Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-03-20
LEeIs1ArrvE Fux in B1iss,ssrppr.
JACKSON, Miss Feb. 8, lS44

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TO the Editor of the II. Orleans Tropic:
/ All the evening session, every member
OF the House was u his place, and crowd
ofiadies graced the gallery. Some rare
fun was expected. as it was known that
Lindsay, the Representative from Ita-
wamha county, was to speak. This per-
son, is uncouth in his manners, unsainly
in his person, and iliterarei in his discourse.
Some Of this mans fitness for his position
may be gathered from the following verba-
Tim report of his speech on the motion 10
reduce the salaries Of the Judiciary, amea-
sure, introduced few days since, and,op.
posed by the respectable of both parties.
"Where Iwas raised, in Old Aiarbdrm,
we never gin judge of any sort more nor
fifteen hundred year-and if may be
allowed to conjecture, doreckon that we
had jest as good judges in Atarbarm as you
can raise in Mussesap. My consti-chen-
ents sent me here TO prac -taSc economy
tharefore, ! goes for economy; aud sorry
am ! to observe that many which thought
kuowen better, are strainin' aud a reach
in' after q high puss'-(purse.)
The learned legislator on this evening,
Thursday. inrrodrcct a bilE which the
Clerk Of the House several limes attempt
ed 10 read, but was prevented by his own
fits Of laughter and the tumulluous cachi-
nations of the members.
"k Bill 10 relieve The Free Citizens of
Mississippi and Travellers. Be it hereby
enacted, that il is lawful for any white ci..
tizeus Of Mississippi TO sell acohoous, vi.
nous, and ofher fermenting liquors in any
quantity oyer aquar, providing he keeps
orderin nlhe house when the same is druuk.,'
Amidst the heartest laughter, the Speak
er left the chair, and the House resolved
itself intoa committee Of the whole. %
consider the Bill, which was again and
again read over by the Clerk. Or. l.. was
desired 10 explain ,Cho was to keep order
and who was to be drunk? He rose and
uttered The following speech3
swell, lrailIy aint no objection myself
10 'splain the bill, becas think The bill
'splains itself. We all on us like leetle
drap o. sutthin ardent--some genelmen
now standin' and sittin' round me who
takes drap whenever they kfn-and
these genelmen, as. we'll as myself, is now.
by law obliged to, buy gallon when he
oney wants half pint, which is contrary
to human nalur, and contrary to the rights
Of all free white citizens of the Stale of
Masseysap andtrayellers in giniral.
"Iknowed genelman-a right genteel:
genelinan TOO heiwas, do assure yoa,
genelmen, who was travelin i'm this State
with his wife and hull crowd O. leetle
ones IN a wassin, and his lady was tuck
wilhthe shakes, aud his bottle was run out.
There was fix to be in. genelmen! he
didn't want 10 buy gallon ofardent becas
ii ,carnt conrcnient-so he asked The land
lord 10 fill his bottle at affair price-and
the landlord, who was a clever teller, and
knowed what il was to have the shakes
and be out o'licker, why he filled the gen.
elman's bottle at fair price, when another
geuelman who, was standing by, says,
''you're goin contrary 10 Tho laws Of
Masseysap," and then this genelman goes
out and informs agin the landlord forsel:
lug Ticker TO the senelmen whose wife had
the shakea by less than gallon, and il
they hadn't kpowed him we'll all around
them parts he'd a been fined and impri-
] soned for doin' as any genelman would