The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1872-02-10
A C0nceited Poor Devil Playing
his PART"

Under this heading the Clarion OF
the 2nd inst, reviews the action of
the present Governor of this State,
r, 9. Powers, including his mca-
sage, vetoing the Act reducing the
price OF the Code to six dollars. We
published the message in full last
week, with our comment, and now
give below a few passages from the
Clarion, showing the opinion enter
tanned of Ills Exccllency at the Cap
itol
Ii the Intelligent people of Mis-
sissippi were responsible for putting
such a BOBBY as Powers into the
Executive Office, they would have
occasion to be profoundly lumilia,
ted and standardized by the paper
which he has sent to the Legislature
vet0lng the blll to reduce the price
of the New Code. Their consolation
is in the thought that they had no
more Agency in indicting on the
State such u mncompoop and pest,
than in tho production OF the ino
sects that float on the air, or the
reptiles that crawl ON the earth, or the pcsti.
lenee that waIketb In darkness by Il providen.
tul Judgment the uses OF which are not ponc.
tr4bie hy mortal ken. In the current which
arose ia the northern slums and discharged
lis eargoes Of impeoanleaS adventures, there
were many strange specimens of humanity,
each remarkable in kind and exeersblc in
quality. Thus, by the evidence OF his own
partizsns, the incumbent ofthe Executive Of.
fce Of Louisiana has siown himself to be so
complete an expert Ia 6naneiering that he
has become 4 millionaire IN three years on a
salary OF $4,000. Aud his exploit Is even sur
passed By anotN. member Of his tribe in South
Catolina, Bullock of Georgia, has saved him.
self from the penitcntiaty by timely location
ever thu Canada borders. Governor Davis Of
! Texas, Is under an indictment by the Federal
Grant Iafy, aud Ia a candidate for tho State
Prison, with every proSpec, Of success. The
bel, Of champion knave is warmly con 'estcd
by these knights of the Money Bag, with
doubtful result. But TO the inhabi,ant Of the
Executtycos6ee here In Mississippi the prize OF
champion fool is accorded, without a peer or
a rival.
We will vensnre 10 say In perfect confidence,
tia, no one will have the tcmerily 10 join Issue
with NJ, that no such disgraccfal, stupid, out
of4ime thing ~ this sescalied message can be
ionul in the archicyes Of any cisilsred com
munity. No man has ever before baon known
70 disgrace the title OF Governor, however ille-
Ultimately acquired by singing ont a whole
class OF learned and useful men, for insult In
an oRicisl paper, rs be has done the bar OF this
State, or BY slangwhanging q public journal,
because they happened no, to concur with BIN
about the cost OF q book.
II neyer'pnlered the head Of anybody except
the donkey craniam Of the Body Governor
himself, that they were designed to embrace
the salaries cf the commissioners who ccdiRed
III. And Yet he ,actua, ly takes in this itsm in
esiimatn. lis cost With the same prcpriety
he susiit 10 hare included all the Legislative
sxpenses in preparing Il; and thus by the
same reasoning lie might have AZ easily dem
onsffaisA that having had feisenee to "the
cost oi the work. the price Should have been
fixed at from sz5 TO $50 pc. volume.
The truth Ia, the sale Of the work was never
designed IA speculation for the State. lthad
d better nd A higher aim, thich was to place
within the reach Of her citizens, high and low,
rich and poor, Of every class and calling, a
knowledge Of the laws which govern them,
and which areihe projection oliiie, liberty and
property. None but q grovelling wonhiper Of
NAinmon, who ecnrelvcs n, rnr.r motive In a
public officer than TO suck Tie blood Of the
Trcasaf,, aud o put money In his pocket,
mun1d have resolved The circulation Of the
code inio's nnist of dollars aud cenis