The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-01-15

1NsoLENcE oP THE WING MAIoRITY.-The Bank
ets in their pride Of victory the people placed
Bank Clerk in the Speakers chair of the House
of Represen tatives. They had more competent
and able men from which to select, but with the
fatuitous insolence Of purse-proud arstocracy,
nothi ng would suit but that one of their creatures
should hold place of dignity which should be
reserved for a man of sense and ability. Lately
this E. F. Drake, by way Of proving to the peo-
pie their utter subjugation, gravely rebuked the
Democratic minority for their Interference in pre-.
senting amendments to the measures of the whg
majority! We had hitherto supposed Legisla-
ture to be delberatve body. We had heard OF
Tin pan cacauses and their edicts. But this die.
tatorship of the Board Of Control is too insulting
to be ondu red by any who claim the shadow OF
freedom. Ifthe dumb dogs who constitute the muz-
zled maj ority of Wing Bank serfs in the Legisla-
tnre bound to be sill en,- Ito crouch, and speak
but as their masters, the bank clique at Columbus,
direct; they must assuredy have forgotten that
their opponents arc not the tame spaniel-like
creatures which they pride themselves on being.
The tyranny of Majority is no less despotism
than under any more acknowledged name. That
those men should thus assume unlimited dictation,
because we by own jars and want of unity failed
to oust them shows the material of which they are
composed to be Of the shallowest kind. And
this Speaker could be really suppose that such men
as Reemelin, Finn, Gallagher, Vaandigham,
Knapp, or even Edison B. Olds, who gave him a
sound fagellation on this subject, which he will
not soon forget, would sit in silence while the
Sir Oracles of the Wing Tin pan played their
puppet parts, tamoly cowed by this Bank Clerk
Speaker! The idea could only have been gene
rated in very little mind, such as this Drake's
assuredlys. If we are to Judge from the reports OF
the proceedings of this whig cabal-to call them q
Legislature would be take credit from their mas
ters-.thcy are gathering of the smallest possible
men which could have been assembled for anv
serious business in Ohio. They are satire upon
the idea that Legislature is the " assembled
wisdom" o: State. What have they done yet
Thoy have passed law to give the Bankers
Board of Control greater powers, if their High
Mightnessos should deign SO far as to accept the
act of their vassals. In tho senate they have
created new Office of Attorney General, but re.
fused to allow his election by the people, who
they assert, do not know enough TO choose goot
lawyer. Tney had it is true good reason to dis
trust the people in sense, for if care had beer
used in selection they would not have been mia.
called Senators and Representa- yes. This is the
only excuse we know for their contempt of popu
lar intelligence. Nearly two moptns have gone
and except to draw Two Dollars day from the
public crib, except to show the lying hypocrisy o
their charges against Medary of robbing the state
by giving Scott their whig organ 40 cents PEI
1000 ems, wheye Medary got only thirty-fv'
cents, and seventy-ive cents for rule and fgur
work where Mcdary had hfth-two for the SAM
amount of labor; exceptto stife enquiry into thei
mismanagement of our finances and talk loudly o
Democratic reputation, when they are fast dri
wing state credit on to that lower deep-wha
have they done? Absolutely nothing, or rathe
worse than nothing. T hat as men who aim to d
their duty the Democratic minority will continue
as they have hitherto done, to expose the disho
nesty and incompetency of those who by acciden
tai circumstances, have been allowed to spor
their short hour of brief authority and play fan
tastic tricks upon the public stage, is what thei
constituents expect and demand. The whig par
ty boast of their possession Of all the intelligence
wealth and ability In the nation, but unfortunatel,
for this absurd pretence, they never by any circum
stances win power, bat it commences to slip from
their hands Having no firmly based principles o
Government to 60 upon, they have made partia
interests and monopolies the guide Of their legis