Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-01-25

! plOring the pages of history further back
J than the year 1910. He will need but to
: examine the political struggle of that year
} and contrast the professions of the sue.
} cessful party with their subsequent con-
duct. Before the election, his history
will inform him, that it was said, no bank
OF the United States, no discriminating
tariff, and no assumption of State debts
by the general government, we're contem-
plated by them. That public expendi-
lures were to be diminished, executive
patronage cut down, prescription for opin-
ions sake was itself 10 be prescribed, and
the work of retrenchment and reform to
be carried even to the furniture and do
meslic utensils Of the executive mansion.
And if by chance the sumptuous appro-
priati0ns, since made for that mansion
the gorgeous funeral pomp-the uncon,
stitutional grant Of private pensions and
rewards 10 political partisans-if these
should escape the inquirers notice he
would still observe the seven and half
millions withdrawn from the treasury and
prematurely exposed in the hands Ofdis-
bursting agents. The twelve millions,
borrowed to supply its absence-the ve-
toed bank bill and the FIscALITY-the dis
tribution and tariff bills, and these, with
the appropriations of the hundred days,
together with the contemplated govern
mental eXchequer, would satisfy him that
abundant evidence of shameful treachery
TO solemn public pledges, made to secure
an election, may be found far short of
the days of the Romans and without
resort to the testimony of the dead. And
the resolution lately introduced into the
United States Senate for the purpose of
removing the only barrier which defeated
their fatal purpose, will spare the inquirer
from turning to Roman history for an in.
stance of disappointed aspirani, madly
seeking to overthrow the constitution of
his country.
Fellow citizens, allow us to direct, for
a few moments, your attention to- the
more immediate concerns of our own
State. The present abode of million
and half of happy freemen, was within
a brief half century the wild hunting
ground of the rowing sons of the forest.
The wise system, of peopeing the public
domain, adopted by our democratic faith
ers, and until the last year, vigorously ad-
hered to. has increased our numbers be-
yond sny example furnished in the histo-
ry of nations. TO secure and perpetuate
the prosperity and privileges we have en-.
loved, and TO hand them down 10 after
ages, unimpaired, is our bounden duty
The ordinance of l7S7, guaranteed to
the people of Ohio republican form Of
government and was intended to secure
The enjoyment of equal privileges TO eve-
nv person whose lot should be cast in the
Northwestern Territory. To this end it
abolished the law of entailments, and
primogenture, and strove TO prevent
successive accumulations of vast wealth
in the hands ofa few, 10 the general pre-
iudice of laborious industry, and the
productive capabilities of man. The ex-
ample of the old world had fully taught
the Congress Of 1857, that an exhausted
soil, and deplorable human wretchedness,
went hand in hand with an overgrown
aristocracy, holding title, as lords of the
soil, and controlling the labor and the
skill, and fixing the wages and tithng
the industry of an oppressed and impov-
erished tenantry. Poor, abused, and gal,
liant Ireland was before their minds eye,
f and they designed to render 1t forever
impossible for species of peasantry to
grow up in "the garde" Of America"
; Let US inquire, if cupidity, with its
| constant soIictude to break the barrier
of right has made no strides TO gain the
forbidden object. Look to the pages OF
!, our statutes and consider the amount OF
4. power subuacted from the many and con-
9 ferred upon [seloct1 few, in the form
E of corporate grants of special privileges.
Q You will there find that in almost every
h kind of business, individusl exerton is
Q forced to compete with masses OF COM
: bined wealth, clothed with special and
: exclusive privileges, (and not unlrequent
IVY that these artificial creations of the
e law are endowed with perpetual exist
!. ence. OF what consequence is it to the
n farmer or mechanic, whether that com
v bination of means which cramps his en-
i eroies, and renders futile his individual
d efforts, is brought together by the opera
# tons of feudal law, or an act of incor
8 poration? Was it the manner of working
l. the mischief or the mischief itself whicl
/. the ordinance sought to PREVENT In
2 government, where the power of the mon
C arch was supreme, corporate grants wer
n necessarily favored by the people, 70
', they were grants in favor of liberty
If They were powers taken from one an
is given to greater number of persons
In republic the reverse is the case.-
is There they are powers taken from III
"a many and conferred upon the few.
< Do our opponents claim to be dem'
rs Gratis? Who has stood forth in Ohio ft
ID the last fifteen years, as the special d.
as Tenders Of the encroachments and oppre
ID sions Of the incorporated few upon tE