The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-03-21
For the Kalida Venture.

SIC transit gloria coOneru.

An inordinate love for office, and an ambitious
and msdircctcd desire for notoriety and persona
consequence in the eyes of community, was at al
early day in the history of our government, dis
covered to be a growing national evil. And this
remark, from being trte saying has passed in.
to proverb, and may serve key to unlock
the heart, and explain the actions of men in eve.
serve at this time to expose to the scrutenzing
gaze of the public, the combined, and wicked
Vaccinations of a certain little, self constituted
whg clique in this village, who have recently ta-
ken upon themselves the responsibility, not only
of procuring the dismissal of Democrats from pu-
bic stations in the county, by means more foul
and dsgraceful, and charges more false and un-
founded in fact, than any perhaps which have
heretofore emanated from men possessing ablli-
ties no greater than the members Of this clique
but who have also taken upon their shoulders the
doubtful power of governing and controlling ac-
cording to their will and pleasure, all and singu-
lar, the Q6ces dgnitcs, franchises, privileges, and
inn,uaihes, of the entire Wing party of the coun-
ty. That such should be the spring which actu-
ates members of the community generally in
their intercourse with each other is greatly to be
deprecated, but how much more, when it is con-
fined to few individuals who arogate to them
selves the " right diyine'' Of their king and act
ing in all political matters for the whole commu-
nifty TO the exclusion of older and more worthy
citizens. And particularly such a state of things
to l,o ted 1yhnn is tho with this G
little cique) their right to govern is not recog-
nized and acknowledged by large majority of
the most respectable members of the party in the
county.
Were the secret and midnight plottngs Of this
clique confined exclusively to matters Of politi-
cal or temporal nature, the evils resulting to the
community would be comparatively few; unfor
tunatcly however, for the cause of morality and
religion, such is not the case. 1t enters promi-
ncntly into their relations with the Supreme Be-
ing-fls their hearts and divides their thoughts,
whether attending divine service on the Sabbath,
or acting in the capacity of Sabbath school teach
ers, and even whilst some of them'are addressing
their supplications to a Deity who has expressly
declared "thou canst not serve God and Nam
mon" The morality, Ito say nothing of the as
sumed appearance of Religion) of many, and par
ticularly of the persons composing this clique, is
thing of ceremony. Their long and studied
protcstations of patriotism and love for the best
interests of the people, are so many wells to hide
the hearts dcpravity. And some of them are
characterized by loud and vehomous attestations
of disregard for all things of worldly nature;
at the same time that they would drain from the
poor mans pocket the last miserable pittence to
increase their ill-gottcn store. How can our vii
lage grow up and flourish, or business of any kind
prosper while such men as these are permitted to
rankle in the bosom of society! How can religion
or morality become exalted when we see it thus
prostitued to such unholy purposes!
Watch these men attentvely in their daily walk
and conversation, how well they act the Pharisai-
cal hypocrite, while they are condemning the con-
duct of their neighbors, are themselves worship
ing with an casern devotion at the altar of their
favorite God-oiiice. And behold the unholy lu-
cubratons of this little knot of Patriots when
regularly congrcgated at head quarters FOR the
purpose Of fabrcating charges to be sent of to
the Legislature, against some Democratic Com
missioner of a Free Turnpike Road, who was too
homes. to be seduced from his duty by their willy
but who had courage and indcpcnd-
cncc enough, in the face of their threats of per-
sona injury, to locate the road from Kalida to the
Michigan State line so straight as to preclude the
possibility of it's zgzagng past all their doors,ver
ly the mountain labored and brought forth mouse.
Or perhaps their business may be to circumbcnt
the agent of the Fund Commissioner, for the pur-
pose of unceremoniously grasping that Office out
of his hands for one of themselves. Or to write
a Joint letter to Messrs. Perkins and Anderson of
the Senate, advising them to use their exertions
in favor of the erection of the new county of De-
fiance-protesting in the mean time against any
of our county,-but of this last
matter little need be said. | will leave them to
settle that question as best they can with the in
jurcd and indignant tax payers of the county;
yet this much must say, theirs was a G. zeal not
according to Knowledge" 1t would seem that
in this degenerate day no sketch can be drawn in
characters SO strong as to preclude the idea Of an
orgnal-wc look around for the reality of our
fiction, and ere the search is fully begun they rise
to view and we may with certainty point them
out. Their consciences, not yet completely scar
ed, exclams C thou art men,"
Murder will out though all the world should strive
With anXions to hide it fIom mems eyes"
There is something that will as assuredly
point out the mean and contemplate perpetrator
of party villainies the doer of arson or the mid
night assassin. More anon.
OLD zEK1E.
NAPOLEON, O., March 18th, 1916.
The PANorLY OF Observation-Disclosures
lies and exclusive Drvilaues constitutc the