The weekly Butte record., 1861-12-07
CONGRESS.

The Congress of the United States Of Amer
lea assembled, under the Constitution, at the
Capital of the Nation, on Monday. the I'd of
December, when it was found, upon calling the
roll, that full quorum for doing business was
present, and the President was duly notified of
the same, in the usual manner.
Ia the midst of stupendous rebellion, with
ten of the thirty-four States unrepresented
surrounded by military camps, batteries of
death dealing ordnance, and bristling bayonets
in the hands Of at least two hundred thousand
true and devoted men, the National Congress
meets in the Capitol-of late used as barracks
for soldiers called to defend it against the
threatened attack of parricides and traitors,
and thus, surrounded by all the pomp and cir
cumstances of grim-yisaged war, the Legisla-
tive branch of our Constitutional Government
assemblies. as it never assembled before, to
make laws for the nation, now perilled by the
unnatural treason of part of her own people
And among the true and loyal representa-
tives who have gone up to assist in doing that
which would tend to alleviate the present con,
dition Of things, aud endeavor to sustain our
Government and its priceless institutions, are
those who have disgraced and are unworthy
of. the Senatorial 'toga. Bright, of Indiana, is
there, with the stamp of condemnation upon
him from his own people, strongly suspected
rebel to the loyal cause of his country, and
without the confidence of his constituents and
the faith of the nation. What an unenvable
position for one who puts on the sembance of
virtue, though he has it not Powell, of Ken
.tncky, is there, too, occupying the same posi-
tion before his people and the nation as does
Bright, only his case is intensified by the en-
dorsement Of the address of the perjured traitor
Breckenridge. Oh, our Country, how thou
art cursed By the base ipgratitude Of thy chill
dren But then, the Saviour of mankind was
sacrificed between two thieves, and the con
trast only added to his glory. So may it be to
thee, in this crisis.
Such Individuals as they are, only seek the
Senate Chamber to throw impedments in the
way of the legitimate action of that body
They are but stumbling blocks in the path of
truth and right, and should be as summarily
removed as decency would permit No doubt.
but they, like their indorser, would :" exchange
their terms in the L. S. Senate for the musket
Of soldier if fear and pelf had not tenanted
the vacancy made in their composition by the
fight of truth ard justice.
Before another moon comes and goes, the
rebel Confederaey will be taught to know that
the President and his Congress hold the Cap.
ital Of the Nation for Constitutional purposes,
and that Chicago has not yet been sought for
as Capital. While the peripatetic parlia-
ment of the Congo Republic, strides around
from State to State, foraging upon a delpIed
people, and taking tithes for their support
FIRST, at Montgomery, Alabama. their play
ground then at Richmond, to give counte-
nance to the usurpatons of ambitious partisans,
and to draw the war from the Cotton States
and then to Nashville, to show that they like
to distribute their lavors, in the way of forag-
ing upon that region, and thus they will at tast
make their circuit by way of New Orleans
provided they hurry back to Alabama