New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-02-14

We have quoted from the Vicksburg
Herald before. 1t was the loud organ of
the White Liners, and two years ago ad-
vised hanging, shooting, burning
and everything to rid the State of Repub-
lican rule, and insugurste 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 HerGld's
people. Governor Ames was forced to
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 she 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 mare pay to DO
drawn this year, there will not be another
session until next year.
This Legislature calls itself q retreneh-
ment, reform Legislature. 1t is filled with
men disgustingly willing to retreneh every
thing except themselves. In this respect
we must praise some of the members for
having nade very "retrenchy" name for
the State, and some of them have also made
more money than they ever made before
in the sape length of time. Some of the
laws passed, we must say, though, are good
once. The LEWIS to prevent the selling
of liquor within three miles of certain of
the little crOss-road towns, and giving
other erOss-road towns the right to sell ss
much liquor as thay wish. are exceedingly
wise laws. All tsstes must be satisfied.
Where the prohibition laws are supposed
to take effect, thoee y7hO had them passed
for that purpose can make good thing of
it by evading them. Where the prohibit
ton does not take effect, the cross-rOad
villages can get drunk openly and after
the city fashion. 1t would be little too
tight, perhaps, to say that these laws are
adapted 10 the sections for which they were
passed, OF one thing We are sure, If they
had not passed laws allowing liquor 30 be
sold in some of the cross-road towns GDd
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. It enables the
little Jack leg lawyer who vented his
little personal spite in this Eway to say:
See how ''retrenchy" we are. Well hold
the printers down. They did more than
any other power in the State to Dust the
Radicals, but we must appear "retrenchy,"
and as we can't begin on ourselves wemust
begin somewhere. We are glad to be able
TO saw 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 uDjustly 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-
treDehy also. The very smartest thing
the Legislature did, though, was to keep
passing adjournment resolutions so IS to
hurry the "cow boys" up to shorten the see-
SION. In this way they succeeded in adj
jOurning sure enough Thursday, making az
mach money per day as possible. All the
huddled up wisdom 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.