Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-03-07
" verily believe that the country has uni.


versal cause for thanksgiving and rejoicing in
the fact that the S5th Congress has been num-
bered with the things that we're: that the coun.
try has now rest from its troubles and the in.
tsrests of the people negative security at least
from the miserable, partisan tinkering which
characterized its thriftIess legislation. Not
more burdensome and harrassng did the long
Parliament become to the people OF England, in
Cromwell's time, than has the scheming and
huckstering, the bargaining and selling of the
Both Congress, together with the executive i'm
becilty and servility, to large majority of the
American people. James Buchanan has been
TO the people what the Weird Spirit of the Sea,
in the fable was to the ''troubled islanders" y
He has not been perpetual cause of fear and
apprehension to them. Not that he has accom-.
pliShed so much that detrimental 20 them,
butthatlike the Spirit he has always been ringing
ruinous demands, nervous threats in their ears.
He has piled them these many months, with
overtures and schemes for which they had no
heart and from which a large majority of them
turned lonthingly away. He has asked them to
surrender the war making power, that their ia
Tiers wisely guarded from executive encroach.
ment, into his hands, and into these same hands
of his to be placed secret service fund of thir-
ty millions of dollars, to be used in channels
through which the light of day would never
ter. He has squandered, their money upon his
pampered minions and placemen beyond all
precedent, until now the expenditures of the
government have grown to the mamoth and
oppressive proportions of hundred Millions
No men ever sunk deeper in the general
tempt of those elected as his friends. To such
a'dePth has he fallen that in the very house of
his friends, with clear party majority he found
himself Mt last utterly powerless. He sent in
message after message urging the furthcrancO
of his schemes-he sent in upon the very floor
of the House his Cabinet counsellors to influ.
ence the votes of the peoples representatives
and yet for ALL time after time has been humili
ated with defeat. He, with an imbecilty and
suicidal fermentation, finding its parallel only
in the era of the English Charles the LIST, has
step by step, turning deaf ear all the while
to the murnurs of the people, steadily out
ragged the national sense of honor and democrat
lied the the whole tone of the official staff of
the country. Never people, we say, more
previously disappointed, than have been thou
sands of those whose votes elected James Blu.
chanan to the place he now occupies. They did
expect when that he had reached the summit OF
his and all Aemerican ambition, that he would
throw away those arts and wiles, those guile
full ways and duplicities for which he was
known to those who knew him Mt all, in his
former public life But such expectations
have been disappointed He has been all that
he ever was, as trickster and trimmer and he
has been more. He has UNANIMOUSLY deserted
the principles upon which he appealed to his
own immediate people and those of the sur
rounding states for an election. Yet, when
pressed by the factious councils OF fire caters,
he changes front, trembles pussilanimously at
their threats, deserts his people, and when con.
fronted face to face with one of their number,
impudently and brazenly asks, "And can you
not change, tooS" While the country has been
looking for help and while struggling underneath
unprecedented financial embarrassments, he,
like Nero, fiddling while Rome was burningu
has played a part in low comedy, by assembling
round him the short boys and long boys II
Tammany Hall Democracy, and drinking lethe
to their petty jealousies.
But soon comes change, we hope. He will
be without hope for his late schemes with the
next House of Representatives He has the
certain prospect of large opposition majority
toSdeal with: an opposition composed of ma.
terial fresh from the sentiment aud influences
OF the people, whose temper will be aught but
that of compliance with the piratical and
treasury beggaring projects with which the at
tention of the present Congress has been fritter-
ed away.
Tho Senate will DO pretty nearly equally di.
vided, and unless the Administration of James
Buchanan can reconcile itself to tho recornmcn-
dations of such measures as make for the peace
and; quiet of the country, the line of demarka.
ton between it and the peoples representatives
will be drawn 50 conspicuously as to make it
stand ont before the people in the election of
1850, as was the "graven image" before the face
ofancient Israel: something for their abhor.
renee, and calling for indignant humiliation
Ar Cumminsville, n. Y on Saturday night
man entered a graveyard, removed corpse
from a grave, and placed it in sack In leay-
ing the graveyard he was compelled to climb a
high fence, and the feat was. undoubtedly, diff
cult, with the dead weight the resurrertionist
carried. 1t would seem that the man had placed
tho rorTl IF The snrk ovpr lie sboutjarv that a