The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1851-08-08
sTATE POLICY oF ITnE WINGS.

STATE POLICY OF THE WINGS
The whig resolutions at the Columbus
Convention, on the 3lst ult., omitted all
reference 10 State policy. The first eIcc-
ton under tho new Constitution is an.
|proaching, and national politics arc Of
less immediate importance than questions
ofa domestic nature. On these subjects,
however, the delegates observe profound
silence. We did not expect them to
welcome or approve the constitution,
after their late opposition TO its adoption
! but rome expression Of acquiescepce ia
the will of the majority would have been
appropriate and in good taste. We ex-
pec:ed, also, that the Wing party would
propose such amendments 10 the consti-
tuition as would tend 10 obviale tho OBJ
jections which they have clamorously
urged against it. They have denounced
the provisions in respect 10 corporations,
as destructive of public Improvements,
aud Injurious to the people; why have
we no proposition 10 amend-no party
protest against themf We might men
,ion other objections urged by the wings
during the canvass, which seem now to
be abandoned. Is this to be attributed
to fickleness or insincerityp 5p.
We infer from the character Of the
nominations, that tho wings are unwilling
to improve The constitution even by
ame2dment--that their aim will be 10
obstruct and embarrass its action. The
candidate for Governor traverscd bis own
region of the State in opposition to the
adoption Of the Constitution, and we re-.
cognize among the members Of the Con-
vention, the most cmbittered conserva-
tives of The State. There was no chance
of nomination TO Office for any whig who
was understood to have dissentcd from
the hostile policy of tue State Journal
and its Columbus committee. Witness
the fate Of Judge Peter Hitchcock, who
is dropped from The list Of Judges, be-
cause he did not choose TO hold the posi-
tion Of Attorney General Stansbery and
the central junto. The Wing party thus
seek 10 honor the fourteen members of
the convention who voted against the
Constitution, while they visi, with the
reprobation of the party, those delegates
who united with the Democracy in re-
commencing il TO the people.
The friends of the Constitution are
deeply interested in the defeat of this
ticket. The Wings should not be in
trusted with power, much less with the
control Of the Legislature, until The new
instrument has had fair trial and been
from the aspersions of It's
enomies. The Wings have not relin-
pushed their hostile attitude of the l7th
Of June-ihey yet retain it. They have
,een forced 10 retreat, but do not yield
ho field they linger in ambush, as the
proceedings Of the Sd abundantly testify
A majority in October representing The
Iame elements Of opinion aad equal in
emphasis 10 that obtained in June, is in
in our Judgment, 10 the
und efifCieul consummatt0H
IF the great work of Constitutional re-
form. The success Of tile Wings in their
present attitude will impair tie force of
he late popular verdict--wlll be claimed,
N fact, as an arrest Of judgment. The
axation Of banks by the whole power Of
he State would not be enforced. The
necessary laws for the regulation OF cor
poralions would not correspond with the
Intentions Of the framers of the Cons i
ution. The important question of Law
Reform would be entrusted to. commits.
'loners pledged by their prcjudices
against radical execution Of The consli-
utional clause on the subject. In these
and other respects we desire and shall
,eek the same combination at the polls
IS was Witnessed in The Conven,ion-an
alliance Of the liberal minds of all sec
ions and parlies-the union ohce more
triumphant, Of the radicalism Of the
Western Reserve with the Democracy Of
Ill sections, ,-Sandusky Mirror.
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