New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-07-28

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WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE,
TFRoM OUR sPEoIAL " 9 9 ERE ~ s ~ bs4}.i T
4 WASHINGTON, July 20, 1856
Occasionally within the last few weeks Congress
has been seized witha spasmodic action OF business
and, amid the din Of political and personal warfare
has actually accomplished portion OF the
which the country expected at its hands The old
scripture rule that from him to whom much s given
much will be expected seems Of late years 50 lar as
Congress IS concerned to have been interpreted as
dreams are-by contraries The long session IS gene,
rally protracted eight or nine months OF the year VI
these near seven have already elapsed and scarcely
INVITING has been done. But still there have been,
now and then fitful CLEANS Of disposition TO WORK.
These have resulted, as your readers are already
aware, iii u hostile between the two Houses on
The Kansas BILL iii d sort Of senatorial stampede on
the Naval Board question, and in the oYerrulng by
the Senate Of the Presidential veto Of the Mississippi
Improvement. .S=5; :, 4, I'd
The upshot Of the Kansas imbroglio will be simply
this The House will passn bill that the Senate
will agree to, and the Senate will pass no bill that
the House will agree to- This condition OF things,
painful as ii is to the honest and
Is precisely the corsunmation most devoutly wished
for by the President the Cabinet the Kitchen Cabi-
net aud the outside and inside toades and aqueys Of
The administration, And for two reasons first, be
cause as long as the question is open, there will be
convenient excuse fol agitation both North and South
which is the very thing most desired both by Demo-
Gratis and Black Republi and secondly, because
since the failure Of the Cincinnati Convention to con
fer The nomination upon the Brigader, it supposed
they care about little else than quiet and unds
turbed enjoyment Of the spoils Of Office from Marcy
4 down to Tic lowest scullon IN the kitchen. The
Kansas question will, therefore remain open till the
next session Of Congress- and it may be that it will
even be turned oyer, as something entirely beyond
Democratic manage to the wise and pacific ad-
Publication Of Mr. Fillmores administration. ms at
a least, is the present prospect.
the administration at this time is the emphatic vote
by which the veto Of the Improvement bill was over
i ruled In the House, Of course, the President has
nothing to expect in the way of political sympathy
4 But that the Senate-the Democratic Senate-should
turn its back as upon him as did the
i convention Of tile same party {, short time ago al
Cincinnati proves to have been the unkindest cut
all. Now, indeed, he may realize something of thu
,
q teryiew with Cromwell and now be may learn VIVA
il is to live for party alone instead of country and
last to be thrown aside, by the party he has served
y with a contemptuous spurning. There is moral Z
be drawn from the career of President Pierce which
might be proftably studied by politicians ambition
i of political preferment.
And yet Notwithstanding these occasional effort
to dispatch the public business, much yet remains IN
done. This will be crowded into the shank end ofth
session. resolution has been adopted by the Ser
ate for adjournng on the 2sth of july but the Hous
\ will not agree to it. Indeed, much doubt if the
adjourn before the first of September. Some of til
r members are anxious to return to their honesty
Q the Northern and Northwestern members have n
idea Of releasing their comfortable hold of eight do
. lars day to say nothing of the pckings and stea
h ings upon the national treasury. They will resist
y au1OuTHlneLG W tile last,
y The resignation of 1Iessrs Brooks and Keitt
. generally approved by their friends as unavoidabl
lie under the circumstances Both Of them will be r
elected by reclamation, and both will resume the
seats in Congress before the termination Of the pr
I'd sent session. The camor of the North has expendt
e itself, and the frore which the circumstance oce
~ stoned will be hereafter regarded as one of those su
q den and strange ebullitions of popular passion
"a l.,
Ne The most noticeable and the most gratifying fe
ture in the political history of the times is the sud-
re and unexampled enthusiasm which has been kind
y in all parts Of the country in behalf of Mr. Fmo
al have Just returned from Richmond Va, where &C
80 yention Of the Old Line Wings Of that State ha
VI pronounced Enthusiastically in his favor. But the
is solutions which they passed do not exhibit ever
he faint idea Of the spirit which actuated the asse
nd bage The first men Of the State were present,
ne their earnest and cordial support of Fillmore was
monstrated amid the widest EXPLANATIONS of delig
ng None of the speakers could ever mention his ma
VI without the house ringing with enthusiastic che
me and applause.
~ Mr. Buchanan will not run well either in the Sol
nd or North. His distinct enunciaton OF the obi
les heresy of Squatter Sovereignty, together with
IN pelnicious doctrines Of the Cincinnati platform,
me cause him to drag heavily in the South, while hi
me not the man to suit the conservatives of the No
Ter Present indications point to brilliant and dccis
OF triumph of Mr. Fillmore, if his friends will only ST.
De firm. .&a'@-1
ost Last spring. in the glooiest hours of our fortu
as Iprediced that there would be revulsion popl
&C. sentiment and that Mr.. Fillmore would gain stea
lsy until the day of election. Subsequent events h
go proved that fell short of, instead of overshoo
a tba marx Those who were then incredulous of
ing GAGS have now an abiding confidence in the res
PIE The American masses may be hoodwinked and
ez co;ved freouentlv t in the long run thew will o,
this tue to the honor the glory and the welfare Of
are Republic. EssE
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NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
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