The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-09-10


distinctions in favor of men able to live and
fatten without such aid, and turn her atten-
ton to such ranks of her citizens as form the
solid foundations of society. If we have
hitherto not only neglected them, but de-
rived the essence of public support from
them, to be yielded in turn to the banker
and monophst-let it cease.
Society lives upon labor. Those who per-
form that labor have been forgotten-been
permitted to labor on, never cared for but
to draw upon their strong arms for our wars
and tax them for the inexplicable mysteries
iof peaceable expenditure. They achieve
our victories when our honor is assailed or
our territories invaded, They place their
strong shoulders under the ediice of govern
ment when her credit begins to stagger, or
when SPECTATORS want to borrow money to
make banks or to build thoroughfares,
These pillars of state, upon whose virtue,
honor. good order, bravery and generosity,
we. must rely, whether in times of collision
or quiet-are the masses-and yet select
one of them, the yeomanry, whose individual
prosperity keeps pace with the fourishing
green bay tree, of the man of capital, whose
success in making his fortune is owing alone
to monopoly Legislation, for which the mas
Ises pay their individual mite and aggregate
millions Of money in time of peace, aud pour
out life and bloodin times of war
Has the conduct of government in any
age, or under any mans observation, been
characterised by christian equality? For
whom is it instituted if not for the good OF
all? And how happens it that there are
classes in community, surfeited with wealth
and yet other classes stricken with poverty
You must not say that it is all lawing to their
individual enterprise. There are thousands
of the poor, nay as general rule, who are
indus rious and frugal-while in many cases
amajority Of the wealthy, pretend to no ex-
ertion. If this be not the fruit of political
institutions, why do men want charters for
their companies, and why do they not ask for
the abolition of stay laws. No man can
doubt that government, has from time i'm
memorial, played the part of partial step
mother, to her petted children of fortune.
and frowped the toiling millions out of all
consideration,
! All over the world where these politica
inequalities exist, there must come change
there must be reform-therc must be rev.
olution. Human affairs never stand still -
Though even the face of the community be
smooth, there are motives in the heart
which will find their way to the hands. We
say, in Ohio, since the movement for consti
tutional reform commenced, revolution has
been writing its liniments npon the canvass
of our history ..r ...
We have accomplished long stage o.
progress in the ratification of our new consti
tuition. The principles Of that reform are
but the embodiment of the spirit Of the day
and the popular temper. 1t is this ineyita-
BILE moral progress which has wrought SC
much of popular redemption as has beer
achieved. 1t is owing to the successful par.
ty in the struggle only as agents. The
Democracy have yielded to the loud demand
of Right for advancement, and they have
helped on the great work. Who does no
know-who has not felt that the position o
the true Democracy has been that of {
mighty helper to the cause of popular sue
cess,
And yet We have been opposed. Thc
Whigs of Ohio have called out to things tt
stand still. They desire to heap up noun
tains of selfish aggrandizement, and they
must oppose progress to the death, as th'
only agent of the free distribution of public
blessings and popular rights. They, there
fore, swore on the altar Of party, that tht
new constitution should be either defeated
! before the people, or if ratified it should b.
[ frustrated in its legitimate operation The!
found in that great chart ofpopularpro
gress--- -.
!. EV- The rightof universal suffrage-ANI
1.-THE WHIG PARTY OPPOSED IT..
] ETA sure method of freeing us from
!, Public debt-AND THE WHIG PARTY