Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-03-11
Biennial Legislatures.

gusta upon the Governors Recommendation
to change the Constitution of the State, so
that the Legislature shall be elected for a
term Of two years. 1t dscloses another sin
gular manifestation of the difference between
theory and practice. The theory is that the
Legislature is the embodiment OF the wisdom
and patriotism of the State, that those one
hundred and fifty gentlemen who comprise
the House, and those forty estimable citizens
who give Roman gravity to the Senate are
the best specimens of men that can be grown
in this latitude, and that the result of their
assembling together and laying one patriotic
heart against another, and pooling into the
seething cauldron Of debate the stores of their
individual knowledge will only be salutary
and wholesome. Wisdom guidance, instruc-
ton, that is what we all want. Tell US, Q
excellen tones, how to live more Justly, more
happily. Smooth for US the rugged path
way of political and social life and settle
some OF these terrible problems of society that
have puzzled us. And here we are counting
the money value OF such inestimable blessings
find, according to Brother McCrilis' smart
calculation, that it costs us sent apiece and
grudge that cent , How long, o We simple
ones, will We love simplicity? 1t is as if the
parish should say to the preacher, Give us
but one sermon a Sunday, Q learned and
plous pastor, for our capacity to receive in
struction and admonitinn is feeble. Or the
public to the author. Do not write 80 many
books, 0 sage and ingenious scholar. for here
is still another, and, to tell the truth, we
have not yet read your last Or the world
to the poet, Sing not SO frequently, o divine
poet, lest we die of surfeit of sweets
Every body knows that it is far otherwise,
that crowds of inpatient men and women
stand at all the slides whereat wisdom, ad-
monition, learning science, genius are peJdled
out eager to buy and, like Oliver Twist. ask
ing for more For our part weshould be glad
if the Legislature could remain in session all
the year round, and SO. but for those natural
affections. which bind them to wives and
children at home, we doubt not, would they.
There is an ndiscribable sense of security in
feeling, that threaten what dangers NAV
there is set of fellows, up their at Augusta,
who are setting up nights to think Of our
welfare. Besides this huge civil fabric that
shelters us and shuts us in from the outdoor,
tent, cave and den life of savages, though
SPLENDID and complicated structure. is after
all more human work and like every thing
of ours needs constant repairs. Ii is a small
o.sss's :. nav w ia'ii. men oi all Eaaes
+ha lsars y, tha roof y. so3i ., ~. mt s'op
,hf is' ms III ',v iool " soaae5 .ne leaos' 70
m."A '''l''L, y, ."s pi'lhlhg' 10
or even to alter the rooms, better the vent-
latlon, supply new cupboards and closets, to
stop up the fireplace and use stoves, to sell of
the stoves and use tireplaccs, to put in furna- |
ces ana when they don work as expected
take 'hem out again, ana IN all other reason |
aoie "ays'make IRE mouse habltaole, eonven-
lent ana eomfortaoie. And instead OF ap-
Pfec'a,ihs 'he services Oh THESE men, here we
Sruhoie, because they DO 50 much Tor us,
BECAUSE they sacriice their own comipf 1t Tor
our GOOD iour months instead oil SIX weeks.
ana we are Trying IN all ways to snub them
and hurt their feelings, proposing to prohibit
their acting every other year, and to pay
them by the loh Tor what they do, to stop
their pay after oo DAYS, as II that would
make 1he silshtest dinerence IN the zeal with
which thev would serve us afterwards II the
puoiic Sooa required 1t. nat would be
thouSht oil an audience to whom some learned
men onereu 70 lecture upon useful science
who should say you may lecture, If you
VIII agree not 10 speak more than twenty
mihutes' or VINO should INTERRUPT: the results
OF tne s'udies OF his HE and the discoveries
OF MS sehios ny such III bred REMARKS as
THESE me up 'Dfy up, old tehloW =
Mw 81 go"r gas, Docll ~ The Legislature
is IN delicate position. They can not tell
'he f4oPie now Important ana necessary their
services arc "''nou' o'efs'epihs the bounds
u iIioue'y n p,u,
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louhu oooh' III Wnlen ne Eas proved that
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.'1."A.nS -. ,ionS Io'hes an Ola eco
n ~ ouiiiupSeon ana ne p9res US With
ane .'n' ON nan Vi .he laws are
.n"u. - oe teleaieu, 'iiatlnree times as many
e"a, a'e i'n .h as l',ele are companies
VI S'''i4.u a'u wa. ne" iesisIeion Is never
tba Gan,,a plass ~ .oli' ,| ior WIS Vi
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" on sou suppose tue young
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