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From the Huron Reflector.
Importance Of the State Election.


cent nominations for the Presidency, have filled ,
up so large q measure Of the public interest, we
are liable to forget those important concerns at
home, which for the present year, should chal-
lpnge the supreme attention of the Wings OF
Ohio. Our antagonists would iain persuade US
to pass the campaign in the consideration OF
purely national queslions they would have US
slumber over the fact, that REVOLUTION has
been set on foot, by their party leaders, III our
midst, which if carried TO its consummaton, and
unless arrested by the arm of the people, in the
ptesent election, will evidently PROSTATE the
State government subvert its constitution, and
involve its cilizens in all the horrors Of CIVIL |
WAR. This is fact, which our adversaries,
covering beneath the guilty consciousness of
their reasonable schemes, would rejoice to see
buried until the October issue is decided.
independent of this fact, which renders the
pending State election Of such Startling proml-
nence in the view Of peaceful and patriotic cltl-
zens, there arc concerns involved in every State
election, with respect 10 ourselves, which inn
part TO it an elevation vastly above the level
Of a Presidential canvass. To show the COM
paratiye value Of interests peculiar 10 US, which
are involved in Stale and National affairs, the
ClNCllnul CHIOulClC PlOSChtS wv iO'iN"ih6 SOh-
rasi:
SAFE officers elected by the Legislature,
nearly 4UO
County and township officers elected by
the people about 5OOO
Collectors, Surveyors and PosImasterS
appointed by the General Government,
in Ohio. about 500
The officers dependent on State organization
are about TEN TO ONE more than those depen-
dent On the General Government! Nor is this
all. The State officers exercise ten times. more
important functions. The National Govern
ment officers are nearly all PoSlmaslers Of small
villages. The State officers, on the other hand,
have charge of the great Public Works-exer-
else all the judicial unctons-lranSact, in lac,,
all the local business of the State, and dsburSe
immense sums Of money. The following is a
comparative statement Of disbursements:
State officers disburse $2,5OO,OOO
National officers 100000
Here The ratio is twenty-five 10 one!"
In tho decision Of their State affairs, the peo-
pie Of Ohio have an absolute voice; in the Ma
lional results, they have only divided utter
ance. In the first, their will is the unit Of pow.
} er in the latter, it will not count a DECIMAL
} Why, then, should we yield to the wishes oI
our Locoloco adversaries, and suffer ourselves
to be engrossed in questions Of remote conse'
quences, when issues of immediate and vital
moment are clamorng at our doorsl The IL
initiation of SldUery is the greatest theme oil ma
: iional consideration before US at present. The
election orGen. Taylor, candidate pledged I(
| submit its decision TO the voice of the people
j expressed through Congress, is in the view o
D all intelligent politicians, beyond the reach o
Q doubt. That important, and with US all absorb
o ing issue, must then be determined by the peO
S pie at the State, Congressional and Legislative
i elections. The pending Legislative election
i will decide whether William Allen, the enemy
i of the free soil principle and the arch doughIac'
e of the Senate, shall be reelected to his Presen
place, there to thwart the will of Ohio on thi
n great question for six years longer, within whcI
period il will Ge decided forever. Let 1t b.
= borne in mind by every Wing voter, that witt
n or withoutthe electoral vote Of Ohio, Gen. lay
IS lor will be riumphanty elected President, bu
without the unanimous vote of the Ohio deIega
l. ton in the U. S. Senate and House of Represen
i tatves, the question of FREE TERRITORY will b
,, decided irreversibly in the NEGATIVE!
n Cease then all wrangng and exacerbation a
II to Presidential candidates, and let us turn ou
united efforts to the great battle-ground, IN Ia
vor of FREE TERRITORY, which III
STATE ELECTION now dscloses to tn
IS Wings of Ohio.
|. On all subjects involved in our State policy
or the Wings Of the Reserve are unanimous |
le sentiment. Let us then avoid the agitation {
at conflicting questions respecting Presidential car
r didates, in our ranks. and unite in commo
n. effort for the State cause-a cause in which q
can unite. By combined and enthusiastic e.
l.. erton of Wing strength in Ohio, we can rescC
ID our State Constitution from the profane attemP
"a of party conspirators and vandal demagogue
we can preserve our State government tro
prosration, from corruption, and from years
~ ~ violent usurpation; we can save our State cor
'S monwealth from the disgrace of Dorr insu
n0 rection, and our cilizens from bloody strife;
II can preserve the fruits of prosperity which '
now gather from a Wing administration, alt
81 fifteen years of unceasing and laborlous coni
70 with the trained bands of distrucuonlsts IN
State: we can elect FREE SOIL DELEGI
nd T[ON of twenty.one Representatives TO 20
y, gtess, who will stand up in unbroken pf
Ianx for northern rights, and against /
is extension of slavery over national territory;
is. can elect FREE SOIL LEGISLATURE
,ly which will utter the voice of Ohio, and susta
,u- the action of its Representatives on this que
Of ton, with trumpet power; we will elect, by ii
ct Legislature, a FREE SOIL SENATOR to Co
gress, who will stand breast to breast with /
noble Corwn, in resisting the cohorts of slaN
On ry, and their Titan leaders in the Americ
u Senate.
yer Are not these objects of thrilling magnitud
The and is there a Wing in Huron county, who "
pause to handy words with his brother VIII
about his choice for the Presidency, when
terests like these are in jeopardy, and are CALI
.n- for the harmonious and active energies OF bo
m. We must stop all foreign controversy and