The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-15
THE CONVENTION AT COLUMBUS.

THE CONVENTION AT COLUMBUS.
The following comments on the doings of
the Convention held at Columbus on the 4th
inst, by one of the ablest and most uncom-
promising Democrats in the district, forcibly
express the views which North Western De-
mocracy entertain of an expediency policy:
We have been disappointed. The Convention
at Columbus in it's proceedings has exhibited
covering, quailing, time. serving disposition
which we had not anticipated From the known
character Of many Of those who participated in its
doings, we hoped for a fearless, bold, and ener.
getic course of action, decisive at opce of the
great issue in Ohio between associated wealth
and individual man.
We were not prepared after the high-handed
usurpations of the last federal legislature-aftor
the dictaton of monopoly inhuence-after the
bullying of bank brigands that desecrated the
halls of legislation- after the shameful disregard
of the rights of the minority by the wicked wire
workers of the last legislature all for the purpose
of fastening odious and oppressive system of
monopoly upon the State-we surely were not
prepared to see the hideous, misshapen proge-
ny of such parent preserved and fostered
by the hand of Democratic State Convention
composed of many of the choice spirits of the
party in this State. Yet such it seems is the
truth. The energy and ingenuity of the Demo-
cratic party are to be put to the torture not to rid
the State of the nuisance, but to give shape and
apparent consistency to them; to render them in
appearance less odous; to save them for time
that they may poison the political atmosphere
around us for longer period than would be pos
sible If left in their original form, with the seeds
of speedy dissolution planted in their organization;
but making the injury of their final breakup so
much the wider as confidence in them is enhanced
by the endorsement OF the Democratic party.
The Convention declare it to be the duty of the
Democratic party to exert themselves to deliver
the State from "the bondage of a corrupt irres-
ponsble, and swndling system of monopolies, by
the immediate repeal of the bank law of last win
ter" There is an issue in the trial of which all
the energies of the party can be united and would
triumph. Why clog that issue with the subse-
quent clause of the sameresolution9 Why hang
make-weight upon party battling for SO sacred
a cause! Why dampen the enthusiastic zeal of
the party, and by half-hearted spirtless compro-
mise Of the most important question ever brought
before the Ohio Democracy, turn aside the torrent
Of popular opinion which would PROSTATE the obi
Gus system of bank monopoly in the State! Why
mar the dongs of a Democratic Convention, held
on the Fourth Of July by the promulging of the
following falsehood!
ITO provide safe and efficient remedies for the people
against fraudulent banking institutions and other corpora
by passing other efficient laws for that purpose"
Restoring the laws repealed by the federal
ists''! That is to say, that the sublime mess of
nonsense vulgarly known as Latham's and Bart
ly's Bank Laws are to be exhumed; and these are
the safe and efficient remedies against fraudulent
Banking.
And this is the denouement of the boased in
dgnation of the Party six months ago! They will
repeal the odious bank law-hut not until Is or
20 banks come into being under it, and these they
will steal from their true and rghtful parents the
federal tin-pan, and take them under the guardian
care and keeping of the Democratic party! They
will kidnap the pretty pets from their coon parent
merely to obtain revenge for the injury of last
winter!
And for this farce there is no plausible ex-
cuse. If the Legislature have the power to ma
terially alter the charter of the banks so as to
bring them under the provisions of the new laws,
it undoubtedly has an equal power to dispense
with them altogether. And why not dispense
with them at once? Why not make the issue at
once, and boldly, between the currency Of the
Constitution and that of the Shylocks? Why not
contend for an issue the gaining of which would
confer some real good? To render a system
which is in itself evil, good by any process OF
human Legislation is out of the question. And
there is no virtue in waverng merely becau use
there is no necessity of submitting to the evils Of
paper money. The federal Bankers would not
commence banking under the Latham and Bart
ley laws when they might have done so; they
have .rampled them under foot with contempt
and chosen the swindling system of their federal
allies, and will the democracy now, after wha
has transpired plead with the newly created banks
to continue business unner those obsolete laws!
We solemnly protest in the name of the hard
money democracy of North Western Ohio agains
any thing so humatng. The members sen
from this region will no more vote for the resusc
taton of those exploded laws than for he contn
uation of the present. B
AZ On another page will be found extract.
from Benz Metcalf's Grafton delivered on the
anniversary of American independence. We re-
quested the privilege of publishing them because
they are connected with matters of absorbing in.
terest at this time.