Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-09-10

County Convention to be held at Ann Arbor, on the
1lth day of September next for the purpose of nom
mating candidates to represent in the next Legisa-
ture also to appoint delegates to the State Convention
to be held a, Jackson the II Of September next.
By order of the COMMITTEE.
Ypsiianti, august 81 1916.
The COMING ELECTIoN-lhe duty of the
Wing party Retrenchment- GEL
our limited means of ascerlaing the feelings of the
people since The excitement of the past year has
subsidized, is such as to make our opinion of any
weight, I'VE beg leave to offer it to readers as fol
lows; that the present is moment when men
are disposed to listen to The dictates of sound
reason in preference to the defamation of dema-
gogues, and to sink parry in the prompings of pa
trio:ism, than we have heretofore found them.
The very extremity of which party madness
had driven them, seems, in its reaction, 10 have
brought them to this. Like the remorse which
follows the frs, fragrant SHINING of childhood and
drives the yet tender conscience to seek peace in
the sedulous performances of duty, the political
sins Of the past seem about, in some measure, to
be almost atoned for by greater care for the
future. No small error could have brought this
result about; but large ones have not been wan
ting. One. which, whether we call it error, or
in charity seek some milder name,i is sufficient to
mark the extreme danger of party adherence
Such was the sudden and total change of the dem.
ocratic party on the question Of Annexation. We
say not whether change from right TO wrong,
or from wrong to right, in either case it was a
change from position previously occupied by an
entire party to position directly the reverse, just
as fast as intelligence from a convention could be
conveyed over the country. change not in
obedience TO the dictates of reason but The bid
of leaders. A change which hurried men away
in the moment Of excitement to do that, of which
they were sure to repent of al leisure. And the
repentance is already beginning. An "arrow Of
conviction" is already sent in the call of our en-
tire Standing army to the Texan frontier. In the
addition to that army of thousand or two of idle,
adventurous Louisianians, in the charter of old
steamboats, at hundreds Of dollars per day; in the
despatch of one hundred thousand dollars to the
commissary to be followed by millions more. and
all this to meet paper proclama,ions, while not
single enemy has yet been seen. Another is the
prospect, already apparent, of the overseers lash,
which, disguise 1t as they may, Our Democratic
friends have sensibly felt before, and now see a
bout to fall with additional force These already
begin to work out their appropriate fruits, repen-
tence. But the die is cast, and this deed cannot
DC recalled; it behooves those therefore who
would bring forth "works meet for repentance" to
look to some other neglected duty 10 the perfor-
nance ofwhich they may manifest their sincerity.
And fortunately. or rather unfortunately, instances
are numerous in which blind party allegiance
has been their folly and their crime. BY long
continuance ofthe present party in the Govern
ment OF the State, and the continued cOuntenance
and support of the people, they see clearly that
public good has been entirely lost in party favor
iteism--that the professions by which they have
been led, were only meant to deceive, and have
answered their end. That their confidence has
been abused to their own cost and that Justice to
themselves in the present. and safety in the future
demands of them more independence of thought
they begin to scan the actions Of their rulers,
to find true more than they suspected, the pay
and privileges of public functionaries now rise in
bold reiefa one great cause the political profit
gacy of the times. These the mass of all parties
are determined shall be reduced and it will only
be by the artful application OF the party lash that
The reduction can be avoided. Men begin to see
that the reception of $500 per day! $2l,U0 per
week J! $04,OO per month, is SO far from being
TO incite men to the diligent perform,
ance of public business, that 1t almost invariably
snIices them into vice and debaucheries, uniting
hem for such discharge Of duty even if II left their
;onsciences in state to prompt them TO do it,
They see too, from past experience they see it
hat the salary of 81 800 given to the Governor
If the State, does not insure them a service COM
with the sacrifice they make to raise it,
while il leads the incumbent Of office to shape all
us measures, less with regard to their good, than
0 second and even third terms Of office. They
all to see the justice Of paying a weighmaster on
he railroad, that work for which they have toiled