New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-28
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Bsros Rouss Tuesday, cath Jau'y, 1854
Leaving the good city Of the Crescent yester-
day afternoon, by the stout steamer II. M.
Wright, we came here this morning to see what
and who Louisiana legislation is. In order to
know an ANIMAL one must have seen something
more than his tracks 70 understand the poll
ties Of d country is easier, after one gets ae-
quaintea with the person Of its politicians Tie
in this view that have come up hitler
will not halt TO speak Of those things with
which great part Of your readers are proba-
bly, more familiar than I but, passing over the
impression which external objects have made
upon me-the mighty river, the country 50 far
as / have seen it, this pleasantly seated town
and its really striking State house--hasten on
to those things which actually came to see.
First, then, I saw what I most wished to see:
I saw the legislature face to face; saw it at it's
functions: grew acquainted with some Of IFS
members; heard what suppose is the usual
character Of its discussions; and Witnessed Its
manner Of doing business. Of all these, ! can,
Of course, only give you my first impressions:
please, therefore, to take them only as such.
My life has, for more than twenty years. been
passed among public assemblies. / have been
led, by that fact, to become physiognomist of
such bodies. Something of their collective char
aeter is certainly to be OWNED from their looks
their air, their manners. In these respects, our
legislature strikes me very favorable. Itsmem-
bers have, much more than isusual, the appear
ance of being gentlemen, in condition and breed
ing. should judge them generally to be men
of good education. How far this intelligence is
on q level with their looks, / have yet to see;
and especially how far that intelligence has
been praeticed to the duties in which they are
here engaged.
In point Of age, they seem. in the Senate as we'll
as House, more youthful than I should have
expected. In this particular, however, there is
everywhere q considerable change in our DELHI
erative assemblies since first / grew acquainted
with them. As the country gets older, its pub
Lie agents get younger. Probably men grow
wise nowadays good deal earlier than they
used to do. After q while they will probably
come to need no experience at all.
One virtue they seem to have, which has al
most vanished from our public councils they
know how to be silent have, to-day, heard
nothing but the briefest speeches These were
delivered, too, quietly and with no rhetorical
flourish. The. ambition Of eloquence---of elo- /
quenee without oecasion-that plague of our
legislation has not yet, to all appearances, in
Taded US here, Ia Congress, upon no better
topics, Ishould to-day, have heard dozen long
and loud harangues.
So much for the exterior Of our law-giying,
As to the detail Of its particular acts of tile
moment, I cannot yet speak very adYisedly.
One cannot in day learn the train OF bust
ness have practice enough to seize it speedi- /
": but il cannot be gov instinetively.
The bill for apportioning the Representation |
Of the State was to-day brought up in adverse
Reports Of a majority and minority Of the Com
mittee which had it in charge. That Of the ma
jorty is said by its opponents to be an effort to
gerrymander the State for the benefit Of Loco
Iocosm. Isupposeit is 90, and viii succeed I'm
these resorts Of party-as effective
70 they are oad--are no longer scrupled among
as especially where they can be- made the t
means Of proionging an ese-douhtfal ascenlen-
ey. am sorry to say that neither Wings nor
Democrats are too good for the like; but, of the
lwo, the latter excel in it, as in almost every
rick Of party. The Reports were ordered to be
printed. When they come up, shall be better
lble 10 tell you of their merits.
Mr.. Roberts,s Rosetta and Cuba Resolutions
we're brought up, by the mover; who urged their
Immediate adoption. They were, however, re.
erred to q committee When reported by it,
hey will, no doubt, be debated. We shall then
90 Wlat they mean. At present, should think
hey designed, as to Cuba, a virtual repeal Of
ur neutrality laws, and Of the treaties which
hose laws were meant to enforce.
General Gronanss proposed bill for giving our
ity leave to raise stock of five millions of dol
ars. for the purpose of demonstrating all our
rains and sewers, is a subject of much atten-
Ion, and deserFedly 30. e owes some of that
ttentien to the very uneiyil manner in which
ae Delta has welcomed q proposition, which is
ertainly liberal and probably necessary one
" New Orleans. But Of this aud of other j
lings, when shall have had time to understand !
hem better q, WI i
BARON RopcE, Wednesday, 25th Jan'y. 1861
The Senate has to-day passed, with scarcely a
ORD. what seems indisputably mere party !
pportionment Of the State am told by ali j
la wings with whom have talked that it is an t
kcessiyely unjust measure, meant to secure to
le democracy fixed aseendency--espeoally =
the Senate. have not such All acauaint- il
ice with the State as enables me to form a per-
nal judgment of the matter and can only re- q
'rt what hear. Nor dol at once adopt the
Union which state: for experience has taught {
9 how much Party is apt to exaggerate these
lings, even without intending. Time, however, !
i'll soon show whether the extreme unfairness t
aputed to the act is real or fictitious. Behind a
] such doings stain Judgment public opinion, t
hich soon enlighten itself upon them and alb
I've or condemn the authors
What can not comprehend is, how the thing A
ould be such as it Is alleged to be, and vet I,
sss almost undiscussed. If it be 50 unjust, so
lequal, it fragrant wrong to all the principles o
Representation it is denial of it to all such 9