Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-08-27

old acquaintance Of Gen. Harrison, and
had no new horrors to present 20 his
mind; for, while Governor Of ''the Ter
riiory of Indiana" he approved and sign
ed "An act Respecting Crimes and Pun
lshmenis," containing sections more odi-
Gus than The section for W lIich he voted
IN the Ohio Senate: more Odious, mas
much as it made an escape from this
most degrading and humiliating servi-
lude, criminal offence, punishable with
WHIPPING in the full measure Of
THIRTY-NINE STRIPES!M and
with double servitude as to time. (See
Territorial Laws, Revised code, of 1907,
pages 80, aud 40-sections 80 and 3l.)
"SEC. 80. When any person, or per-
sons shall on conviction Of any crime, or
breach Of penal law, be sentenced 10 pay
fine or fines, with or without the costs
of prosecution, it shall and may be lawful
for the court before whom such convic-
ton shall be had, OL3-tO order the sheriff
to SELL or hire the person or persons
so conuicted, to SerUice, to any person or
persons who viH pay the said fine and
costs for such term of time as the court
will think reasonable.
And if such person or persons, so SEN
fenced and hired or sold, shall abscond
from the service of his or her master or
mistress, before the term Of such service
shall be expired, he or she so absconding.
shall on conviction before a justice of the
peace, be WHIPPED WITH
THIRTY-NINE STRIPES! and
shall moreover serve two days for every
one so lost.
Sec. 81. The judges Of the several
courts Of record in this territory sh Ill
give this act in charge to the Grand Ju.
ry at each and every court, in which a
grand jury shall be sworn.
JESSE B. THOMAS,
Speaker ofthe House Of Representatives..
B. CHAMBERS,
President of the Council.
Approved-Sept. n, 1907.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
But was Governor Harrison at this
time clothed with The veto power? his
friends will ask.-Aye, he was: he was
more amply than the Executive Of a1y
State of this Union was. See the "Ordi
nance for the Government of the Terri
tory of the United States, Northwest of
the River Ohio" This ordinance may
be found in all of our revised laws from
1894 inclusive, to the present day. We
quote from it, the following words:-
Sand all bills having passed by a ma
iori,y of the House, and majority Of the
Council, shall be referred TO the Govern
or, for his assent, but no bill or legisla-
tive act whatever, shall be of any force
Without his assent"
His vote was absolute. No law could
pass without his "aSSent," though every
member ofthe House Of Representatives,
and the Council might desire it most ar
denty.
Mr.. Van Buren, has been, by the whig
press, most grossly miSrepresented and
slandered, in relation TO his votes and
opinions in the New York convention in
1921. He has been falsly stated to have
favored property qualification TO enttle
white men to vote. Let us see what
were Governor Harrison's opinions on
that subject IN 1907. (See same Re-
vised Code, page 235-6)
"H is therefore enacted, That every
free male inhabitant of the age of 2l
years, resident in the Territory, and
who hath been a citizen of any State in
the Union, or who hath been two years
resident in this Territory, 07- AND
HOLDS A FREEHOLD in FIFTY
ACRES OF LALD-E0 within any
county oflhe same, or any less quantity
in the county in which he shall reside,
which, with the Improvements made
thereon. shall be oflhe value of GCJONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS, or who has
paid for, and in virtue of a deed of con-
vevnce for further assurances from a
person vested with the fee, is in actual
possession of fifty acres of land sui ject
10 taxation in the county in which he
shall be resident, shall be, and are here
BY declared to be duly qualified electors
of representatives for the counties in
which they are respectively residents.
JESSE B. THOMAS,
Speaker ofMe House of Reps.
B. CHAMBERS,
President ofthe Council.
Acknowledgements l7th, 1907.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
And did Governor Harrison approve
and sign this9 And do his friends still
clamor about any thing Mr.. Van Burer
did, or could have done on this subject?
Oh, shame!!! where is thy blush?
But General Harrison is the poor man''
friend. thouuh he would not let the in