The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-02-22

publican party had its existence before the fat
of the people of this country called the chaotic
elements of opposition to the corrupt De
zaton these benevolent institutions taken out
of the hands of the Democratic party. That party
BY the people 50 recreant to its public duty so in
efficient in the details of its administration, that the
people OF the State acting through the party tnae
carried the State in 1856 had wrested the manage
ment of the lunatic asylums from the hands OF the
Democratic party. They had done it as an absolute
ures that produced the result were Republicans.
and thousands of them have never been Republic
Northern and Southern asylums for the insane had
been grossly corrupt as well in the construction
of the buildings in their subsequent management
in the hands of the dominant party, that
the accession to power in 1855 OF the Know
Nothing and And-Nebraska parties in this State,
from Wayne (Mr. Eshelman) the other day charged
that it was the Republican party that MAGE this ths
change grew of the fact that the public verdict
that the Democratic party had grossly, outrage
ously, and persistently mismanaged these insttu-
tions.
.Mr EsheIman-will the gentleman from Athens
allow mea word? S#l
'sMr. Extraordinarily. "a
"Mr- Eshleman-I did not say the RepubhcAns
succeeded in 1855. said that the Free Sellers and
Know Nothings succeeded in 1855, and the General
Assembly elected by that combination, on the Sth
OF April 1896 passed laws reorganlzng Inose lnsG
.sMr. Grosvenor- The gentleman from Wayne
augurated this system of party blunder in the pub
lie benevolent Institutions An examination of the
majority .of the members who voted for those bills
were not. and those who are living are not now,
POSITION to the party in this State at that
time-lhe Know Nothing partyInumbered among
its members such distinguished Democrats OF
Hubbell and a score of Others the leading. promi-
nent. active men of modern Democracy; men who
sw,4l fh0 rCTliNn a
secret political organization; men who swore
eternal hostility to the rights of foreigners upon the
ban banner ne M Inscribed with the legend Put none but
Americans on guard tonight and these men VINO
since been rebaptzed into the fullest communion Of
the Democratic organization, and to-day stand fortn
.iMr Haag-WiiI the gentleman inform me what
party 1t that organized in opposition to, and did
fight the Know Nothing party as party not as in
"Mr Grosvenor- Speaker, no political party
fought it. Political organizations were swept away
the wind drives the chaf before it. The organiza
ton of the Democratic party powerless to with
stand the desertions from its ranks. Thousands OF
s PEas Peoo ses and weae oSer
its enemy. In the Democratic district where 1
at Rs district oE tSe S
pose of sending to Congress citizen OF this town.
a revolution Of six thousand votes from one election
to another The Democratic party bowed its head be-
sie an f res e1 WaS its own deruon
and its rejection from these hospitals for the insane
It not the act of the Republican party for the
Republican party had no organized existence until
after the passage of the law Of April g. 1856 AS time
progressed and the Republican party became in the
ascendant in the State it naturally took possession
of these Institutions by operation of lawlaw then
in force but it never in any instance
and changed the organic law Of one OF snese NJ i
spoiIs thereof. Now let this Democratic party, in
Of these institutions do it upon of two grounds:
| Either first, that the preamble to this bill ID
true and II this be So then the there is necessity 9s m
made by the voice of the people of the State and 1t
need hesitate it should go straight forward exc
people for support t. but @ this preamble be not true.
If In essential particular it is false, then let the
Democratic party put its action upon the other and
and in my Judgment the better ground. because the
truthful. that it wants the proceeds of these
that there political necessity wrest these in
stitutons from the hands of the present occupants
ries into the pockets Of ciamorous Democrats; and
in order to satisfy this insa table oucry for plunder
is willing to hazard the prosperity Of these instisu
this is the true ground in view of the fact that this
bill increases the salaries of the officers of these III
Democratic friends to this feature of the bill under
consideration? You came into power in this State
and % economy % in the pu6ice Of the money
OF the seopie and your rst public acts
Let Us see now how your acts compare with youl
This biil slightly amended. did pass, and the Re
iibel Of their party management and party history
did retake the asylums; but in SO doing they pro
should not go out, thus carefully guarding the in
mates from the curse of political changes.
party which Brought the @ present bad system Of re
Organization upon us. We recognized the peniten
tiary and no fair man will say we had no reason
not IT, only y 5so1ssniaed he Soldiers @ N; e; =;
aespoyed it Z IS to-day nened and
monument of the patriotism of the Republican
toward dead soldiers by the Democratic party. NJ
explanation can be given for the act.
Iapproach this subject with pain and sorrow-
pain that the children and wives of my fallen ant
dead comrades are suffering under the iron hand o
muc6 and sorroW % that the | possbity % Of groyeiin'
malice and wanton cruelty has been shown to eXis
in American hearts and fnds its outgrowth in Obi
First-That none but the children OF men VIII
died while in the service, or who have since died
wounds of disease contracted while in the line
cuty of such service shall be admitted to said Home
while the old law provides that the children Of al
aSssed sndgS az and disabled soldier
Second-Tbat no child can be received, while tht
mother is alive, under the age OF twelve years; or
other words, after the mother has struggled alon
and supported her child until it is capable of assis
Ing hsr IN 10 ske oPg vi g G1 her snns tns M
Third-H a man is so unfortunate as not to b
on the pension rolls OF the 1 3h his chi
be- are excluded from the Home by this cruel an
outrageous law.
Fourth-No child will be admitted unless tn
guardian mother agrees to pay to the Trustees tn
money received as pension on account of the deaf
of its father. That is, the State of Ohio will meanl
rob the poor widow of the little mite she so muc
, needs to buy bread for herself under the pretens
of charity to her child after that child is old enoug
to earn its own living.
! That no mistake may be made in this matter,
give below the important sections of the old and me-
laws:
THE OLD LAw-REPUBIIcAN LEGISLATURE.
"SEc. 13. That there shall be received into sal
Home the children residing in Ohio of deceased. il
. digent. and permanently disabled soldiers an
sailors who served in the land and naval services
the United States during the late rebellion that
| by said board ascertained to be destitute of th
E means of support and education; and they shall
furnished a support and education at said Home VI
til they arrive at the age of sixteen years unless
!, good reasons sooner discharged. Provided, hoy
ever that said board may permit such of said chi
) dren and youth as they deem proper to remain
, inmates OF said Home, and receive all the benef
: SEC IA. That the Trustees OF the Ohio Soldie
and Sailors Orphans Home shall afford to all II