Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-02-26

any right to bring to bear upon Congress?
What business has the Administration TO
interfere between the People and their
Representatives The Executive and
Legislative bodies are coordinate, dis
tinct and equally independent. This sug-
geStion of Executive influence is there
fore a suggestion of an improper, even Of
an Unconstitutional, interference with
Congress. Let the People notice it.
Will Congress demand an investigation ?
Let the people watch.
Tie Debates.
The Senate has debated the Army bin,
Kansas incidentally, and excellent speech
Is, on the right side, have been deliver
ed by Messrs. Fessenden Of haine, Foot
of Vermont. Dixon Of Connecticut, and
Wilson of Massachusetts. There is
fair prospect of beating the Army bill.
The House has spent more hours in vo-
ting than in debate; and what there mas
been of debate has not been upon politi-
cal questions.
} The Union.
/ / make another quotation from the
South transportation its Wash
/ ingtou correspondent
J. can tell you dispaSsionately, that
= DiSunnn is imminent. If the Lecomp-
8 ton Constitution should be rejected, the
q" Southern representatives are not pre-
:. paret to secede from Congress, but they
d" will swat and be strictly governed by
* the ,ction Of their constituencies and
" there can be 70 doubt but that the mas
4" sesof our people at the South will, in
. the contingency named, prefer indie
= pe,drnce out of the Union to inequali-
'ty political slavery and unavoidable de-
" cay in it. There is a general feeling
= OF excitement, at once deep-seated and
ali'e to every movement Of the crisis
" while there are still some who rest care
- less and Indifferent under loose impress
$ siol that because the Union has survi-
vec 50 many periods Of danger there
is mthing really TO fear now"
Tbs, you will see, confirms in the
main he opinions l have expressed
Southern members will trait for THEN
constituents to act; their constituents
will 1oIit awhile, too, 1 apprehend, when
tie point is really presented.
add one more selection from thi:
newspaper. It is valuable witness;
The Democratic delegations from
" the Northern States are, the best o
/" then, uncertain in tie impending con
test"
This Is too true Of TOO many CT them
. There are enough of them whose rea
judgment is against the Lecompton out
rage enough. I mean, to defeat ii; bu
50 many of them are so uncertain il
the impending contest" that the ru=al
may be considered doubtful. This very
T. uncertainty in their position affords
, strong temptation to improper influences
Tie Recording AagsL
E Something more than a year ago,
( Young man Of Brattleboro' (Larkin G
= Mead, Jr-.) made "A statue of snoc
: which excited tie admiration of all he
il holders, and brought the youthful arts
IS to the notice Of friends Of art. Jude
o encouragement from one of these, III
h Mead has pa, this statue into marble
; and it is now Oh exhibition in the capito
> The jadgmen.o Of critics is highly favor
d bic. As a fist work, and in the highes
1s point-the genius to conceive and til
= art 10 express the spirit Of the recordin
~ dn-El-iIli> Is 4 success.
.e Business By Vermont Members.
IT Ia he Hou.e, Feb. 4.-Petirion of c
- tizens Of Vermont, for grant Of lands
.e the States for agricultural colleges pr,
IA senied by nr. Royce, and referred
r committee on public land-.
l. In tie House, Feb. 9.-Petition
y Nathan Whitman. Of Addison, VI, for
# p'u~ion for injuries received at the bait
Of Pla;tSha-gh; presented by Mr.. Wa
ton, and referred to committee on Inyali
Is Pensions.
at In Senate, Feb. 9.-1Ir. Foot pre-
a ented petition. numerou-ly signed /
citizens of New York, for law to pr
vent traffic and monopoly in the publ
lands, and that the lands be laid out
farms OF limited size for the exclusir
use Of actual settlers not possessed
other lands. Inasmuch as such b
(Mr. Foot'>) had already been reporie
at Dir. F.'s suggestion the petition Y
laid on the table.