The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1841-11-04
VOL. 2 NO. A, WHOLE NO. q.

an hundred years 10 the dark chamber oftho
dsad. To tax, sqnander, borrow and rag,
was its daily work The twenty ~one millions
in money and means which were left them.
they found insufficient for ten months seivice
and TO make it sill more insufficient they
take away the land revenue from the treasury,
and bessow il upon British capilalisls. Twelve
millions we're borrowed, which il will cost
the people sixteen m illions 10 pay back. A
tax bill has been passed which inficts buT-
then OF eighteen or twenty millions per annum
upon the people, 10 raise eight or len: millions
tor the government, 10 supply the place ofthe
three or four millions bestowed upon the Brit
ish. Many Ten millions Of imports, thereto-s
fore free. or lightly taxed, bave been subjected
10 burden OF fifty per cent, TO the consumer,
in order to raIse twenty per cent for the gov
ernment, among those many articles of neces-
siiy and comfort; and the few which have es.
capped now, are 10 be recapiured, (like fuigi-
tives from justice,) TO be more heavily loaded
at the next session. Tea and coffee we're a.
mong these fugitives.
The salt tax that impiods imposition, the
revival ofwhch in England by Sir Robert
WapoIe was one ofthe specified causes for
which tho English House of Commons deman-
ded and obtained HE dismissal from Office
ih's 'mPious tax moi only continued but threats
ened WI augmentation, inequality and per-
petuIty. A deficit of s.x!een millions reveal
cd Tor The coming year-a rev loan Of ten or
twelve millions announced for The next ses.
sion OF Congress; five millions Of new appro-
Prialions at the late session, besides Indian
treaties which canhot be named; the General
Fost uiice, and the many pensions heretofore
resi- ny on then own resources. now intruded
upon the treasury-a general abolition of debts
at the will OF the debtor, unde: the violated
name OF Bankrupt law legislation reduced
10 legerdemaln, by syels@ Of bargains and
trlckery which made the passage of bills de-
pend upon equvocatIon, and jugges and con.
tracts Tor the passage oi other bls-the deep.
est wound given to our form Of government
that Ii has ever received IN The profligate dis
tr'bution OF money from the public treasury-a
new edition Of Blddle's bank, desperately,
struggled for by the devourers oil the old one.
and only saved from their clutches BY the dou
BILE appcaiionso the Jacksonian resirinpent
retributivey administered by the hands of
their own physician. Such were the fiscal op.
erallons in Il t's months session OF the par
ty which was TO carry on the government for
thirteen millions of dollars per annum, and
which called congress- together in such violent
haste TO releive the distresses Of the people,
Such were the legislative operations; and the
mode oi operating was worthy Of the work
cone and Of the workers. Gag-gag-gag--
was the law and the word. In the House Of
Representatives democracy was gagged down
and the bills driven through. There the genif
us OF the old sedicn law regned supreme and
ndemn6ed himself by new modes of attack
upon the liberty Of speech, for thej long exile
of forty years which it had endured. The
same tyranny was intended fol the Senate, but
The courage Of the ''twen,y two" saved the
Chamber, come in wha! shape il might--whe-
ther as the bayonets Of military, or the man
date ofa civil Vrant. They dstirmined 10 re-
sist gto that determination Ihe Senate was in
debied for its escape from the tyranny and de-
graduation to which the house ofrepresentatives
was subjected.
The debates Of the Senate during the 'hun.'
cred days" the speeches of the democratic
senators during this ardous time. who we're
called up early in the morning, end kept late
every evening, That fatigue might break down
those whose minds were an oyermaich for nun
bers; these debaes, if justice could have beer
done Them in ample reports and careful Ievis-
ion, would have formed an era in the annals o
our parliamentary history Leaving out my
own, and can say Of the rest that they woulC
have marked the time in which we live, anC
constituted an era on which the future patriot
would have looked back with pride and InstruC
tion. But justice could not be done them
The few reporters, out of their accumulated
notes, could only furnish disjointed sketches
The speakers themselves, exhausted with dor
day heats aud prolonged sitlings- made lonl
on purpose to produce exhaustion Though il
the end we beat lhem al that and often mad
them cit late against their will, the speaker
could but imperfeclly sketch the outline & col
lect the substance Of some part oftheir inces
SAINT efforts. Much was LOST, but not ail, Pal
got to the country. Phe sound Of the strug
gle, at last, was heard, and the people wor
walked up to the consequences Of the mOmen
tous contest which was going on. The coun
Try was electrified. Every citizen felt that pa
trotsm required him to do his duty; and III
result is seen in the 'stale oc The polp In Indi
ana, Tennessee, Alabama Vermont and Main,
What these have done, others will soon do
and we look to your noble State fot grea
example; New York eaved Democracy ia th
time Of Jefferson, and she must not teach Us I
DO without her, Let her come into line ono