Cease to denounce the jury, but stay
the court in whose hands are the jury,
prisoner and law.
r?*lt is notorious, that a very small
share of the talent and integrity of
the State ge's into the Legislative, Ex
ecutive or other Departments of gover i
meat. hat is the reson ? can or will
any one tell us ?—[Wi*. Pinery.
T! ere is Only one way we know of.—
When the Whigs run a man by all odds
inferior to tl e Democratic candidate, let
every Whig turn in and vote for the
Democrat ; and when the Democrats run
the meanest man, then let all the Democ
racy bolt. Also, when both candidates
are totally incapable in the opinion of
everybody, and the candidates have’nt
get sense enough to know it, then let all
turn in ai d vote for some old woman.—
The design ami chief end of partyisin is
to keep up competition, but when the
design and end are lost sight of, then the
people ought to lose sight of party —not
before.
ted Chief Justice by the V •Bjoßt Leg
islature,
Biennial Session.
A short time since we copied from
some exchange doing a haphazardous bu
siness in the way' of coining news, a
statement that the Law of the late Le
gislature providing for biennial sessions,
was given the slip by our State authori
ties. We see from article 12, Sec. 1 oi'
the constitution that all is right. We
do not know whether the law was pub
lished for three months before the late
i election—otherwise the proposed amend
ment is ou the straight track, as will be
seen from said article which we copy*.
