Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-07-28
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! anu the uIQ6 0dS nOW oAiA'Cos WIN ehO
public mind should cast about for the
selection of suitable men to bring for
ward as candidates for these responsible
stations. Iwould therefore call the at
tention of the Wings of Gallia county,
through the medium of the Journal, to
that subject.
/ have never known a time, that
more imperiously demanded a Wing
majority in the General Assembly Of
the State, than the present. 1t will be
remembered that the people of Ohio
have recently called a convention and
formed a New Constitution of the State;
and it will also be remembered, that the
first Legislature elected under that Con-
stitution, was largely Locofoco. This
Constitution limited the Legislature to
biannual sessions; yet the Locofocos
had the daring hardihood to hold an
extra session Of four months, at a vast
expense to the State. The benefits re-
sulting from this extra session, are yet
to be ascertained. 1t is true, that at
its first session it enacted tax law ex-
empting from taxation two hundred dol
lars worth of property, which the same
men, at the second session, reduced to
fifty dollars, thereby throwing the
burthen of taxation upon those who
had accumulated more than two hun
dred dollars worth of chattle property,
for one year at least. 1t will also be
borne in mind that this Locofoco Legis-
lature, under the New Constitution,
fixed the fees and salaries of the officers
of the State, as well as their own per
diem compensation, and that of the
members of the future Legislatures,
unless hereafter changed. Many Of
these salaries, as well as the per diem
of members of the Legislature, are too
high, especially when we take into the
account, the embarrassed condition Of
the State. These, and many other con-
siderations, require at the hands Of the
Wing party throughout the State, their
utmost exertions at the next elections.
l would therefore exhort the Wings OF
Gallia county, as they value their
rights, to look well to this matter, and
at once select as their candidates for
the Legislature, tried Wings, men Of
ability to serve them; men well versed
in the schemes and designs of the Loco
focos, to subvert the public interest TO
the advancement Of their party views,
and upon no account suffer themselves
to be divided. To do this effectually
the Wings must come together in con-
vention, as a unit; individual prefer
ences and localities must be given up.
There is one thing, however, that agi-
tates the people of this section of the
State, and indeed the whole State, at
this time, which some fear may distract
political parties; 1 allude to the "Maine
liquor law" as it is familiarly called.
For my own part do not apprehend
any new divisions of parties on that
question. The Wing party is aptly
called the conservative party-it is so.
They are conservative on the subject of
temperance as well as the great differ
ence between the Progressives and
Hunkers. 1t is by no means necessary
that the restraint of the sale of spurious
liquors, enter into the political canvass,
further than that the candidates for Of
fee be temperate men, and not in favor
of licensing the traffic: for it is fixed
fact, that the next Legislature of Ohio
will be temperance Legislature, by at
least three-fourths; and will not "follow
in the footsteps of their Immediate IL
lustrious predecessors" the voice of
the people will be heard and regarded
by them. So the Wings of Gallia
county need have no fears on this sub
ject, they will have all they ask in this
particular; but while they feel deep
solicitude on the subject of temperance,
they should remember that there are
other great and important interests at
stake, which the success of the Wing
party can alone secure.
The arrangement of the currency, in
1845, brought the Wings into power, in
Ohio; they maintained that a well re-
stricted system of banking was condu-
Give to the business and prosperity of
the commonwealth, and that some medi-
um, besides gold and silver, was desira-
bic and indispensable in a prosperous
commercial State. They adopted the
present system of banking, which an
swers every purpose. 1t may, from
time to time, require revision, to keep up
with the age. This has put to silence
the locofoco clamor about banks, that
the only medium for exchanges of prop
erty should be gold and silver, so far, at
least, that they dare not make that is
sue. But has the Locofoco party in
Ohio become friends of our banking
system? This is answered by the act of
the Legislature of last winter, commonly
called "the crow-bar act" They are,
as party, straining every nerve, prying
every post, to undermine and break
down our present safe and convenient
banking system, by onerous, unequal,
and unconstitutional taxation. One of
the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas Judge Humphreyville, Locofo-
co, has decided, recently, that the law
of the last Legislature, taxing Banks,
is unconstitutional, inasmuch as they
are taxed more than other property,
which the Constitution prohibits.
The Wings, at the same session, enac-
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