The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-10-07
From tho pemocratic Courier.

From the Democratic courier. ltii'i
sHoRAcH ScoTr KNAPP, Eso.7-We have
TOO long neglected to notice The nomination
of this gentleman as candidate for Repre-
sentative in the district composed of the
counties of 'Putnam. Defiance, Paulding,
Williams, and8 Henry. The convention, in
which Mr. Knapp, on the fourth balloting,
received a large majority of all the votes cast,
met at Charloe, Paulding county, on the 9th
ult. In copying the preamble and some Of
the resolutions of the convention, whichwlll
be found below, it may not be improper in
this connection, to offer few remarks in re-
gard to its nominee, With Mr.. Knapp we
have been long and intimately acquainted
Some years since we wrought side by side
as joufneymen in the same printing office
Being SO intimately associated with him, we
profess to know something about his feelings,
habits, and modes of thought, and unless he
has wonderfully changed from days scf yore,
we cannot err in saying that more lofty
minded, honorable and upright man lives not
in the world. We speak. in this high strain
of eulogy from the confidence we still re-
pose in him. We belive that his sentiments
now are what they have ever been. He
heartily detests every species of tyranny
over the minds and bodies Of men. To cor
porations of all descriptions, from monster
bank down to little village squabbling ~
ceum, he is an uncompromising opponent
Mr. Knapp is no theorizer. He wishes to
bring the doctrine Of 'Fequal and exact JUS
tice 10 all men''--a notion affordng theme
for much day-dreaming speculation-into ac-
tual fruition. The motto of the Democratic
Courier" the greatest good 10 the greatest
number''-is with him no idle and dark say
ing. Its import governs his actions. We
have had in our ranks too many milk-sop po-
Iliticans-too many weathercock demagogues,
protesting one thing and practising another
fellows, who, when standing forth for the
suffrages of the people, have prated OF their
rights and their ,prongs, and when duly in
stalled into responsible stations, have set up
the CRY of " erpediency" as an excuse fol
the BETRAYAL Of the trusts reposed in them
Out on the folly Of " erpediency," and Out
on men of the Judas-like character Of Sen
ator Lahm from Stark, who, although com
ing from strongly democratic district, gross
ly betrayed his constituents by voting with
| the federal Shylocks of the Ohio Legisla'
ture, upon every banking question brought
upon the taps. We say, we want no such
political jugglers in our party. We want
such men as are willing to show their hands
men who will at once declare their posi-
ton, let it be either for or against us. Con,
cealment should never for a moment be the
; policy of the true democracy. The OtO
Huniers, in concert with the federalists
have well nigh ruined the State. To them
as well as to our opponents, are we indebted
for the various systems OF fraudulent bank
ing which have cursed Ohio, from the palmy
days of the Owl Creek concern, to the pre-
sent legalized plumber scheme of Alfred Kel
ley's band of thieves. The Young Demo
cracu desire a different state OF things
They, in the progressive spirit of the age
from the more enlarged and liberal views O
the rights Of the ,chole people-and in con
,. tradistinction to Old Hunkerism and the oil
garchical principles of federalism, conten'
) for radical and permanent change in ou
monentayy affairs, and an utter demolltlo
s of all the rag shops in the country. The
' are opposed to the unconstitutional emissio
!. of bills of credit Gold and silver is til
only standard of value, and why not hay
the substance for the shadow, the reality ft
. the thing represented, say they. These, W
> think, are the views of large majority {
!, the people of North Western Ohio, and nj
Knapp, whilst editor of the Kalda Venture
, has consistently mantoined them. We re
ioice in his nomination, and have no dout
of his election; and that when elected, b
will manfully pursue the same course in .ou
legislative councils, which he has heretofor
; SO ably advocated in the columns of his OK
cellent paper. ,A ; o,asv1s aG3 If asgs
IfMr. Hazewell is aradical Democrat, AM
anl;ral,r r,nfinc ctnrnd with the ndiOlIS dnctrinl