Year: 1862

Oeo" occupo9 IN fruttless and frivolous
disca'sssons having no bearing upon the issue;
and bill has been even introduced by the
Chairman of the Committee Of Ways and Means
violatingsthe public faith by proposing to sub
stitute depAsciated paper for gold in the pay
ment Of the Interest Of bonds already issued on
the pledge thatthe interest was to be paid in
specie. To crown all, it is proposed in the
same bill to issue new bonds to the amount of a
billion Of dollars. Che interest to be paid in
this paper money; while at the same time the
action of the people in the late elections is
treated with contempt. and majority in Con-
gress expresses Its determination. in defiance
OF the popular will, TO 60 through with its re-
vofutionary programme In view Of the ma.
uonai disaster at fredericksburg, which its ac-
cursed policy has produced, ii perseveres in Its
crimes. Let 1t, by ell means, 90 ahead II will
soon be brought up with short turn.


There are certain periods Of history which
arc eminently distinguished as marked by the
singular exhibition Of madness, folly ana crime
made by bodies of mon having the title Of con
ventions, pariaments or congress1s The first Of
these exhibitions Of disgraceful legislation to
which we shall refer is known as the Rump
Parliament, the Speaker Of which was the no.
tOrious Praise God -Barebones. The next record
of the madmen who figured in history and ex-
hibited the follies of so-called parliamentary
assembly is the famous body known as the
Jacobin Convention Of France. at the head Of
which was the notorious Robespierre. The first
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belongs to the seventeenth century; the second
appeared at the close Of the eighteenth; and
now, in our own day, which is the close Of the
nineteenth century, we have Congress in
this country which is tending In the same
direction, and which, were its existence not
4th Of March next, would rival in folly,
fanaticsm and despotic oppression its pro-
totypes in England and France. There is
one thing in which 1t materially differs from
the Rump Parliament and the French Con-
yention. These bodies were vigorous-the ma
radicals exhibit the disposition to perpctrate
oil the crimes and follies of their predecessors
in other countries; but they have neither the
intellect, the genius nor the courage to make
them formidable after all.


All the rascality, the peculation, the fraud
and fanatioism which have ever characterized
former bodies of falsely called representative
men seem cumulated, piled up and aggravated,
in the present abolition Congress. This is ex-
hibited in the devotion of tho radicals to the
nigger and their determination to sacrifice the
country and all its interests to the odorifcrous
woolly head. In political and financial frenzy
they emulate the Jacobin Convention and seem,
like it, bent upon the ruin Of the country by
creating quasi system Of assignats and by
every other species of wild extravaganza and
violent aspersions of better men. They may
be most appropriately called the rump Of q
Congress; for their existence is defined, their
acts are repudiated by the country, and bet
ter set Of men have already been elected in
their stead, ready to take their place It was
indeed high time that this abolition Con-
gress, composed Of men many of whom are
nt only for the lunatic asylum. should be
dethroned from their false position, and that
their crimes and madness should be finally re-





reclamation, by an indignant and outraged
people.


Now that they have but brief space in
which to flourish and to continue to play their
fantastic tricks before high Heaven" there
is nothing too mad, too foolish. too destructive,
criminal and ruinogs to the country which they
are not likely to attempt. The only hope of
rescue from their wild and insane legislation is
to be looked for in the firmness and determine
ton of the President to check their schemes
by interposing his veto. A. foretaste of their
insane purposes has already been given to the
country in the bill to destroy what remains OF
the vitality of the currency by drowning ii be-
meath the overwhelming deluge of All unlimited
issue Of irredesmable paper. This is out-Jaco-
bining the widest Jacobins Of the Robesperre
epoch What else may be expected of this Con-
gress may be surmised from this initiatory step
Their responsibility is fearful. Indirectly, if
not directly, as the protective power provided
by the constitution 20 aid the Executive by their
wisdom and control Its Cabinet by their prn-
dence, they may be held responsible for all the
crimes mismanagements and long delays of
this fratricidal war. They have turned an
emeae which might have been put down 10 .
few wecls into a long. protracted war of years,
TO which there seems no end. They have he
stroycd, or al least deprecated and nearly
ruined. the currency Of the people, the wages Of
the Industrious and laborious population. De-
feat, disgrace and ruin have followed in
their footsteps. Millions of money have been
cast away to the dogs, expended idly. use
lsssly and to no purpose. Above q hundred
thousand precious lives have been cut off
and lost through their mad course Of action
and miserable legislation. Az many thousands
OF brave men. The bone and sinew Of the coun-
try have been sacrificed, msftilated and Grip
pied for life. Such is their record, such lie the
horrible result Of their ineompetency, OF