Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1853-07-05

promptly joined with tho democrats In
lenunciati IN ofthe wholesale frauds up.
on the Trcssury by the officers Of The
lato administration, while the Register
and It's like have no rsbuko Tor them.
When we SEQ newspaper editors at
10 conceal such stupcndous
"emoc zzlemsnts," merely because They
were perpotra,ed by their own party
friends, we are constrained to believe
that tbey baye lost their perception Of
public morality, and think it is right to
"sin that grace may abound" Such
is the desperation 10 which ,he editor
Of that journal is driven, in bolstering
up his party. that he is obliged to resort
TO calumny, tool that will not rust in
his hands, whether be uses it in the
light or in the dark. -lAE
"The History Of the Administration ol
Jackson, and Van Buren, is not yet en-
tircly forgotten"
Truo Mr.. Register, to the energy oi
Andrew Jackson, and the faithful nd'
miuis,sation Of the government In bis
hands, millions Of free born and indie
pendent democratic citizens, will re-
spond with lord ac,"lamasions of praise
when the Pickering Jack.o'lantern'
that now attempt to bedizHen the sun
with their lightning.bug splendc'' shall
have passed away like the fog and the
early dew and left no trace Of their ex
istence behind.
Did cur limits admit, we woull like
TO publish his chart Of "whig(?) prin.
ciplcs" entire. "Honorable peace with
all nations" An avowed opposition 10
the last war with England, and the dec
laration on the floor Of congress by a
whig leader. that would not vote appro.
prations to the army, though the enc
mics were battering down the walls OIL
the capital. Then that was dishonora'
BILE peace, though cur vessels were scar
ched at pleasure, and our citizens I'M
pressed into foreign service and detain'
ed against their will. A refusal to grant
supplies 10 our soldiers in Mexico tho
sent out by the government TO repel the
repeated usurpations Of foreign power.
And this too you denominate dishon.
orable peace that was enjoined by the
only power that was able to enforce it,
Go you? Will the Register inform US
whether or not the peace that resulted
from the Revolution was "honorabler
"Intcrnal Improvements by the gen
cral government which are national in
their character. Tell US who beside
wings ever advocated inlerna! improve
ments that were sectional in their char.
acter? "The increase of national
prosperity, AMI the growth of the
wealth Of the people" Was the coun
try ever mo.e prosperous than under its
present democratic policy and govern
ment,? Who are your people? If thu
masses, we are with you for an increase
Of their wealth. If corporate compa
ncs be your people, we object 10 in
creasing their wealth at the expense o
our people, who are the bone and sin
CIV, the producing power Of the nation
"a regard for the obligations of con
stitutions, or organic laws, faith il
them as barriers to wild and extrava
giant notions of repeal Repeal and vet'
power, have ever haunted the whis part.
as clfectually arousing their fears, a
did Banquo's ghost the rcmorse o
Macbeth. When The immense mon
eyeJ power ofwhiS monopolists has beer
brought 10 bear upon the law maxim,
power, and by bribery and corruption
has secured favorite object, as for in
stance the establishment Of the U. S
bank in Pennsylvania. repeal was
word that with all its meaning, whig
gerry would lain have erased from tn
Enc clish dialect. Here we take issue will
the Register, and are proud to say tha
one of the fundamental principles Of ,h
democratic party is that tho law ina
king power has always the same vitalit,
and whenever a law proves injurious
or unequal in its operation, they hav
the same power to repeal they had Il
create. And ifthe Register relies upor
the constitution of Ohio as barrier t,
repeal, it is leaning upon q false hop
for the support Of monopolizing corpo
rations. Whoever will t.'ke the lrou
bic to read the debates in the constitu
tional convention, will find that th'
word "rcpeal" was inserted in our "or
ganic law" for the purpose Of enablin,
the Legislature to dissolve corporations
whenever they should become monopo
lies. and arrav themselves agains. IN,