Year: 1861

The Thirty-seventh United States Congres

 assembled at Washington on Monday of thi

 week. The most important measures which hay

 ever been before the representatives ofthe Amel ican people for their consideration and decisio will be presented to this Congress at its preser

 sitting. They will be brought to consider tn

 various means which have been used by the Ez

 ecutive for the preservation of the Governmen

 under which they hold their title to represent II

 interests, and they will be called upon to oeviS

 other ways and means for the further prosecutor

 of the war against the rebels and the promp'an'

 effective suppression of the gigantic heoe'!,o"'

 The eyes of the whole American peop'e aie

 turned to them, and every loyal citizen VIII "a'ci

 their nroceediues with the closest scrutiny ana

 interest. There is but one feeling and one volce

 in the whole of the loyal states and that IS 0sd

 ,5s. 1,,;ou audNe Gouernment must oe prese'0eo

 at vbatever cost of men or money, that there

 sbal be no temporizing or compromising with

 the traitors, that there shall be no stint or mar rowness in the preparations for carrying on the war, that energy, frmness and decision shall characterize every department, both in the exc cutiye and congressional branches of the Govern ment and that the means employed shall be used judiciously, honestly, economically and wisely.

 We trust, and confidently hope, that the mem Der of Congress from this District will bear in mind, and act accordingly, to the unanimously expressed feelings and wishes of nearly every man that voted for him, and of ccery man of the opposition. Let him remember that while his gallant competitor is to-day serving his country in arms, on the feld that he can do no less, even he may do a greater service to his Government, if he will, in urging supplies for the army and in aiding by his voice and vote the men that are ar rayed in righteous force against the enemies of the land, so many of whom have gone from his own district and his native county. Let him re- member that he has in his entire district, the unanimous heart and voice of every man, woman and child in it, to back him in raight-forward patriotic course, that there never was and never will be another such opportunity afforded to dis play the highest characteristics of the STATESMAN and PATRIOT, and that the eyes of all at home will watch his course in the halls of Legislation with jealous care, and that for his acts in this session of Congress he shall receive from his constituents unbounded appreciation or unbound cd dissertation. There is no middle course to be pursued. A man now-a-days,s and especially, above all, Q member of Congress, must be above and know only lis Country and his lchole Country. The people will be no more con- ent with halfway men than with halfway meas. lres. Let Mir. WOODRUFF then show his hand md voice in every good and patriotic measure, md above all let him keep his skirts clear from he contamination of such rebels and traitors as Burnett of Kentucky, Vallandigham of Ohio and Ben Wood of New York, and of the measures they shall propose for the obstruction of wise and patriotic legislation and in the covert design of the ultimate overthrow of the Republic.