The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-06-11

Some Of the Whig editors who declare
their intention to vote against the adoption
Of the new Constitution have the candor TO
admit that II contains some reform or inn
proved sections. but because some sections
do not come up to the demands of the age.
they viii reject the whole, and prevent any
advocate e-any improvement upon the old Con-
stitution.
The idea of rejecting thenew Constitution
because it is not perfect in all its features, Is,
to us, absurd. If we are to adopt the plan
lofrejecting every new law or constitution be-
cause it does not meet our own individual
views in every particular, we may as well at
once abandon all idea Of ever effeetng any
reform or advancement hereafter, either in
Constitution or law. PERFECTION in any
thing need not be looked for or expected,
either in the present or future it is one Of the
moral impossibiIities We can only labor to
advance towards perfection, and we may
continually progress, but we can never ar
rive to that state which will admit of no fur
ther improvement.
Candid men of all parties, we believe, Will
admit that the new Constitution is better than
the old one--that it contains several reforms
features in it,-and none that are more OBJ
lectionable than are contained in the old one.
THE question to be decided at the June cleo
ton, is not whether we will accept the new
Constitution or another one that is perfect ;
but the plain, practical question involved in
that election will be, WW aOe accept the new
r Constitution or retain the old ones If we re-
iect the new, of course we retain the old one,
which all admit, is imperfect in many par
i ticulars, and inferior to the former ;-and by
thus voting, we, in effect, put off all chances
t of Constitutional Reform for at least ten years
5 to come.
r The Constitutional Election in June, in
: our opinion, is very important one; it will
: decide whether the people of Ohio, at the
f present time at least, are to have reform in
4 their Governmental affairs, and hereafter to
S progress and improve udon the first change
e as fast as time and circumstances will per-
: nit, or whether they are to remain STATION
AIRY, without improv ement OF change, like the
D laws of the Medes and Persians, irrevocable,
i even after experience has pointed out their
: defects.
e Many Conscientious anti-siavery men will,
: most likely, vote against the new Constitution
because it does not provide for universal suf-
e rage but the rejection of it, as defective as
t it may be in this particular, will, ten chances
e to one, be the means of deferring the time
o when the colored man will be allowed to vote
o in Ohio
J. Many well-meaning Wings, very proba-
n bly,, will vote against the adoption of the
" new Constitution, because they imagine 1t is
:, a locotoco document, got up so as to favor
n the political interest of their opponents, while
# at the same time, by its adoption, they would
obtain some of the very reforms which they
h have been for years desiring to bring about.
e The idea that the new Constitution favors
IS the interests of the Democratic party is alb.
j. surb and ridiculous, those wings who
l. prefer such a charge against it, pay, but
IL poor compliment to their own members in
l. the Convention which framed it,-and who
,r were fully represented there. The fina
l. vote in the Constitutional Convention, on the
adoption of the new Constitution, was almost
It nanmous-seventy-n yeas to fourteen
q HQNS.