Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-02-24
For the Portage Sentinel.

ome license in my views. Our new Con- .
titutien, which Medary often said it would {
lot take @more than two weeks" to frame, I
We are now told, after two sessions, is a. ,
,out ready for the peoples decision-and
low how much more simple and republic
ian we shall be how taxes will be dimin-
shed, labor will be secured against the tyr
amy Of capital, and only honest and sound
men be found in seats of trust! Surely
now there will not be as many obstacles in
the way of Democratic progress and per-
feet political equality in our State! Land
monopoly has doubtless received its quietus,
Banks have got jackson veto, and fran
ehises and incorporated privileges general
ly, have become beautifully less among a
people destined to be free! Are we not all
now "corporals" at least? What particu'
lar hour will all these blessings shower
down upon us?
| have no faith in these Legislatures and
Conventions, and it occurs to me that no.
ticed in your paper something like the same
feeling manifested on your part The Plain
Dealer, too, is talking about " Revolution.
Have you only just learned that among
Constitution and law makers the same max
i'm, or belly-reason, prevails that is found in
our shops: "the weakness of the work is the
strength Of the trade?" How very anxious
our Legislators were the. FIRST week of the
session to get through and 60 home! What
psalmcdizing about economy! But it did
no good or hurt. They had just about SO
much to say to satisfy fools at home, and
prepare the way for long pull at the pub
lie tit. do not believe we have man in
Ohio great enough to spare cffce-nor in
the Union. 1t would be seeing Sthe Ele-
phant" to see Cincinnatus now a days,
on his small farm, rejecting office, and an
interest in Banks. We have had no such
since Jefferson.
But am anxious to know what will be
democratic, and what not, under this new
Constitution. When we all get around
this dish of Burnett House cookery, and
democratic dainties, what are we to do?
want to see the programme for the next
| election. want to know what ideas are
now to be canonized, and what saint to
swear by. I am "all prepared" and waiting
for the order to %pucker," and l should, all
would, be pleased to have the @pi,eh sound
ed" and the voices tried again.
I have become sick of our boasted craw-
fish reforms. You extinguish privileges in
one quarter, and they spring up in anoth
er. Incorporated Franchises are not be-
coming less in our land !; and the world new
er saw time when capital welded ST
much advantage over labor as it now doe
in Ohio. Capital and bankers recovered
long ago from their disasters with the oil
US. Bank Charter. I have text for you
not my own, which explains this matter
and gives the reason for not having mucI
faith in parties. My only hope is in man
@In describing the two parties into whic
modern society divides itself-the democra
$ and conservative-I omitted to say wha
is material to the statement, namely, ths
] that these two parties differ only as old an
9 young. The democrat is young conser
d vative, the conservative is an old demo
: crat. The aristocrat is the democrat q
$ rich, ripe, and gone to seed; because bot
d parties stand on the one ground of the S.
|, perior value of property, which one endea'
y ors to get,and the other to keep. AS Ion
IS as our civilization is essentially one of pro-
It ertv, of finance, of exclusiveness, it will
Knocked by delusions." Facts lie all
1t round loose to prove the truth of the
s. statements, but which / have not NO
ID room to refer to. Even those who a
IS harping so loudly against land monopol
and in favor of homestead exemption W
l. find themselves Knocked with delusion
e. and they ought to be. There is no Gu
ne for land monopoly short of burning all til
y deeds, and Recorders offices. Let al
t. other measure be tried, and its failure
'p sure to furnish plausible sanction for t
ID continuation of the present system.
d, There are laws for society yet unpublis
sh ed, and which society is scarcely yet pl
Ae pared to read. We have got accustome
; and Injured to its manifold ignorance al
evil, and become fond of them. SLAYER
'e and the Southern bond have become equa
rs ly palatable.
Ill Yours, VERGNIAUD.