If Richmond were to fall, the Confederate Congress, executive, and heads of departments, would all be fugitives.

" Congress Becomes InterestedWashington to Baltimore Line ProposedFailure to Secure Foreign PatentsLater Indifference of CongressLean YearsSuccess at LastThe Line is BuiltThe First Public MessagePopularity.

The Congress became by force of circumstances a provisional government, and as such it might well have claimed plenary powers to meet an immediate exigency.

What a congress of ermined kings is this circle of hemlocks, which stand, white in their soft raiment, around the daïs of this woodland pond!

It was at a recent examination at her school that the question was put, 'Who makes the laws of our government?' "'Congress,' was the united reply.

The year 1844 was drawing to a close and Congress still was dilatory.

Congress is a trustee under the Constitution for the people of the United States to "dispose of" their public lands, and I think I may venture to assert with confidence that no case can be found in which a trustee in the position of Congress has been authorized to "dispose of" property by its owner where it has been held that these words authorized such trustee to give away the fund intrusted to his care.

His greatest achievement during that Congress was his speech in defence of General Jackson,a speech begun when the seats and halls were comparatively empty, but concluded in the presence of an overwhelming audience.

I was then forced to consider the best remedy for this omission, and an immediate call of the present Congress was the natural resort.

He had declared that the Congress was a Congress of only a part of the states, because Representatives from the states reconstructed according to his ideas were not admitted.

This famous “Congress of Vienna,” which took place 1815, is a fair example of the way in which European lands have been cut up and parceled out to various monarchs without any regard for the wishes of the people.

And are not the thousands in the District, for whose liberation Congress is besought, unjustly deprived of their liberty?

In that Congress were two men who from that day on for forty years were great political leaders.

[Sidenote: Nature and powers of the Continental Congress] The Continental Congress was an assembly of delegates from the thirteen states, which from 1774 to 1783 held its sessions at Philadelphia.

This could hardly be done if congress were the treaty-making power.

The Peace Congress that must sooner or later meet may itself become, after a time, the Council of a League of Nations.

Now call to mind, that Congress is the local and only legislature of the District of Columbia, which is placed by the Constitution under its "exclusive jurisdiction in all cases whatsoever."

HOW CONGRESS IS ORGANIZED.

Thus a congress, a council, a committee, a jury, a sort, or a sex, if taken collectively, is neuter; being represented in discourse by the neuter pronoun it: and the formal plurals, congresses, councils, committees, juries, sorts, sexes, of course, are neuter also.

This Peace Congress is too big a job for party politicians and society and county families.

"Sir," said that individual, "do I understand you to mean that the Congress of the United States is a useless expense?" "Well, sir," said Mr. P., with a smile, "as it costs a great deal and does very little, I cannot but think it is both useless and expensive.

In reply to your inquiry in relation to the disposition of the said papers, I am directed respectfully to suggest that all which it is absolutely necessary to lay before Congress are the items 1 and 2, which, with a general map now in preparation, will contain all that will be of any general public interest.

We are fast reaching a time when without any such limitation the Congress will become an unwieldy body.

Congress is really the commander-in-chief.

The Stamp Act Congress, 1765.Colonial congresses were no new thing.