Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-12-01
Congress.

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Congress will meet on Monday next, the
5th day of December. The democrats will
have large majority in both branches, and
no doubt the organization will be effected with
little delay. Parties will stand as follows =
Senate, 36 democrats, 81 wings, s vacancies
in Maine, New Hampshire, N. Carolina, AL
ALBANIA and Mississippi. House, $50 demo-
Gratis, II wings and free soil. This will be
strong enough, and ensures the success OF
democratic measures and democratic policy.
The democratic nominees for Speaker and
Clerk Of the House will therefore, it is deemed
safe to conclude, be triumphantly elected.
The Presidents Message is to be forwarded
to the postmasters of all the principal cities
and towns Of the Union, located on Geographic
lines, and at the moment of commencement of
delivery in Congress, is to be placed in the
hands of the newspaper publishers. This
plan places the Message before the people
earlier than by any other method yet prepared,
at the same time distributing it all over the
Union for about the same moment the post
master of Boston gets despatch to place the
document in the hands of the printers, the
postmasters at Buffalo and Richmond and Gin
cinnati receive dispatches of like import.
That the message of President Pierce will
be document worthy of his past political
history, and as acceptable to the democratic
party as his first great Presidential speech
the imaginative have not doubt 1t will
be decided, bold, republican. a
Whatever efforts may be put forth in Con-
gress, by the opposition or members of the
democratic party inclined to make war upon
the administration, to interfere with and de-
feat the plans and policy Of the executive, we
have no doubt the authors of such efforts will
find in President Pierce something of the
courage and will of the elder Hickory His
influence will be exerted against lavish
expenditure of the public money, in favor of
economy in all branches of the public service,
and for the promotion of democratic measures
and the public welfare. The hangers-on and
stockholders who will leave no means untried
to coax or intimidate Congressman to favor
their plans to fitch from the twenty millions
Of pzOiic money, by means of fictitious claims,
giant enterprises, and other fraudulent schemes,
will find in President Pierce an obstacle they
cannot surmount--the man for the people, the
man who wiz stand by the people and protect
their interests even if forced to resort to the
stubborn pgwer Of the veto.
But the party of opposition in Congress will
he the whig party; and whoever lends them
n helping hand will thereby afford satisfactory
testimony of being with them and of them
The democratic members of the House and
Senate will stand by the President with little
or no exception. So far as Maine is con-
cerned, we are confident no more constant and
active supporter of the principles of the COM
promise, the inaugural, and the working poll
cy of the administration, will be found repre-
senting any State in Congress, than the dis
tinguished gentleman who, in a high position
of influence in the Senate, and by his talents
and personal worth, honors the State and the
nation. And the country will stand by the
administration, because they know they have
man at the helm who has proved himself on
all occasions to be an honest man, patriot,
and republican of the olden school.
Confident, says the Boston Post, of ga mes
sage in harmony with Union principles and
with American progress-with majority in
Congress elected to support democratic adj
mihistration-and having faith that the good
sense of the democracy must decide that the
welfare of the country is inseparably interwov-
en- with the integrity of the democratic or
ganization-we look with no apprehension,
but with the liveliest anticipations on the
meeting of Congress. We look to it for
measures calculated to continue to guide our
country onward and upward in its path of
commercial greatness and national prosperity"