The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-01-03

and The people fud but little time 10 de
vote To business. Congress aud the Lee
gislature vii do hothiug of Importance
until after New Years day. The Con.
s,itu,ional Coh teniion is accepting iuvi.
tions to parties, soirees, dinners, festivals,
benevolent associations, &c. wait a
little longer" .ts
cHRIsTMAs passed off pleasantly aud
quietly with here and there little Of the
spirit Of ro@d5ism. Our stores we're
closed and the day was generally enjoy
ed. Several Of our churches had divine
services.
THE WosL TRApE.-The Eagle of
last week found fault with the Columbus
correspondent of the Sciolo Gazette be
cause he was anxious to know what the
Fairfield county Democracy would think
Of their Representatives for voting for
that notorious abolitionist aud priticul
gambler, Mr. Morse, aid accused the
Wings Of an attempt 10 purchase him.
The accusation is false in every par
ticalar. The Wsigs never made the Of.
fer aud never would, to purchase this in
dividual. The per on to whm they
were wilIingto give their support. the
ra6id Free Soilers would not vote for
The Eagle knows as well as ourselves,
that the chief end and aim Of the con
tract was that Medary should get the
printing of the House. and To carry out
this design, Messrs. Colburn and B,ker
proslituled their constituents.
Even after this base aci upon the part
oI those who were elected in such c0un
ties as Fairfield, tIe Statesman is not sat
isfed. Medary considers it their duty tn
go stiIl fnrthei. After the printing oi
the Seuate was disposed Of aud he did
moi get il. he uses the following language:
Hal il not been rnr the silly it moi dsrespect.
ful, course of u lew democratic papers IN ihe
State this crnb Of comfort wonld not have ihl-
leu tutleir lot we feel every asshrunce. Tie tie.
moctacy will not 81 dawn though lew Jdfsr,
may gp over In Whisgery The Wings IRE or
tIered u stand at ihrir guns. hut the Democrats
are ordered 10 desert th hrs, and let the enemy
sptke hemf
This means simply this: The silly
course Of the Eagle aud few uther
papers prevented amy ba'galn IN the Sen.
ate, drove the Free Slileis there away
frum the I.ocofnco party. and thus de-
priYed Medary Of the Senate printing
The tone Of the abJve paragraph seem:
10 indicate that the very existence of the
Democratic party depends upon the
printing Of the O,io Legislature being
given to the Statesman.
These are the facts Of the case. They
cannot be tortured into anv other shape
and any attempt To defend Messrs. Col
burn and Baker upon the part OF the Ed
gle. can only be consistent bytakins back
what that paper said relative to The
,Wonl trade. The Democratic party ii
Fairfield made greater hue and cry a
gainst this trading in Abolition votes thar
was made in any other county in the
State. No terms ef reproach, of indig
nation. of political depraviiy, were spar
ed by them few years since, aud We
when this practice has been inddlsed il
by their own party and their own Repre-
aentatives, they are silent. f anything
has been said by them. it i, only in rep'!
that their sin is no greater than was tha
Of the Wing party a few years since
Iunher words, after preachiug To us 70
many years aud inducing us to repent
they turn around. Vinlate all their owl
precepts nlcoolly say that they have
better right to sin than we had. Il m
,msthe very depth Of political depraviiy
Once upon a time. our Sugar Grove
friends were inclined 10 be honest ant
consistent, bn, from .,me cause or an
other they were induced" I" depart from
the paths ot rerti'nde and consislenc.
and aince then they To" have virtually &C
duiesced in the sale Of the Lpcofnco par
ty. The men of "bot6 p"li;ical parties
in thai region, have since voted far th'
men who betrayed them and a, this tint
Feelno inclination to brand Messrs, Col
burn and Baker asiraitors .
This Democratic party IN Fairfield can
not but iemind us of some passages w
have read, of men standing upnr thu
corners Of streets. making long prayer
and pleasing themselves with the reAec
lion that they were better than other men
while me who knew their hearts mncl
better than themselves. described then
as painted sepnlchers. white without. bn
fuIl If dead mems bones within. Whe'
The mssses think and act fir. themselves
ehara mill ha N halter, al All nj morals min