Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-07-29
DIAUNIEE EXPRESS.
SATURDAY. JULY %, 1887.


PoLrTcs.--In the absence Of news q
every kind, we are tempted this week
20 give our readers very slight taste
Of politics, BY the way Of relish. And
we DO this the more readily, because
asevere scrutiny into all our exchanges,
IN the vain hope of discovering some.
thing unallied to party, wherewith to
make our paper interesting, has brought
70 our eyes some things, which we de-
sire 10 make airecord OF, for our own
use; some things which we should like
10 place in njuxtapostion with the others,
for The. purpose of taking view Of them
both, as they stand together, and some
things which may perhaps, be interest
ing 10 others besides ourselves, and there
fore are proper TO be noticed. And we
may perhaps as well make here the re-
mark, that we disclaim all intention of
committing ourselves upon any party
question,andwe are emboldened so to do,
from the consciousness that we may safe
ly challenge any ofour readers for proof
of single overt act of any kind, in fa-
vor of one party and at the expense of
another. 1t is true that we have some.
times like Democritus, laughed at the
abortive attempt of some party political
whipster, who Pheton-like, imagined
himself able to drive the car of State,
and who met with nothing but discom-
fiture and overthrow as his reward, and
sometimes like Marius, we have wept
over the Carthage delenda" of our con-
stitution, as it was pictured by some of
our lachrymose Congressional orators,
for the especial benefit OF us their constit-
DENTS west of the AIleganies. By the
way, we intend to go to Congress our
selves one of these days, and then, if we
don't make some "plunges," if we do
not "do the lions part extempore, " make
us play.T Thisbe, and "speak in monstrous
little voice." forever thereafter.
Among the recollections OF our boy
hood, there is one, which at this present
writing comes back to us, in all the vi
vacity Of youthful association. An old
chaplin Yankee land very fond of at
tending auction sales, was accustomed.
when under the influence and effect of
the old rule, T" A dram to the next bid I
DER TO bid upon himself, always how
promising his bid with the question, j
g, How Goes she stand now Mr.. Aution-
eer? This question to one who observes
the political movement of the day is not I
and we have asked our !
selves, to day, how does she stand now +
And lest change of direction has been r
made while we have been asleep, it
would beiwell enough to take slight e
view ofthe starting place. In 1888, the j
Iollowing prediction appeared in the S
Globe, then, as now, the organ Of the S
government. 7zss Inseven months from Ii
bank rags will be abolished. p
and the whole country will be over Q
spread with gold. Every farmer and v
mechanic of the west will have silk t
purse of open network, through the in a
terstices of which the yellow gold will f
glitter" Alta convention composed Of e
the friends of the administration, holden I
in Columbus in June last, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted. ).
s"lRssolUed, That we are opposed to !
The banking system, and every other spe-
cies Of monopoly, and believe them cal t
cu)ated, under the most favorable au- !
spices, to create much mischief in COM r
munity, and especially in times like the !
present, experience has shown us all that 7
no permanent dependence can be placed :
upon any thing short Of the real consti- :
.utional currency. Gold and silveras a a
medium ofcirculation.' A meeting hol- t
den in Philadelphia on the fifteenth Y
Of May, passed unanimously the follow n
ing resolution: u :
iiaResolued. That we are opposed to
l1onopolies Of every description-n'ore i
TO monied monopolies, and (
that we consider the banking system a t
system of fraud and oppression, that we Q