The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-02-09
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TAxArIoH-EsislaIid.-H ever party
ware tsken iniths tolls Of their own efakii
ness. says the Stats JournaI.it is the loco
foco party Of Ohio Of The present day They
hsyetsen loud and ibcessaat in their de-
vOirs tothe people. They did love thspeu-
PIE to such excess that-bless your soul!
thsrswas nO,room for any one else than
themselves to have any regard for that
mythical body corporate, at all at ALL The
love Of woman paled into weak, lukewarm,
sickeuing disgust, when viewed by the side
or ~locofoco ardor for the dear, dear people!
Wings. was It not apparent that they
were banded with the Banks, and seeking
TO cast the burdens Of the government off
their OWN shoulders, and fusten it upon the
backs fdemocrats and tho people! What.
could be plainerl What use had the peo-
.pls Tor such men as VixFoE, and CokwiS,
and EwrNG in Congress! Are not Saw
xkRs and SwIrzBR and OLDs better demo
Gratis, and therefore every way better lifted
EOTais placel What need Of suck men as
MsAKTRuR, VANCE or FoRD in the Legisla-
turesor executive Office, when plenty Of
sprightly nice young democrats can be
found for such stations. Such old fashion,
-sdmsn may have done we'll enoughin old
fashioned times, when a session Of the Leg
~isIaturs did net extend beyond sixty days,
and whsn, one door-kseper built the 6rss,
swsptths House, and lighted the candles
audcwhen-they nsver dreamed Of employ
ipg more than one clerk, But you must re-
member we have progressed amazingly
within the last ten or fifteen years; and
things are aot'now as they were then
CHAs. HAMMoNp was thought to be some
thing Of a man in his day; and when he was
q member of the legislature ,allthe printing
of session was executed on a single hand
press, which found ample time for doingbe-
aides. tho ordinary work ola newspaper and
Jobs. The whole cost Of State printing
then was much lesssthan a thousand dol.
lars per year. But those days are number.
sdwiti the pastj and our Legislature now
approximates a perpetual session, with
troop OF half adozen clerks, as many door
keepers. ard assistants, and untold messen
gG-boys. And who were CHARLES liam
MoxD and E-BENEzER B UeKIRGHAM, and AL
FRED KELLEY, compared with the Scion
@hohave controlled and shaped cur legis
lstion for tho last Eve years-that hav'
taught eths people" how much they wer
oppressed by the policy Of these can edilu
Wan old fogios?"
We'll, old things were done awuy-and
adapt ourselves to the age of modern prog
rsss, it was thought expedient that a
things shonTdb be mads new, The Constitu
tion framed by our fathers needed a-moC
ernizing. cut--and so a Convention Of near
ly a hundred lawyers was called, to correc
the false grammar in that venerable instrt
ment; for some of its trainers though hor
est and eminently practical men, had NJ
learned the awful fact that ga verb shouI
agree with lis nominative case in numbe
gender, and person" Such a propositio
s.Awould have been utter Greek 70 them, ar
they would have given to it neither asseI
ordenial. Yetthey framed a Constitute
- AHhN fhady4 oia AS"1J uNS
(which tho State Advanced with unparalleled
,9ioprosperity, untif a generation arose, wi
thought they might make a living witho
labor, by&bepraising "the people" al
pointing out ths grammatical inaccuraci
Of the Constitution. onsroas inequality
the laws, and the untrustworthipess and j
capacity ofWhigs generally. A new Co
~stitu,ion was framed, so good and SO mode
initsfashion, tbatit was found to have d
.ssipensed almost entirely with the Legislsti
and Executive Departments. We are j
ing under q Government Of Judges, II
New Constitution" has been. "in The ha'
ssoffts friends for three years, ind '.the P'
pltd"-blsss their honest hearts!--are /
ginning to tasts its quality. A gold
ii stream has been flowing in upon US fir
ri California, during all this time-ourg Gre
have bsena abundant beyond precedent
hays been happily exempt from war I
u psstiIence-and yet,la loud wall goes up
our Legislature aow in session, for rsfef
900 nRLIEF!stgs aRaa z4S ti6
Pray, what can be the mattsr? Patier
friends, and we win devise a measure Of
lisf. 1t is the Banks,no d~onot-those he
less Institutions devised by Wings, that
producing this pressure upon our interev
&c. extert from us some new conditions
Patience dear friends! and we will de-
measure which shall transfer the bur
Of t~Oxation--equal TO the wcrst system
English quit-rentI--from the, people Of
Z Banks, Banks are but corporations
corporations have no souls, and there
no right to complain7-and who caresift
Is. de!
Andsso these patriots set their wits to "
~ 10 devise some measure whereby mo
should be brought into the Golfers to b
gain distributed among Aemselues--and
snot tempt too far the patience of the
fding ''peopls, = upon whose credulity
&ssswere Practiciug. They had the NEW {
stitution' in their hsnds--snd the Leg
- tive, judicial, and Executive department
.5s,s government, alltheir own wsy..aaWhst