Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-03-30
NEW SERIES.-VOL. 1. NO. 35.

his struggle is visible; this il is, more
th IN any other. that has in every are,
clnvulsed The world, and strewed It's bu.
so n with the blood and bones Of murdered
men. In the Roman republic, the gov
erning class, having fIst succeeded q
obtaining almostlhe entire properly of
the country, by Sy and impercept,bls
means long emPbged, the strife began
: VIM gle people Tor restitution. So was
II IN France, prior 10 the frsf revolution;
and such Is now the strife in England
With US, 1t seems, Government IS about
to commence the contest for ACQUISITION
with the citizens. But, in everv instance
whether TO acqcire or TO retain The strug-
gle for property is the same; and The
people, whose labor produces all. are
ever in the right. Wherever, under a
system at all free, the governing pover
has succeeded land it gensrally hasl in
the plInder of the people, these result,
have invariably followed A division Ct
The popular mass into classes, tie rich
and the poor, next the establishment sf
political orders the aristocracy, with DOW.
er wealth and cOrruPtion-the multitude
in Penury, dependence, and wrath; and
finally when civil discore, prescription,
cOnfScaiiOn, and dea'h havs had their
sway, single-handed despotism, has clo-
sed the scene.
To this catastrophe, and by these
means, have all free Governments been
brought; and whether il be, of all such.
the inevitable tendency, our own exam.
pie must prove. But if this calamity.
hitherto universal. can here be averted-
if our destiny shall be found more happy
than theirs-it will be because the peo-
pie resist the evil, while yet they are
strong, and end it at the beginning. For
with US, as with others, the necessities
OF fGovernment-the support Of credit
the relief of the country-are, and ever
will be the read y reasons put forth for
taxation without limit-ani through il
usurpation of power. If not arrested at
the Ou set, repetition will give to each
act of plunder the authority ofprecedeni;
and time, in all things powerful ele-
ment Of title, will gradually reconcile
men 10 endurance; until at last, having
become strong by alIaying resistance
Government viii throw away The veil, no
longer necessary, and clsin to sick the
as a matter of right, for tie
benefit of the few.
In the spectacle of starving millions.
England-that England so often commen-
ied to our imitation here--aff0rds an ex-
ample of this unbonnded power Of taxa.
lion. Never, in any part of The Globe,
have an equal number Of human beings
produced by their toll. in single year
IN amount so great of the necesslries and
comforts of lie, as are annually wrought
oy the laborng English. Upon every
principle of justice, then, their own com
forts should be proportionably great
heir social condition happy. Yet is lhis
he fact? Are they who toll so inces-
'antly-whOse labor produces so much
ire they even fed, clolhel, sheltered
rom the storm. themselves, or families?
Have they hope, for the future, of relief
his side The grave? No! One half of
he entire nation-l speak it not from
umor. but upon the authority of British
'tatis!ics--one-kalf of the entire nation
ire reduced 10 absolute pauperism. One
ourth dependent, through the year on the
alone, for support, another
ed, occasionally, from it, whenever they
ire brought, as often, they are. to the al.
elnalive Of charity, or dealh. Aud why
his misery, this degradation ofthe most
aborious people ever known? WhyIthis
utferng of the mass, whilst Ike Govern.
nent and the ruling orders are notorious
y the richest in the world? Butts the
vii temporary? will it soon pass awayf
Did it arise from natural or from fortuit-
us causes-from a dearth--ihe failure
ia crop, or the revages Of a Pestilence2
Iever!-the cause and tine misery are
ike human and permanent
The vernnsent-Parliament with its
mnpotence-its Iimilless power of tax
iion: there is the source--there alone
{ all those wrongs and agonies. tits this
over. acting unrestrained, through tho
ouble agency ofparIiament and The bank
' which government and its appended OIL
srs the aristocracy, church, army and ma
,, fund-holderS and bankers, daily take
ON the laborng millions every dollar
ey earn; leaving not even an adequate
bsistence. And when thus all takeR
len death itself threatens to stop the -
lure income ofGoernment by the STAFF ~
lion ofthe laborer--then, hut not until
en-, is enough returned, as aIpublic chI-
I, to keep him alive.
But if, sir, one-half of the nation be
werless paupsrs, the Government (and
that, mean not the throne and par
meat only, but they with their append
orders) is the mighIiest on earih.--
Dr. is it wonderful that such Govern
ent, thus armed with the whole earn
Is of its people, should have been
expend five hundred millions of