Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-03-18
From the Ohio State journal.
ADJOURNMENT OF TIE LEGlS.
LATURE.

Ijority are praised FOR every thing which
they had better left undone. and only
not censUred for the only acceptable &C
that can be placed to their credit, viz
the resolution finally to disperSe; bu
even that was drugged with a provIsi
to meet again 10 July, at an exIraordi-
nary and unnecessary expense to the
people. The session, like all that have
gone before il, and are~neVer to come
after, "has been one of the most impor-
tanl ever held 10 Ohio" At least, such
is the expressed opinion Of the States
man, and taking into consideration the
amount Of good which nigh; have been
secured but was not, and the mass Of
evil enrajed which might have been
avoided, we shall concede that it de-
serves TO be deemed memorable. and
that is nearly the same thing. When
the Legislature met, the affairs Of the
State were deeply depressed, and when
it separated, enough had been done TO
close every prospect Of relief for the en-
suing year That which was intoera-
bly, bad has become inefhbIy worse
The spirit in which measures Of public
policy have been conceived, and the un.
principIed means by which they have
been carried out, have not only shaken
the structure Of our institutions as a
State, for the time being, but have left
US 10 grappIe with host OF difficulties
for the future, which the frmest resO-
luton and the wisest expedlenls, for a
generation 10 come, will be incapable Of
repairing.
1t is greatly TO be regretted that there
is no cne, who would wish to do poseri-
ty O service by writing the history Of
this Legislature. II it be Gny thing
more than a poetical conception. that
"vice TO be hated, needs but 10 he seem
the portraits of some who have figured
as leaders in the capitol during this
modern reign of terror might be emil
uently useful to those who are to sue
ceed them as guardians Of the pub lc
veal. We would be wi lag 10 assume
the task ourselves. bot that the daily
Iabors with which we are Identified
would disqualIIy us from executing I'll
perfectly. aud better tha, It be not done
at all, than not well done. Still the e&
ample can not be lost, if left unwrltten.
The Legislature has reared monument
to llselG which will withstand the ravag
es of time for many revolu n Of the
sun, end tradition, if the historian does
not, will preserve its nIamy In after
davs men will speak Of the abuses y
government and the mischPIs OF dema
gogersm as unparalleled except by the
Legislature Of Ohio in 1912.
1t cannot bo surprising that the Legs
lature does not escape the commenda-
ton Of the Statesman. The good opin
ion of that personifca'ion Of Vu)garlty,
imperlinencc, and cupidi,y has been
paid for out of tho Treasury. Never
has there been a legislature employed
more diligently in lavshrng the public
money upon on undcserVng reprobatc,
than the present. Doubtless the oppor-
mnily has been deemed too good TO be
lost, and as it might be the last which
would ever be afforded to tho present
State Printer, the reward Of partisan
services out of the public Golfers has
been proporloned TO the eXrgPncy of
he occasion. Besides, srothcr Impor-
ranl election is approaching, and If tho
munitions of war were not laid ~ now,
the contest on one side would fag for
the lack of an energetic support, The
editor Of the Statesman affects to deny
that the STATE Printing can possibly
reach S25 900, bu, we nvcr, that what
ever it may be, it might have been one
third less, without derriment to the gen.
erOl interest of the people, and that nj
ono half the sum, the advantages of all
the Legislation Of the winter would have
been most dearly purchased,
The whole number Of acts Of n gem
eraI nature passed during n session Of
thirteen weeks, is barely thirty nine!
Several Of these are merely forms such
as The fixing of the courts, the Ordinary
appropriation bills, &c Six are con-
necled with Bank Reform and sever
al are amendatory of other acts, passed
at an earlier dav. The mcHgre chsrac
ter Of tho legislation Of the winner will
strike the most ind fierent person, when
he gHncos al The titles o(lhe acts. The
people would he thankful that no more
had been done. had not the period OF the
session been prolonged so needlessly in
doing nothing The Statesman regrets
that n few bills were lost, through the
combined volcs Of the opposition" The
people win regre, that more did not
share the same fate, 1t is not often
that the minority are able TO control
The majority, but as the Statesman as
serts that such strange result has. in
lew instances, characterized the Incl.
dents of the session, we take occasion to
return our thanks, in The name Of The
people of the State, 10 that same Vigllan