Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-07-09
THE -GOVERNORsmIp.

in the fall elections. All that is need
ed to secure that success are union, har-
mhouy, energy and determination in the
party. And was there ever a more pow
erful incentive and a more glorious end,
to mite, arouse, stimulate and energize
a,party, than those which now appeal to
and beckon forward the Democracy p
The party now in power-a minority
party-has done more to discredit and
disgust the State than any that ever held
the reins of government within the Re
public. 1t has rendered the name of
OhioIofensive to the citizens of more
than half of the Union, by its vile abuse
of our felIow-citizens of other States,
andzits constant warfare on their insti
t%utions and rights. 1t has made Ohio
the Botany Bay of the free negroes OF
the South, who are pouring into it in
hordessi 1t has arrayed the State in
open hostility against the Federal Gov
eminent, and through its highest off
GERS declared its readiness to push, to
even the arbitrament of arms, the issue
between State and Federal sovereignty.
It has trampled upon the writs of the
United States tribunals, and defied their
power to execute within the State of
Ohio the exclusive jurisdiction conferr-
ed upon the Federal Government. It
has repudiated the authority of the Su-
pre,ne Court to decide questions Of con
stitutional power and right. 1t has
passed laws to render null and void the
acts of Congress enacted in pursuance
of express provisions of the Constitu-
tom of the United States.
* Andtof these high crimes it has re-
Gently added the offenses of defalcation
and corruption in Office of some of the
highest officials, and the gross incapaci-
ty and negligence, to use the mildest
aud most charitable terms, of others
Asa party, there is none in the history
-cRthis Union which has given such fla
grant proofs of the corruption and dis
honesty of many of its leading chiefs
and leaders, as the party now in power
in the State of Ohio.
-a 40 other party ever brought on the
country the damning disgrace of having
Several of its prominent members, charg-
ed with the responsible duties of Ma
tional Legislators, convicted and expell-
ed from the body for gross venality and
corruption. No other party ever conf
ded its most important interest to men
who have graduated in corruption-the
and refuse of the ether political
parties of the country. No other par
ty, in so brief a period, has ever been
identified with so many incidents of cor
ruptions lawlessness and sedition. We
make these charges from no party mo-
tives. We speak to a record which they
have, made up themselves.
It was not the Democracy who X
PEELED Gilbert, Edwards, Matteson, &c,
from their seats in the House of Repre-
~sentatives. for corruption, though they
all voted for it. 1t is not the Democra-
cy which now charges Gibson with pur-
Joining the State funds and playing
stool-pigeon for a brother defaulter-
protecting and covering up his misdeed,
until he was beyond the clutch of the
penal law.
We do not claim infallibility for u
own party. We frankly confess there
have been in our ranks, and doubtless
now are, designing men, who borrow
the name of Democracy as a mask n
der which to promote some scheme of
self-interest and corruption. We shall
never shrink from the denunciation of
all such with all our vigor and earnest
ness. But, what we claim is, that in
our party there have been and always
are fewer such characters than in the
utterly unprincipled faction which, un-
der certain fanatical cries and pretexts,
and with certain delusive names and
ideas, is now intent on the overthrow of
IuC OOHSI1GulIOh anu GllC uloSOluI1Oh "
the Union, that it's chiefs may profit in
the general confusion.
To defeat and crush such a party in
this great State is one of the noblest OBJ
jects and will be one of the most glori-
achievements of the Democracy
Such an achievement will place Ohio in
the front line of national, Union-loving
States. 1t will give her full fellowship
with her sisters in the Confederacy. 1t
will make her an equal partner in the
blessings of this Union, which can only
be fully realized by those who respect
the rights of their brethren in other
States. And all this it will accomplish
without any sacrifices and concessions
of her own rights. Ohio does not yield
a fot or title of her own sovereignty by
faithfully observing her contract with
her sister States. Indeed, by respect
ing the sovereignty and rights of 9th
ers, she gives the best evidence of her