Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-05-31
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The New COnstitufi0n.

Let US look at it. What should the Con!
vention have put into it tha: they have not put
IMP And what have they putin that should
not have been IN? go Ea -ti45'l1
First; ii should have named some person
who should be the Speaker of the Senate and
House of Representatives. or at least one tenn
porarily, and saved the State from the disgrace
which it suffered two years, when the Legis-
lature quarreled for four weeks each year and
did nothing else, for want of Speaker: when
is is said some of the members, and others not
members, carried deadly weapons into the
Halls. st ais 500 g .t44sa}e
It should have6 fixed the salaries of the Gov.
ernor, Lieut. Governor, the Judges, the mem
bers of the Legislature, the Secretary, Audi
tor, and Treasurer of State, and tfeft it to
each party to enrich some favorite. si1s
1t should have said that each Senator and
Representative should have single election
District. and not given the power TO Hamilton
county to sendits dozen Of members, all of one
party. thereby virtually giving the control Of
the State to Hamilton county, and to one par
ty of that county, and really disfranchising the
other party in that county and in the balance
of the State. for 20 years.
/ can only touch upon some of the promi3
nent features, and of themsvery briefly s2i'lta
Second; WHAT'S in it that ought not TO be +?
This is a fruitful topic, but as / have on the
other point shall only speak of the leading
points. a = - - 'f2 s2ss Fl
II should not have appoEtioned the State
for Legislative purposes for political effect
The single district system is plain, easily un-
derstood, and honest Say that 10000 in
habitants shall be entitled to one Representa-
tive, and that number of townships which
comes nearest to il shall be district, all
would understand that-al would be satisf
ed. j would ask what portion of the voters
of Ohio have the means Of knowing the effects
of the gerrymandering apportionnnent that is
intended to be palmed upon the people in the
New Constitution? Probably not one in fifty
trace the political maps, DC. sufficient to see
the curious traces of the districts. 1t should
not have increased the number Of Represen-
tatives, thereby increasing the expenses.
1t should not have increased the expense Of
the judicial system about $50, 900 per annun.
1t should not have given the Office Of allthe
Courts in county to one person, or even per-
mitted it so to be. u3 hiia.2as.s 7i4s
i 81 1t should not have so very seriously ,abridg-
ed the liberties of the people, by saying that
the citizens shall not have corporation for
manufacturing purposes, or public improve
ment, although they may be needed ever so
bad. The new Constitution does not say in
so many. words that there shall not be any
corporation, but it says that each individual
; stockholder shall be individually liable to twice
the amount of his stock, and that future legis-
lation may alter or repeal its charter, which
amounts to it. Are our people ready to say
that no manufacturing company, or plank road
or railroad, or turnpike, or bridge, or Bank
shall hereafter be chartered. It should be
recollected that the charter for the State Bank
| of Ohio, expires on the lst of May 1866
which would be six or seven years before a
change could be made in the new Constitu-
ton. supposing the people should vote for it IT
Il 1871, and then two or three years more fol
5 new charters and new companies to organize
4 The object of the new Constitution is to drive
the people to the hard money system. 1t was
said by an old writer in Iowa. that the State
) suffered to the amount of one million of dol
lars per year for the want of Banks If the
little State of Iowa suffers 81 100000, whaa
will Ohio suffer2 Let the people figure il
out While Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Other
States, are dragging their slow length along
without corporations. ] say let Ohio go ahead
and increase in wealth and population, as i
has done, under its free institutions and cor
d porations. 4tal isau 7s,s7 arz t-1hl
For fear of be;eg tedious, / omit seVera
points. a s n,H saaa Is OLD VOTER. Is
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