Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-07-03
81 have done the State no service
And they know it."-Othello Revised.


History informs US that after Brennus had
sacked Rome, he marched his soldiers into the
Capitol, where the Senate was assembled, and
that the Gauls were so awed by the dgni6ed
appearance Of those "potent, grave and reverend
signors," some OF them bent the knes-mstak.
ing them for Gods.
We have often thought that had Brennus
popped in upon the Missouri Legislature, about
the time a certain law to sustain the credit Of
the State was being enacted, his sensations might
have been Of rather different character from
those experienced in the angus! presence Of the
conscripti patres; and instead Of imagining him.
self in the atmosphere Of the seventh Heaven,
his fancy would have taken the back track to
one Of the popular assemblies of his own land.
where barley corn and broken heads were more
plenty than wisdom or dignity. In fact, as far
as we have been able 10 ascertain it, the gen.
eral impression seems to be, that on the mem.
orable occasion alluded to, when legislators de.
vised this notable scheme to prop the sinking
credit Of the State. it would have been we'll
il the honorable body had extended its potations
a little farther. 1t is true, some papers disposed
10 defend the doings OF our representatives on
this as on all other occasions, assert that the
honorable body was not drunk; but we think
and from the silence Of the gentlemen them.
selves they seem to think with us-that the
whole diScreditable affair had better be passed off
as the result Of legislative orgie than defended
upon the ground Of either justice, propriety or
necessity.
This is certainly a charitable construction, TO
say the least OF it, and one we should be willing
to put upon it, though it is very questionable
whether the plea OF intoxication is ever any
paliaon to an offence, had it not been that
Gov. Edwards, who as chief Executive OF the
State must be supposed in the possession of his
sober senses at at all times, has sanctioned these
bachanaan extravagances Of our worthy bur.
gesses, and thereby fastened upon the body poll
tic. for the space Of two years, most grievous
and unconstitutional law.
He, then, is the individual 10 whom all the
odium Of this creditable affair should attach. He
is the constitutional rudder OF State by which
the ship should be kept steady, even though the
crew get ration Of grog too much. and to him
the public has right to look for protection from
the hasty or vicious acts Of reckless legislature.
But why, we ask, did not "Monsieur Veto" in.
terpose his Executive nterdct as on previous
occasion, when certain corner OF the Peniten.
tiary wall was about to come "between the wind
and his nobility" Was his excellency asleep,
and, misunderstanding OF another peddng
excursion, TO be undertaken pro bono publico?
Or did some unpleasant Renaissance of the
past, when he he was ticker of catastrophes,
deter him from intermeddling with the freaks of
those grown up school boys, in the stone house,
at the upper end Of town?
Be the cause of this gubernatorial apathy what
it may, certain it is, that John c. Edwards, in
failing to apply the proper corrective in this in,
stance, has failed to avail himself of the only
opportunity that has, and we opne, ever will
be again presented to him Of doing the State
some service.
This communication, Messrs. Editors. NAV
seem i'll timed, but until the matter was thrust
upon our particular attention the other day bv
the tax gatherer. we felt inclined to acouescs
patiently. But the agitation OF our purse has
occasoned such reorganization Of bile that some
of it must be gotten rid of. Yours,
A PROFESSIONAL MAN.