Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-11
WORK TO BE DONE By Our LEsIs.
LATHE.


WORK TO BE DONE By Our LEGIs'
LATHE.
To-day at twelve o'clock, in the pres
ence of the members of both branches OF
the General Assembly, the Speaker OF
the Senate proceeded to open ana
count the votes cast for Governor in this
State, and the person having the high
est number was thereupon declared
elected to the office of Chief Executive
of Tennessee. This is in order to make
public proclamation Of the fact, and
when done, the Governor elect, Dewit
C. Senter, will deliver his inaugural, and
afterwards send in his message recon-
mending such measures to the Legisla-
ture as be may deem expedient.
The extraordinary spectacle in this
State is presented to our view OF Re-
publicsn Governor elected by msjority
of seventy thousand votes, and by the
same majority Of votes almost is a return
of members to the Legislature who, iu
political sentiments, are entirely Demo-
cratic and autsgonistic to the Governor.
Senter is nothing more than fgure-head
to the State Governmeat--an ornamental
piece of work-the Black Republican
scuhsIl on the. iack-staf of the State.
What he may recommend will have lit
tie influence or weight with the members
of the Legislature. because he was not
elected with the view by the people OF be-
coming the general adviser of the Legis-
Ie,ure. 1t was make-shift that he was
put in office, or, more properly. milf
tary necessity. that grew out OF Andy
Johnson'a proscriptive military govern
meut IN Tennessee. He will serve out
hi. term of Office unless "impeacbed for
high crimes and misdemeanors /" In
uuiet way, and but for the custom OF
calling somebody Governor, bis exist
ence in the State would be aeon forgotten.
The Inauguration Of Senter will take
place to-day, after which the Legis>
lature will 20 to work in good earnest
to regenerate our State Government
frem the bliehting touch Of Radical mis-
rule. Some member Of the Legislature
has introduced already a bill in the Legis-
lature to abolish the Board of County
Commissioners for Dawson county, and
the reason why similar bill was not in
troduced for the benefit Of Shelby was
because our Representatives had not
agreed upon the exact form of a bill that
would meet the requirements Of our peo-
pie. 1t would not, in our judgment, be
we'll to restore the old system Of County
Court, by the assembling the msgis-
trates together, for we. after the
war, had a sufficient trial OF
these, aud found them incompetent for
the business. Then, if the old order OF
things should be restored, we would still
have q Radical court, as q msjoriiy OF
magistrates in the county, by the erea-
ton of so many of them by the Radical
Legislature, would still keep our county
in dishonest hands. The present system
must be reorganized that Barbour Lewis
aud the rest of the "aagers" may be gotten
out. and as "the rose will smell as sweet
by auy other name" we will abolish the
court aud call it by some other name
than County Com missioner's Court. We
think the measure Of our s&iction
was completely filed when the people Of
this county-the banner county 10 the
State - we're compelled to have their
property appropriated and rights ed
Judged by an African, and mean whites,
whose records are no better than their
black associate. The Legislature has
it in it's power to abolish every Court in
the State, save and except that Of the
Supreme Court; and as the Radical
goose will perhaps relish little OF the
sauce prescribed for our gauder, we will
not prescribe it in broken doses, but IN
sucb quantities SIS will purge out at once
and effectuslly every corrupt Judicial snc
other ofiee-holder in the State. Let there
be q clean sweep. so far as our county
and district are concerned, and ther
we will have a lasting and permanent
peace. 1t is not expected that all th'
men Of the Democratic party are incor
ruptible, and when they shall 70 baeI
again into Office in this State we erpec
nothing else than that some Of these met
will be found pilfenug the public treas
ury. Bot we viii promise the people e
expose all such, aud il possible have then
brought to justice and turned out Of Office
and not like our opponents, make man.
ability to steal bis chief recommendation
for place. Our Legislature should maxi
n clean sweep of every Radical scoundre
in the State, and let it be said that il
Tennessee ct least the white people hsV'
3 government that they can call Thea
own.