Whte-The gentleman says that have been pittee
to assajl him say 1t is false. IS,
MI Polk-Tbat there may be no msapprehension' te'
Great sscitsent took place. and tile Chairman called
She gsntlshen to order
Now, hsas Il specimen Of tho customary