Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-02-14
About the President-Co ngress-The Democra'
tic Party, &C.
From the Uo>hinyton States.

From the Uo>hnyton states.
III would take a Philadelphia lawyer 10
tell what party has majority in this
House" was the exclamation lately wrung
from distinguished Virginia Democrat by
an unuccouutable vote Of that body. Yet III
the assembly of which he spoke there is Il
nominal Democratic prcponderance "t TWEEN
" ,ote~ The Virginia member but gave
form aud expression 10 thought in the
minds of all rejecting men. and no honest
Democrat will blink the unpleasant truth EN-
bodied in IT, Or hustle and hide it from the
popular gaze Have Ne Il Democratic party
among u.s. We ask again. If not. where Is
it. IT, since the Democratic people. only two
yraro ago. sent up Ia this capital President
nnda Congress planted upon ana sworn IL sup
portthc timr-honorcd principles which have
borne the country to its present pitch Of pow
or and rcnown. us the representatives Of the
Democratic party. and that party has disap-
pearel, what causes have brought it about
and what men are responsible for it? These
questions have to be answered before the
grand popular Democratic inquest. Our can
dor in putting the pertinent query, has been
rcnsurcd by those who hold it wise and hui
name to spare the patient the necessary
pangs of the surgeon'S probe.
1t nav he that the spirit of true Democra-
cv has taken It's departure from the W hit"
House, and fled from the distracted councils
and personal ambitions in the Capitol: but
let no man believe it has ceased IL NItallze
the great body Of the American people. II
he To- whom was committed the lofty banner
Of foreign policy, woven and cScutcheon"d
by the Democratic representatives 1T Gin
cinnati has wavered in his marrh and let II
fall To tnc ground. the Democratic people will
take it up, and with cries Of 'Excelsor,' y
press it to victory, in holder and ADLER hands.
In that convention the foreign policy adopt
ed by the infant contederacy was repudlased.
and in it, place was substituted one worthy
Of "A people that have taken their stand with
the first Powers of the earth. Half the term
Of the Presidential standard bearer has pass
cI away. and the Para quay expedition stands
out the solitary landmark Of progress to the
summit Of dignity and honor, upon which
h" was pledged to plant the republic. Mex
ico and the isthmian tran-its have been
abandoned TO their fate, and to British aud
French intrgucs and spuadrons. Cuba il
farther than ever from Union incorporation,
while the national dignity has gone down 81
low that even the mongrel races of MeSlro
and Central America affect 10 despis" US.
In vain will the President throw the res
possibility If this inactivity upon Congress.
and plead the want Of constitutional power.
If Congress fails Of its duty, that is no cx-
ru>r for Executive irrclctiun. No Congress
could withstand the ring Of true Presidential
metal. and no Congress Is 81 stupid n not
10 be able to distinguish between the harm
les notes Of the shepherds pipe and the stir
ing tones Of the huglrs blast. The Prrsi-
Dent must do. ~ well as write messages. aud
when hr shows an ambition aboy" the APP
pointmcnt If village postmasters AMI the reg
ulatinn of New York clique politics, Congress
will believe him To- be an earnest man, whose
heart beats for the honor of his country, and
one worthy 10 he trusted with the sword and
the purse, TO maintain the stand of the re-
public at the rounci-board IF the nation. II
it does not. the people will soon scndup man
dates To their servants To support the patriot
President which they will not dare disUb"y.
But iftl EAecutiy. has not advanced the
foreign-poicy principles ot the Cincinnati
platform: if his offence in this is only a ne
2icct. Ec is chargcable with the sin Of com
mission upon great and vital question Of
Democratic policy-thc question Of Free
Trade. The President Of the whole coun-
try. he cannot forget that he was Senator for
Pennsylvania, and protection Of her coal and
iron is pressed upon Democratic Congress,
when he knows that partial legislation in all
its shapes "stinks in the nostrils" Of the Dem
ocratlc people who elected him. If there is
distraction in the Democratic ranks of Con-
gross: il the disgraceful spectacle i. to be
presented Of Free Trade stransulation in the
House fits Democratic friends, the impair
tlal pen Of history must ascrike it to the
combined influence Of class ayarlcc and Pres
idential influence. 1t il fearful odds that
this great prince pie Of freedom has to con
tend against. 1t is patronage and plum
der. literally combined; and timid Score
tary Of the Treasury. who was frightened
into submission by the sound Of his own
voice, uttered in one spasmodic squeak of
stands BY to witness the unhal-
lowed coalition 1t is time for the people to
speak 10 their servants"
= TIERCES more very superior Sugar cured
y Hams. recei, al this day, direct from Cincinnati.
would -ay to the public. that these Hams are ~