The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1843-11-08
THE Observation-Disclosures
HEBARD &c.


This body adjourned Sine die on Thurs
day morning, afte: a session of % days.
Seldom has our Legislature more assiduous-
/ ly applied itself to business, than during the
last season.. In this respect what won.
lature, and congress whose members are
forever teeming with buncombe speeches Of
about as much practical importance or ap-
plication to the subjects discussed. as the
subtle dispositions of Sit Thomas Aquinas
about the food, habits, and occupations oil
angels. The meagreness of the compensa.
| ton doubtless contributes much to expedi-
tious legislation in this State. Indeed in
many cases we fear members have been
starved into too much precipiiancy in their
enactments, or 10 neglect the completion OF
measures highly conducive to the public
welfare. During this Session we regret TO
find that several important bills, and espe
cially one amendatory of the act of the
last year, enforcing the execution Of III C
murderer after limited time, were lost by
being crowded into the heel of session CIV
identity loo conc Sc for due delhi, ration Ov -
ing partly 10 the cause, and more perhaps
TO the apathy Of the legislature upon the sub
ject, the law against Usury which has been
producing so much popular discomfort in
this region has occupied scarcely a momen.'s
attention.
From the imperfect accounts which have
reached us, of acts in alteration of chapters
Il sections of the Revised Statutes, we may
presume that the usual number have been
passed.
In relation TO Rail Roads, for which sew.
eral acts of incorporation have been passed
we rejoice that the legislature has adopted
wise and enlightened policy in spite of the
senseless clamor of the locofocoracy against
these so styled aristocratic corporations. -
Their attempts to subject them to the re-
pealing power of future legislatures, and
thus rendering them wholly impracticabIe,
have entirely failed.
One or two things have occurred during
the session which in our view are of a very
extraordinary character. The summary
election of Judge Hebard from the bench
needs some more satisfactory apology than
has been given to the people by those who
have presumed to take the chief responsible.
ity. 1t was but last year that Judge Hebard
was placed upon the bench by the wing par
ty, and we are bold TO say discharged the
duties of the office with perfect integrity,
and capacity which due experience
would have rendered fully adequate TO the
station. This year he is suddenly thrust
aside without any adequate cause. by those
very men who last year contributed to his
elevation, and in opposition TO the very To-
cofoco candidate for Governor whom they
now prefer. This course seems to US un.
Just and ungenersas in the extreme, towards
Judge Hebard and his friends. 1t will dis,
turb the harmonious action of the wing par
ty. Ii is a concession to the Iocos, which
they never will rsciprocate, and is made not
only at the expense of Judge Hebard but of
many worthy men in our own party which
they can hardly forgive. We must believe
that in dropping Judge Hebard the legisla-
ture was taken by surprize, and upon sec
ond sober thought will regret step equally
injurious to the party, and unjust to the VIC
tim they have sacrificed.