The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-09-27
THE ELECTION.

IHE ELECIllJN.
Two weeks from next Tuesday, the
citizens Of Ohio will be again called up
on to decide all the important ques-
tions of State politics which divide the
two great contending parties; and also
whether they will sanction all those
high-handed measures Of the last legis-
lature.
LET 1T BE REMEMBERED.
that it was the whig party who in ls42,
dissolved the legislature by the MEM
bers resigning their seats; thereby pre-
venting the will Of the people from
being carried out. A measure revolu-
tionary in its character, and which, if
persisted in, could, under almost any
circumstances, defeat the will of the
majority. 1t should also be remem-
bered that the democratic party sue
ceeded in electing majority of the
legislature the same year that this high
handed act was perpetrated by the
wings, and when the question, whether
the people would sanction their act
was fairly before the voters Of the State.
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
that the legislature OF last winter, with
out law or precedent, altered Congress
sional districts so as 10 elect MAORI
ty of wings, and .,.sreby annulling the
acts of the very Legislature elected
with view to the division of the State
into districts.
TELL 1T EVERYWHERE,
that if the ,phigs have majority in the
next Legislature, we may look for d.
vi.ion Of this county; in order that they
may make whig Congressional district
out of the one of which Monroe coun-
ty now forms part. And for evidence
of this, they last winter took two whig
townships from Athens county and at
tached them to Morgan, thereby max
ing the political character of the Rep
resentative, Senatorial and Congress
sional districts of that section whig.
SOUND 1T ABROAD,
that the wings of the last Legislature
passed banking law, by which the
people Of Ohio will be defrauded out of
hundreds Of thousands of dollars; that
= banks have gone into operation under
this law, which are no safer or better
than the exploded banks Of Gallipolis,
Urbana, Granville and host Of others;
and that they will serve the people in
the same manner as have those banks
as soon as they get sufficient amount
Of paper in circulation.
TELL THE PEOPLE.
that the majority of the wings in the
last legislature wished to abolish all
distinctions on account Of color; there
by inviting all the free negroes of the
South to our borders. to become drones
and pests to society.
LET 1T BE KNOWN,
that it is cardinal wing measure to al
low bankers TO receiue interest on the
debts due by them, while the farmer
has to pay tax on the debts due to him.
TELL EVERY TAXPAYER.
that the tax law of last winter was
passed for the purpose, as was said, to
make those living in the canal counties
pay their equal share of public burth-
ems; that Sin thirteen counties, Gnclu-
ding the county of Ross) from which |
returns have been received at the Office
of the Auditor of State, the increase of
the total amount of taxable property
in Ie45 over that of 1914, is but a lit
tie over four per cent, and that tins is
probably about the increase there
would have been, had no olteration
been made in the laws" while in this
county, where it was supposed we
would be but little affected by the law,
the increase Of merchants capital and |