New Englander and Yale Review Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...Distributors, and a Word for All. By J. A. James. These little volumes, fy three popular authors, have just issued from the press of John S. Taylor & Co., 145 Nassau Street, New York. They have, all of them, that chief excellence of a book, a fitness to do good. They have also the charm of elegance. There are no better works of the kind. PUBLIC AFFAIRS. CONGRESS. The twenty seventh Congress, just expired, has been in many respects remarkable. It was elected by a party suddenly and surprisingly triumphant in every part of the Union, and its expected destiny was, to relieve and to reform. Convened by a presidential proclamation at the earliest practicable period, earlier indeed than the election of some of its members, it has been in session, with only two short vacations, from the last day of May, 1841, to the fourth of March, 1843. Its first assembling was under the cloud of a great national bereavement. The brave and honest old man whose personal popularity had been a chief element in the success of the party which had inscribed his name upon its banners, had been struck down from the presidency by death. The Vice President had succeeded to the vacant chair, according to the provisions of the constitution; and the heads of departments, as nominated by the lamented Harrison, were still in their places; but Mr. Tyler had not succeeded to the chieftainship in the party that had elected him only to an office which, though sometimes honored by the occupancy of able and accomplished men, had never been found to require any superior qualifications. Confidence and a good understanding between the individual administering the government and the leading minds in the national legislature, instead of existing beforehand and preparing both to move harmoniously in o...