Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-03-13
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EDITORIAL coRREsPoNDEncE.
No. 81.

CoLrMBrs, March 8, 1850.
Dear Telegraph: Since our last letter
the weather here has been clear, warm
and genial as May. The blue-birds have
found their way even into the city, and
every tree in the public grounds and
priyaso door yards is vocal with their
soft, sweet music. If they are the true
harbingers of returning Spring, then is
that season ofjoyous renovation at hand
And asit approaches, the desire of mem
hers to return to their homes becomes
more intense, and the determination to
work earnestly to complete the business
of the session is more manifest The
daily sessions now continue from nine
o'clock A. NJ, to six, or later, P. NJ,
with an hour of intermission for dinner,
while the committees work at night
Still, with the most determined effort of
the real working members, the work,
fromthe necessity ofobserving the forms
cfproceedings, progresses slowly.
A Legislative body is very much like
. swarm of bees. The unpretentious
scorke,s do the business, while the fussy
buzzing is performed by the drones. A
person unacquainted with the habits of
these insects, (the bees, we mean, not
Leeislators) and looking at their move
ments, as mere spectator, would be led
to the conclusion that the noisy drones
were the most important element in the
economy of the hive. But deeper in
sight would reveal the fact that, instead
of adding anything to the common store,
they but obstruct the progress of the
work, until they become so intolerable a
nuisance that they are expelled from the
hive. So it is here. After the commit
tees have spent weary nights in perfect
ing and putting into decent form the
misshapen progenies of all kinds of
brains, then commences the buzzing.
As sense is not required in Legislative
speeches, it is not necessary that the
speech makers should investigate the
subject under discussion. Indeed, it
would be quite out ofplaee to do so, for
il the real question before the House was
understood by them, even the spouters
themselves would see the utter incongru-
ity between the question and the speech
to be delivered, and would be thus
shamed into silence. But as it seems
TO be the mission of some gentlemen to
taA, and nothing else, it seems to be
necessary that they be permitted to per-
form that mission.
1t US amusing, however, to hear some
gentlemen repeat the same stump-speech
which he used before the election, on all
manner of bills that can be presented.
Whether the bill be one to suspend the
School Library, or sell the Public.
Works--to hold an adjourned session, or
build new Penitentiary-to encourage
the catching of negroes, or to prohibit
the catching of fsh-to allow cities to
borrow money, or to compel corporations
to pay their debts-tO allow constables
to administer oaths, or torepeal all laws
oaths to be administered-to
abolish capital punishment, or author
izing the building of bridge in Hamil-
ton County; in short, whatever the sub
ject, no vote can be taken until the same
eloquent gentlemen have repeated the
same stumr -peeches. But, after all, the
speech nuisance is not without its ad-
Fantages. As no one isexpected to listen
10 them, the members have learned
10 arrange their work SO as to do up |
heir correspondence while the gas is be-
ng blown off.
The Convention on the first inst, was
,ne of the largest and most harmonious
.ud enthusiastic ever held in Ohio. Ev-
cry County in the State, except one or
:wo, was fully represented. This, when
it is remembered that there were no of
icers to nominate, shows the interest
aiken in the coming Presidential cleo
lion by the Republicans of the State
The business of the Convention was
simply to select four delegates to the
Chicago Convention. And this work
vas done, as we think, to the entire sat
sfaction of all considerate men. The
names of Horton, Carter, Spooner and
Brodbeck are so we'll known that they
reed no Endorsement from us. They are
wise, prudent, conservative men, who
yifl represent the honest sentiments of
he people of the State. They go to the
Convention unpledged, and their respect
We characters are the highest guarantees
which could be desired. It was the
manifest sentiment Of the Convention to
elect men in whom the whole people
ould place implicit confidence, and
cave them free to act according to cir
substances. That such was the temper
# the Convention is manifest from the
nen selected. Of our own, Hon. V. B.
Horton, it is not necessary to speak to
he readers Of the Telegraph. He, al
hough living in Southern Ohio, will
airiy and fully represent the sentiments
# the Republicans of the State.
D. K. Carter is well known as anable,
afe and sound Republican. He was