The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-05-19
The Pre5cns Legislature.


Why demagogucs and some other incon-
siderate people are disposed to ccnsure the
present Legislature for something, they
know not what. The Wing papers rant and
rave, first, because it legislatcs too much
and claimed q month ago they ought to ad
journ and 60 home. Now it is charged the
Legislature have not lesislAted enough, have
done nothing. and worse than all, have re-
solved to adjourn on the 5th instant, without
finishing all the work contemplated by the
New Constitution. 1t is hard suiting some
people and especially wings, who think ev-
cry good and evil thing in this world comes
from legislation who live, move and have
their being in the acts Of the General Assem-
oly. and who seeking to live, not by the
swea: of their brow, Of course will find fault
when their brerd and butter is uot especially
attended to. Ffom SUCH complaint is most
natural at all times and more especially
might we expect it now, as this Legislature
have in several of their acts, indicated to
these Script Mobiles that their days Of exclu-
sivc privih ge are over and they may now
20 to work and earn their living like other
people.
But what has raised the ire, yea, we may
say hue and cry, of all the Rag Barons in
the State, and which, Of course, gives tone
TO the opposition, is the passage of the late
Tax Law, which, blind to all patents of no.
bility and legislative distinctions, heretofore
granted by whig Legislatures, and reorgan-
l2ed by whig courts, brings all to demo-
cratic level in bearing the burthens of the
State It took a demScrQtic Legislature to
take this bull by the horns! A Whig Leg
islature never could have done it, although
required to do SO by the New Constitution
For this act alone, the tax payers, the u in
corp0rated peofls, will ever hold this legisla-
ture in grateful remembrance. The revis-
ion Of our judiciary system, the school laws,
the mode Of Incorporating towns and regula-
ting the same, the multitude of lesser bills
passed at the heel of the session, all show
me assiduity and zeal wi h which the pres
cnt Legislature have applied themselves to
subserye the general wants and interests of
the people. The members were mostly new
and inexperienced; they had to sail by a
new and untied chart; to study and estab-
ish prccedcuts, instead of being guided by
such: to legislate not for the time nor for
local objects, but for the future and by gen
eral laws. They have accomplished in four
short months great work. They have
set a new government in motion on emphat-
ieally republican principles, and by new
and original measures. They have done
for the people Of Ohio and the cause Of equal
rights what will result in more general good
than all their pred .cessors have done for the
last twenty years They have laid the
foundation for anew and just orderot things,
and for which coming generations will rise
up and call them blessed
Fhe session closes to-day to meet agair
in November next, when the unfinished busi
ness Of this session will be taken up an,
the pr mary system Of general laws com
pelted.-- C2sgeLin1 PloinQeodsr.
An ANT-SLAvERY CONVENTION met il
Cincinnati, last week and adopted resolu
tons, declaring that thjsis not less the ma
tive land Of the negro than the whi,e man
and that proposition to remove the forme
to any other country, it is every way as un
Just and mpulcnt as would be proposition
io femose tie lattrr. That. when the friend
of Colonization manifest the same desire t
promote the interests Of negroes at HON
thatthsy do abroad, it may then be tim
f5f ooIofeI people 10 CONSIDER CoIonizatio
scilelncs; bu. for the presen'. colored pee
Die should turn deaf ear 70 all Colonies
liop gents.