The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-11-07
Legislation in the Dark.

nually assembled there, the benefit of
the .eil of obscurity. The experiment
is more than satisfactory. From the
time that anxious friends take leave of
the blushing representatives of their pat
riotsm aud craftsmanship at the cars,
till they are reported to be again Per.
sonally restored to US, and accessible in
their places of business or society as be.
fore, the eclipse of outer darkness rests
upon them, and an act Of oblivion passes
to save the community from tho pangs of
uncertainty. In some aspects. this may
be a necessity of the case. We have not.
perhaps, natural point in the State, to.
wards which public attention is habitual.
ly attracted, and from which a oonoontra.
ton ofihtellgcucc may ailuso itsolf,in re.
turn for the observation directed upon it
\ capital, by its own natural en-
incnce, may be out Of the question. 1t
may be necessity that we were to elect
point for such an object, and recouci.
ing ourselves to its Inconvenience and
inaptitudes, either adapt our wishes to
its defects and endure its DEFICIENCIES. or
correct them, or wait and out grow them
as we may If the latter, in either or
both its forms is to be the process, it is
time we uero q bout it, in some fashion.
aud this, Oh our own humble part. i, the
not prcsumptuous, we hope, but very
proper aud Legitimate object of this ar.
ticle.
Communication 10y visitors at Mont
pelicr is greatly reduced BY the change
III the system of appointments. Few are
called there, except by concern for the
health Of members After the close of
the session, when the annual ID has been
executed, and some serene proprietor of
n press has been made happy with his ii
vision Of kernel5 from the public crib
the County sheriff is made distributing
officer, and the visitors of that function.
AIRY are made deputy carriers for their
towns respectively, to convey to those
whose duty it is to receive them, the
pasted packages which no curiosity is
sharp enough to violate, which contain
the Laws This is allor nearly all, after
Townmce!ing day, which is known of
the Legislature after the insurance
money has been Sent Uphill the priv.
| LEGGED visitors Of the Sheriff again are
favored with stay, conditioned that they
are to leave their tea and tobacco and
take the packages This is all,except that
, the conductors Of the press are compelled
to disobige their advertising patrons.
and insert the Acts of the Legislature,
for few weeks.
We ave not to be told that Journals
of the Assembly also, are published and
distributed " ho cares for the process
of doing it, after matter is ended p
The Acts then, and the acts only are
in order. The thing is over, and we
wish to know the worst Of it. The point
of Importance is to bring the action of
the Legislature into daylight, while it is
acting. If there is patriotic merit in
the body, the people would know it if
talent capable of serving the State, it
should feel that it is in the presence of
those for whom it acts, and will be held
to fair responsibility, We want re-
ports daily Of the work at the capital
difIused through the State, and return
Of encouragement upon those who act
there, that shall produce the fruit of
welldoing.
The proper period of darkness there
was when IN earlier race Of men had con-
troll, whose hest deeds we're achieved in
the prevention of evil. A day of mega
tive wisdom isno longer crejtahlc to
our intelligence. The ship has left the
reefs and shoals, and is ready for a
voysge, if any body is wise enou gh to
sail her. Whatever is wise, liberal and
truly prudent in the action Of the Leg.
islature, should be known to the consttu,
ences, and sustained by the approval of
the people. The influence Of iliberal
men should be marked and corrected.
and no reputation but one of infamy,
should attend the successful leader of
bad measures
The gas, for evening meetings, was q
felicitous design Of the present Lcgis.
laturc. They got what it was proper to
huve, and would have misreprcscntcd
their State, TO have contented themselves
with less Can they help us to ligh,
upon their daily scssicns2 May VIC
know them, aud sec who lead in their
public deliberations ? May we learn the
measures that any propose, for the ben
eft of their State, and see who it ii that
are 70 urwcrthy Of it, that they would
dare to defeat them without reason. We
would be in sympathy with those who