The Potter Journal

Close of the Session of Congress.—Congress closed its sessions, at 6 o'clock on Monday, the 12th inst. The various Appropriation Bills were passed, including the Post Office Appropriation Bill. Much important business was crowded into the last hours of the session. Had not the whole session of Congress been taken up with the discussion of Kansas affairs, instead of legislating for the good of the country, Congress might have been ready to adjourn some months ago.—Sullivan County Democrat.

That's so Mr. Democrat, but Mr. Buchanan didn't like the idea of having his pet measure—the Lecompton Constitution—rejected by the People's Representatives, so the Session of Congress was prolonged, and millions of dollars of the People's money otherwise spent, in order that he might have the glory (?) of triumphing over the wishes of the people.

As the 'editorial head' of your paper is graced with the names of the nominees of the 4th of March Convention at Harrisburg, who accepted a platform which declared that the mouths of the people must be 'forever closed' to the discussion of the objectionable features of the Administration's foster child—Lecompton—perhaps you can tell us some of the reasons you had for prolonging the Session of Congress by keeping the Kansas question open—though you would gladly have avoided the 'discussion' of which you complain. There is a 'rule of life' which we have never known to fail of full exemplification by the course of human nature—applied either to church, state or social action—which is, that the advocates of a wrong principle invariably seek to avoid 'discussion' of their motives and acts. This, no doubt, accounts for your objection to the discussion of the Kansas question in Congress. We have no doubt that you will be glad to avoid the 'discussion' of it this fall in this Congressional District—as will, also, your friend Al. White.