The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-08-13

Who can comprehend the infinitely diversi-I
fed notifications which the next General
Assembly and State officers must bring about,
in an the affairs Of our State. in order to ad-
lust them to the requirements of The New
Constitution? The duties Ofthe first officers
elected under the New Constitution, are OF
uncomfortable moment and diversity. Unless
they be fully and entirely performed, the new
organic law win have still-born from the peo-
pie at the June election. We want oincers
and members Of the General Assembly, who
realize these duties, in their NEST ample
scope and necessity. We must have an ac-
tive, effective, positive policy pursued by the
men elected next October Our whole leg
islative, executive, and judicial system-thel
entire government, in short,-are included
in the great and emphatic fiat of Change, "
issued by the people onthe 18th day Of June.
This momentous renovation of the State
has elected the labor, the agoniZing effort of
the Democracy for years. Equally sedu-
lous, advised, determined and constant has
been the hostility of the whig party. We
are all now about entering upon struggle,
consequent upon the ratification of the Re-
formed Charter Our enemies are already
in the field. And we ask again, What is
their position? They have given no lndlca-
tions that they understand the vital issues of
the conflict. They refuse, and scrupulously
avoid, the remotest allusion to the measures
by which they will, if successful, carry for
ward the work of reform decreed by the
people. They do not seem to oapprehend that
a new constitution has been adopted, or that
it will impose upon them single duty
They merely ask the people for Office, with
out the smallest intimation that they under
stand tie novel and unprecedented uses of
office, or that they are even willing to sub
serve the will of the people, in rendering the
New Constitution effective for the objects for
which the people have ratified it.
The wings opposed, misrepresented, mis-
construed, and denounced the New Consti-
tuition before the election. Who does not
know they are opposed to it now? What
pledge, what reasonable assurance have
we now, that they would not by their long
habits of findirection, of insidious and conceal
ed tactics, do everything they could to bring
it into disrepute, and arouse i'll grounded
preiudices towards it? We have none-not
a single assurance of the kind. They will
make the government doubly expensive, fol
they will profit in their own pockets by such
a course, as well as conduce thus to thai
prejudice. Yhey will throw every obstacle
in the way Of the natural and healthy i'm
provement of the State; they will stihe with
the State credit, and abuse the power of tax
ation all because they are bound by no ac
ton at their Convention, to a more patriotic
course, and are committed to such a course
by their hollow hearted vaccinations, during
the ratification canvass. They have made i
point upon which hangs the doom or the
fortune of their party, to Illustrate the New
Constitution and prevent its natural benef
cia results, in order to remove it from theil
path as an obstacle to their schemes of spe
cal Legislation, and of popular neglect ant
oppression.
That is the answer to the "Why was it.?
of the Enquirer. Resolved as the wings art
: to procure the popular overthrow of reform
by making the new organic law a means o
public wrong instead ofpublic right, they fine
it policy, as usual, when seeking power fol
undisclosed purposes, to sing mum on thu
whole question. True, no honest man car
take Office under the New Constitution, wht
f does not believe in its principles. But thC
wings have deemed their mission on ques
tons of greatnational concern, to oppose th'
: Constitution of the United States, while swon
= to make its meaning practical, and why no
do so with the same pliancy of conseientiou
fidelity in Ohio affairs.
, With such purposes, it is no wonder the.
seek concealment and silence. But will tn
people of Ohio allow the entire interests 0
this great State to go into the hands of a par
+ ty, who, at crisis the most delicate, play thi
: deceptive game as to principles and meas
ures, and refuse to give the least intimatiol
of the manner in which they will manag
public affairs Shall Ohio fall prey to ;
batch of unpledged political gamblers ant
spectators, while the same quality of mel
are daily rihing the national Golfers of thei
contents, for purposes the most selfish AM
dishonorable? The October election wi
n decide whether the Legislation of this State
: to become scene of plumber and unconsti
: tutional violence, in the hands of party c
e political desperadoes, or whether the democ
$ racy shall take the New Constitution, an
: give the public the benefit of its natural an
: full significance.