The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-06-13


And the same results Of burdensome taxation
sensual degradation, ignorance, misery and infa
my seem to be the natural consequences OF tn
system wherever long continued. Even here tn
more high the profits of the manufacturing cap
italist the 'greeder becomes his avarice; h
combines with his fellow lseches to lessen th
wages Of the manufacturing laborer; and IT tn
robbed laborer seek to extort justice by simila
combination, our English imported law sends hin
to herd with felons Is this broad continent, grad
ually coming under our sway, to learn no rule o
commercial intercourse more enlightened and lib
eral than the wisdom of despotism teaches? 1
So our ripening greatness, will rather be spread
ing of evils than scattering of blessings.
Another system, as at present known and usec
among us, took its rise in the struggles of kings
to maintain their thrones independent of tbei
subject peope--we mean Banking, The Bank
of England commenced upon government stock
credit and it has continued the ally of arstocracy
there and where ever else it has had influence
Dukes, marquises, and the hosts of lordlings with
which Europe is afflicted would despise the stars,
orders, ribbons and all the symbols of rank which
they possess, did these not entitle the wearer to
special and exclusive privileges; our rag barons
have the special privileges here by which they are
secured in wealth and idleness, by means which
we have already alluded to as morally ulcerous,
corrupting and oppressive, destructive to liber-
ty, to national greatness and all that promises
advancement to the human race We have too
brought to our shores the lumbering lore OF
England's legal system and called the ''perfec-
ton Of reason" Based on ideas draws from the
feudal system its political character is one of
IN mitigated despotism, and before ts insidious
dogmas our constitutions guaranteeing freedom
are but dead letter. A bank is created by a
corrupt Legislature once in twenty years-its in
fluence is acknowledged by the great mass OF
the people to be hostile to liberty and impotent to
assure prosperity, and the pei pie for successive
years give their sufrages for its repeal. But say
The law courts it prirate corporation, con-
tract between the people of the State and the Bank.
which must concur in is repeal before such an
eve n, can take place. A contract, pshaw! did the
people in electing the contemplate whig legisla-
I ure of last winter ever imagine that they were to
be sadded with state bank! was there any con-
currence on their part in that nefarious scheme of
public plunder matured by Kelley and most un-
willingly acquisced in by his obedient creatures!
There shonld be something to show that the
people authorized their servants to make such
law before it should be held binding as the fates
and furies. Is this pcrnicious doctrine hatlegis-
latures can make contracts binding future genera
tions to grow with our growth and strengthen
with our strength If so, as we rise in the scale
of nations, great in our fancied freedom, we will
yet wear the iron collar of the serf about our
nccks-=-a corrupt and dishonest, brbed legisla
ture have only to pass law and get a venal judi
ciary to sanction it, once in half century, and
our subjugation is complete. Thisis but a single
feature of the evil Of declaring the decisions of
English Judges American law, but it is a promi-
nent example of the pernicious consequences of
that declaration.
We might allude to the growing taste in our
Atlantic cities for European aristocratic usages,
fostered by the great wealth created to indivi-
duals by the protective and banking systems
the contempt thrown on labor the only source of
wealth, the consequent efforts of hundreds of
young men to escape labor by crowding into the
already overhowed professions mass who play
the demagogue in hopes to win Office by the as
cendancy of one or the other party, without fit
ness and utterly Indifferent oprinciple; and many
o ther evils Of minor magnitude, but we must leave
this subject for the present: the few evils we
have enumerated are not tythe of those we will
transmit to posterity, if the present systems to
which we have alluded shall long retain vitality.
The PATRIor DoRR.--Notwithsta standing the
decisive declaration Of the will of the people as
displayed at the recent election for Governor in
Rhode Island, the Wing Legislature of that state
have adjourned without taking any step towards
his liberation. The conditions upon which alone
Dorr is offered his release are, that he should
acknowledge in effect that he had deserved his
punishment-that his course in supporting the
peoples constitution had been wrong-in short
that he should dshonor his past character
by committing moral perjury. Thisis whig mag
nanimity--this is the exquisite vengeance these
corrupt tools of federalism take upon the man who
dares be " anarchist" enough to resent and resist
the oppressive I" charter of British King''-that
he shall be mmured in living tomb for life and
mercilessly used; or he may seek release from his
torture by personal and political degradation.
The Providence Gazette states his health to be
worse than ever before. Heis dying for the want
of the free air of heaven, and this too in land
whose nationality is based on the right OF revolu-
tion.-because he is a revolutionst. Let those
who desire to know who represent in principle and
feeling the Tories of the Revolution recolect that
England, even in the days of tho infamous Jefries
never went farther than to pack iuries and make
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