The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-11-30
The meeting OF Congress.
B. J. BEAN, Secy.
November 20, 1866.

The Meeting Of Congress.
On Monday next, the third of De
cember, commences the last session o
the Thirty-ninth Congress, which
closes on the 4th Of March, 1867. We
use the word Congress, but the body
to which we referis very different from
that which is established by the Con.
stitution. A Constitutional Congress.
is made up of Senators and Represon.
tativcs from every State, and it is ex.
pressly provided that no State shall be
deprived of its equal representation in
tho Senate without it's own consent.
The men who meet at Washington next
week represent only a portion Of the
States, who, by a daring and unscru-
pulous usurpation, have seized the
power that belongs to all, and by force
or fraud deprived ten States Of their
Constitutions representation In every
sense of the word they are q body of
revolutionary usurpers, who are un-
known to the Constitution and laws.
The country looks forward to their as
sembling with the greatest apprehen-
sion. That they contemplate an i'm
mense amount Of further mischief is
we'll known, and the moderate and
peace-loving among us consider their
appearance at the Federal capital a
greater calamity than the arrival Of
the worst pestilence upon our shores.
What little confidence may prevail in
political and financial circles is greatly
shaken by the dangers which compass
their action. The people could well
afford to pay a most incalculable sum
of money to dispense for a year with
this terrible political affection, which
threatens to plunge everything into
anarchy.
The patient, lOng-enduring and for
bearing might derive some consolation
in the fact .thht the session terminates
on the 4th Of Marth, were it not we'll
understood that before it adjourns it
will take steps to convene its successor
Immediately, ten months before its
regular convoostien, thus virtually es-
tablishing = perpetual Congressional
session. The most stout-hearted may
we'll be appalled, at such a prospect,
and cordially welcome any remedy that
would saw the country from il. Per
petual sessions will enable them to sub
vert what there is left of the balance
Of power between the different depart
ments Of the Government, and tocom
plete the usurpation they have com
meneed. We are to have, it seems, a
reiteration Of what was known in
England as the Long Parliament"
when that body deposed and executed
the executive, and established itself as
the ruling dynasty in the State, becom-
ing at last so vile and tyrannical that
the people gladly welcomed their dis
persioh by the bayonets of a successful
soldier, and accepted a p~rotectorate of
Cromwell in itsstead. That parliament,
like this Congress, was o mere frag-
mentary rump, which, by it's expulsion
of members and its frequent ''purging''
Of annoying minorities, had dwindled
down to a 1.-THE Of its old constitutional
proportions. The men who meet at
Washington on Monday call themselves
the representatives of the people ofthe
United States. In truth aud in fact
they represent but little more than hal
of the people in twenty-six States, anC
arerepudiated byamajority of l ,OOO, OOt
in the whole Union. But, ignoring
this fact, they are flushed with AFRO
gance and pride, and have the audaci
ty to insist that their usurpations hay
been approved and sustained, and pro
pose to legislate upon that basis
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