St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1881-08-06
A NEW CONSTITUTION.

The Item asserts, with the Marks
vile Bulletin, that the new constitu-
ton is very imperfect, and is far
from being creditable as q whole
to its authors. But the Item knows,
too. that the chief inspiration for q
demand for o new convention to al
ter it. is the ambition of politicians
to GUST the present administration
after the method pursued in the
case of the Nichols government
The people at large have no SYM
pathy with this desperate spoils
seeking game. Their material in
terests, and the beneficial quietude
which now prevails, would be sac
riiced in the wild struggle for
Office. Allpresent evils can be heal
ed without resort to 50 dangerous a
remedy, and one which gives but
extremely uncertain promise of
cure.-City Item.
How calling for a new constitu-
ton to replace the miserable botch
we now have can be q dangerous
remedy" is beyond our conception.
Is is the usual method of American
people to remove all public nui-
sances. 1t our metropolitan con-
Temporary will only explain its
methods of procedure in this matter,
some light may be thrown upon q
dark subject and the people saved
expense of holding another conven-
ton at this time. The people are
not too old to learn, and they will
be thankful to those who are wiser
than they for the benefit Of good
advice.
To change the present State-and
perhaps city-government at this
time may work disadvantageously
to many persons, we have no doubs,
but it is the end we have in view,
and not Temporary or permanent
disadvantages. Our lawmakers,
rrotiting by the past, should be able
to give US such Constitution as we
want, and better Legislature, than
we now have, should give us good
and wholesome laws under that in
strument. If this cannot be done.
the remedy left is to petition Con-
gress to return US to a territorial
condition.-Sugar Planter.
We fully concur with these views.
The fact has been established by
actual experiment that the Consti-
tuition of 1879 is an utter and COM
plete failure. 1t capnot find a sup
porter or apologist. 1t is not
claimed even that it is an improve
menr on the Radical Constitution
of 1868. But for the simple ques-
ton of expenses there would be but
one opinion throughout the State as
to the propriety of setting it aside
without delay. and substituting one
that will secure better government
than can possibly exist under the
present defective, homogeneous and
iliberal Constitution.
1--WE might at considerable length
detail the multitude of imperfections
and actual distractions in many of
the provisions of the existing con-
stitution. and demonstrate how COM
pletely this instrument has tailed to
meet the expectation of the people
and to give them that relief from
inefficient and bad government
which they earnestly demanded.
But we prefer to reserve our analyti-
cal review OF the suject until the
meeting of the Legislature, when
the proposition for a constitutional
convention will be agitated. In
the mean time public opinion is
formulating and assuming such q
definite and positive shape that the
General Assembly will not fail to
understand its purport and respond
to its requirements.-Daily States.
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