Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-02-09

which the raw material is cooked, parboiled
and chowdered into " hat is called legislation;
from the confusion worse confounded OF the
legislature proper and the wranglng OF the
more talented, but, if possible, more unprnc-
pied third house; from the dinning chaos ofjar-
ring elements, conflicting interests and war
ring ambition that boils and bubbles here, it
would be difficult for me to sift out more, wor.
thy of knowing than you will find in the pa
pers. Indeed, the members themselves, de-
pend, many of them upon the papers for their
information as to what has been done; and this
you would not wonder at, were you to become
an eye and ear-wtness Of the noise, the rum
pus, the riot that ushers into the world these
doings that appear SO fair and SO o'straght for
ward in the productions of those hewing, pol
ishing, fling, much-abused literary gentle
men, the reporters. A Legislative speech is
one thing-the report of legislative speech is
another, as different as is the shapeless mass of
the bears unlocked offspring from the smooth
adult animal, whose glossy jacket forms the
lady muf or the stocd's housing. 0! how
would Buncombe ring in derison, could the
honest constituency of that much abused coun-
try lengthen those organs that are the longest
in the assinine race, till they could heal the
addresses which are intended for their benefit in
all their pristine purity oflanguage-n all their
original length, breadth and strength of ex-
preston! 1t would be sight worthy to be
beholdcn, as strengthening to the lungs and
promotiye to health by the full exercise of
the powers of cachnation. This great legis-
lature-the centre, towards which the eyes of
the whole state are directed, and which ap-
pears to you in your ignorance and the dis
tance, as a sun, diffusing light and heat and
life around, seems here to be nothing more
than u huge jelly, revolving around JOHNNY
Brough as mcbula, transparent and comet
like in its appearance, with long spcttering,
sputtering tail of Watons, Thompsons and
Utters, streaming out behind and following in
the wake of tile mammoth that goes before.
f" But" you inquire, " what is doing?' Why,
many things. Local matters are legislated
upon, and personal matters where they do rot
involve Just claims for money, upon the state.
The bill repeating the law abolishng impris-
opment for debt is before the yHouse, and will
probably pass. Ifit does this legislature may
copgra iIate itself upon having done one very
wise thing, which will cost them some of
theirpopularity. And here is the rub; ifthey
find It out, the bill may 60 to pot, for them;
they will have nothing to do with it. Besides
this there are surveys for canals and railroads
ordered without stint, where popularity can
be gained and no money expended; and last,
greatest and most incomprehensbe is the
great work Bank Reform, with Brough, the
Ohio Benton, as its chpmpion leading the van,
ffer Medary, tuning up his penny whistle
marching next, and rabble route of hard mo-
ney men, agrarians and ignoramuses bringing
up the tail. These be thy legislators o.!
Ohio!
Irecollect you making the remark that the
subjects of legislation for the present session
having been prepared beforehand, everything
wonld go on smooth and the business would
be done up shortly. This is partly true and.
partly not. The leaders do not always find it
SO easy matter to carry their preparations
through. The rank and file have to be placed
in the awkward squad rather too often not
to exhibit some signs of stiffness after their
drill, and even the tactics, the faclngs, mar
chings and countermarchings have to be exhi-
bited in public before all the enlisted can be
made to cover their Gle leader.
Yours Sc. A. B. C.