Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-09-16
From the O6io Statesman
The Journal on Banking.
NCMBE II.

One of the most unpleasant tasks i'm
posed upon good citizens is that OF expos
| irg the attempts of artrul and intriguing
| political dernagogues 10 deceive, mIsiead
| and thereby impose on the mass OF the peo'
.ple.e-.1.Aa.d yet il is one OF their most I'm.
peraliye, dulles, And whoet er tfinches
\ from this duty or endeavors 10 shut the re-
spopsibility from his own shoulders to those
| of others is no friend TO humanity. no low
er OF his county There is n sentiment
which seems 10 Be gaining strength and be-
coming more r,r, prevalent duffy m this COM
.munily, which cannot be too Strongly rep
4 roba,ed. It is this, that when man en-
/ cages in politics ne most necessarily
thrJw off al restraint of honor, or homes
ty, and yield without struggle 10 the SO.
| licitations Of interest and advantage at
whatever sacrifices his integrity This
! opinion is most destructive oil the interests
I,of free people. and most dangerous to
their liberty. For if good men and true,
men OF honesty, integrity and upright'prm,<
ciples hold themselves aloof iron 7the' 'po-
li.ical arena, what more natural result can
happen Than that they will but suffer the
corrupt, the depraved and ,nnprlnciPied 10
manage the helm Of State! Let, then, no
morbid delicacy restrain The intelligent
| from combating and exposing fraud and
dishonorab,e sophistry. With this ohjec,
we lave set out, and we viii now proceed
to show, more fully, tha, the Journal Of,
this city, the organ Of the Wing party of
this Stale, has knowingly md willully at.
tempted 10 pervert and misrepresent most
essentially, The principles Or platform Of the
Democratic party, as enumerated by our
tlast State Convention 10 this city. It has
most art!'ully mixed up with these resolu-
! tions the report oil the Codmit'ee en- Cur.
i.rencv1 Of the Convention. A matter Of IN
entirely separate and distinct character.
I from the o.her. The fortner were willing
to endorse as a party, and inscribe it on
our banner. The latter is a matter, which
as YET is in an embryo State lit is MOI, ye.
consumalel, and no man can tell whether
IFS entire provisions will be assented to by
tie Democracy of the Convention, or what
notifications. it may yet receive 'nt their
Lands -el E ii he rendered 10 the party thro'-
out the State as the Dea,ocrutic Platform
w Q wish TO set this matter in its true light
before the people, Not that we wish 10
dodge the issues which aUe have rendered
them. Ii, is ,sufficien, thai We be compelled
ito maintain The, issues which we TENDER
without having others .engra ted on them
which we kn w nothing OF. But we
would not have it understood that, because
this lmalel has b: en- I ggel into the con.
troversy as part of the issue the report OF
the Currency Committee is entirely inde--s
fensible. Not a, all. While we are On
willing tha, il should be nailed 10 the mast
as our Party Flag in is present inchoate
and chrysalls state, uoc, as an zNdaradual,
will lake issue ,eith the Journal, and we
think that we, can show that the said aoise
political economists have displayed equal
lsngacity aud skill in the construction OF
legislative enactmenls, as they have been
shown 10 have dane in our TURNER article
in relation, 10 ihe distinction Of Banks =
We. ore aware Thai the, editors Of the Jour
nal do moi in The Least sympatise with the
Democratic party, who have ever been cen the
champions Of strict construction. -
But we believe the nominal editor does
make some. .pre,ensions to legal knowledge
and skill. lie is ether. most deplorabIy
ignorant Of every rule and principle OF
constructing written document, or else
he has ,misrepresenied, wilfully, the tenor
of that report, for party purposes. ,R...n
What is the, meaning or intent OF The
report, as q swhole2 Most unqnestionably
its,object is to prohibit, lwben il shall have
been sanctioned as a .palt of our. Constitu-
lion. the issue, or, more precisely the
s'cmission. or putting in, circulation" any
more paper. money, by making j It einpera-
live on the Legislature 10 pass nm enact
ment to that effect But, say. they, it also
provides that 'tno person, shall ever deal
1m, Or issue amy paper money, Now sll that u
such a clause, were j. cnacted into a law,
would prevent, Or, prohibit any person from
passing, or offering 10 pass, paying out, or
receiving in exchange for goods, labor, or
any other valuable consideration, any pa
per money which may have been hereto--
fore emitted or put in circulation, no one
can believe Ii is Totally opposite to The
spirit 2 + the report Had that been their
intention, 9 their phraseology5 would have
been fatally defective, and no court in
chrisendom would sustain such IN act of
the Legislature rs would, } estrict men of
business in their. transactions from receiU
ing and paying out as money our present
MIXED currency under such q clause Of a
Constitution. Perhaps a Wing Court
might, as they are great sticklers, for lati-
fudanary construction. This being made
clear, we think the ..swreck Of matter and
the crush of worlds part of their argu-
ment falls 10 The ground. We regret, ex
cecding ly, that 50 much ink has been vast
ed and SO many hypocfitical and crocke-
die. tears have been shed in vain. We
sympalhisel with the Journal that SO much
ruin, and destruction and misery, which
was TO result from. the sudden conru7sion
predicted, can never happen. tor, he will
prove as lolse n prophet as Miller has, or
as the rest Of his, party. has for the last half
century But we beg The Journal 10 con-
sole itself by The thought that if the conn-,
Try, ever is ruined, il will never be, BY The
Wings. They will ,hayen hand in ii
But 10 return 10 the lamentations aiuresaid.