Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-02-14
Columbus Correspondence.
COLUMBUS, Feb. /, l845,

Dear Sir;
am yet locker on at the capitol
10 witness the dougs of The wise ones,
whose acts and efforts will live on the in
sthutions Of the State when the actors
shall have passed away. When | last
wrote Won the Senate were considering
the Bank Bill, siace which many exciting
scenes have been enacted here, The
Wings were very cool and deliberate in
the consideration Of that great measure.
land resolved 10 give all desirable opportu-
nifty 10 the minority. The Locos, rs usI-
FaI, used all means to defeat the me1sre--
all manner Of amendments were proposed,
section n7lpr section of BauIey's HumlNg
was offered by them until the whole law
had been proposed, and in turn voted
down by the Wings. No Wing occupied
any time in debating the questions, all the
speeches were made 10y the Locos. who
seemed determined to spend all the time
possible in debate. On Tuesday morning
the Wings (knowing that they were re-
sponsjJletor the taue) determined to order
the biIlto nc engrossed before they adjOurn-
ed. Accordingly, when the amendments
were gone through Whh it Was minated
to the Locos that the bill must be engross-
ed. To this they complained most bitter
ly and insisted that they must have more
time to discuss it as only sixteen days had
been allowed them to tnRke their hard mo-
ney speeches, They succeeded one AN
other inecsnstming time until dark, when
the Wings moved recess with determi-
nation to have The vote on lthe ergross-
ment ofthe bill. SuChtnen as Baldwin, who
is an ass without the ears, and 4 muiion-
heal 10y the ndrhe ,of Waters, neither Of
whom have scarcely learned the arisiOcra-
tic acquisition OF Medary, occupied the
time Of the Senate with what they called
speeches, und Whdt was still more ridicu-
lous was theig'askng for more tlmt to de-
liver their views. Of those two greda
lights, Waters has decidedly the advan-
tage, for at distance he somewhat resem-
bes man, the observer, however is COM
PEELED TO change opinions when he APP
proaches nearer the animal, for neither on
his countenance or in his head is there
room Tor an idea~..-as to Baldwin the God
of nature never intended him to deceive
any body, for he really resembles the
Orang Omang about as1nuch as hedoes
the human Species 1t was laughabIe to
hear sQch men denying the constitutional
ity ofState Banks, and talking about Iet-
te,s OF mar-que, &c, l have heurd the
remark that there was but one step be-
tween the sublime and ridiculous, and nc
person who witnessed it could hesitate
in concluding that they had taken it. II
brought tony mind the poetiCal ehusion
of Professor Hopkins, expressive Of that
ideas
"Gfeat Cod the mighty oceans made.
J And whales therein TO spout,
Whe in shoal- water minnions swim,
And play their tails about"
The speeches of those great men will
appear in the Statesman, dressed up, al
great length. A poor creature figures as
a kind OF reporters to the Statesman thai
they call Flood, and who, believe, is a
brother to 'Geolge II. Flood, who was sen'
. minister 10 Texas, and died Of dcibiu"
iremens--yet suspect that he was a muct
i, better man than the thing that is here
; lie Is kind Of jaciOtuH1 OF the Loco side o