Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1838-09-15
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preventative in the councils Of the nation. A
corrupt press and gratuitous circulation of
falsehoods are ringing his praises in your ears.
Efforts Of the strongest kind are making to con-
vince you of his worth. ISLANDERS the most
black and wicked, are thrown out against his
opponent. Every effort, from the specious ar
gument Of the apparently candid to the most
vile blackguardism of the professed slanderer
is made use Of to operate upon your feelings,
to arouse your passions, and sway your better
judgments. You are told to vote for William
Sawyer, or you are not Democrats, as if the
test of Democracy resides in the vote you may
give for u man with whosc principles you are
unacquainted. Vote for William Sawyer, and
why2 Because he is q destructive? because
he belongs to party that has brought ruin
and distress upon the country? because he up
holds and promises, if elected, to assist in car
rying out the designs of that party? because he
has, with one solitary exception, opposed le-
gislative action upon every thing intended for
the benefit of this section of the country2 Are
these the reasons why you will vote for Will
liam Sawyer? Will you kiss the rod that chas-
tened you unjustly, and like base hounds, love
your master the more, the more you are bea-
ten. Is there drop of good old American
blood--the blood of the Revolution, that
will not rise and crimson the cheek in very
shame at such degradation. , .r
And what has William Sawyer done2 Aye,
what has he done? Bring forth your stiong
reasons for his support and let them be can
vassed and weighed, that justice may take
place. He voted'for the extension of the Mi
ami canal north of Dayton. That is to say
he voted to carry one ofthe great public works
ofQhio, through his own county, perchance
through his own township, to the manifest ad-
vantage Of his own neighbors and himself.
Wonderful man Self-denying statesman ccr-
tainly, to vote to put money in his own pocket
and to add to the value of his own land. And
tits this--this solitary act--this one great and
glorious deed that gives him his claim upon
your suffrages, fellow citizens. This is all
that his friend can say for him--that he voted
for the extension of the Miami canal, north of
Dayton.
And here the record of his deeds for our ben
eft stops. Did he vote for the speedy COM
mencement of the Wabash and Erie canala Be !
it remembered that he did not. He opposed
it, voted against it, and if he could have pre-
vailed this great ardh''oro able work.weuld not
at this day have been commenced. No; to
use his own words, this country that he now
seeks to represent, was " a wilderness, inhabl-
ted by bears and wolves" Away with such a
bug-bear; away with such wolfin Sleeps clo-
thing; away with such pretended friend,
whose tender mercies are upon his own pock
cts, and who has no bowels of compassion be-
yond the narrow circle of his own interests.
But this is not all. When the people Of this
country, suffering beyond endurance by the
dreadful state of the Black Swamp Road, and
despairing of Legislative assistance to render
itpassable, petitioned merely for an act Off
corporation under which they might go to
work and improve it at their o,on expense.
William Sawyer voted against granting the
prayer of the petition Yes; he opposed their
laying out their own money upon the worst
-oad in the state, when there, was no other
means under heaven that could be resorted to,
to improve it. Such is William Sawyer, such
his democracy such his love for the people.
Search the Legislative records of the two
years Of his occupancy ofa seat in the Senate.
They are full of such cases. 1t tisuseless to
enumerate them; we have told enough.
But there is another Of the deeds ofthis man
that we must notice before we close. This
William Sawyer is the man who introduced
into the Legislature a memorial praying that
Avery the man who stands convicted Of mur-
der by the opinion Of the people of the United
States--rnight be elected chaplain Of the Ohio
Penitentiary. And this memorial he suppor-
ted by q speech in which he lavished his wit in 4
amiserable burlesque and ridicule at the exer-
ciese and ordinances ofreligion. It was through
hjs influence and exertions too, that the mise
fqble inmates Of that place Of punishment were
deprived, for one year Of the blessings Of reli-
Rious instruction and advice Ohio then dis
graced herselfin the eyes Of the whole world.
sherefused to the poor criminal upon whose
head The vengeance ofthe law had fallen, those
means Of assistance and encouragement in his
endeayors to reform which were especially in
view q The establishment Of our penitentiary
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