Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-11-04
Correspondence Of the Indiana State Sentinel.

certain but that they will accuse of arrogance in
meddling with their business and, in some views of
the matter, they might do with propriety; but
hope they will find apology for my conduct, in the
concern | give myself. lest my Indiana Qor she is
mine, and always will be- should fall into the same
errors. l nothing in the result of tie Ohio cleo
tion calculated TO raise a doubt, IN the mind Of
calm observer of political events of the ultra 6emoc
racy Of the American people, In the aggregate; no
thing that looks like retrograde movement seces
sion from democracy to federalism although | am
free to admit that, anything looking to the removal,
from the American Senate, Of William Allen, and
filing his with member of the opposition school,
is, in high degree, painful to democrat and espe
cally of the strictest sect: for if were to
search every nook and of our country until
dOomsday, for democracy's self, doubt very much
indeed, if | could make better choice than in Will
liam Allen. He is always where duty calls him, and
timd in its discharge: he remembers his friends;
and never any thing federalisms many phases,
that he feels like cahooting' with. As scholar,
a lawyer, as money making man, he DOUBTLESS could
have depended, and does depend, upon himself but
statesman, he his fame (and it is not limited
one) to the hard-fsted yeomanry,-the democracy of
the west; and no remembers it more scrupulousy
or more gratefully than he does. But in any other
sense, | see nothing, repeat, in the result of the
Ohio election, calculated to stagger ones belief in the
democracy Of the people at large. She never was,
strictly speaking, democratic State. Her first set
tlers-her pionecrs-were, mostly, broken down fede
rallsts from the Atlantic States; some in finances
in politics, and some in both. Some were retired
officers of st. Clar's army. and some of Wayne's.
From this original stock sprung, have no doubt, a
ma orlty of the present voters Of the State and who
heard of of them turning over to the demo-
cratic school! You may, grant you, now and then
hear of such thing but it is exceedingly rare and
when it does happen, the balance of the circle raise
such persecution against him, and such an invete-
/ raj hat rpdf far HIM hat fal
out and move to Indiana, Michigan, some other
free State; or, If he remains in Ohla, he dare not
call his mind his own; and such men, when they get
into the democratic ranks, more of ncumbrance
to the cause, than help. A ma orty, say, of the
voters of that State doubtless sprung in the first
and second generations, from this old stock. They
are found in every lawyers office, every counting
room and every bank in the State. They not only
vote the federal ticket themselves but they influence
Others in their employ or dependant on their favor for
support, TO vote likewise. Who, under such crcum-
stances, be astonshed that Ohio is a wing State
| am not. When | saw the democracy of the State
fight as they did in 1914 upon the bank question: and
yet fail, said to myself Ohio is gone, for good"
If emigmtion from other States, the practical ope-
ratons of a free trade tariff both. do not con-
vert her, she Is joined to her idols let her alone. IF
the people of a Stale will not strangle bank in en-
bryo, the latter will see, when fufedged that they
never do it afterwards. An Indiana democrat can
!
east of the Miami will. in the of time, wish
they had taken his advice.
Perhaps | may be taken to task for saving that
Ohio neUer WaS democratic State. May | ask my
interrogation lohen she was! Certainly not upon the
war question of 1872; for many federasts, who
opposed to the declaration of that war; mmedi-
ately associated themselves with the democrats in
voting men and money for its prosecution, that no
expression of opinion upon the abstract question was
ever practicable; not at least until the was
over, when fool could not then Certainly not
in her vote for General Jackson in 1928; for, while
do not hold such vote evidence of her federal
! ism, yet well remember that "dOmestlc manufac-
lures, internal improvements and the present admins
tmtion,' adams and Clays) were the issues vaInly
sought by the federalss in that conflict. and studI-
ousy avoided by the democrats, whose exclusive
cry was down with the coalition and up with the
hero of New Orleans" Certainly not in the second
vote, in 1882, that she gave him; for then the
issue ''rulned currency" against down with the
monster" Certainly not in the two elections of Gov
Lucas; for in both those campaigns the issues were
merely jackson men p" and Clay men," Certainly
not in the election of Gov Shannon; for, while that
gentleman elected it occasioned by the abo-
lltionists voting for their candidate BESIDES il
subsequently appeared that Gov. Shannon, in thai
contest, merely the lesser wing of the two. My
interrogation cannot, for the life of him, point out but
three political campaigns in Ohio, where federalism
parties, made the ayowed issues; and, in all, federal
ism was victorious. | aude to the two last guberna
tOrial campaigns and the Presidential one of 1874
Still, have u word Of encouragement for the de-
mocracy of Ohio Better material cannot be found
Let them preserve their organizaton-adhere strictly
to their nominations instead of quarrelng with eacl
other about which wing they shall vote for-read eve
nv out of the ranks who carries water on boil
shoulders--and the time may come when emigration
to the State, and the practical effects of democratic
national administration, will yet crown their efforts
with the victor's laurels True, they have a pape
money machine. of immense power, and totally un
scrupulous which looks Olympus high, to meet IL
: every conflict; but bid them remember that thel
brethren in Indiana Michigan Mississippi, and othe
States, had fully much to encounter; yet they KEEP
the faith, fought the good fight, and overturned tn
tables Of the money changers. They, too, may d.
the same if they will. q. W. K.
IMPORTANT INvENTIoN.-We learn from the Ha
gerstown Torchght that Mr. Samuel Bentz, of Boons
borough. Maryland, has discovered process whic
being patented, which, it is asserted complete
ly all bran and extraneous matter from whea
in its natural state, leaving the grain nothing bu
pure, unground flour, effecting saving of grain 0