The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1848-02-25

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!. These our ncontrovertible position
III were me, by dogg gedsilence aud We wer
!. pointed to.the opinion Of the Attorne
!. General, as the only answerto our posl
S lions!! Poor whiggery never worship
!, tie Que man power. A wing never pm
his faith to ihe sleeve Of any man, howese
exalted! Tie great opposition parry ney
er bow their necks 10 The dictates Of on,
man, and much less 70 that Of an .xecu,
live cfleer!
Oh, wings, how have you falien iron
your high degrees! How Piuful are youi
tornings aud twistIngs in the political
arena! Oh, how does the heart OF an hon
est republican loatb at your hlpocraey
and your pro1igate prostitution OF the
great cause Of honesty, justice and the
rights of the people to the bebests OF base
parry demagogues.
The bill passed the Senate by a strict
patty vote The high toned promises OF
ten; their consciences had been put 10
rest by the opinion Of the Attorney Gen.
eral, and their oaths were forgotten in
the eoslacy OF the moment, when g0zlng
"ishially Inio the vista of the future, for
power and uninterrupted political as,
cendancy. Democracy, SO horrible 10
lyrants, then stood before the ewes of the
fascinated Ming partisan stripped of even
vestigesof power. Rot there is many a
slip between the cup and the lip.
he passage Of the bill lhrough the
House was bat repetition OF The scenes
tIn the Senate. The same efforts, tie same
appeals, were met by that same doggea
bnll dpg silence and the opinion OF the
Attorney General. Wings, that is, those
who had any couscences, Lugged close
TO their bosoms this oplnlon of their Al
torney General 1t proved the only salvo,
the only hope in this strugg lie for poll,lca!
power.
Ibe amehdments that had been made to
the bill in the Senate, were musli iy again
stricken out and lie bill came again into
the Senate, almost IN its original shape. |
The senate disagreed to this, aud the bll |
again went 10 to House. symptoms OF
restiveness now began to show themselves
among the majority ct the House. There
were few men who had not sinued So
long and so often hul what they would yer
sun nave some comPnnctons of con
science. The Senate disagreed to most
of the House amendments, and the bill |
once more went to the House, There
several members had become serioubl, |
disposed to retrace their steps; aud il be
Came evident that the bin, as il then was. |
scouid not pass The House. A motion VA. |
madesto reconsider the vote on The pas,
sage OF the bill IN the House. Fdat mo-
tIon was decided OUT Of order, and 10 &c & (
al iheir object, message was seat to the .
Senate requesting decentralization ufthe
vote oo tier disagreemenl to the House
amendment. The democrats tAsn began
to suspeot foul play, aud only on lie muI
aud open pledge, voluntarily given ON tue
Pari OF the majority, that The object OF re.
was to enable the House to
retrace ITS steps, was the vote to recon
sider suffered TO be takeo. Sunday inter
vened; the wounded consciences of the
iew refractory wings were again patch ed
up; the House now again Unlisted npou.
most OF its amendments. The motion to5
reconsider on the passage of the bill was
withdraw in the House, and the bill was
once more before the Senate almost in its
original shape.
The Democratic members had watched
anXlonsly the progress of events-they had
received information strongly tending
that on Monday morning the bill should
be passed in violation of the pledges given
on Saturday night previous. Ii now be.
came amatter of life and death TO the
right OF the majority to govern, a right
forever endangered by the bill before Us.
and on our action hung the fate Of odr
sacredness of our oath.
the cause Of The people against corpora
privileges--the interests OF the laboring
thousands against those of the idle few
We looked all around us for relief. mol
appeal could be made to the Courts oil
Justice. NJ! the perpetrators Of the out
rage would most likely be the Judges next
winter in the General Assembly, ifan ap
peal was to be there. .aHlegal remedies
were then goae-our Arguments, aud out
appeals had proved in vain! What then
was left to usl The rights OF freeman
TO resist tyranny! That right we nave
exercised. We have left the Senate
Chamber, aud thereby deprived an arb.
trary majority, OF the power to do further /
mischief, The power of the nine cen per-
Jured iyrants is at an end, aud once more /
The ;reemen Of Ohio breathe freezer and /
deeper.
W.