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16
Month
January
Year
1843
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Cortgrèss lias pot workcd overmuch of Jate. The holiduys must be kopt, of course; an] ne half the session being passed, business ,ill doobtless coinmenco in earnest. ; No move for the admission of Texas bas , et been made. It is said tlial serious i ulties are in the way. There s no precedent ov taking po independent nation into our con:deracy! Then the Texans liave a feeling , f national pride about it, and are unwilling to! ccede to it, unless as a last resort. Büt tlio I lavocrats ntend to accomplish tlie annexation ' possil)le.Mr. Giddings retains !iis oíd ptfst of Chair an of the commillcc en clnim?. Five of at conioiittee voted at the last session to nsnre liim. Two oftliein are Vhig.. Mr. Lpavitt uritcs: "The clinncos of Hfej tve thrown our honored friend Giddings into' M seat at a doublé desk 1 lio ono I ed by the Hun. John Snyder, of i - a. Mr. S. s a vulgar, swearing, illiterate an, who would Ir.ive made a capital overscer, ly the ngrocs would havo outwitted him so j. nstantly; and for soine renyon, (natural j 7 mpííthy it is supDossd,) he has ahvays cakon t1 ecial pains to show his bruüshness whenever ly question has arisen in connection with t avery. Finding himself in circumstnnées lich seem'dto cimstrain him to bc a gentleman once, his nature broke nll reslraintF, and procured a carpenrer to set up a board peiö'n ccross the desk. The Globe was n an . itafiv at so briliiant a piece of practical black: t ardism. Says the celebrated editor of tha' bhcation- Mr. Snyder, in tliis silent way' r s spoken almost as emphatic eloqnence in r House of Represcntutivcfc-, as Cicero did ir. e Roman Senate, when, deöianding the v Ison of Caiiline, he siud, tiLet tiurr bc a dl belveen vs and the wicked." Is ncL that 3 autiful? 13nt thero is a man Iiere wl:ose ,-. ui is too little refined to comprehend thec.nssical beaulies to sec the resemblance betwcen tiic Democratie Cicero and liis ancieot nnmesake - so wliaí coes he, but to paste upon Mr. Giddings' sklc of the partilion these Unes from Pope: - "tíreat wit witfi madnoss surc is near nllied, And ihinpartUions do their bounds divide' OurPennsyivmia Cicero could not forego sofinean opporhmity to show his abilrty to carry off the pahn of elegant ülerature as wc!l as of eloquente, and placarued his siele of the plank with the following stanzas, which will düubiless obtain a place arnong the seiections in the "Viri Pennsylvanite," when the natives of Capt. Wiikes' antarctic continent study the English as one of the dead languages. "This ]ne"s the act of mutual concession. Tliis the wliite sido; tiie oiher abolnion; White is the emblem of'onr living God, Biack was Caija marked, when drivcn forth to Nod." "Therö have been some pelitions filed wiih the clerk under Mr. Adams's rule. One entered ycsterday, and reported in the Intelligenter of this morning, has created a good deal of inquiry through the day- most of our Soons baving been until tliis hourin profound gnoranceofthebeautiful system of humane cgislution wliich they are upholding. The ictition prayed Congress (o repeal so much of lie law of this District as reqnires tliata slave onvicled of murder should have his head cut )ff and his body divided into four quarters, and he parts stuck up ia five principal places ot he county." A bilí to orgamze the Territory of Oregon as passed the Senate. Itannexes it, for julicial purposrs, to Iowa. Each settlcr is to lave a secüon of ]i;nd. The Bill to repeai the Bankrupt law has icen discusfed in the House. M. J. C. Ingersoll oñe red a resolution proosing to aboíish capital punishmtm in public. rderod to be laid on tlje table. Mr. Slüdf, of Vermont, moved to susDend he rules with a view to presenta pclitiou on Slaveryí Ncgatived - Yeas 73, nayslll. Mr. Roosevelt offered a resolition proposing o repeal a law passed in Florida, which imlosoa a capitation tax on persons of color enering that Territory. The yeas and nays were orderedon a moion to lay on the table, and resulted - Yeas liJ, nays CO. Mesps. VVise, Cushing, Fessenden, Thompon, Weller, Kennedy, and sundry otiiers have lade their usual speeches about Mr. Tyler, 'higgism, the next President, which party is ïost corrupt, &.c. &.c. We fear the present Congress is incorrigib. There ore no hopes of its reformation.

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