The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-05-26
Marshall Mccall. ESQ.

TO be no exception to this rule, for in the last
Republican, in reply to our article of the
week previous, head.d "Yes, He Did," lie
comes down upon us with an avalanche of
hard names and Billingsgate. But still we
hope TO survive the storm of his wrath.
We intimated in our article an opinion that
he had been made the oot's pau to do certain
dirty work for his party. and although he
complains so bitterly that we had done him
Injustice, his own statement concerning his
presentation of certain resolutions requiring
the Auditor of State to furnish statistical in
formation as to various expenditures for a
period OF three years, confirms our previous
opinion. He says that he, as early as Fri
day before the adjournment, which was to
take place at eight o'clock, A. NJ. on the
Monday following, moved to suspend the
rules to enable him to offer those resolutions.
Very well. take his own stat'ment as true,
and so it appears Il e resolutions were not in
order, and the rules had to be suspended
before they could be offered. Then suppose
the House had suspended the rules to enable
the Honorable member to offer his resou-
tions, and had passed them that day, there
would have been fine time for the Auditor
to have made out his report and transmit it
to the House! and of course every body
knows that for the last day or two of the
session, the Auditor has nothing to do! or
If he had, surely he might have worked in
his office to make out his report on SundaT
if he had not wanted to 60 to church! And
what right had he to spend his time going
to church any how! The people pay him
for his time, and the business of Legislation
could not go on, Monday morning, without
the information required Of him, SO vastly
important would it have been to the Leris-
lature!
But seriously, every body knows that for
the few last days of the session, both hou-
ses ofthe Legislature were hurried with busi-
ness, and that they had important laws to
pass, which had required the principal part
Iofthe session to perfect in the various com
mittees, consequently no one could justify
them in neglecting the important business
before them, and spanding the few remain
Ing hours of their session III discussing and
passing silly resolutions such as the Honora-
Fe gentleman offered, or wanted to offer,
asking for information from the Auditor
which, when obtained could be ofno public
use to them as Legislators. Besides the
Auditor must have been over-run with bus
mess, just at the close of the session in Aud
lifting and allowing SO many various accounts.
But this is not all, the resolutions, in view
of the foregoing facts which were well known
to the honorable gentleman could not have
been offered with good motives. And here
in is what our previously expressed opinion,
"that Mr.. Mccall had been made the cats
paw--the mere tool ofhis party" was found
ed on. 1t was well knwn by the wings that
from the press of business then before the
Legislature, the House would not be likely
to suspend It's rules to enable any one to in
tro1uce any new business, particularly res
olutions which could subscrve no good pur.
pose, and must seriously interfere to pre-
vent the passage Of laws important to the
people; or if they did pass those resolutions
it was well known that the Auditor could
not possibly furnish the information asked
for, before the adjournment. In either
event what howl could be set up by the
Whig papers all over the State! The Lo-
co(oco Legislature concealng the expenses
of the State Government from the the peo-
pie! or the Auditor of State refusing to let
the Legislature and the people know how
much was expended under Democratic rule!
But tie Democracy saw through the mo-
tives of the Wings in offering those resoIu-
tions at that time, (for it was the act of TIE
Wing party of the House, not simply of
Marshall Mccall, the tool) generously trust
ing in the intelligence ofthe people founder
stand their motives. and for this they de-
serve our esteem as much as they would
have merited our contempt ifthey had weak
" yielded and entertained resolutions off
cred for such base party purposes!
The only information intended to be ask
ed for viz: the expenditures of the first ses-
sion of the Legislature under the new Con-
stitntion, which could be of any use or in
terest to the Legislature or to the people,
can be readily found in the appropriation
bills, which have been published with the
laws; and to those bills we ask the atten-
ton of the people, and we assure them they
will not find any such item as "Sxteen
thousand dollars to pay the postage of men,
bers.''
But Mccall also says we done him great
injustice in intimating that the business
above referred to, of once moving to sus-
pend the rules, was all the part he had ta-
ken in the business of Legislature during
the session, and he says that the rest of his
acts are written--"in the Chronicles"
that he took part in some very important