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Show A WORD WITH THB GOVERNOR, Ou the assembling of tho legislature, legisla-ture, Governor Woods delivered a message that called forth tho remark from probably the larger portion of the auditors, that "be had laid out work enough to keep tho Legisla tors together six months instead of forty days;" did they ever attempt to consider con-sider his recommendations. It bore evidence, of low eaptiousuess mure, than the wisdom of a statesman, for no sensible man would have set before a Territorial Legislature composed as it must necessarily bo of laboring, hard-working men and not plotting politicians a Lask which oven Congress Con-gress with all its le,;al brains would scarcely bo able to get through with iu 'its longest session. lut tho tiovernor never expected that the work which he laid out would bo undertaken; in-jdeed, in-jdeed, he never desired for a moment j that it should be done. The first niea-,sago niea-,sago was precisely like tho second, J which tho Now York H'urM so fitly .designated "Buncombe." It was only written for effect elsewhere. There are, fortunately for the good ' health of the legislators and the name , of the Governor, but a few more days I left of the session, so that tho verbosi- ity of his nature cannot have very nuch opportunity of wreaking its i vengeance and doing himself and others serious injury. We should not be surprised, however, that His Kx-Velleney Kx-Velleney now contemplated perpetra ting tlu.1 folly of sending in a closing message with the reiteration of what , he said should have been done and what the legislature has not done. - It might be considered serviceable in i Washington ! I Looking at tho Governor's course f whol iy from a new spapex standpoint, j we are forced to the conclusion that there must be a very- heavy coating jof vanity overlaying hU brains, Nj 'gentleman of onhn;uy sense and personal per-sonal delicacy of sentiment would put on the airs that he has done during tlie present session of the legislature, and would speak as lie has spoken to a K dy of men who in any eonuuuni- j ty would be rei-arded at le;vt the peers uf tiovernorWooils. His manner i of address h:w but barely escapol the title of impertinence. It would not ' have boen endured ! any Legisla-: j tare elsewhere, and that it has been J permitted to go almost unnoticexl and janrebuked here is due to the tact that ; the gentlemen composing the legislature legisla-ture are not at alt disturbed by it. ; But how much better could Governor j Woods have mule it for himself and I others had he modestly considered' jthat he is no imperial sivervign and 1 no law-giver whine will and wi-li are :a!.-olut( Had he rrmm-.ti-Tcd that I the Leir-sk'tiT wiunt he n-lrirtwd I 'have lived a rj".arter ol a century in , the?e niounuins, and Uiat it is to their hard and p.iti.Mit toil, and ' p rnal s.vr:fice, through many long and tryha-I je.ri, tint lie , is in ifht-d fur his daily broud, aa lio-j lio-j vernor of I'Lah, he wimld prvVably have k-een more respectful to Uiem. They are tlie men who made the Territory hat it is, and if the tnie principli-H of di'inoeratic republican- j :sm h.ul any inllix-uwe with the ap-1 pi-'inting -m-T at the a( of government, govern-ment, one of lliCHf viry gfatkjoen whom the ( lovenmr 1 rat wiMdd have worthily fiihd tho guK'rnali inal c'nair, tow m jnily reproachtd. I I oes it K'i"0me any Fideral ap-pii'iifr, ap-pii'iifr, I'-mic iu; w accident.!!;. I u.hng an I'iiice for m app-jintnirnt j is but a:i acrid rut to iitime toe Airs r if ii ! nh.tr ian o niqurjor, and Ui ; lor I it over his fellow men, simply le-c-un lie h.w a priwcrl government at hi- bi.-k? A tr.ir gentleman m-uid do tiie Vtry upj-'ite. Tiiere is' nothing ni graceful, so befitting a' , :n.i.-t'.T-tniud, as gentieuens and n i delicacy of manner in tlie exer ;.e of mthority. Such a Governor n ih-cL-honor upon tlie authority lie wields : ' i he adorns the office more than the i I office honors him. Wikto the in- plincts of a genth man are wanting, they are almost invaiialily fnippUnUd by the coarse viti'ieration of a feuld and an ambit iri for p r( 'ii.d ilis-play. ilis-play. U e wish thai we could speak otherwise other-wise W Governor Wori, and of stno other Federal olliciali ; bat the truth is forced from ih, and we know that many gentlemen in linn roniinunity, who have, no alfiliaUon whatever with our relic. ions sentiment, senti-ment, are as muni iinC'1 m wo are i atweing tlie unwi.-w proreHing here' of tlnwe who claim to represent the lerlint-s of Urn national K'erninent. i If they tiiink that free born iner-ictns.'or iner-ictns.'or tboe who hnvo ch'fen to forn-ike the rotintn- Ih.it gavo tlicm liirtli and accepted this a.- tlie grt-alcr country of adoption, are going to l-e sfi'l'ibd perpetually byoflicc bolder, and - iy n .thing, they uro fearfully nii-tik'n, dtHtirc will one dvover- 't ik.- them and the prople that might ' honor thein will g ie uj-in them with lciu!ein.t. W'r. h ive written IhU in a friendly way, for tvr ever regret to n nian for whoni nature ha.- dour mi nmeli as in his ruse do fto little ft himself. Ill piiysique, his Kxcellrncy would attract the al trillion of the p i-cr-hye; i but we cannot look id i- recent ! entire without thinking of what Shelley slid of the women of Italy: Tuey were beautiful to look ujion, their form wuh lankier, nnd the hi-li"si grace. nf Hi" inli.-l'rt pencil were ec.-il. d in t lie on I hues of their co'.int--!mniv: h J when they opened their nio'ul d to -peill- the (lunger wtiH over. |
