326 NICKNAMES OF THE STATES. 



adjourns on the 3d of March. The President is inaugur 

 ated next day, and the Senate is &quot; immediately called into 

 session to act on the nominations of the new President 5 

 and though not a man of them leaves Washington, each 

 is supposed to go home and come back again in the course 

 of the ten or twelve hours intervening between the 

 adjournment and the reassembling ; and for this supposed 

 journey the senators are allowed their mileage.&quot; 



The session of Congress of the present year, (1850.) 

 however, has altered all this. It has been ordered that 

 &quot; no member of Congress residing east of the Rocky 

 Mountains shall receive more than 1000, and no member 

 or delegate west of those mountains more than 2000 

 dollars,&quot; and constructive mileage is abolished. 



At Washington the stranger sees the representatives 

 of every district of this wide country. They come with 

 the peculiar manners and nicknames of their several 

 regions. Those of Vermont are Green-mountain Boys ; 

 from New Jersey, they are Jersey Blues ; from Ohio, 

 Buck-eyes ; from Michigan, Wolverines ; from Indiana, 

 Hoosiers ; from Illinois, Suckers ; from Kentucky, Corn- 

 crackers ; from Tennessee, Red-horses ; from Wisconsin, 

 Badgers ; from Missouri, Pukes ; from Mississippi, 

 Swelled-heads ; while, with more dignity, those of New 

 Hampshire speak of their home as the Granite State 5 of 

 Massachusetts as the Bay State ; of Connecticut as the 

 land of steady habits ; of Kentucky as the Banner State ; 

 of New York as the Empire State ; of Pennsylvania as 

 the Key State; and of Virginia, proudly as the Old 

 Dominion ! Arkansas is content to be called the Bear 

 State, and Rhode Island with the affectionate familiarity 

 of Little Rhody. 



At the time of my visit the agitation upon the slavery 

 question was at its height. The first great speech of Mr 

 Clay on this question was made on the morning of my 

 first visit to the Senate, and the well-known squabbles 



