Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-12-23

iiOAoiy III ilocfLy, Dut IOr our national 6X-
istence, and which is worth infinitely more
to US than the conquest of the continent.
1t may be thought that these are subjects
belonging exclusively to the General Gov
esnment, and that Ohio has no right, eth.
er through the messages of her Executive
Or the resolutions Of her Legislature, A
express l1er opinions concerning tliein.
But Ohio is not an isolated State; she is one
OF great confederacy of sister States.
AS such she has passed her solemn iudg.
ment upon these and other great questions
OF national policy, and it is for that reason
that | have referred to them.
1t Is for that reason that I feel called
upon, IN her name, to protest against the
repeated exercise Of the veto poper, which
sees nothing in all the West constitutional
or worthy of tits regard but snags and sand.
bars, and which for years has been OBJ.
structing the healthful channels of legisla-
ton, and swallowing up, cne by one, all
the powers OF the government, just as these
favorite objects of its protection have been
choking up our rivers and engulfng our
steamboats,, our commerce and our lives.
She has also entered and proclaims her
protest against that odious and oft rejected
Sub-Ireasury system re-enacted at the
last session of Congress, not only because
it deranges the currency, renders the pub
llc treasury insecure and magnifes the
powers of the selfconstituted Monarch of
the United States, but because it inev,ta.
ply tends to drain the specie of the country
from Ohio and all the interior States of the
Union, to the great seaports, where the
revenues oil the nation are collected, and
where, according to the constitutional veto
system of administering the government,
they are to be disbursed also
Ohio furthermore claims the right to de-
clare that by reason of her great natural
resources for manufacturing, her supera.
bundance of food and her scarcity of fab
RIGS, her inland position, where the cost Of
the importation offoreign goods, and espe.
cially Of the expectation Of her own agri.
cultural productions must, if continued,
prove forever heavy tax upon her labor,
she has been induced to invest large sums
in manufacturing and mechanical pursuits.
That unlike the older establishments of
some OF her sister States, these branches Of
industry are in that infant state requiring
protection. That she has no confidence
in foreign market for her great staples
except in seasons Of starvation abroad like
the present. That she must have home
manufactures and home market. That
she never will submit to free trade and d.
rect taxation. That the people were pros.
porous under the Tariff Of 1912; and that
she believes that not only the revenues OF
the country but all her industrial interests
demands its immediate restoration.
Deriving what lessons of experience we
may from the present condition and past
history of the State of Ohio, her true policy
1seems to be sufficiently obvious. She re.
quires no important measure of legislation
at the present session of her General As.
sembly. -., ...4......
Let her great currency and revenue
laws, deliberately sanctioned as they have
been by the voice Of her people stand with
such indispensable amendments if any as
experience has shown to be just and ne
cessary. . .
Let her Colleges, Asylums and School.
cont inue to receive at your hands such con-
sidefation and support as their great i'm
portance demands and especially recon.
mend the appointment of a superintendent
Of Common Schools. -...
Let her plighted faith be maintained in.
violate. By upholding the laws already
enacted, providing the means for the pay.
1 ment not only of the interest but the princi
pal of her debt. By refraining from al
further works Of internal improvement by
the State until the debt be paid. By strict
economy in the administration of all the
departments Of the government.
BY offering to actual settlers such reason
able reduction in the price of the canal
lands, and giving to them, on payment o
the annual interest such time for the liqui
dation Of the principal, as will bring about
their sale and improvement, that the region
five miles wide on each side of your North
Western Canals may. no longer be will
derness. BY short sessions Of the General
Assembly, and restraining within reasona
BILE bounds the desire for innovation upon
legislation both general and local.
Let those enactments very properly by
universal consent denominated ''the black
laws Of Ohio" be repealed. They are i'm.
polite, unjust and inhuman; at war with
the genius of our free institutions and the
spirit of the age in which we live. Az, ....
There is one other subject which would
recommend to the special considerati on o
the legislature. It is q fact we'll known.
that q question. Of jurisdiction has arisen
between Ohio and Virginia, the lattel
claiming to the top of the bank on tho Ohio
side Of the river--a claim wholly in
admissible and which can never be accedel
Ito by this State, The question is still