Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1852-05-28

10 free country like lhe United States, there
are many paths Of adventure open 10 ambition,
but no one Of these is so crowded, so fIll TO ex.
cess, as that in which public favor is sought by
the seeming devotion Of The uspiranl 10 The 10.
leresIs OF The masses. He expresses a Temeu.
dOus fiery zeal ia behalf Of the poor down
'rodden people, thinking mock sympathy will
win their hearts and votes, forgetiLg that his
own official acts must correspond with his pro.
LESSONS. The demagpgUe who holds his posi-.
uOn by The slender tenure Of seeming devotion
10 The interests Of those he attempts to gull,
depends upon broken stick. which sooner or
later will give way and lel him fall. II is i'm.
possible for poor weak humsn nature TO forever
conceel tho reality, and he who practices de.
eelt, must expect that 10 some Of his unguarded
moments, he will uuer lhe secret he had deter
mined should die with him. Heroes, like po.
els must be born, not made, and he who at
1empIs TO be a champion must have been born
with The good sense to know the right, and
have the honesty 10 pursue il. Dishonesty and
deceit never can prosper long, for the people
are not blind, and they are somewhat vindicliVe
when they discover that their confidence is
abused.
We have been led to this train Of reflection,
while contemplating the course Of the locofoco
press in regard to the new order Of things
brought about by the new constitution. The
most prominent prolessed object of the mea.
sure, wns the relief of The people from the bur.
den of taxation TO which they wele subjected,
but this was entirely lost sight Of, and just the
opposite course was pursued. The object
seems TO have been to relieve the people Of
their money. No one can successfully contra.
dict the statement that public burlhens have
been increased. This is a fact that must exist
just as surely as eflec. follows The cause. Ii is
amusing TO see the perIinac.y with which the
locofoco press adheres 10 the doctrine of de.
ception. No slatemenI seems 100 barelaced
for them, any scheme with deception in it, how.
ever lille, is not loo transparent for their eff.
fronIery.
An example of the basost hyPocricy is dis.
closed in the last number of The Picayune.
Some anonymous scribber, who has not the
courage TO let The public know who he is. and
whose tissues Of elongated veracly find their
way to The public through the columns Of that
paper, as editorial, says that the section n tho
new law, providing for the listing of merchants
capital, is word for word, transcript Of the
old law on ,ha, subject. If such be the fact,
then why do they defend with so much anxiety
tho very thing that for FIVE years they have
been attacking with so much viruIence and
perIinacly. What change has taken place in
The nature Of things that has rendered so palat.
able Iha. which, few years ago, was So ex.
ceedngly obnoxousl Do you not acknowl.
edge, Mr.. self.convicted coward, that the course
you and your compOriots in deception pursued
in relation TO The law of '46 was hypocrcal in
the frs. degreel Does not your declaration
curry on It's face your own condemnation as a
calumnaIor aud deceiver of the peoplel