The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-03-03
EXTRA sEssION-TAXEs.

Io ward off the indignation which is about 10 burst
over the heads ofthe Bank suspension party the old
coon OF the Advocate is trying to raise breeze from
The fact that the Democrats voted against The whu hill
to postpone our next Congressional election lie SAYS
VIII cost an extra session. and increase the peoples
lakes &c' This is all fair on paper and would al
most make an ignorant man believe The wings are in
favor ofreducing the peoples taxes.
But how is in lfso, why did they oppose Bank re-
sumptlonl Why did the whig leaders consume days
and weeks in speaking against this measured Every
one knows that tie banks in their state of suspension
have taxed the people in the last year. more than all the
State and county taxes for 20 years put together would
come to. Yet the whssin body voted FIR another
year ofall kOg bank taxing, aui their papers refuse
or are afraid to publish those votes. Again. why does
the whg Congress refuse To fix tue apporionment bill!
They were caled on by Ohio and other States hong
ago. to do it once, that the present legislatures now
in session might district the States without burdenng
the people with extra session. Bnt did the whig
Congress show disposition to ghhen the peoples
taxesl No. they never took the second thought over
it ard though they have been in session months, &
the cost of their government two mr,us five hundred
Thousand dollars month! they have not passed sim
Gle bill ofmporance to The people, but have been quar-
reng and fighting among themselves in manner til at
would make even the fighters Of grog shop blush!-
We know the whg leaders would like 10 postpone
the election not only till next year, but forever if they
could. They dread coming before the people to am
swer for their !ransgressons. But the Democracy of
Ohio vii! never allow The gt oreIecon to be post
poned, or done away with What think you fellow
citizens Of the federa do ou,v ,lo
box for year, because the Federass in Congress
will not fix the ratio ofrepresentaon of and because the
federaIsls in Ohio cannot carry their election by "Pips
LdyingF The vote Stood 33 democrats against the
poslponement, 80 wings for it and we are proud to see
the names of our Representatives recorded on the
Journals. and published in the Federal organ against
such an obnoxious bill.
But he says
'They are determined 10 have another frolc at the
expense of our tdIes in Juno next"
In the name of God should like to know if it be-
comes him to talk of roickng on the peoples taxesY
why for ~ years he has been lrockng on the peoples
taxes, to he tune ofhundreds of dollars year out of
The County Treasury Nothing ever kept his press up
but taxes extorted from the people by exhorbtant
charges for county printing All he owns, or ever did
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the peoples taxes" Yet this is the man that goes in
for posponing elections, and because the democracy
will not, he says they want to have frolic on "our
taxes This "folic' or Extra Session, will cost this
county probably not over 60 dollars He who makes
sucha fuss about it, last year charged the tax payers
OF this town about 70 per cent for an item of prn>
ting, than we, or any other printers would have done.
Now we put it to every honest ifhe is not pref
y subject to talk about taxing the people!
We wish him to understand that we do not begrudse
him his 'frolics;' he is welcome 10 all he has got
and all he can get but we advise him to keep dark so
far relates to taxes he wishes to save his own ba
con. We would not have alluded to local concerns,
had it not besn to show the ptl shift tn make capita
out o!-thc hypocricy and dece t-and with what clean
hands this whig editor charges the Democratic party
with increasing the peoples taxes.