Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-24

Taking seems 10 be, as usual, the ordtI " 'he
day in Congress. Ii was hoped that the business
ofPresident making having been disposed oil Tor
the nresent the two Houses would have devoted
themselves. this session. 70 practical and prohia-
bic Legislation. But the hope has proved 'an
and lin the language of the Georgia Chronioie)the
members still drone along with their internina-
BILE stream of bald and empty talk Every small
beer politician who has managed 10 attain a seat
thinks il obligatory upon him to give vent TO
speech or two: generally nobody knows what they
are about at the time and the chances are thai
he does no, know himself, till he sees it modi.
fed into some form aud comeliness by the report
er and printer. No business can be done until
nearly all the members are delivered of the elo-
auence which has been fostering in them during
the vacation consequently for 'eanf q f'"e' b"
siness most pressing and important 10 the coun
try is peclected-naiional interests tn" most VI
,el suffer. that members may have opportunity
90 d;.coss their own iranscendent merits or those
.,f ,be;r marty Our Neros fiddle while Kome
burns.
How il happens that the speech making mania
Il. more prevalent among us than ia any other civ.
;l;zed nation is a speculation for the learned to
perplex themselves with. Whether il is that We are
by nature m ore tonguey or whether II originates
from the decided preference our people have for
the ialker rather than the worker, or whether
there are too many takers by trade IN our legis
latiye bodies certain it is that the speech making
disease prevails TO u no.ious extent. Public meet
ipps and conventions are announced with great
flourish of trumpets. to promote some important
object: very little is done, blu, great deal is said
Al tba Who WTifp he
resolutions with which the widely expanded and
elongated proceedings invariably finish off, and
which are strung along after them like the tail of
boy'skite.
A vast amour, Of the evil in Congress might
be abated If the members would only consent 10
leave their party differences outside the doors OF
the Capitol, and there discuss them in their own
time. aud when they had nothing better to def /
they would remember that they hold their seats
not as Wings or Democrats Americans or he?
publcans. but as representatives, of the whole
people Party rancor has risen TO such a bane.
full height among US, that n Congressman seems
70 think that he represents. not his whole consii-
tuency. made up Of people Of different political
opinions, but only the party majority at may be-
not one half his constituency, which made him
what he is. Accordingly, he spends the time
which ough, to be devoted to the interest of the
whole people in speeohifying 10 prove 10 that ma
jority whata good party man he is; IN pandering
TO their prejudices, aud in rousing their anmos
~ against his and their opponents Thus IT |
happens that these misnamed representatives nnd
Senators represent net tho interests OF the Whole
people. but only the political notions Of n part
The evil is great and increasing yet we see no
remedy for it unless the people themselves un
dertake the cure, (which they will never do as
long as they continue to be caioed by their bah
bling party leaders, or some Cromwell or Bonn
parte arises to turn out the drones at the point F
of the bay net.