The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-10-27
ADOPTED CITIZENS.

ADOPTED CITIZENS.
Democracy is all that Is pure and holy in
human institutions; II is an abiding faith IN the
efficiency Of benev olenCe and virtue; il believes
10 the nobility Of The human soul, and reioices
in lis freedom and power; II seeks TO govern
not by taking away the rights Of man, hut by
giving equal chances TO all, whatever their
condition. Hence it is, that the democrat not
only welcomes the oppressed OF other lands 10
ouJ Shore but extends also the other hand and
heart Of friendship and fellowship.
The German, Irish, Scotch, or English en-
igrsnt, is regarded by him as a man. entitled
10 the same rights, and liable to The same du-
ties as his fellow meu-~beneftted himself, and
beneflling the community ln which he lives,
BY their free exercise,
By admitting The adoped citizen to the ex>
allied dignity Of an American freeman, We
thereby vndicale our full faith IN The democrat
ic principle, the essence of which, is that men
are made BETTER happier, law abiding, and
more useful, by permitting them 10 exercise
tho uudoubted ght o(seIf government.
The opponents Of democracy have very
different lheory, and hence their disfaVor of
popular rights, and their iDducriminale war
fare upon adopted cizens. Their error is not
altogether one Of judgment, bu, of feeling, ralh
er, which contracts and bewilders the judg-
ment This feelings an itching for advantage
that would concentrate all blessings and BEN
e6s, for the enjoyment of the few, and that the
smallest possible number, is the essence and
cement of American Federalism, and every
other modification of the arIstoctatc prnc-
pie.
No wonder, then, that the wings are SO Bit
Ter in their denunciatOn;of adopted citizens.
Those oflhem possessing property, did they
speak as they feel, would be equally bitter TO-
wards large portion Ofour native born citl'
zsns, whom they regard with equal contempt,
because of their property, and independence
oflhought and action.-Cinn. Eng
THE CONSTITUTION OF OHIO is
SAFE, THROUGH THE GREAT A
CHIEVEMENT OF HER NOBLE DE-
MOCRACY.
As mail after mail arrived from all quarters,
bearing to the Capitol the shouts of the victor-
ious democracy of our great and onward Stale
the excitement was 100 unbounded to STOP 10
review the great event. The Constitution Of
our State had been torn into rags and tramp
led into the earth by the boldest and blackest
act of treason that ever threatened the uproot-
ing and overturniDg Of any government on earth
A dark, midnight conspiracy Of The vhlg or
federal leaders had SET the ball Of revolution
and anarchy 10 motion, and their followers
were called upon 10 the blind rage Of party
madness 10 rush on sad consumate the foul
act. As mass, their party followers did,
some innocen,ly, some wfully, rush upon de-
struction, and were only foiled in their treas
enable objects by The bold and fearless array
Of democrats, who met them al every point
with an energy, enthusiasm and unqualllng
spirit, that forced us, at tbis great central
point, to almost nvounarily shout victory 10
advaLce,
Many ofthe wings, old wings, and The mass
Of those democrats who honestly left US
through mistaken views in 1910, shocked and
aslounded at the mad and reckless Strides of
the whg leaders, TO plunge the country into
the bloody abyss Of civil war, rather than fail
in their ambitious schemes, Asw TO the Gemoc
racy, as the only safety and cordially and most
manfully mingled in our ranks, and fought
arm 20 arm, for the noble prize, Peace, Lber-
ty and the Constitution!
We regret TO say that some men who here
tofore acted with The democratic party, partc-
ularIy in the counties of Licking, Jefferson.
Carroll, Butler and few in Wayne, and some
other counties uuiled with the traitors, and
thus aided in the black conspiracy 10 destroy
The constitution and government, under which
they live and render republican government
bye word and reproach. We leave them to
the reflections that must naturally follow such
actions. ,t
The expiring banks poured out their money
and their paid instruments offaud and false
hood with profuslon never before witnessed
n Ohio, bad as i, has been, bu, they have lai-
led in their corrupt and snarchial schemes, and
THE FLAG OF LIBERTY, AND TIE
CONSTITUTION STILL GLORIOUS
STREAMS IN THE CLEAR SKY OF
| FREEDOM
% Statesman.
The following new Post Office regulation
appears in the Madisenian:-
Ordered, that no person under the oge OF
sixteen years be employed as mail carrier on
any post route, or a clerk in any Post Office
in the United States. The better to enforce
this regulation, it is required, that the ages o