It was remembered that all the woes of the elder Adams' Administration, all the intrigues which the choleric President fancied that Hamilton was carrying on against him in connection with our French difficulties, had their origin in the extra session of May, 1797.

It was remembered also that the unpopularity which attached to the Presidency of Mr.Madison was connected with the two extra sessions which his timid Administration was perhaps too ready to assemble.

So deeply was the hostility to extra sessions implanted in the minds of political leaders by the misfortunes of Adams and Madison that another was not called for a quarter of a century.

In September, 1837, Mr.Van Buren inaugurated the ill-fortune of his Administration by assembling Congress three months in advance of its regular session.

John Tyler in turn never recovered from the dissensions and disasters of the extra session of May, 1841,--though it was precipitated upon him by a call issued by President Harrison.