Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-03-07
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Washington, Monday, Feb. 90, 1913

NAOhNuyS W. ~O9ANAS
Editor Ohio Statesman
The feds have designated their day
The time Of the Grand National COnven.
4ion has been fixed. On Saturday even.
ing last, at a caucus of the whig mem.
bers of Congress, in the Senate Cham
ber-Mr. Bayard, of New Jersey, Chair.
man. Mr.. Stuart, of Va, and Mr.. ]. Co.
Clark, of New York, (the great central
wire-puIIer Of lS40,) Secretaries-a res
'olution was adopted recommending TO
the universal wing party the Sd Of May,
1874, as the day for National Conven.
ton for the nomination Of their PresiGens
tial candidates and Baltimore as the place.
We hope that the weather will be ausp-
cious for the time intervening; and that
the party will continue their kindly at.
tentions for the propping up OF the health
of their inirm and thrice defeated can
-didate call Of the olden time"
CONGRESS.
On Saturday last, in the Senate, tho
resolutions of Mr.. RiVes, against the as
sumption Of State debts, with the amend
mems proposed by Messrs. Allen and
Metric, were postponed, on motion of Mr.
Conrad, 10 the first Monday in Decem.
Der next. The wings evaded, by this
motion, the direct question Of direct
vote upon the resolutions, and they,
therefore, stand uncommitted before the
country. But still, the British capital
lists, The creditors of the States, will
draw their own deductions from this pro.
ceeding, that the great wing party are
awaiting but the "lroubling Of the wa
ders," to take up this project Of assumP
tion as fundamental measure Of reform
for the campaign Of 1874. We incline
to the presentiment OF Senator Allen,
that this anticoDstitutional measure is
destined 10 become the pivot of the next
presidential contest; aud though repudla-
ted now by many wings as unconstitutiOn-
al, and by the mass Of their politicians
as ineTpcdient, (which 10 them is con.
sideration superior to the Constitution,
it will inevitably be taken up and adopt
ed as the great measure OF the great
struggle that awaits us between federal
ism and democracy. Let not the people
be deluded by the apparent fitness of
ahis project OC assumption for the exigen.
cies of the States. Suppose The payment
of these two hundred millions to be as.
sumed by the Federal GOvernment-the
public lands pledged for their payment
and these receipts subtracted from the lee
Qitimate resources of the treasury; all OF
which resources, with The present tariff,
As high as il can safely be raised, not
more than half enough for the ordinary
expenses of peace establishment, what
is 10 be the alternativef DIRECT
TAXATION BY THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT, IN ADDITION TO
TIE EXHORBITANT DUTIES NOW
DR. AVN UPON FOREIGN GOODS,
WITH A PURIFIER AMENDMENT
OF A TWENTY PER CENT. TAX
UPON TEA AND COFFEE. There
can be NO other result. A barn full Of
Treasury notes would not prevent this
ultimate cOnsequence--an issue by Gov
eminent Of two hundred millions Of Gov.
0rnmeDt bonds would not lessen our debts
one cent; and the trial Of a bank would
only be putting of the evil day till to. NOR.
row, to come upon US then with The &C.
cumulated burden Of PeculaIiOns, frauds,
bgibes and rObbsriss, with perhaps an ex
pIOsiOn augmentiDg the evil to hundreds
Of millions more.
Fellow citizens--We have had the
5aOCe--we have kept 1t up all might've
have not considered the exPense-the
morning has dawned, and though sick Of
the debsuCheries Of the frOlic, the bill o.
expenses must be paid. SbinPlaster'
won't do il; Government bonds won't DO
It; bank notes won't do it; loans wOn't DC
: IL; nor Treasury notes. Had dollars viii
only do it; and these must be earned b.
hard work, and we must all work. Thl'
E not the time for lCafng jobbers ant
lazy drOnes.
Mt. McDnfie submitted two other res
olutions, denOuEctng the uncOnstitutiOn
ality and inexpedienCy Of Cost Johnson
scheme, which we're laid aside for on