Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-02-14
OUR LEGISLATURE.

But lille busluess OF general interest
has been transacted IN ,his body, aud we
would have been p!eased for the repuia.
ton Of our Legislature. and our State. II
at least one item of what has been done,
had been omitted; we allude of course to
tho act for the punishment OF seduction
and adultery-of this enacimen, i. la cut
truth to say, however delensJie or requl.
site the principles may be AT which II aims
THAT its manner is gross. bungling. ard
unnecessarily lfnol wuntonly obscene.-
The questions touching our public works
and by far the most important as connect
ed with the interests and future welfare
of our State, are yet in state Of suspense
or uncertainty. The great difficulty IN
making an appropriation, By which the
work on the Central road Can be advan-
,ageousI y Continued, seems ,oresult mainly
from the fact that we have lillleor nOlhirg
left inappropriate. And yet there seem.
to be too much Of the old lesven LEFT. to
allow SUCH disposition to b. made OF the
works as would relieve the State from The
greater part Of its Indebtedness, place US
on high and firm firm footing and hasten
the completion Of what is destined TO be
the great thorough-fare of our State. the
Central road) Ind which in the hands OF
a company could scarcely fail to be a
source oiprOht.
On the subject of advertising tax sales,
the disposition of the Legislature appear
ed 10 be in favor of saving to tax payers,
the 20 thousand dollars paid last year, to
establish presses in the several couhtIes OF
the State, for the purpose OF aiding the
party. and influencing the election. But
lecture from the Free Press OF yesIer'
day, declaring in substance that 1t this
annual allowance to the craft is not con-
'inued, it "wiu put many of the newspa-
pers Of Michigan upon charity for erist>
encc," has produced symptoms OF SOM
erset. This is certainly tie most con-
summa,e piece of party impudencs that
we have ever seen pu, forth by any public
journal. Last fall when the public COM
planned of this piece of oppression for
the support 9th party. We were told BY
the Free Press and its associates, that the
law was only designed to meet the emer-
gencies Of the OCCASION, and that provision
was made for lis disconiinuance when the
necessity should pass by. as it would do
with the close of that year. But tho ex-
periment resulted better than was appre-
hended, the tax pas ers growled but stood
il, and il worked so we'll in feeding half
starved army of electioneerers, and sup
porting the party, that the Free Press and
Auditor General demand its repetition,
openly avoving as a reason that this horde
of editors will DO put upon charity for
support, unless the Iaborers ofthe country
paw another 20 or 80 thousand dollars TO
feed them another year.
The Free Press lecture. seems likely to
produce its intended effect, for in that
paper of this morning, the editor pats the
Legislature on the back most kindly. as If
he would say. "good fellows, good fel-
lows" now you are doing 1t about right.
| shall be State Printer another year,
But we say be ware! The tax PAYERS only
gr,wled last year-and our word for ii
IT youcome again withyour hungry horde.
TO pick our pockets or steal our bone,
there will be biting as well rs growing
Three years of uninterrupted health has
made lean haivests for tho Doctors in
Michigan. What would be said of a prop
osi,ion to tax the laborer OF the State, to
save the faculty from resort to charity
for support! Ye, the proposition is as
lust rs that of the Press.
w. huvo In lander MIR ockno Rledoo.