Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1848-03-08

THE VACANT SRAT.-We wish that, as a |
tribute to the memory of ADAMs, his seat might
be left vacant. Were We, member of the
House of Representatives, and the most clo-
quent of that body, we should feel like commit
ting sacrilege to occupy that seat. For years
to come, the visitor who for the first time en-
tiers the House will make his first inquiry for
the seat SO long occupied by the venerable Ad-
ans. Let him be pointed to the vacant place.
Disturb not is homage to departed worth, pa
triotism and srotless fame, with an untimely
contrast forced upon him by the presence, of
an undistinguished, perhaps unworthy stranger,
occupying the Great Mans place. Leave the
seat vacant, until some man, equally worthy,
declared so by the voice of the Nation, shall
arise to fill it. 1t would have been so in Rome.
A WORD TO " DEMoCRATs.'-We believe
the great Mass of the People are truly ''Dem-
ocrats.n They are fond of Popular Govern
ments-the Government of the Peope-that
the People shall Govern themselves. That is
democracy" and we proclaim ourself dem
ocrat to the very death. The more power is
placed in the hand of the People the better it
suits us. Hence, we want Post Masters, and
many other officers elected by the People. We
are firmly convinced that too much of the fed
eral principle was introduced into our Govern
| ment at its commencement, and we want the
| patronage Of the President restricted, and we
| want his veto power restrained. We want in
| terna improvement in the hands of the entire
| People, that one class may not have undue ad-
| vange over another and many other things we
should like to see, all strictly Democratic, yet,
we find ourselves opposed, and deprived of our
proper name by men who claim to be par excel
lence " Dewocrats." Well, we have name
as good. We will be content to call ourself
Whig and BY publishing our principles prove,
that good Wing and good Democrat may
Ia identically the same. But what have these
seii-styled Derhoerais, done to deserve the
name-remember we are not now speaking of
the People but of the officers to whom they com
mitted their afairs.-Why, they made great
flourish about Internal improvements, run the
State in debt several millions; began everything
finished nothiug;sold the fragments to usurers;
and left the State nearly 100000 in debt
without the means of paying even the inter-
est oft.
The benefcent donation of Congress for the
gratuitous education of the youth in Michigan
was entrusted to them; and they laid large plans
for fulfilling the trust; the result is 50 students
at the University, the prosperity of which none
seem to have wisdom enough to promote, if they
do not seek to retard 1t. None or few of its
branches in operation: and its fund continual
Is threatened, with diversion to other purposes.
While on the one hand they sent an agent to
New York TO pick up what struggling emgrants
lie coelJ i--1.o serI'c on 1'ic
State, on the other, they plundcred non-resi-
dents, by taxing them with the support of hire
ling presses under the plea of Advertising tax
sales. Under pretence of reforming the Stat
utes, they have, at the expense Of 100000,
issued volume which has been in force one
year and eight days. and which there are alrea-
dy either made or proposed about one hundred
and fifty different Amendments! But we have
said enough for the present. More next week.
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