Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-10-31

easy to predict.
"Thr Jury will he all surprise;
The PRISONER quite collected -
Mr. Justice Park will wipe hls eyes,
And be very much Affected.
The good aud great will love and hate,
The bad aud small will run :
And much rs we were IN the FIFTY times
We shall he in the FIIty-onc.'
illus far in the Session NOW moro than
two weeks advanced less than the usual amount
of business has been completed. The nlbhling
about the edges of legislation has been more
than commonly protractcd. Few bills have
p,sscd both Houses, and those few urc of but
slight general interest There s n Bill before
the House for the suppression of Crows, that IS
likely to create some noise, unless the oblcc
on taken by the Counsel for the Crows, hat
no notice has been gwen to them Of the nten-
ded application for legislation to their dc,rl-
mcut), should be sustained. in the mean time,
less important matters, such as Banks, Rail
rolds the llabcas Corpus Act and the Fugitive
Slave Law, arc undergoing the slow ncuba-
ton Of setting Committees. Some Of them arc
already pecking ut the shell, md will soon be
born, peep, and die while others will exhibit
n stronger abnormal vitality, and live. Right
makes Might, after all, in legislation as in
other affair. feel quite free tn predict that
quite the usual proportion Of really mcrltorlous
applications to the Legislature will be granted,
because, in the frat place, mcrItorous appllca-
tons always stand the best chance with n Yer
1 I Ii
said, tho present Legislature il an unusually
strong and sensible one. More able and saga
clous men can be found in the two Houses, to-
day, than could have been found there, in my
Judgment, at any period during the past twelve
years. Folks that ask for. and expect, Bun
eombc votes, therefore, will have to take heed
lest they fall"
---l'erhaps the most important movement
vet made IN tho House, is the vote of that body
ON the proposition Of Mr.. BowDI.H, (tho abl,
and sagaclous Old Line Representative from
Swanton) To print an ertra number of copies o
the Report of Judge DAVIS on the Congress
ional Fugitive Slave law, and tho Vernon
IIabess Corpus Act. can scarcely conccv,
of moro significant and emphatic warning L
those who arc disposed to msrepresent, or I,
trlilc with, the real ant-Slavcry sentiment O
rHE PEOPLE of this State The printing q
the usual, or an unusual, number Of copies Of
Legislative Report, on n topic Of universal in
tercst or Importance, il ms much "A matter O
course" in our Legislature as it is in other Leg
i'laturcs 1t ls quite uncommon that motto
for such nm object s rejected. When il Is,
may be aSsHracd that it is "done on purpose
The u Il introduced by Mr.. BARLOW, earl
IN the Session, tc repeal certain portions Of tn
Vermont IIabeas Corpus Act offensive to " tn
South" land for "scterat other purposes" wa
referreh TO the Judiciary Committee. Th0
Committee is composedef Nessrs DivIs,(whis
of Danville, GRAEDgr, (whigl of Vergcnne'
ilrmsrLr, (F'rce-soil) of FaiHax, EvERT.
,(whg) of Rutland and BowDsH, iOld Iine)e
neutrality-suspicious. as likely rs any men
bcrs Of the IIouscto command the respect AN
confidence Of that body, and Of the pubic, ia
their views and opInlcEs On Frdpy 81 Iae