Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-30

J. Scene Of enchantment fairy-like and bright
o And how the winds romantically blow.
y, ,conf we have glorious sieigh.ride now.
win lovely oells the dearest little horses
AND Harry, he will 60 with me, Of course.
ADO we will gallop, Lord! can't tell how
WeHhave the ride! we'll have splendid dance
Andsuppcr, too, and some of that muiled wine
: And afterwards lii dear, devoted glance,
AZ we come hack by moonlight SO divine,
ana then one pleasure must ne er forget.
i.oaid heavenly be, If we could just upset!
4 HurYdhi
RI I'd The following article from the N. Y. Eve.
hfng Post points out the cause Of the DELAY in the
. organization Of the House and fixes the respon-
slhis'y where Improperly belong.-with the fac
t'on which adheres to the destinies of Franklin
fierce. How much longer will THE PEOPLE sub.
nit to the insolence Of such official scountrel.
ism?
POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
4 Can any he surprised, when they reflect on the
posture in which President Pierce has placed the
country, that he should be appalled, at the APP
proach of an organization of the present House
OF Representatives? An Executive who has sold
large majority of his constituents to conoea-
trate that phalanx of nullifers, whose cembina
4
pose nominee for the Presidency upon re.
iuctant peaple-who has broken the compacts
| winch confirmed the bonds of union-who has
destroyed the confidence, the kindness the peace
which subsisted so happily among the states at
his Inauguration, and who now evidently seeks
to involve the country in foreign war, to
avert the public eye from the mischief he has
done at home, has good reason to wish that Con-
gress may be dissolved without being able to per-
form its functions.
Charles the First kept his parliament at bay
| for eleven years. Would not our Chief Magistrate
be willing that Congress SO disagreably consti-
tuted as the present one, should at least post
pone its slttlngs for eleven months, which would
allow the Presidential election to pass, without
subjecting the existing administration to the
scrutiny OF the peoples representatives.
However this may be, it is certain that his sew
enty friends have resolved to give no vote that
can tend to the election Of Speaker. On the
contrary, they-have taken stand that cuts
them OIL from all connection with the body to
which they belong, except to defeat every at
tempt at organization. Their candidate, Mr..
Richardson, and the caucus by which he was
nominated, abjure the other two sections of the
House-the members opposed to the extension
OF slavery and the members who took the de-
nomination Of the American party. They will
have no fellowship with either. On no consider
oeAoA VIII tiltS give vote 10 one Or the Otler,
and they have taken such an attitude towards
both, by the insulting terms in which they de-
nounce the separation from the opposing Sec
tons of the House, that neither without dis
grace, can give a vote to the administration can
didate
The administration party, TINS standing aloof,
but casting vote, enables u meagre majority of
some ten out of an hundred and thirty elected
to oppose the administration to aid it efectually
in defeating the voice of that large plurality in
the House, which the polls show represent an
immense majority of the people. There
SERIAL gentlemen voting with this administration
minority, who are inclined to accord this plural
ity its rights. Some avowed it on the Aoor a
few have voted it, but enough are still held
by the influence of the administration, and the
resolves of the caucus, to defeat the only means
which now remains to make a Congress- The
train-bands Of the government refuse to adopt
the rule which is everywhere rcsorted to under
similar circumstances-that of permitting the
plurality to decide, where it is found impossi-
BILE for q majority to be had. They will not
even lend a negative aid to organize the House,
by withdrawing few votes from it without pair
ing off, so that the relative strength may be
maintained, and prevent the plurality from be-
coming the majority. Their whole effort now is
to keep the wheels of government at dead
lock- This it is enabled to accomplish by avail
ing itself of the stragg1ers who oppose it on the
issue which it has made the test of principle and
Of party. Nevertheless it plays into their hands,
and, by cooperating with them, obstructs the
election of Speaker by their joint votes They
unite in voting against the plurality rule, uni
versally adopted, as we have said, in such
cases.
In this they continue to vote down the prln-
ciplc of last resort, which is indispensable, to
make an elective government practicable.
The party Of the administration, thus allies
itself with q few factious members, not only to
over-rule the large majority of that section with
which they were sent by constituents to coop
crate, but to overthrow the Congress itself; and
for the express purpose of defeating the will of
the people by whose suffrages it was constituted
adverse to the views of the administration.
The principle on which those who hold the
executive stations proceed, is then simply that
of faction, which, if persevered in, by the gov
erning power, must lead to the submission Of the
people, to revolution or, at least to an arrest of
the regular action of the government.
And why do those who administer the gov
eminent oppose the accustomed course, in orga
nizing the popular branch of Congress, and pre-
vent it from manifcsting in the regular form of
its proceedings, the measures their constituents
have instructed them to submit for legislation?
The Executive power, and its partisans in and
out Of Congress, we'll know that this would, in
the result, be but second reference of the
great cause of public discomfort to the decision
of the peoples suffrages, and that the majority
of the House of Representatives, who are re-
Quired to prepare the measures demanded by
public opinion, would not themselves escape the
responsibility for their official conduct, to which
they have the right to bring those other repre-
sentatives of the people in other departments,
where the power, being of longer tenure, is more
remote from responsibility. The President and
the Senate have veto on the action of the
House, and whatever the discussions and DELHI
erations of the immediate representatives of the
people may bring forth for the restorations of
the public tranquility, by way of renewing the
rights which have been nulifed, their mea-
sures must fall into the hands of those who
have produced those difficulties, and who can
modify or stay them at pleasure, and subject
them again to the review and decision Of the
country. Why, then, this attempt to sup
press in the germ all consideration of the great
question called up for revision before the rep
eesentative body by the voice of the nation?
what an outrage, that this should be done,
when it has become practical issue, and
may come to an immediate result against the
sense of what is considered the sovereign mind
ofthe republic!
Every man must see that those installed in
power have resolved to subject the national wi II
| w saS VIZ VA VIZ Aiiat tAlo AoSAAASAy
Of the government-the ofice-holding influence
the patronage involved in the expenditure of
| sixty millions annualy-the party organization
| welded by National Convention created and
conducted under the arrangement of govern
ment officials, are all nowput into requisiton to
Illustrate the regular working Of our representa-
| tive system.
\ 1t is essential, then, for those who Have
dertaken to battle the authority of the nations
sufrages, that they should contrive every OBJ
| struction to the easy movement of our popular
| institutions; and nothing can be better for q
general principle Of action in an administration
bent such design, than to contribute all in its
power to give sway to the minority in every OPP
posing majority, and to foster fractions on all
sides, to divide the masses, that those in power,
| being an organized minority, may conquer the
many.
GoDEYis LApY's NAGAzlNE-Mr. JOHN l..
Moons, of the "Periodicel Depot" corner of 4tb
and Washington streets, has laid upon our table