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will and all laws rightly made will be properly executed.

The Legislature. 

The indication of the future action of that body may be predicted if we take sentiment as a  criterion, or expression of feeling as a guide. It is true a man may say one thing and act to the contrary. But men do not act in this wise. It is true again that men are measured by their deeds, and their acts connected with and prompted by their feelings serve as a very good guide on which to base a criterion. Thus when a body of men spring a discussion in the Senate Chamber on the propriety of "hoisting" the United States colors over the State Capital buildings, is a good criterion by which to Judge.

Where men claiming to be loyal declare that it is not in accordance with their feelings to sit under that flag. We may judge of the feelings of such men and their loyalty to the Government.

A discussion of this nature was sprung by members of the Senate of Mississippi, and openly discussed with great warmth but the resolution for raising the flag was carried as one member remarked & because it was "policy to do so." When the name of a