Year: 1875

of the compromise by Louisiana

 had some disagreeable as-

 poets and was opposed by many

 out siders-who really had no

 right to dictate to Louisiana what

 she should, or should not do, in

 the premises-it appears that the

 adjustment has to great extent

 been beneficial. The Times of the 12th inst. has this to say of the adjustment:

 There are some people who still

 believe, and assert roundly, that the earth is flat. These people are more knowing than ordinary people; all the positivists, with a hobby, are that way. They be- gin by being philosophical, then grow tart, then crotchety, and finally subside into chronic scolds, under the conviction that the ob. durate majority is bent on heresy and deaf to reason. Such people are ir-reclaimable, so far as their cherished infirmities are concern ed, and the only way to get on with them pleasantly is to ignore their hobbies entirely and make allowance for their opposition as so much inevitable friction to be overcome as a matter of course, and no more to be quarreled with than the law of gravitation. Soci- ety is everywhere pervaded by q certain proportion of impractical bles, who vigorously espouse the negative of every proposition that can be conceived of or enunciated. They prance around a great deal, and get in the way and demon strate loudly that nothing what ever can be done, and as long as the less demonstrative majority in awe of mere sound and dictum nothing whatever will be done Though it seems an unpleasant lot to be afflicted with such a temperament, yet it is very prob able the class vas created for a useful purpose. It doubtless serves as a check upon the over sanguine, and forces the progress sive to stop and think at times when there is danger of going too fast.

 It is, therefore, no good cause for yeXation that there is still some snitling at the policy of ad- justment. So far as this is con fined to our own people, it is but the exercise of an inalienable right, but when a rank outsider, like the Mobile Register, comes forward to inform the people of Louisiana that they do not know what they are about, and have not attended to their own business properly, it is time to object in terms. The Register is an an eient and hide bound "organ" of the straitest sect, and does not know, and would not comprehend if it did know, that the politician here has lost his grip. The la boring man and the capitalist have had something to say about this adjustment business, and one of the sharpest truths enunciated is that they no longer worship faded luminaries like the Regis ter, and respectfully decline to continue to furnish political cap ital to other States at the expense of everything that makes life en- durable or Q state prosperous. The majority here are quite as competent judges of duty and principle as the Register, and they are not aware that they have sacrificed either in bringing about adjustment.

 It was not expected that the movement would bring about a millennium. Sensible people were quite we'll aware that it had many disagreeable aspects, and are not at all disappointed because it has not instantly achieved everything desirable. It was adopted as an escape from anarchy, of which we have had a good deal more than enough. Sagacious men saw in it a beginning of better thinGg. They were not mistaLan