Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-09-12
men of p~ettifogging as could easily be

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found.
The people of Ohio have complained
that the present odiouS tax law, is so
framed, as to bear with most crushing
weight upon those least able to endure
it, and that it is lagrantly unjust in its
mode Of assessing and collecting the
whole mass of taxes, local as well as
State. What is the Governors answer ?
Simply this Your local taxes are larger
than the State taxes, your State officers
do not receive SO large salaries as those
of some other states, and if you'll elect
me, and it will be any object to you, III
throw in my salary and govern gratis
The whole free Union is indignant al
the rapacity of the slave power, and de.
mands hat all National support of slave
nv or consent to its extension shall cease,
once and forever. In reply to this, the
Governor makes his best bow and bland
ly says-why, nv fellow citizens, l am
an opponent of slavery extension, and !
have proved it in a manner that Mr.
Chase has never done. l opposed il
boldly, publicly, and efectadAy, years
ago. Had it not been for "the humble
individual, who stands before you, and
the honorable and distinguished Judge
who sits beside me-" slavery might be
extended over Ohio We, fellow citi-
zens, were in the Constitutional Conven
tion. and I was chairman thereof, and aEe
voted in favor of the clause of the new
Constitution, which prohibits slavery,
and that has kept slavery from extending
here ! Mr.. Chase never did anything
like that but I did, fellow citizens, and
so you anti-slavery men ought to turn
in and make me Governor of Ohiur.! p
But if we try this anti slavery man by
record, we shall find other votes of his.
besides his wonderful vote in the Con-
stitutional Convention. He was in Con
gress in 1939-40, when the memorable
conflict we the gqg-laW took place, anc
in ten SUCCESSIVE ballots cast in two ses'
sions, he voted with the extreme South
against the right Of Freemen to petition
Congress on the subject of Slavery.
In the end session of Congress he vo.
ted seven times with the South in theil
attempt to get a vote of censUrspassed up
on John Quincy Adams for daring tc
present a petition from some Abolition
lists.
In the same session he voted with the
South to censure Mr.. Giddings for offer
ing resolutions which embodied some oil
the doctrines of the present Republican
Party and we predict that the scOrn fol
that conduct which the people of this
district showed then by the in
which they reelected Mr.. Giddings, will
be lightcompared with the astigationthey
will give this pretender to free principles
at the coming election.
The rest of the Governors speech, and
the whole of Mr.. Taylor's, was devoted
to the Know Nothings, and was a con-
fused medley of midnight meetings, Sc
cret ~conlaves, dark hours of night, gar
ret stairs, dark lanterns, ~concocting
cursed co~nspiracies, &c. &c.
One thing is pretty clearly manifested
by the speeches on the 9Th, and the les
son it teaches is a significant one. The
Democratic party in Ohio cannot be held
together upon its National basis, and the
only shadow of a hope of success they
now have, is in separating themselves
from the Administration, and leaving
Pierce, Douglas and Atchison, to the
condemnation they merit. Ifthey would
do this honestly, they would be Repub-
licans, but they are only making their
defeat more certain, and more disastrous,
when they assert at one moment that
they are opposed to slavery extension,
and give up all defense of the Admins
tration, and in the mex breath affirm that
politics has nothing to do with slavery,
as Governor Medill did in his long little
speech. Such hypocrisy is too transpar-
ent /; it has not even the merit of an ''art-
fmt dodge"