Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-06-06

perhaps tbere ~ not IN tins round world, q de-
Lucrative assembly, in which there is displa yet
so much ridiculous mummery, and ar,sto ocratioa
pomp, as there is in the Legislature Of Massa
chusctts; and he who witnesses the disgusting
scli-impor'ancc attached to, and arrogaicd by
body, which meets for the ostcns,ble purpos,
of celebrating, and consulting on the bes
mode TO advance the prosperity of the people
must be filled with amusement at the expense
Of the folly of the most grave and reverend
Seigniors.''
The Legislature Of Massa chuae.ts has now
been in session more. then a week, and thu:
far, it has not done any thing; it has not com.
Pleted the organization of the government o.
the State; but it is expected by those who are
acquainted with "Almanac making that that
important part Of Legislative duty, will be
accomplished II the course Of the ensuing
week.
Perhaps we are not at liberty TO interfere in
the affairs of the old " Bay State" nor do We
intend 10 do so. but we must and will say, that
the Legislature Of Massachusetts, is the most
formal and ridiculously aristocratical body we
ever dreampt or heard Of Nothing can be
done, unless a Committee is raised, to whom
the subject matter is referred, and who report
either upon its expediency or inexpediency, and
then il must be taken up in solemn debate, be-
fore it can be disposed Of F2r instance, if
the honorable gentleman from Northamp-
ton, or him Of the Island of oil and spcrma-
ce:i," moves that the waiter Of the House be
called upon to sweep out the hall, the affair is
referred to a committee of six, with power to
send for persons and papers, which committee,
after four Of five days del,beration, report, that
Your committee are of opinion, that tho Leg
slative Hall should be swept each and every
morning, and the waiter should be called upon
to answer for his neglect; and they arc further
Of opinion, that when the waiter sweeps the
hall, lie should first sprinkle The floor, and not
offend the nose of the houerable mcmbor from
westmorcland, or tie eyes OF the Reverend
member from pctersham.''
Now it does not concern liz, even 70 the val
ue Of Il rush-Eght, if the Legislature of 1Iassn-
chusetts, sit the whole year and bring forth
nothing. The members, for aught we care.
may keep their place until they wear ont the
seats of their inexprcssblcs, and blister their
noses. But it docs appear TO us, that the basi-
ness might be more rapidly disposed of, and
that too without subjccting themselves TO the
laughter and dcrision Of the world. At the
commencement Of the present session, they
dozed away the first day. in listening to the
Election Sermon ofProfessor Stuart, when they
adjourned, drank "hot Coffee" visited the
girls, and went to see Mons. Villalave dance
the tight rope, and eat horn bugs; and the
next morning resumed their ordinary duties,
vcys much edited with the events of the eve
ming.
There is something attached to these Elcc-
tion Sermons that we do not like, and we hope
they will be abolished. The pra acticc originat-
ed in the puritanical notions of our ancestors,
WIZ SohoiuCAcu ~ ioI IL pOuJ u as
scmble at husking, if the thing was not COM
menccd with prayer, invoking the especial
bcnedictions of the Great Jehovah. The Gus
tom leads TO many unpleasantrics, it costs the
people too much money, and u day is spent in
listening TO the prosings Of dull parson, when
it should be occupied in legislation. The can
didate selected, is generally chosen upon party
principles or by favor, and some of tho Ser
mons which have been delivered before tho
Massachusetts, Legislature, have been produc-
tive of very bad consequences, particularly the
one that was delivered in the year 1912. 1t
was high party production, and excited in no
small degree, the angry passions of that party
towards which its violence was directed.
BoLIvAR.-We copy from the New-York
Enquirer of Saturday, the following article,
and recommend it to the attention Of those of
our readers, who have taken any interest in
the concerns of the WASHINGTON of the
south, the great and good BOLIVAR:
Coiombia.--We learn from a friend who
has received the latest information from Bogo-
ia, that the Republic Of Colombia ,oas in a
more prosperous state in March last, than at
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