The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-12-24
THE DUTIE, OF ALEGIsLATOR.

THE DUTIES OF LEGISLATOR.
A late number of the Burlington Hauh-
enc very truthfully remarks, that SO far as
the newspapers of the State are concerned,
the Hon JAMES HARLAN, is already re-elect'
ed to the United States Senate. 1t may be,
too, that SO far as a majority of Republican
legislators is concerned, the return of Mr..
HARLAN to the Senate is certain. Ii such
should prove to be the case, we sincerely
hope this end has been obtained solely
through legitimate political action. If the
constituents Of the members of the incom-
ing legislature, in casting their ballots, I'M.
dsrs,ood and believed that they were virtu-
ally voting for the re- election of MIR. HAIR
Ian. WHY, as we said last week, it is the du-
tn of the members thus voted for, to use
every honorable means to carry out the
wishes of those who invested them with
power. They would be recreant to the trust
and confidence reposed in them, were they
to act otherw Sc, and should be visited with
con.umely and rcproacb, by every hones,
and honorable man. Equally reprehensible
would be the conduct of these same legisla-
tors, should they, after having been elected,
barter away, with or without the sol!clta-
ton Of the self constituted OWners OF the
party, their voice and influence, in the least
particular, to serve any end or ends wbatso-
ever. The duty of a legislator very prop
erly commences when he finds himself Mt
the State Capital, in obedience to the law
under which he was elected. Until that
time arrives, (unle,s pledged to his constls-
ucnts to the performance Of certain duties,)
each and every legislator should hold him
self free and untrammelcd, and prepared to
act for the good of the State, and for the
best interests of the party to which he has
the honor to belong.
We know, that Immediately succeeding the
late election AS has been the case time out of
mind-the members elect to the next leg is
lature were literally beseigcd with importu-
nae letters from very dis-lnterested persons,
in almost every township in the State, solic-
ting their votes and influence in behalf of
the writer's Of these cpistes, or some very
worthy friend, for every Office in the gift Of
tho lcgislature-fromS Senator down to fire.
man. The reception these Gdrances should
have met with, the candid reader will have
no difficulty in determining. The reception
they did meet with, it is not our province
in this connection, to even suggest. We
hope they were treated, as a legislator, con-
scious of the Importance of the dnties he
was delegated to perform, and actuated by
desire to promote the interests Of the par
ty with which he is identified, should treat
them-with neither word of encouragement
or encouragement. If left untrammeled by
his constituents, every legislator owes it to
fair dealing, and to every consideration OF
political polity, to remain SO up to the
time Of taking his oath Of Office.
Therefore, from these premises, we deduce
the conclusion, and, legitimately, too, that
unless a majority of the Republicans elected
to the next legislature, were elected with the
express understanding, that they should use
their every effort to secure the re- election
of Mr.. HARLAS.-he (Mr. H. should be
placed on the same footing as other aspi-
rants, and his reelection no longer insisted
upon, on the ground that he, above all
others, is the choice of the Republican
masses of the State, as duly expressed at the
ballot-box. This is all we ask. Is it any
thing more than fair and right? We main
tain that it is not. We hope, for the credit
and future harmony of the party in this
State, that Republican victory has more
of significance in it, than the mere personal
triumph of one man, or one small set of
men. We speak our honest convictions,
and mean what We say. We have no sake
to grind" hence We hope our motives will
not be impugued. "Blessed are they who
expect nothing" for they shall not be dis
appointed. We may recur to this subject
again before the assembling of the lsgisla-
ture, and-we may not.
"HELPER's IMPENDING CRISIS"
This work, written by a North Carolinian,
soon after the last Presidential election, is
having a great run" just now, owing to
the gratuitous advertising it has received a.
the hands Of Congress, and the whole
Democratic press of the country. A Wash
ington correspondent o. the Chicago Press
& Tribune says that HELrER's fortune has
been made by the thorough and systematic
advertising his work has received in Con-
xress and through the press. He says:
''Ous news agent sold 200 copies yesterday
afternoon in this city, at 50 cents apiece,
and there have been over 1000 copies al.
ready disposed Of in Washington, and there
are large orders from Baltimore for this
book. |, is finding its way into all parts of
he South. A gentleman just from New
York says that Helper has sent splendidly
pound copy of the unabridged edition to
Missouri Clark, with letter returning that
Gentleman his sincere thanks for the mag
li6cent advertisement he has bestowed, free
4 charge, upon his "incendiary" appeal to
be poor whites of the South, to yindicate
heir rights"
Helper should furnish every Democratic
aper in the United States copy of his
impending Crisis" free Of charge, as an
Of his Indebtedness to
lem, for their dis;nterssted services in
ding the circulation OF the came. At any
tie, he should furnish the Eould-be Lieut..
ovcraOr with copy. !