The "loil" legislature of Alabama; its ridiculous doings, and nonsensical sayings . overnor had a tedious and awkwardtime in getting his loil machine to grinding; but with theassistance of home scalawags who were in search of offices,the Senate was finally organized after a fashion. If thelearned Lieutenant Governor had kept his mouth closed,and shown more respect for the English grammar, the firstdays session of the loil Senate would have passed off tol-erably w^ll. The loil House of Representatives presented a scene ofgrandeur and subHmity beyond precedent and beyond de-scription. It consist
The "loil" legislature of Alabama; its ridiculous doings, and nonsensical sayings . overnor had a tedious and awkwardtime in getting his loil machine to grinding; but with theassistance of home scalawags who were in search of offices,the Senate was finally organized after a fashion. If thelearned Lieutenant Governor had kept his mouth closed,and shown more respect for the English grammar, the firstdays session of the loil Senate would have passed off tol-erably w^ll. The loil House of Representatives presented a scene ofgrandeur and subHmity beyond precedent and beyond de-scription. It consisted of one hundred^ members, twenty- 11 six of whom were negroes, sixty-seven carpet-baggers andscallawags, and seven total white men. The seven whiteswere acquainted with parhamentary proceedings, and tothem is due the credit of getting the hybrid concern inorder. The radical members of this body were the scumof the localities in which they pretended to live, and, as abody, the loil House was not even equal to the loil Senate,in point of respectabihty and intelligence. ^il. THE HON. SENATOR FROM BULLOCK IN HIS SEAT. The two houses organized by electing twice the usualnumber of officers, thus giving away the white peopleshard earnings as a vote of thanks to negroes and scalla-wags. The learned Lieut. Governor proposed that theconcern proceed to ratify the 14th article of the Constitu-tion of the United States, after which the Ginral wouldsend up some big guns, and all hands would have a Httlefun in the way of seeing the big guns shoot, and other loildemonstrations. 12 The vote on the ratification was unanimous in the Sen-ate, [Mr. Worthy not being in the city.] In the House,there were six votes against it, to-wit; Reeves of Cherokee,Neville of Monroe, Moore of Coffee, Hubbard of Pike,Mastin of Crenshaw, and Hurt of Jackson. The remarksof Mr. Neville on this outrageous occasion had the trueSpartan ring. Mr. Neville said: I vote against this resolution, because it is unjust,
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