The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-08-30
For the Spirit of Democracy.

MIR. EDIToR-lhe scriptures teach us that a
little leaven, leaveneth the whole lump. Instruct
ed by our melancholy experience, the subscriber
has, at different times and on various occasions
proclaimed the doctrine, that rightfu taxation, is
merely the pnce Of social order or in other words
the cost of establishing and maintaining civil and
criminal justice, and that taxation, for other and
widely different purposes, is, upon first principles
WRONGFUL AND ILLEGITIMATE. Abuses Of
ten become rampant and enormous before public
attention is excited amongst the sufferers, but it
may be mentioned as an encouragement to the de-
tenders of the right that correct pr nciples boldly
proclaimed and industriously incucated, seldom
fail, sooner later, to win their way to universal
acceptance. And accordingly the above princl-
Piles, in the shape of resolution, drafted by the
subscriber and presented by the committee char
ged with the duty Of embodying and expressing its
sentiments were unanimously adopted by the late
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, Of this county. AS
thatresolution plants its cannon directly at canal
taxation, We may safely pronounce that the BAN
NER COUNTY has become incurably hostile to that
vast system Of fraud and humbuggery which has
sEvENFoLDED our public taxation under The fair
and glozing but deceptive and fraudulent name of
internal improvement. Henceforward il will be
the ascertained duty of every representative of
Monroe county to give 10 that system bis most de-
teTmIned opposition.
Plain truth and right principles need no support
from celebrated names, yet few men possess SO
To faaI oil .,
the result of their reflections, by discovering that
the same or similar reflections have forced them
selves upon the minds of other men, engaged in
widely dffe, ent pursuits and surrounded by widely
different circumstances For the first time in my
life, I was this morning amusing and instructng
myself by perusal of President Wayland's Ele-
ments of Moral Science Onpage 34s of that val
liable work, he lays DOM the position, that the
freedom ofproperty remains the same after the es-
Enlistment ofsociety as before, except in far
as aportion of every mans property is pledged to
meet the necessary expenses Of government. Is
not this the exact idea which the subscriber has so
often advanced and IN language nearly dentical'
Was i any part Of the necessary frpenses of the
government to dig a steamboat canal, for thirty
seven miles =, an ou,lav If more ,b.o tbi,,v ,bou.
.,nd dollars ner mil. ,ooo the hank. Of The M,u.
,nos r;ver which itself affords nernetual seambo,,
nav;gation, Citizens Of Monroe does this enor.
mons ou,lav contribute to the preservaoD Of so.
ci,, order amongst Won, Was II not a re.enaet.
men, Of The old tragedy Of South. mntop SO foolish
.na .h.urd n ;,se,f a. 70 Give rise 70 tbe old nur
,srv .ona which amused ,be cb;ld.bood of 40 ma.
80, 80, II.I-
8 '9'o1'uanp''" Isrnp ''se SUNS '0'"' '"' '"'' %
Though 'twould bear huge ship 'twould not do,
~. for barge;
But soon .nis aeisc., inels sags n1aa,es sappea,
Thu. Hodgy scontriyed to nroyide for his cats
To get through the wall in search of the rats.