Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1850-07-20

al bank paper demanded
Yesterday, We Witnessed another stride in
the progress Of Ohio Iocofocoisnl. The State
Convention. assembled here to nominate can
didate for the Boardzuf Public Works, and af-
ter performing that duty. proceeded to 60
through tile scmannual process of making
platform for tie party in Ohio.
Judge Searle, of Muskingum county, who,
this spring, when candidate for the Consti-
tutional delegate, pledged hinselfto 60 against
the hartls in Their radical, destructive noiioins
and by thatmeans came very near an election
in that strong whig county, reported series
of resolutions of the most extraordinary char
acter. We shall give them to our readers to-
morrow. The first one re-af1rms and adopts
the resolutions Of the last Sth of January Con
cention. But this was not enough. They did
not go far enough. They were not radical,
Red Republican enough for them.
The second resolution applauded the lard
money clause. Of the constitution of the United
States aud proceeded TO say that it was the
iaperatipe duty of the Constitutional Conven-
ton now assembled here, so to frame Mdt in
strUnaeRt that hereafter no bank Of issue, dc.
could EVER BE cHARTERED UNDER IT.
And this did not end even here Not con-
tent with saying that this sweeping prohibition
should be made, they proceeded to resolre
that in the disbursement of taxes nothing but
the hard should be paid out, and that the
Board Of Public Works should proceed to re-
ducs all their paper money to specie before
paying it out and should be compelled to pay
out gold and sitVer and that alo,ei
Mr.. Covey, of Morgan county, attempted TO
stem this wild, ill-digested, and impracticable
tide of conventional folly. Hemoyed to strike
out that part Of the resolution instructing the
Constitutional convention in their duty, and
made a few pertinent remarks in defence of
his position. But he only called down on his
head a torrent of obloquy that no one SEEM
ed disposed to stand up and ward off except
Mr. Maaon, of Licking. He told the conyen-
ton that he should disregard any vote this
convention might pass, and act according to
the wish of his constituents.
The convention was controlled by the influ-
ence of such radicals as Robertson, Sawyer,
and Mitchell They poured out a torrent of
the most violent, extreme and bitter reproaeh
upon every one who should falter now on
this hard money question. They declared
that the Constitutional convention gave them
chance to carry out their measures, the con-
vention had been urged and called TO enable
them to do so: that this was the great radi-
cal difference between Wing and Democrat!
In short, the speeches were much more violent,
and in every sense outrageous than the reso-
lutions.
Upon the motion of Mr.. Sawyer the gag
rule was applied, the previous question was
sustained, after the moderates had been well
abused for about an hour, without any chance
for defence, the original resolution, as reported
A hY,t foxp ,Iorc a.
And thus ended this new chapter of Loco
foco progress. We shall see what effect it
will have upon the Constitutional convention.
Several Of the members boldly declared, yes
terdav, thatif the bank prohibition clause was
not inserted, they would repudiate, and vote
against the whole concern.
We have only to say to the moderate men
of the Democratic party, to-day, that theycan,
now fully see, and We hope, appreciate the
kind of men into whose hands the destinies of
their party in Ohio has fallen. They are just
the kind that mast ultimately ruin G,1y cause
or enterprise. They are dreamers, enthusiasts,
yisionaries. They have no practical knowl
edge Of men and things as they actually exist
around US. They have seized upon some
crude, abstract ideas, that were started when
that party was in a hopeless ninority-for the
purpose of gettinng up a little humbug capital
against the Wings. From 1888 till Is46, the
Democracy was for bank reform The peo-
pie got tired of this humbug. and demanded
something more substantial They put the
Wing party in power, with the express under
standing that they would do something The
Wing party formed and put into operation,
our present system. Then it was the Democ-
racy came out and proclaimed BANK DE-
STRUCFI0N. This year, again, that party
has placed itself on the hard money platform.
The doctrine that was preached when in a
minority, the radicals of the party are for car
rying out when they happen to have the Ma
jority. The sensible, practical men of the par
ty oppose it. They KNOW that any such is
sue Will ruin them in Ohio. They know the
thing is utterly inexpedisnt, and indeed, i'm
practicable to all lintents and purposes. They
desire to get the party back to their former
ground, to the ground Of common sense and
practical wisdom.
But they are too late! They have pander-
ed to this cry Of hard money when their party
was in the minority, and when it would do no
harm, till the idea is really regarded by the
majority of their party as political wisdom
They have coaanaitfed themselves in favor of
the hard They now accidently find them
selves in the majority and are called upon to
actI They stand appalled, at the prospect
They cannot adopt this radical destructive
measure. They k9.oaO it is the death of their
party If they now finish their aUorkS,' and they
see themselves impelled onward to this work
ofself immolation by the Jealous, unthinking
mad-caps in theis own ranks.
There they stand And what viii they do?
If they do their duty, and disregard thispress-
ure upon them, they sacrifice themselves with
their own party. They deliberately commit
an act of self destruction, politically. If they
yield, and float off with this current, tie aohole
party must go doaon, because we say with the
utmost confidence that the people of Ohio will
NEVER agree to do all their business and
pay all their taxes in gold and silver alone.-
One years experiment would cure them of
this dream.
We fully understand the position the mod
crate men of the Democratic party occupy
We annreeiate its difficulties. Butthey must