The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-06-04
The Prosnect.

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We are daily asked from every quarter
What is the prospect for the ratification Of
the new Constitution OF course we can
give no positive answer, but we viii say this:
II every friend Of the new Constitution win
do his duty, it win be carried by at least for
ty thousand majority. fits friends do not
do their duty, 'ViR ROt carry at GH-rT WILL
BE DEFEATED
We have been blamed by some, says the
Statesman, who had as much right to blame
US as they choose to exercise, for speaking
of ratification with any reference to parties.
We foresaw that the parties would to great
extent naturally act upon this subject, pro
and con, by their seperate organizations.
We predicted long ago. that if the new Con-
stitution should approximate what we had
reason to expect, the two great parties would
naturally divide. We did not then say, nor
have we since said or believed, that epery
whig would go against ratification; compar-
atively many of the rank and file are for it;
but at the same time, all the partisan inAu
ences are and have been at work to array
the entire force of that party in opposition.
InFranklin county, the peculiar habitation
of the Holy Presence OF whiggery we know
not three wings who will go for CoNsTrTU-
iT1oNAL REFoRM-we speak of the politicians
of the party. From all we can gather, the
same is true of every other region of the
State, in which the whig party has had here
tofore an organization. The Journal is pub
fishing daily an extensive political correspon-
dence from every portion of the State, on
the subject of ratifcation-and not single
writer, who has through its columns spoken
of the position ofparties, has failed to assure
the editor that he might set down the whig
vote against the New Constitution.
This was all manifest from the very day
upon which the new Constitution was pub
lished, Ere the whig press had time to
make thorough examination of any single
provision of that instrument, they assailed
the apportionment, with unanimity which
might have assured the most incredulous of
their pre-determination to make partisan
attack upon the whole reform. A fairer ap-
portionment has never been made. We
make the assertion fcarlessly again and again,
we doubt not that the intention of the whig
party from the beginning was to assail it in
this feature unless they could hope for GER
tain ascendency, because such subjects arc
so capable of mystifcation and of epmty dec
lamation. From their assault upon this, tho
wings have proceeded to other features-tn.
til thercis nothing of value in the new Con
stitution which they do not directly or ipdi
rectly assail.
4 1t is needless to say that the Democracy
: as body, are all for ratification. Theyfnt
the New Constitution an improvement in ia
vor of the people and against corporate mo
nopoly, which leaves the old more than hal
, a century behind in the advance of popu!a
progress. Lacking some important feature
of Reform, as its trainers seemed conscious
t it opens the door, and invites further amend
t ment from year to year. This feature itsel
7 viii prove to be the source of as much adyan
tage as the direct reforms now provided fol
For such reasons the party of Democrat
l progress go for ratification, h
But still, let no man suppose that in thi
great battle the victory is to be achieves
without the mastering and equipment q
every partisan of Reform. The rights {
the people pass into the proper hands by slo'
t degrees. The day is comparatively just pas
+. sed when the masses were slaves-when tn
l freedom of speech, and all self govemmer
, were pronounced mere utopian dream.-
But that day las passed. Still the enemie
of the great and God-given rights ofHuman
Iity are determined as ever to trample out tn
life of all substantial popular liberty, Will
smoothly protesting to favor its demands
What despots, Tyrants and Kings have fai
= ed to do in our land of their natural mission
has been to well done for them in the shaI
g of partial government on behalf of corpor
e tions, oligarchies, exclusive privileges, banl
: and capital The hour is now come whe
70 the people of Ohio must stop the career
), these political Partialists, or be trodden und
d their feet forever. No people ever permitte
e themselves to fprego Reform who did NJ
S as well postpone it indefinitely, as invite Il
foes oftheir rights to still further aggression
: Let not the people of Ohio make this fat
e mistake now "
We repeat that if the friends of the gre
l. Reform now convulsing the State, all repo
a themselves at the polls on the seventeen
W day of June, and vote as their conscicn
l. and good sense dictate, all will go well; (;
le they neglect this, they are doomed to si
" nal and woful defeat Let them take he
IN in time it is their fate that is involved in t
= momentuous issuel
Ie They will not tell the Truth.
Who? The leaders of the Wing party!
The said that the apportionment under t
New Constitutution was unfair, This
proved, by facts and figures to be A LIE