The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-03-28
Correspondence of the Ashland Uuion.)
FROM EVANSVILLE.
AAAssenLE, March t9. 1855

EDIToR UN1oN-Dear Sir:
I arrived in this smoky city this
morning from Columbus we'll pleased to
find myself once more in a political at
mosphere less tainted by demagoguery
and venality.
For the purpose of keeping yourself
and the people of the "back townshipsp
advised as to what democracy is at the
capital, and to notify you in advance of
the papers, as to the cue that country
editors are expected to take,I propose
to give you a little light.
On day before yesterday haudbills
were posted throughout Columbus re-
questing the citizens to convene at the
city hall for the purpose of considering
what means it was best to use to relieve
themselves of onerous taxation.
At the hour designated REPAIRED to
the appointed place and found that the
temperance men had captured the hall,
organized the meeting, and were about
passing a series of resolutions, the sub
stance of which were that they were
opposed to whiskey and in favor of sus-
tsining the liquor law and reform gen.
orally. F'l -l'
After considerable confusion and vain
attempts to get somebody to make a
speech, the question on the adoption of
the resolutions was put and unanimously
adopted. Col. MEDARY and SAMUEL
GALLOWAY were then loudly called for.
Mr.. GALLOWAY could not be made to
face the music; but Cor. NJ. willingly
took the stand and proceeded to pitch
into temperance generally-but soon
left for the question of taxation; and to
his remarks upon this matter, I wish the
attention of the citizens of the "rural
Districts" called. He statad that the
taxes were heavy, a fact which non
seemed to deny;-that they wSre bur
thensome for both state and local pur-
poses; a point which all intelligent and
we'll informed persons will controvert,
as all such persons know that it is our
local taxes which are weighing upon us
like an incubus, And lastly he inform
ed the audience that the cause of all
their trouble was our school law, to
which he appears to be very much OPP
posed. He informed the audience that
in the county of Franklin, taxes were
levied for school purposes which were
not expended in their midst-that as
there was not schoolable youth enough
in Franklin county to appropriate all the
money collected, the surplus went to ed
ucato the children of the northwest, of
Monroe county, and other places where
children we're plenty but wealth scarce.
That this is true 1 have no doubt, and
had it not been for the improperly of
a stranger interfering in a local meeting,
1 should like to have asked the speaker
and the audience who so silently swal-
lowed his staten; ents, whether the coun-
ties through which our canals pass,
alone built those canals? whether
Franklin county alone, butt the side
cut from the Ohio Canal, which for.
years was the only communications
the city os Columbus had ? Who built.
the capitol at a cost of one million of
dollars to adorn and beautify their city,
and by the expenditure of that amount
70" a
of the money of the people from the
frural districts" to add SO much to the
wealth and prosperity of its citizeusz !?
Who built their Asylums of which Co
lumbus is SO proud and which annually
disburse to the farmers and producers
of that county $4,000 of the peoples
money ? And lastly who paid the
printing bills which Coz. MEDARr has
been paid to the amount of 100000 in.
the course of the. last IS years Has
Franklin county paid all this No
For the last TWENTY-FIVE years the people
without complaint, have paid the taxes
caused by the public improvements of
Ohio, not one half of whom are in the
least benefited thereby. Who in Ash
land county has been benefited by the
Ohio Canal ? Not one. And it now
comes in exceeding bad taste for Golum-
bus, built up as it is from the AIMS of
the country, to complain because a
moiety of her wealth goes to educate
the children of those who for years have
uncomplainingly paid tribute to her,
sturdy paupers that she is who while she
" tolls not neither does she spiq," is
clothed in costly apparel and increasingly
cries for " more"
If this is to be the policy of the dem
ocratic party, if they are now to war
upon our school law, that most benif-
cent of all their legislation, thcyha
indeed fallen upon evil times, and an
additional example is furnished that,
" those whom the gods wish to destroy
they ffst make mad" T..
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