The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-08-11

dark impress Of its baleu genius. th these views lac
party have proceeded. They have authorized an add'
tional loan of five millions of dollars They have ad"
ded five millions to the treasury notes previously
issued. But heso with those of the extra session, are
still not enough and therefore, another arit has passed
the House and will as certainly pass the Senate, ImN
posing thirteen millions moro Of taxes upon The couh~
try Thus will every article from abroad, all things
that minister to the wants OF men; tea, coffee, Whae'
er is most needed the poorest citizens, each one and
ALL now weld its trihue TO fill yet fuller the already
dstended nav of nsatiate power.
And yet after all this loans taxes and treasury notes
how stands the treasury Still empyl How stands the
public credit the credit of this great Government the
credit that never once sullied when Democracy
presided how stands it now2 Down, and still hopeless
y sinking down lower, by far than that of any respecla-
BILE farmer in Ohio; treasury notes, il not al interest,
deprecated with no prospect of rising, tho government
drafts daily protested and dshonoredi its bonds hawked
about the market, and returned without bidder and
the Government every where, and in all form, treated
as an insovent
Appropriations, nevertheless go on as proiusely as
ever, quite much so, though the treasury were full
and absolutely exhaustess. For from the amount al.
ready passed, and that pending with the certainty OF
passage it is manifest that this will at the end Of the
sion, bear its full and just proportion 10 all the other
limbs of their monstrous aystem.
Claims, some the Inost base and others the most
baseless are now presented against the government
and treated with the serious respect due only to the
just demands the honest citizen. The holders of such
claims seem 10 have discovered mutual sympathy be-
tween the majority ofths Congress and themselves.
They repair TO the Capitol with the instinct that directs
the vuure to the carcasa
The militia of Observation-Disclosures the very same
who during the late war, when the country was inva.
ded and they ordered by the President into the public
service, positively refused obedience, refused to pass
the line ftheir stae-refused 10 pull trigger in the
defence of the repuoic-hey who by that REFUSAL
encouraged the British, allowed them a lOdgment in
Massachusetts seaport-they who traflicked with, in-
stead Of fighting the public enemy-they have, never
theesS lived long enough TO laugh in secret at an A.
mercan Senate, for having, twenty-nne years alter
voted to them the third of million from tho national
treasury for these their services in tho late war; These
men, who in every other country would have been
treated traitors are in this, about TO be paid in mons
ey for their treason by the very government they be-
trayed.
Next comes the heirs of General Hull, with their do
mand for The salary their father, Governor of the
territory of Michigan, during the very time, and for no
other tme that the territory was in possession OF the
British surrendered to them by Hull himself together
with the gallant army from Ohioa crime for which he
was then under arrest, and afterwards condemned by
the law to death, traitor. Yet this claim, the very
presentation of which was outrage to every Amer-
can citizen, and especially so 10 the citizens Of Ohio,
whose heroic people had thus been, by this very man.
30 basey surrendered 10 the en0my prisoners OF war
this claim found favor in whg committee in the
Senate, was advocated upon the aoor, and defeated
ly BECAUSE of that party, and all the democrats
were ashamed to dishonor the body by its passage.
But economy jusce--federal economy and justice,
were with that very committee found sufficient
bar to the repayment of the fine imposed by vindic-
vejudge on Andrew Jackson, for having expelled
traitors from his camp, during his glorious defence Of
Orleans.
Irtfese things were not on record, no individual
should state hem as the word Of no man would alone
be deemed by the Country conclusive of facts deroga-
tory to the character ofthe American Congress. Yet
facts they are, and that ofrecord too, whosoevsr may
be injured by them.
Amidst the systematic policy orpubc ruin, which
this Congress has pursued, it has introduced for the
first time, praCtcen the highest degree dangerous
the liberties ofhe people, audeto the practice of
the House in gaggng the minority, and that of the Sen
ate, in yelling from The public eye, The real condition of
the Government. In both, the democratic minores
powerless-the federal maorites direct all action
hurry or reard all business at pleasure II is in the
House that the great money bills originate There they
have been studiousy kept back for month after month.
In the mean time, as an excuse for delay debate has
been encouraged matters of Indifference. Then all
things being ready those great measures have been sud
denly brought up, and after the most trivial discussion
the gag applied and the voice senced under the rdcu-
lous pretext ofa want of time On such occasions the
democracy hushed not by the previous question: but
stern resolution which seals the lips and forces hro'
the measure without consideration however important
its provisions and without the exposure of Its enorm.
ties though destructive it may be- to the best interests
ofthe country. Thus have millions beon appropriated,
and taxes by the millions voted in the very last month
Of our months session without single man of
the minority iu the House having had time enough al
lowed him to expose the impolcy enormity Of such
measures, But in matters of moment no gag is ape
piled because in these the freedom Of speech cndangers
neither corruption despotism. To silence the rep
resentative, is TO spike the of the people. II is
both their right and his, that he should speak. II is
theirs, because is their business he doing. 1t is
his, because he is reponsDle for what he does Their
safety consists 10 making him explain the of his
voteshs in being able to do Silence and secrecy
are 10 despotism, speech and publicity to frees
dom-the two strongest elements ofits power and only
guardians ofits safety. 1t for these reasons that re-
gre the closing ofits doors by the Senate in matters
of nomnalonsoa practice ndeonsibe by argument g.
excused only by its antiquity. But to suppress resolu-
tions of inquiry seeking from ihe Treasury Depart
ment the facts of its actual condition, and that too at
time when money measures Of The first moment tax,
loan, and appropriation bills are pending and all relating
directly 10 those very facts to suppress such reSou
tions did the federal majority in the Senate, is noth-
ing less than compel men to egisate in tho ABSENCE
ofa reasons for the votes they give, and to Withhold
fromthe people things of the most serious import to
them. Those who hide will excite suspicion; and this
practice of supprossing facts had ii been by any other
Congress- adopted would have attracted the attention
and incurred the frown of the country But so many
are the objects of Just alarm with which this Congress
has filled The public mnd that the people very natural
close and the evils still threatens thus arrested than
to recount those which has already iretrievaby in
| 1icted upon the nation.
There ara three great two Of Congress and