Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-05
MINISTERIAL rsrEnrEnrNcE.

dolph used to call them--send us
their opinions on any subject ofleg-
islation depending before us. They
can only report, and that in writing.
on the subjects referred to them by
law or by vote of the Houses -
Non-in,ervention is their duty in
relation to our legislation and if
they attempt to intervene in any
of our business, | must be
allowed. for one, to repulse the
attempt. and to profess for il no
higher dsgree of respect than that
Mr.. Burke expressed for the opin-
ions of British Lord Chancellor,
delivered to the House of Com
mons, in a case in which he had no
concern. Sir, suppose | can be
allowed to repeat on this floor any
degree of comparison or figure of
speech which Mr.. Burke could use
on the floor of the British House
of Commons. He was classic
speaker. and, besides that, author of
treatise on the Sublime and Beau
tiful though do not consider the
particular figure which | have to
repeat, although just and picturesque
in itself. to be a perfect illustration
of either branch of his admired
treatise. 1t was in reference to
Lord Thurlow, who had interviewed
in some legislative business, contra
nv to the orators sense of right and
; decency. Mr.. Burke repulsed the
intrusive opinion, and declared that
: "he did not care three jumps of a
J louise for it," Sir.I say the same Of
any opinion which may be reported
+ here from our Secretaries on any
{ bill depending before us. ard that
in any form in which it may come
, from them-whethe as a unit, br
integers (Roars of laughter.)
PUBLIC PRINTERS INTERFERENCE.
/, Still less do admit the right of
,, intervention in our legislative du-
ties in another class of intermed-
dlers, and who might not be able to
NEEDLE at all with our business,
were it not for the ministration of
our bounty. l speak of the public
printers, who get their daily bread
F.. land that buttered on both sides)
!, by our daily printing, and who re-
: quire the democratic members of
> this House, under the instant PEN
atty OF political damnation, to give
III their adhesion to every bill which
? they call administration ; and that
in every change it may undergo
although more changeable than the
: moon. For that class OF intermed-
dIers have no parliamentary law to
!. administer, nor any quotation from
Burke TO apply-nothing but little
/. fable to read the value of which,
= as in all good fables, lies in its NOR
j. al 1t is IN French, and entitled
" L'rne ct SON mditre," which, be-
: ing done III English, signifies,
9 The ass and has MASTER" and
runs thus:
! An ass took it into his head to
scare his master, and put on a lions
= SKIN, and stood i'll the path Aud
when he saw his master coming, he
. commenced roaring, as he thought !;
. but he only brayed, and the master
;, knew it was his ass so he went up
;, to him with a cudgel, and beat HIM
nearly TO death"
That is the end of the fable, and
>, the moral Of II is, a caution to all
;, asses TO take care how they under
take to scasS their masters" PRO
, ionged applause, cries Of Good,
= good
a MIR. Chairman, this House will
!, have fallen far below its constitu-
!. tional mission, If it suffers itself to
n be governed by authority, or dra-
gooned by ITS own hirelings. am
: man Of no bargains, but act openly
with any man that acts for the pub
lie good and in this spirit, offer
n rthe right hand of political friendship
:, to every member Of this body that
!, will stand together to vindicate its
: privileges, protect its responsibility,
and maintain it in the high place
!. for which it was in,ended-the
master branch of the American gov
, eminent.
ID MISSOURI COMPROMISE NOT MERELY A
l. STATUTE.
l. The question before us is, to get
10 rid of the Missouri Compromise line
d and, to a lawyer, that is an easy
ID question. That compromise is in
the form of statute, and one statute
Dr. is repealable by another. That
" short view is enough for a lawyer.
81 To statesman it is something diff
re erent, and refers the question Of its
re repeal not to law books, but TO rea-
'e sons of state policy-to the circum-
u, stances under which il was enacted,
OIL and the consequences which are to
flow from lis abrogation. This
Ill compromise Of 1920 is not a mere
y statute, to last for day; it was
a. intended for perpetuity, and so de-
= clared itself. Ii is an enactment to
he settle controversy-and did settle
rs it---and cannot be abrogaled with
I'd out reviving that controversy.
re 1t has given the country peace for
u above thirty years how many
E. years of disturbance will its abroga-
L ton bring? That is the statesman's