Worcester daily spy., 1859-03-04
THE FOURTH OF MARCH.

lnE xOO11n OE Mh10hs
The thirty fifth Congress will adjourn some
time to-day. 1t will be remembered in his
tory for having initiated great deal of mis-
chief, without accomplishing very much of
evil or of good by positive Legislation. Some
of its worst schemes have wholly failed 9th
ers have been compromised, and still Others
presented in such plausible shape as to par
TALLY compensate for their bad features, On
no section of the country will it leave who'll
ly satisfactory impression. At the South, it
will be remembered that every scheme of fill
clustering and robbery which has been brought
to the notice of Congress has signally failed.
AT the North, the feeling will be universal that
restrictions, bargains, and compromises, have
been imposed-sometimes by the votes and en-
couragement of our own representative
which could not be submitted to without
regret or shame ; while the astonishing
depravity and corruption, which has been
developed, but not punished, in connec-
ton with the whole system of legislation,
will leave an impression of sadness upon
every honorable man who cherishes an in
terest in the public welfare.
The organization and disposal of the terrific
ries has been the most exciting and the most
important subject of consideration. The re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise by the thir-
ty-third Congress introduced the new principle
for their government, which was the especial
apple of discord in the 34th Congress as well
as in that which is now ended. Kansas was
the field of the first battle. This Congress will
have the questionable honor of having put an
end to that struggle by means of trick as dis
honorable as was ever resorted to by political
gamesters. With population composed of the
best blood Of the country, sufficient in intelli-
gence, in character, and in numbers, she was
brutay thrust out of the Union, while other terri
tories, confessedly inferior to her in all the ele
ments which constitute high-minded STATE, but
of different political tendencies, have been well
coined, with open arms, to all the privileges of
the confederation. This unreasonable and
unjust discrimination will be remembered, and
when the opportunity occurs, as it most assur-
edly will, for that satisfaction which is becom-
ing to honorable men and to a republican gov
ernment, they will avail themselves of it with
out delicacy and without fear.
No previous Congress has ever been called
to investigate and to guard against so much
official corruption as this one. Very few, who
have had the duty of awarding contracts, of
controlling appointments, of directing the fnan-
cial affairs of the Government, have not been
detected in such transactions as would have
sent them to the penitentiary if any but
the Government, had suffered. Defalcations
in the departments, bribery in the legis-
the qualities of stealing which avarice could
desire or ingenuity DEVISE have been prac-
ticed, with only the restraints of cautious
respectability. A proper sense of decorum in.
duced Congress to set on foot series of inves-
legations which have resulted in the proof that
the evils exist, but in no recommendations of
discipline or punishment Why should there
be any2 When men who enjoy the confidence
of States, and of whole sections of the country,
are able, without rebuke, to urge general and
causeless warfare on our weak neighbors for
the sake of better opportunity to steal their
jewels, it affords ample justification of all the
peculations yet committed on a more private
scale. Why should little knaves hesitate to
steal ck-knives and dimes, when great knaves
are attempting, with impunity, to steal islands
and States
Among the more distinguished public men
whose official duties close with this Congress,
are those veterans in political service, Houston
and Giddings. Both have been set aside by
their constituencies, with an ingratitude which
it is difficult to comprehend and impossible to
forgive. Houston, however, with his cultivat-
ed procliyities for 'roughing it in the bush,"
will be heard of in the far Southwest and may
yet return to the scene of his long and honor.
able labors.
For twenty years Joshua R. Giddings-great
and venerable name-has been the first of the
faithful representatives who have maintained
in Congress the standard and the cause of the
anti-slavery people of the country. For many
years he stood alone by the side of John Quin-
cy Adams, whan that hero soldier fell upon the
field, Giddings assumed his mantle and contn-
ued the fight. Once, in 1912, he was censured
by the House, on the motion of John Minor
Bolts, for introducing resolutions declaring it
incompatible with the national honor to re-en-
slave the Creole negroes whom the British
Government had enfranchised at Bermuda,
whittier they had drifted while voyaging from
Virginia to New Orleans. Giddings resigned
his seat, but the brave old Ashtabula districtre-
sented the insult, and returned him by splen-
did majority. Since that time, wherever the
war has ragged, on the annexation of Texas, the
Wilmot Proviso, the Compromise measures,
the Amistad claims, and on all the questions in
which human rights were involved, his white
plume has danced foremost amid the storm of
our battle. Shame on the conspiracy by which
sshe has been overthrown!
CoxSrcrNcUT.-The examination of Samuel
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