New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-17

We have quoted from the Vicksburg
the White Liners, and two years ago ad-
vised hanging, shooting, burning-anything
aud everything to rid the State of Repub-
lican rule, and inaugurate an era of pros
perity and reform. The shotgun and the
whip lash did their work, and the govern
ment went into the hands of the Herald
people. Governor Ames was forced to
resign, and the Demo cracy obtained control
of the entire machinery OF the State. The
Legislature met, and the golden age ought
to have dawned on the people. Yet there
seems to have been some mistake about
it, for now comes the Vicksburg Herald of
the third with the following editorial no.
ticing the final adjournment of that de.
lectable body:
The Mississippi Legislature has rushed off
home. Some OF the members will be seen
and heard Of no more until the next time to
draw pay. Then every man will answer to
his name. As there is no more pay to be
drawn this year, there will not be another
session until next year.
This Legislature calls itself retrench-
u
men diegustingly willing to retrench every
thing except themselves. In this respect
we must praise some of the members for
having made very "retrenchy" name for
the State, and some of them have also made
more money than they ever mace before
in the same length of time. Some of the
laws passed, we must say, though, are good
once. The laws to prevent the selling
of liquor within three miles of certain of
RFnaz-TnQh 0iU in ~
other cross-rosd towns the right to sell as
much liquor as they wish, are exceedingly
wise laws. All tastes must be satisfied.
Where the prohibition laws are suppose d
to take effect, those who had them passed
for that purpose can make good thing of
it by evadiDg them. Where the prOhibi,
ton does not take effect, the cTOss-rOad
villages can get drunk openly and after
the city fashion. 1t would be little too
tight, perhaps, to cay that these laws are
adapted to the sections for which they were
passed. OF one thing we are sure, if they
had not passed laws allowing liquor to be
sold in some of the crOss-road towns, and
prohibiting its sale in other cross-rOad
towns, the State would, to-day, be in very
bad way. Wisdom will tell when it gets
huddled up together. Then the Legislature
did some negative wise things, if we may be
allowed to use the expression. 1t refused
to repeal the odious and unjust printing
law. This looks sweet. 1t enables the
little jack leg lawyer who vented his
little personal spite in this gway to say
See how "Tetrenehy" we are. Well hold
the printers down. They did more than
any other power in the State to GUST the
Radicals, but we must appear "retrenchy,'
and as we can't begin on CURSE yes wemust
begin somewhere. We are glad to be able
to say that We do not intend TO charge
the House with injustice in this respect,
These remarks are intended for the butt
end of the Senate.
Another wise thing the Legislature did
was to refuse simple justice to this county
in the matter of the hospital and in regard
TO the privilege taxes and licenses. This
will brace up the "cOw" counties with the
money uniustly drawn from the cities. The
COW counties are very poor, and they be.
lieve that charity begins at home, and
it is wise in them to give themselves
other peoples money, This looks re.
trebchy also. the very smartest thing
the Legislature did, though, was to keen
| passing adjournment resolutions so as to
hurry the ''cow boys" up to shorten the SEES
sion In this way they succeeded in ad
iourning sure enough Thursday, making az
much money per day as possible. All the
hnddled up Weldon has separated, and
jackson looks as played out as one of the
cross road towns which prohibits the sale
of liquor within three miles of it.