The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1839-01-25

State Legisiature.-Ths body adjourn.
I'd on Tuesday morning last, after ses.
,iou Of fffy.one days. Tho proceedings
we're brought up 10 our last 10 Saturday
and the Titles Of the Acts passed, will obvi.
.,e The pecessity Of more detailed account.
legislative bodies have been frequently
compared, during the last day or two of
their sitting, to Slaughter. houses and the
attitude of the simiie will be acknowledged,
= far as regards our Legislature, by the
ambition Of Bills and Resolutions winch
were killed on the last business day of the
Session.
Let us, then, DO consoled for the tempo.
,afy failure Of many important schemes, 10
whose success we have looked with anxIo.
10 and interest," since our Legislators have
erected on firm and immovable pedestal
The honor and the prosperity Of their State.
MANY propositions OF incalculabc beneti,
have heretofore been defeated by the art,.
fees Of demagogues who have been enabled
10 impose upon the credullly OF the PEG.
n.
viii be overthrown, when the honest yeo.
many of tho land view, ~ It's true HIGHT,
the immense advantage TO be derived from
liberal system Of Internal Improvements.
Let tho voters Of the several Districts
nnclion the Bill for establishing Common
Schools aud they will have founded on a
secure and permanent basis the welfare aud
honor Of their State. They will place cur
free institutions on m om.nenco not 10 be
shaken by the attacks Of fana,icism or NO.
lepce-agalust whose base the storm OF fac.
ton and dsc1nient may in vain hufl It's lu.
". The popular intelligence ls the nigh.
Il leyer of free government ~ despOilc
Aod iyrannical nations alone, can ignorance
boye TO defy the supremacy OF reason and
Il lusllce. We bal! as the haI bipger OF q
tngh,er and happier err, the passage ol
this Bill by our Legislature. It's success
vii he the downfall OF error aud corrup
noa. Popular demngosucs eau no longer
sand up before an honest aud well mran
,ag constituency, aud rail sgains. measures
calculated 10 advance the prosperity ot
lheir State. Such efforts vii b. looked
upoa IN their true light, aud ffoWned down
By ihe voice Of popular condemnation. The
temagoeue may, IN vain, ended,ot TO pro
Eagat. his hercsics VISIONARY upsiaris may
shcll encouragement, and success With no
,TaiL Their motives hnd purposes vii he
understood and rrpIchai~d aud their unlir
Il
principles will have no mote etfec, ~i'h the
pcnple, than have the ioamlng waves on
ne iliniy rock, aealns, whose sides they
cash ard break with mpoteni fury.
Some genilemen m the Legislature
remed to be afraid of shocking public sen.
haeni by this decided stand. Wcare con.
h.eui they will be- mistaken, The people
n North. Carollna will not withhold their
assent 20 measure, the bruchis az which
are To hc the property aud inheritance ot
lhrir cL:ld.rn. Ia tav-t,c" for ordinary
furposcs the application Is uuknoan and
imfoic~piibic hut, 10 this instance, Il -
expended IN 1911 view &c ttrlr osn home.
Hsads--a ~ seen in the school mouse, the
hlshlng ,hrongs IL innocent children, and
% the daily improvement q their osa oil,
muns. However -irnog NAV 10 their
gasp uaon property here - temptation
irresistible. I, IS the drn1 Il childhood
tal uf innocence 90 the everlasting tFea.
pty Of a PareoI's bcatf. And ~ill II be
c.shOnared 80, holy un'u'e, thou dest
tsyer plead in VAIN - Ral1cA Rcgiaer.