Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-09-26
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has issued an address to the eiecto,
Of the district, placing before ther
fairly and candidly the great issu
involved in the coming election I
OF our State. We make the follow
Ing extracts. After quoting the At
OF July Convention resolutions, an
the hard money report to the Const
tutlonal Convention, and the actio
Of the convention upon the subjec
previous to IFS adjournment, he say.
Without coming to any conclu
slon, the Convention finally adjourn
cd, to meet again on the first Of De
cember next. A leading and avow
ed object Of the adjournment, was &
appeal to the people, upon the ques
ton Of the Currency.
And now, fellow citizens, the ap
peal is before US. The question mas
be decided. We can't blink IL. A
goes the Election this Fall, so goe!
the Consultation, SO far as this lead
ing question is concerned. This i:
the iSsue-made such by the lead.
ers of party. We are forced fo
vote upon it, ornot vote at all. Nc
matter what other questions are in.
volved in the election, if we vote al
all. we vote upon this question. The
people have but one opportunity to
be heard upon il, and that is, at the
ballot boz on the 2nd Tuesday OF Oc-
tober next. After that their po,Der
over it is gone and it will be in the
hands of others. Every vote will ne
cessarily be either vote for, ,or a vote
against, a hard money, partisan, UL-
TRA-pd1tiSan Constitution. If soft
money Democrats, because they con-
slider this question superior in impor-
tance to all others involved in the
Election and because they love their
Constitution more than their party,
find themselves constrained to vote
with the Wings, it will not De the
first time party has lost power by
an attempt on the part OF IFS leaders
TO make ne,0 issues, and to force them
upon its members, whether they are
willing or not. That is the way in
which "mad caps" always destroy a
party. They make additions to the
creed, to which they are sure their
best and most influential men will
not subscribe, They then denounce
these recusants as renegades, and
thus obtain temporary ascendency in
the party, at the expense Of the coun-
try. But their power is always Of
short duration.
This is a grave matter. It's one
that rises above all party considera-
tions. As this important question
shall now be settled, in the new
Constitution, SO it will remain, per-
haps. for half century. | beg of
you, Wings, Democrats, and Free
Soilers-CITIZENS OF OHIO,
whatever party name you may give
yourselves-to give this question
your first and chief attention. Let
us'have wise, safe and conserva-
tive Constitvtion--a constitution for
the people, and not for party. III
you cannot otherwise save the State |
from the curse of an uAra partisan
constitution, let party questions for
once, go by default. Let the glori-
Gus Stale of Ohio be saved, even i'll
the Union is lost.
| say, in the first place, that the
hard money policy is not the true
policy Of the State, and in the second,
that if il were true policy, it should
be left to the Legislature to make
and repeal laws or the subject, as a |
majority Of the people desire, and
that we should not chain ourselves
down by any provisions on that SUBJ
ject. in the Constitution. | will con-
slider the last proposition first-that
this matter should have no place in
the Constitution; but should be left
10 the Legislature.
One cogent reason why no such
provision should be engrafted on the
Constitution, is that a decided ma
iority of the People are opposed TO
the hard money system-opposed
to it, whether to be established by
laws, or by constitutional provision
to the thing itself and to
its adoption in any form. Will any
one dispute thisl Willany one doubt
that the Wings and Soft money
Democrats make at least two thirds
Of the peoplei The Wings are at
least about one half Only one.sixth
in addition would make two thirds.
am well satisfied myself that the
Wings alone make moro than one
half.
Again. The question has been ag-
itatad and has been the principal po-
litical question in this State for ten
Or twelve years; and yet no law has
over been passed to that effect by
any party. Bank destruction has