Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-03-21
THE PROBABLE COMPLEXION OF THE NEx1
CONGRESS.

CONGRESS-.
TIE importance Of successful administration Of
the government for the next four year, and the
desise Of patriotic men Of all parties to afford the
President every means necessary to that end, gives
unusual interest TO the approaching Congresiora al
elections. With az opposition msj0rity in Con-
Rress, whatever virtue an administration can pcs
sss, must be necessarily simply of negative char
sctsr. The country has sltested its confidence in
the wisdom snd patriotism Of Mr.. BUCHASAS Il
has elected him its chief Elk eutive upon certain
fixed and declared principles Of governmental po.
icy. To enable him to apply those principles and
give full scope to the purpose for which ne was
selected. the country ms. furnish him with Con.
gress elected upon the same basis and disposed to
work in harmony with the President aud his Csbi-
met advisors With Congress, composed as the
one recently adjourned, Of a reckless and de-
teruined opposition ready even to stop the wheels
Of poverpme1t to defest al administration ness
ure, the President will be powerless for gco1j ex
cent to hold the country for another four years to
the precise position in which he found it, leaving
to another Presidential struggle to redress tie evils
and effect the good which it should be the province
of this administration to accom- ish. II, on the
contrary, we can secure in the approaching cleo
ton a majority Of Congress, coinciding with the
democratic party upon those declared principles on
which the present administration was brought into
mower. an that has been promised and sll the
country expects will be happily realized in wise,
healthy and bene6cent public policy.
The members of the next Congress have already
been elected in ell the States except Rhode Island,
Connecticut Maryland, Virgins, North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, LouIsiansi Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Texas and Missouri 10 those
States that have already elected, the political com
pIexiou Of their delegations stand: Democrats,
sixty touT-OT position, niHety. The political com
plexion Of the delegations Of the States (sbove
piven) vet to elect stood in the recent Congress:
Democrats, forty ssUsa-Opp osition, thirty three.
II viii thus be seen that to secure a m,jorty Of
the House, lls members tie democrats must gain
seven members over their strength in the last
Houss in the States above, yet to elect. That they
will do 50 it s only necessary that the Democracy
sbonId be true to themselves, and cordially unite
in the spproaohng contest as they did in the great
struggle for the Presidency. By reference to the
returns from these States in the Presidential cleo
tion, 1t will be seen that the Democracy carried
districts sufficient then represented by the oppOsi
ton. TO give US the gain necessary to secure
Democratic majority Of the House.
We trust, in view of these considerations that
tsscountry will be fully aroused to the approaching
Congressional elections, and that every effort viii
bs made BY the Democratic masses to preserve
harmony ard concord in our ranks and to suppress
tbs evil of conf citing sspirsuts-