The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1841-08-12

HhH fedf-hnO wat are lnelr coH'entS!
First: Tweniy-one millions Of dollars, 10 m o.
ney and means. which we Ief them for ten
monh>' expenditure, snd Mhrh thew declare
to be insufficient before the llme is half out,
and call Congress together TO grant new sup
plies. Secondly; One hundred and one nil
lions Of burhen imposed, or attempted TO be
imPnsed, upon the people, in order to raise, by
lOsnt and taves, about ilty-seVen millions of
dollars for the Government Ihrdl. An an.
Dual waste OF revenue and means representing
q capital, al simple interest, Of one hundred
and thirty~lhree and and half millions Of dol
lars. These three totals make grand aggre-
gate of two hundred and forty-fVe millions of
dollars as the amount which these economical
gentlemen-th these thirteen million men-have
used, or raised, or sqCandered, or imposed as
burthens upon the people, or attempted 10 be
30 raised, or squandered or imposed, in the
first half year of their reign. They have done,
or attempted to do this; and il they have not
succeeded 10 the exteat OF their designs-if
they have been frustrated in their pArt-the
praise is ours, not theirs for our opposition
the Democratic opposition aone--has check
ed their headlong course, and partly Saved the
country.
The is the view Of the fiscal or moneyed
entries which ind 10 these books; but also
find another class Of eAtres there--Which Gei-
theF time ner parliamentary rule will permit
inc now 10 examine. can only group these
political entries INTO q single picture at this
iims, leaving the detailed examination which
they metit 10 more prOpiiious season. They
consist of the whole mass Of measures of the
old Federal school Of 1871 and 1898, rein-
forced and aggravated by select itemO COLLECTS
cd from the Whig timeB Of Sir Robert Walpole,
aud The high Tory limea Of Queen Anne. A.
moOg lhese political entries we find
A National Bank, National Debt, national taxation
exclusive privileges and mOnopoies; tho funding sys
tem paper system, and stockobbing the union bank
and Stae supremacy Of corporations, and the nmuni-
ty corporaors committees on currency 10 Danish our
constitutional currency, and 10 change our hard money
Government into paper money machine, 10 be govern
ed by bank president and his directors, with their at,
tOrneyS debtors and jobbers; squandering in corrupt
schemes at home, in subbervence to foreigners the
revenue which should be gwen 10 the public defenceO
at homo, and then supplying its loss by loans and lax
es; cowardcs abroad tyranny at home; good men cha.
sed from Office, bad put in their places; secret commit
tees, to give employment 10 parsans and to hunt up
charges against Republicans; political offences created
by Executive, in violation Ofthe Constitution, and for
the revival ofthe sedon law to be enforced against
Democrats aono be tried OK pare, and to be ofex>
post iacto operation: universal persecution of the De"
mocracy; Federsiss put into Office for frauds at elec.
tions, Democrats turned for voting fairly; naval and
military officers threatened with dlsmlsslon for political
offences unknown to the Constitution Of the country, or
to the rules and articles of war; to the navy regulas
tionG abolition debts at the will ofthe debtor, under
the name Of general bankrupt law; the Departments
at Washington converted into magazines for scandal,
where dsatoS informerS, libeers and Office hunters
file their ae and secret dsnuncatons sgsinSt the DEM
ocrats, whom they hate, whose Offices they love:
hypocrcy, dSsimulaOn, treachery, corruption the al-
ahcaton ofevey promise made before the election and
u'urplng power, and endeAvoins 10 plunder and
ncle posterlty and changing limited Republican Gov
ernment of the people into unlimited oligarchy of
scrub and scrip aristocrats. Such is the pic
ture, briefly and lmperfecty sketched, which
Ihs first half year's enrieH in the political part
Of these new books presents 10 the county, II
is the beginning only; and from this beginning
Judge Of Tho end.
PrOminen, in the foreground Of this piclure,
lowering over the rest, and crowning The whole
stande the great red harlOt Of Babylon, THE
BANK, waving her golden
'ceptre, and exulting in her triple character Of
POLITICAL engine to crush Democracy; pecu-
mary engine. TO plunder the people; and branch
ot the Bank Of England, to connect and sub
Isct our moBeysd aud political interests TO tho
paper oligarchy Of London. Al the rest arc
her offspring. That gigantic beast sits for Mi,
IONS picture 10 tho Paradise Loet--s monster
vast, foul, aud hideous 10 behold-tho mother
Of monsters. hell honuda kenneling, within her
creeping in snd out, growing and bowling for
their purid prey This extra session Of Con-
greSS, this rump Congress, was to place lhs
beast, and ell hcr foul and rs,snous brood,
spon us. The Federallste, drunk and mad
with unexpected success, rushed to this hot
and sutry session, to fasten all their Odious
measures upon US. They came to great po-
lltlcal banquet, where joy and triumph were to
reign; but seem destined 10 change the char>
acter OF the entertainment, and TO give the
world rev edition Of The immoral feas, Of the
Lapihe and tho Cenlaurs.
The new Secretary Of the Treasury was
put upon the hard duly--ihe ignobe tass-
Of discovering tho er post fdcto reasons which
were to excuse and justify this pre-ordained
and execrable session He was TO find rea-
cons for this Federal usurpation in the Dmis-
conduct and the JOlies, the debts and the extra.
o0gancies," Of the Democratic Adminis!ra
tons. lie dreamed no found them. He seni
them IN, strung together IN TINT report which
the Rpeeches Of threo SenAiors (Woodbury,
Wright ard CslhouD) shattered; shivered,
and scattered like the PaiXhan bombs beat into
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