Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-06-01
CORRESPONDENCE.
FROM OUR BosToN CORRESPONDENT.
RosroN. MAYE 90. 1913,

BosroN, MAY 20, 164e.
Mr. Editor 1t is a fact worthy of notice that the
Legislature of Massachusetts has actually closed Its
session for the current year, after spending only III
days ostensiby) in the manufacture of laws for the
good people Of the State 1t has been something of
query to my mind, why this puritan community
should need that the Legislature should spend one
third of every year, in making laws for their
government. One would think they would get laws
enough after awhile. glance at the proceedings
will show however, that but very little of the time is
spent except in legslatng for the benefit Of rich men,
corporalonsec. Some weeks ago mentioned that the
committee, to whom was referred the case of Zcbu-
lon Paine, had reported resolve to pay him $500.
on account of his being convicted by the State, on
the pcrured testimony of boy, and sent to States
Prison for eight years, who after serving out fourteen
months of his time, pardoned cut by thu governor;
the boy having gone before agstrate Of his own
accord, and testified TINT Paine was innocent 1t
seems that The House" finally passed bill to pay him
$500, Jut Il oaS lost IN the Senate! Deliver me from
the rule of such hearteS8 SOucsS, animals, for they
not high enough in the scale of creation to rank
with men.
There is a rule or law, lit cannot be called prin-
cIple,) which, for aught know is universal among
enlightened and christian states, which, when an IN
nocent man is convicted and punished, prevents him
from recovering damages of the State for false i'm
prisonmen. One individual may sue another for
false Imprisonment malicious prosecutions &C., but
the State must not atone for lis and wrongs done
to individuals under the sanction Of the law. Aheart
less knave who wishes to inure his neighbor, will
shelter himself under this canopy and with the State
for his instrument he can often accomplish his malev-
client purposes. OF what use is the protection N of
law to the individual, when such wrongs can be done
him with perfect impunity? Why should the state
refuse to redress such wrongs? Is there any justice
in requiring obedience to laws which, like the legs of
the lame, arc unequal? 1t is mean, niggardly pol
icy on the part of the State, and disgrace to hui
manty that the poorest man cannot have legal rem
edy for all wrongs done him. either by the State
by individuals.
The great Presidential game is about commencing
in good earnest and it will not be long before shall
know who the South has selected for rulers. Be
fore it is too late wish to give hint to the wings
which may be serviceable to their party. 1t is we'll
. known fact that the wings succeeded N 1910, by their
"IIarrson songs" When their nominations were
made for 44 the poor wing poets found themselves
sadly puzzled to find other words than p'SH and
IN to rhyme with Frelinghuysen. Consequently
their poetry ( was so awkwardly put together, that
the music wouldn't jbc," and any singer knows it is
almost useless to expect to crafty the ears or excite
the enthusiasm of his hearers, by nfuSing the spirit
of song into his performance, when he has to stumble
With odd "feet" or no feet at ALL and worse than that
without idea in the Tochy fit to be SPOKEN by day
light. This fact should account, in good measure
if not altogether FOR their defeat and the poor wings
ought to acknowledge their error, instead of foolish
$ y charging it to the Liberty party. If they would
succeed at the election, let them select names thai
can be worked into the rhymes of dogerell poetry.
d Another consideration l would suggest If the
wings should be so infaultcd as to nominate Henry
Clay they cannot find better tail to his kite thai
+ Frelin-hnys2n True, this tail did not make the kit
: 60 up in "A, but the fault in the material Of Ii
kite" and not in its tail. WHO ever made kite 0
CyqB and saw it 'risn', even with Frelinghuysen t.
e to keep it from pithiching in the mud. This kit
If cannot rise with any tail and by retaining the same
u much of the poetry of 44 could be brought into as
70 again, which, on the score Of economy, is wort
J.. thinking Of We have book of "whig songs"-"En
lie tered according to an act Of Congress in the yea
Of 1874, in the Clerks Office of the District Court
= Massachusetts" which contains many rich gems lill
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