The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-11-29

.eling ufehmity Ia spring Gp between
eighbOrs, who have happened 10 differ
! sentiment on sbmo political Question;
r when under the influence nf undue
artv excitement, some unprincipled and
ishonest demagogue has bcelf elevated
0 important aud responsible SlaIions in
he government, which he has dishunored
iiher by defaulling, or in some nlher /
manner no less credItahle; we have often
leard our older and wiser puhticians, ex- (
,ress an ardent desire to SEQ a return OF
lie good old times in pulilics, TINT exist 1
ID under Madison and Monroe. During
hat time say they y,--'men were selected
nr public trusts. for their honesty, ,.integ'
riiy, capacity and general fitness for the
luty TO be Perforrned.' ignoramuses
we're not takenup and thrust into positions
Of responsibility and distinction. without
any sort of qualification, merely because
they had been more noisy and unscrupu-
l1us brawlers, than their neighbors. Meas
ures were not carried, or defeated, in
those days, merely because they were
slme leading members of
tins, or that, or the other y-bnt they
we're considered and decided with refer
en- ero their supposed influence upon the
public welfare, rather than to their party
effect. nthose days men could hunestIy
differ in opinion on political questions,
and YET recognize each other as friends
and patriots. For the return Of such
times as these, we have often heard our
wisesi and best men, express most anX-
ious desire. They thought this one ni
the most desirable eras in our whole Po
Iitical history. Aud we confess that, as
we have heard them :chenrse the history
of those times, we have been silly enough
To believe soio But it appears that we
were mislaken--and so were our old po
liical Nestors.
The editor of the O'io Statesman, has
recenlly made the discovery, that this was
IA very bad era in our history--lhat the
calm, the pc aceful and prosperous perioc
that followed The Peace of 1915, was al
EZRA of bad politics.
But lest some one may think that We
are misrep presenting this patriotic Demo
crat, who has so often vowed hat he wa
one ofthe legitimate successors of'Jefitr
son, Madison and Monroe we will lie
him speak for himself. Hear him, in hi
Statesman nf the 18th inst, in an aricl
Iupnn the New York eleclun aud the Un
ion meeting; headed
"Bi, no t".-.."Democrats ca
have nothing TO gain from mixing in pub
lie meetings with our common opp"nent:
The two great parties Of the couhtr
have opposed each other for the last ha
century; aud on principle must ever op
pose each other: The era Of sonI feel
ing. afie, Hc Var of 1912, tht6 Tie Fed
craIists were dcad and couId fSM no Ion
ger, mas an era 9f6aapoIitics. Ft9era.
'sm drpt onIy in name"
That is the opinion Of fhe editor ofth
Ohio Statesman.
What think You Of it. you old Demo
Gratis, who used 10 delight to suppo
Madison and Monroel Did i,.ever occu
I to YOU that Sor were supporting syt
tenn of bad pnliitsl Did you ever SUI
pose, until TIE Statesman told you 81
| that these old men were tc3era7'sts in di
guisc?
But where is the evidence that i, W.
an ERA of bad p0liticsl' Trns, but fe
! nnprincipled dcmagoguts were elevate
4 to office in those days. s,rch II thing as
= public deranlrer was seldom. if ev,
' heard Of The county, which had u
j, come out of an expensive war, deeply
" debt, and sorely crippled in its rnergie
: soon began indeed, under the inhuenc
of these bad politics 10 put forth her e
!. ergies--to display the evidence Of pro
! pcrily, by raising up manufactures, co
: structing lurnpikes, improving rivers AT
! harbors, establishing Offices and pc
d routes, paying nfI an enormous debt i
Cured in the prosecution of the war; al
" elevaling ITSELF to an exalted position
i. mong the nations of The Eurth--Such a
E. some of the evidences that this was
y era of bad politics. To be sure, we a
u not certain that in those days, our frie
v Medary, would have been permitted We
o after year to Hced tile Treasury in Il
e shape of Fees for State printing, to L
u :, tune of 100000 a year or more -whj
. others would have done the Same scrvi
/ with greater expedition, for about on
& half the sum, per annum. Indeed, '
} doubt, whether ercn nor. since he is,knOi
10 hare rendered Mc country 50 much $,
e rice, in the way of keeping up excitemc
+ aud producing bitterness of feeling
a. the community, 10 keep off "A return
N this era of bad politics, ho could succe
il. in imposing upon the State in that wc
p aud 10 hat rricRt, if an EZRA Of good fe
:, ing should again be perm tied 10 prev
in the government
s At all events, we should DO glad TO S
e a return of those good old days Of Ji
=, my Monroe's administration, even at I
ID risk Of the Col. missing tho public pri
>" ing for a year or two.
8 But says the Statesman, "Dcmocr
can have nothing to gain 10y mixing
> public meetings with onr common opp'
cnts, (meaning the Whiss.)
Wonder ifthe editor of the SIatesm
II is opposed to Democrats mixing with {
r. Othe, pdrty where somethjng can be ga
u, cd.' We did nnt hear that he was {
't posed 10 their mixing up with Tow
s hend & Co., winter before last; or W
N Spelman and Thompson last year-wh
rs by so doing, the Statesman office,
both occasions, secured tho printing