The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-01-01
OHIO LEGISLATURE.


We have nc letter from Columbus this week.
We hope our friend has not forgotten his promise.
We receive the Daily Statesman however, and in
casting our eye over a whole weeks proceedings,
we have not succeeded in finding any thing of
the least Importance TO the people of Ohio
What can be the reason2 The wings have a
majority in both branches of the Legislature, and
possessed of " all the intelligence" too, and yet
they spend the hours appropriated to Legislation,
in a manner disgraceful to the state, and degra-
ding to themselves. They have spent the four
first weeks of the session in rhodomontade about
the State Printer. They don't care a straw about
keeping important public documents frcm the peo-
pie, if dispensing with the printing will make
Medary suffer in pocket. The people of Ohio
arc not so poor and niggardly as the federal ma
Jority in the Legislature suppose, and they would
rather pay the State printer 500 for printingthe
Governors Message than the learned Thebans
twenty times that sum, for keeping them in igno-
rance and darkness of what is going on at Column
bus. Let us see how much the people of Ohio
have saved by coon economy. Say the printing
of the Governors message comes to 500. To
save this sum, the coons have spent at least one
half of the session thus far in useless dobate.-
We believe there are 70 members of the House,
and 38 Senators, in all ll0-these 10 persons
draw each day out of the State Treasury 1920,
which sum multiplied by Ia, Or two weeks, (ior
they are paid for Sunday too,D makes The snug
little sum of three thousand and eighty dollars!
l3O809 Thus to save $lOO, the wings in the
Legislature tar the people $1,000! Figures
can't lie."
In the Senate, we observe, there has been an
angry debate, which would have disgrGcod a rum
shop at the Five Points, relative to opening the
session of that body each morning with prayers.
Shame! Shame! There was a parliament that
once sat in London which was chrlstianed the
" lack-learing parliament" because, says the his
t~orian, " there never was a coed law enacted
thoreat." We are afraid the people of Ohio will
apply some such igno minious title to the present
Legislature.
The Hon. Peter Hitchcock was, on last Fri
day, elected Judge of the Supreme Court, TO fill
the vacancy occasion by the resignation of the
Hon. Ebenezer lane.
We copy the following from the Statesman Of
Saturday;
"THE GAG RULE'-oR SoUrn CAROLINA IN
OnIo,-We think after the vote to-day in the
House to refuse the reception Of a petition OF
memorial fIon the Quaker yearly meeting, OF
Richmond, Indiana, on the subject of our laws
against the negroes, no wing should open his
mouth. The expulsion of the Agent of Mas
sachusetts, Mr.. Hoer, from South Carolina, is
followed as a precedent by the Ohio Legislature,
to refuse petitions from other States. We hope
TO hear no moro charges from the wings against
the democrats about gag ruler" southern
principles" &c, &c, for the wings seem to be
very apt scholars! The vote might have been
given with still greater %propriety had not the
yearly meeting OF the Friends held at Richmand
Indiana, been composed largely. of citizens Of
Ohio. As we discover that our reporter has only
briefly noticed the matter, we shall refer 10 il
again, and publish the memorial itself. We re.
peat, that we hope to hear no more slang from
the wing newspapers about, "pro-sIavery,'
" friends of the gag" "southern DOCTRINES
" South Carolina mob spirit" &c, The Gov
ernor of South Carolina, treated tho petitioners
of Scotland against slavery, with more respect
than this, for he received them and answered
them at length, very recently.
Things are getting right, rapidly!