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

mission by the caucus revolutionists. At length it
broke upon the House like fire bell in the nightin
in the Louisiana and Florida elections. In vain |
Republicans asked If the purpose was to lay the |
foundation for questioning the Presidents title. In
vain did the venerable statesman of Georgia, Mr.. |
Stephens. ask the insertion of an amendment dis |
down by the roaring regicides, and the resolution
passed under the gag. The conspiritors had gained
with a high hand and it was only when theeountry
awoke to the perils of the situation. and became
that MI. Tiloen and his co-revoIutionists in Con-
gress quailng under the storm OF popular indigna-
| steps. Now they claim that their only purpose
was to persecute and bedev the President; to deny,
to refuse success to his administration TO convert
his honors into crown of thorns, and to make
fraud odous by stripping from his great ofice all
shown but half this zeal in making treason odious.
the country would not now be groaning under its
its prostitution of power in gratifying the magnity
of disappointed ambition at the expense of thou
| sands wrung from the brow of toll?
Ihaye thus sketched the origin and purpose of the
conspiracy until its assault upon Ohio and the sub
| her people That the purpose was mischief. only
| the incredulous fail to believe. Why else was
quate to the demands upon its service and the i'm
| memorial authority of its Commander-in-Chicf
sought to be abridged except that the military arm
of the executive might be paralyzed in the event of
crisis? The historic disaste of Democracy for gun
gigantic plot which culminated in the rebellion:
a verdant youth who can suppose it. The snake is
only scotched, killed. To the Catalines who can
SO far repress their allegiance to their countrys
peace as TO project revolution. the sanctty of con-
strained assurances is frail barrier when power
i and the opportunity make the execution of their
purpose possible But it may fail 1 think it will
fail: think the people will visit its authors with
spiraey beyond resurrection 80 But they may not
Popular lethargy and partisan passion may unite in
fnvioability of titles constitutional barriers and
constrained assurances will be powerless to resist
the mad fury of the storm as they were in 1861.
| What then?
The fraud in Ohio has a twofoId object. Unseat-
ing the President may not succeed in the present
House, but the malignant purpose and spirit of per-
secution will not be quenched Success must be
an instrumentality in this holy work. A Demo
cratic majority IN the House is essential to pre-
fer charges. The mud and dirt of the
Potter investigation be made their foundation;
the Senate next year will pass under Democratic
pronounce sentence. it can entertain charges and
prolong investigation; paralyze the Executive de-
in state of feversh and protracted suspense agta-
ton and alarm. thus gratifying the magnity of dis
national misfortune
In furtherance Of this purpose, and to secure to
augment its numbers BY disfranchising % the % Repub
. icans of Ohio was concocted by the Washington
cabal Forgetting the sancity of State rights when
their invasion is in the interest OF Democracy, the
lunta through Mr., Speaker Randall, demands the
suit in what? Democratic House to DO the viii Of
the consprators, to execute their coup d'etat and
raing the President on articles fabricated BY the
Potter Commission in either case convulsion, par
alysis. it may be catastrophe.
II THE PRESIDENCY.
But the crowning purpose of Ohios wrong, which
gives it most significance, concerns the future Pres
The count of the Electoral returns in 1881 must oc
in the presence of the House about to be chosen
II it shall be Democratic, aud the heresy of Gov
Tilden put forth in the Potter letter shall prevail
that the House has power to control the Electoral
count and reject the returns from any State at will
then legally chosen by the Electoral voice of the
people can be inaugurated without and against its
dent shall be inaugurated by virtue Of an cleo
ton by the people alone The possibility Of con-
in practice was vaguely hiDted in the Gin Cincinnati pa
!, Democratic Convention of the 10th inst a
avs mem It's successful assertion s viii % devo1s
the choosing OF President on the House, in which
rection Of a majority OF It's representatives. How
Ohio shall array herself in the conflict may be de-
this end it is that the conspiracy seeks by the
intervention OF legislative fraud to deny her people
xG1Ge III N fas 01 tae n na0n @ is
ton OF Democracy; It is nota question in which
9ho Is S%s New
as well. On its discrimination may depend the fate
s Of popaar ITSELF Gy Snail
success success shos be tS accorded the stapendous
OF violence, in Mississippi riDen and be gathered
under the forms and color of legislation in Ohio?
Shall she at the bidding Of foreign cable be denied
/ the forces of conspiracy? She will if the people
sleep until the consprators shall have bound them
CURRENCY-THE REPUBLICAN POSITION.
At the Music Hall convention OF June 10, the Re
! publicans of Ohio resolved that
by Congress- and the country at present needing re-
pose in order that capital may seek investment and
mand for labor. the situation ought to be accepted
and oppose the further agitation of the question
OF iriI1 rinrro
o other than evil results"
An intelligent understanding of this enunciation
/: demands comparative statement of present and
e past financial conditions and legislation.
t GREENBACK LIMITATION.
When. during the war the last issue of legal ten
der notes was authorized, fears entertained lesl
time would deprecate their value and render them
as worthless as the old Continental currency. The
4 were fixed to their. volume. Congress &C
: cordingly, by act of that date, solemnly
nation that more of them than $500 600 600 should
ever be issued, except S50000 0000 for temporary
, Davis moved an amendment that no form Of credit
note OF the me- thereafter tc
!; money. For this proposition Mr.. Pendleton voted
VOLUME CIRCULATION.
The estimated volume of coin in the country is
not far from $500 900 600 of which s2o7 ooo 900 were
of currency, including old demand notes and postal
ssp xs sse a m e sae m 5oud 0
S3466S1 O16 legal tender notes. and 323 9SS OSS
. national bank circulation. The aggregate of the
I coin and currency volume is therefore, but little
q short OF ONE BILLION DOLLARS which, assuming oul
population to As 000 exceeds ttDentyttOo dollars
for each person.
e SILVER COINAGE.
Congress, at its recent session, provided for the
recoinage of the silver dollar, and made it lega
tender for the paymentof all debts public and pri
vate. except where otherwise expressly stimulated
y The material part of the law enacts: ~
That there shall be coined, at the several min
of the United States silver dollars of the weight o.
4i21z grains Troy OF standard silver. which coins
together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by
r the United States of like weight and fineness shall
J. be legal tender at their nominal value, for all
}. debts and dues public and private, where
otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract And
the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and d
rected purchase from time to time silver bullion
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