Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-19
THE -NExT coNGREss.


The Senate has already elected its officers, at the
extra session held the incoming of the present
Administration. The first business of the House
will be to elect Speaker and Clerk We can per-
ceive no good reason why Lynn Boyd should not be
| reelected Speaker, and John w. Forney, Clerk.
They have acquitted themselves we'll and to the sat
isfaction of the country in these posts Still the
members of the House will doubt resort, as they
should do, to caucus nominations; and these nomna
tons it will be the duty of every to acquesce in
and support.
The Detroit Free Press has article upon tho
subject which expresses views so well that we
present it instead of remarks of our own The views
of the Free Press will find echo in the South as
we'll as in the West and North for Democracy is the
same in all portions of widely extended country
That paper says:
awe look for a model State paper in the message
of the Executive. On all matters of principle Gen
Piercc's position is in way equivocal. His life of
steady adherence to the landmarks of the democratic
party-his unbendng consistency as a national man
his avowed opinions when he took the oath of of
fice-and his acts Chief Magistrate thus far, de-
termne unerringly what will be the character of his
future policy He will very probably reterate prn-
ciples and proclaim anew doctrines, and this is so
plainly and definitely, that no either misun-
derstand or mSrepreScnt them. That he will put to
blush those who have charged his administration
with affinties and affiliations with freesoilism we
confidently predict and that he will captivate again
the country by the boldness and straghtorwardness
of his declarations and by the Americanism of all
his ideas, we thoroughly believe. Having been suf
fcienty long in Office to be familiar with all qucs-
ton of domestic and foreign policy, may expect
such an exposition of affairs, and such suggestions
and recommendations as will enable Congress to act
Understandings, and the country to judge correctly.
If the inaugural address worthy of its author,
and an honor to the country, the first annual mes
sage of " our new President" will not reflect less
he he less TO he
other.
We do not expect that the deliberations of the en-
suing session of Congress will be perfectly harmoni
ous-that the of legislation will be calm and I'M
ruffled for seven eight long months of congress
sional sitting. That were to suppose moral impos-
siby Outside Of political considerations there
great diverse interests, and immense conflicting pc
cuniary projects, that will be brought forward we'll
calculated to produce agitation both in and out of
Congress. The treasury has thirty millions of sur
plus revenue, and how it shall be empted of this
sum is question in which vast number of specu-
laors, stockholders, and adventures feel deep IN
terest. Washington will be beleaguered, the avenues
of the capital will be swarmcd and the houses of
Congress will be Ovcrrun by patriots who think that
the revenue of the government should never exceed
its wants, and that the depletion of the pres
ent surplus be had the safer it will be for the
country! Legislation upon these and kindred mat
tiers, always fruitful of embarrassment, and general
ly attended with corruptng and demOralizing intu-
encesis likely quito the test the integrity and the
patriotism of the present Congress
The democratic majority in either house is so large
that, even though the spirit of faction may prevail
to extent, the administration will command
thorough support of the measures of its policy. Be
yond the confines of New York no member of Con-
gross has declared hostility the President and we
have fear that such will be the case. The sent-
ment of the great body of the people in other States
is decided in support of the administration that
few representatives will be inclined to encounter it."
~ The Register of "Wednesday last propounds
sundry questions to the Standard i'll relation to New
York politics. If the Editor will turn to paper
of the date, he will find our views presented at
some length the subject.
The Editor asks u.s. among other questions, if we
I" will join the Administration in hunting down the
Union and compromise Democracy of the North "
and at the same time hug the freesoilers to "
bosom. The Administration is not engaged in,
does it contemplate any such hunt. 1t has been act
ing in good faith, far it could act with propri-
ETY., to keep down the slavery agitation North and
South. We published statement in last, to
which invite the attention of the Register, show
ing that the Administration has appointed to office
in New York three Hunkers to one Barnburner; and
Barnburner has been appointed who did not stand
fairly and squarely on the Baltimore platform. The
Register fears notwithstanding the recent triumph
of the Sewardtes of New York, that the policy of
the Administration will at last unite the Democracy
of that State, and thus extingush Whiggery and
Seward for all; and if the Barnburners had
been thrown, by recent movements, into apparent
opposition to the Administration, many of the
Hunkers have been, the Register would have taken
their part to greater less extent and would have
reproached the President for alleged neglect of their
claims to notice and preferment.
The Register is the last paper to charge others
with sympathy for freesoilers That paper knows
that there is not Barnburner in the State of New
York who is not sound upon the slavery question
as Willard Fillmore, while the of the Wings of
that State are Seward and higher law" men. By
the way, is not the Register rejoiced at divisions in
the Democratic ranks, and a consequent Wing vic
tory which must result in the reelection of William
H. Seward? And does not the Editor already forcsce
that he will be required, pa of political excom-
muncation, to support Mr.. Seward as the next Wing |
candidate for the Presidency?
Personal Hon. Linn Boyd isat Evansburg, Penn
sylvana, understand where his wife has been for
some weeks a visit to her friends and relatives.
Washington Irving recently in Baltimore, and |
visited the Holiday street Theatre. He is in fine |
health, and Knickerbock9r spirits
Hon. c. G. Anterior, Senator from n. H., has been |
afflicted with paralytc stroke, but it is hoped he
has recovered.
U. 5. Marshal Wyncoop, of Philadelphia, the eff
cient officer, is at Browns.
The Hon. Fl. L. Stevens, of Michigan, is at Mrs. |