The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-09-06

" e'"'eileut an acCluental express
sion," or San unguarded article, written,
as every honest democrat would know,
In total ignorance of the facts" The
Statesman has never since making use
OF the expression, as We believe, at
tempted to justify or prove that the
bank of Wooster is in a sound condition.
But with all this the Enquirer appears
not to be satisfied and holds out the idea
that the editor of the Statesman is not
OF the right stamp; and thereupon war
of words ensues, equal in bitterness to
any contest which either Of the papers
has ever had with their whig opponents.
Now what is all this to result in! 1t is
certainly very disheartening to us
small fry papers, when the big fish
commence devouring one another.
1t appears to US that the Statesman
has wished to pursue course calcula.
ted to harmonic and reconcile the de-
mocracy of the State, and to be the
central organ Of the democratic party.
Such at least should be its course and
not the organ of any faction or division.
There are, however, some who are not
disposed TO let the Statesman occupy
that position; they wish to force it to
one or the other Of these divisions
This is not ii ,ht, in our opinion. We
must have at Columbus a paper in
which the entire democratic party can
confde, and we have as yet seen no
reason why Mr.. Haze well is not enti-
tied to that place.
The editor of the Ohio Eagle calls up
on Mr.. Hazewell to make declaration
Of his principles, 10 which Mr.. Haze
well rerlys in the following manner:
"When we took charge of the Statesman, we
expressly stated that views on the currency
question:, were luellUCdl Win t1OSe uI MdrtlD |
Van Buren,. We did this, because we thought |
it would be saying every thing that was necessary +
on the subject in brief space, and leave no room
for cavil, Mr. Van Buren's opposition to nation
al bank and to the doposite system being as well
known as the most common facts of the day, and
his ardent attachment to the Independent Treasury
being equally understood and appreciated by the
democracy. To call US conservative, after that
declaration, when it is well known that the con-
l~fh
slion TO the depose system and recommendation
of the Independent Treasury, and that the breach
then made was never healed to call US a conserva-
tive after so plain declaration of the exact oppo-
site of conservatism, indicates a foregone conclu-
sion, against which all the frankness that man could
manifest would be of no avail. Whatever decla-
ration we might have made, would have been
equally useless. as it would have been sure of being
misrepresented by men determined upon misrep-
men belonging TO that class OF in
terested pre- Judges of whom it was SAID, in GER
tain instance, that they would have found Abel
guilty of the murder of Cain. Still, IN order to
satisfy the really honest inquirer, who may wish to
know our sentiments in detail, we will say-that
we are in favor of the Independent Treasury with
the specie clause, having always understood that
its adoption was one oil the cardinal issues at the
last national electon that we are now, ever have
been, and trust we ever shall be, opposed to any
connection between banks and the government;
that, as regards state currency, we are utterly
opposed to the existing bank law, and in favor of
such system of banking, If a system We must
haze, which shall place the bilholder beyond the
shadow OF possibility OF loss, and which shall not,
by its operations, initiate or depress prices for the
benefit of the few at the expense of the many. If
this is conservatism, the Eagle or any other paper
is welcome to make the most of it. We believe
it will satisfy every rational democrat who shall do
us the honor to read this article. We have nothing
in our nature, and the charge of being
OF that faith in politics, was never before preferred
against us, and never will be again Ohio, after
we have been long enough in the State to make
our principles generally knowh."
To US this appears to be full, fair
and candid expression OF opinion
Notwithstanding all this the Cincinnati
Enquirer "speaks as one who knows"
We now call upon the editors of the
Cincinnati Enquirer to disclose the rea-
sons, if they know any, why Mr.. Haze
we'll is not entitled to the confidence
md support Of the democratic party Of
ohio, as they intimate in the extract
below. We do not wish to be kept in
he dark, neither do we wish to uphold
my one who is unworthy, but we must
ave other and better reasons than have
,et been given. before entering the
rusade against the OHIO Statesman. In
eply to an article of the Holmes Coun- /
y Farmer, the Enquirer says: +
awe say to the Farmer and to all other sound :.
Democratic sentines, we know the mission of the J
ew editor; we know who he is and what he is;
know by whom he is surrounded-what pur-
ose he is to serve-who are his secret cenfeder-
that the charlatans, who have been
randed and repudiated by the democracy of Ohio