Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-10-01

W money in it's own hands. This
right and obligation results from first
principles and from the great law of
self-preservation everything else that
belongs to her she keeps herself, and
why not keep that also, without which
every thing else is nothing? Arms,
munitions, provisions, and supplies of
every kind, are kept in the hands of the
government; money is the sinew of
war, and why nave this sinew to be u
by any careless or faithless hand?
Money is the support and existence
of the government-the breath of its
nostrils, and why leave this support
this breath-to the custody Of those
over which we have little or no control?
Money is the life blood, without which,
the government cannot live-the- OF,
without which, no part of the machine
can move. In short, Fan in favor
Of an Independent Treasury-disposing
with use Of banks as repositories of the
public funds-and in favor of keeping
it in the vaults of the Treasury under
the care of an honest oficer-bound in
a penal bond to double the mount of
money that may ever be in the Treasu-
1 oO ohJ OhO I1b4C OhNOA hAS
surrounding it with restringent laws
making the embezzlement of the public
money by any agent or officer of the
government a penitentiary offence
punishable as any ether high crime
against the laws of State. l do not
wish it to be understood from what 1
have said, that I am opposed to a we'll
regulated banking system, because I
admit that such a system is now a com
mercial necessity, and while we have ii
well regulated banks in our midst, I
would be in favor of receiving their pa.
per in payment of taxes and other publ
lie dues, and if we could use the same
in payment of our debts and expendi-
lures, well and good if we cannot, then
[ would rather pay the premium for
gold to be used for that purpose, than "a
to pay what is always as great, the pre-
MUM for eastern exchange, and have e
to rely on eastern banks for the trans!
action of our business. The interest %
in our public debt is payable at New
York semi-annually, and we had better
keep our money in the Treasury at home
and send a special agent to N. Y. twice
a year to pay our interest, than to pay
the amounts for exchange whichiw we have
been doing for years, in order to get our !
money in bank there, for that purpose, /
and when we want it find hat the bank O.
has failed with our money in its hands,
as was lately the case with the Trust
Company's Branch in N. Y, which was
lately our place of deposit. 7
l am in favor of short sessions of the :
Legislature. combining the business to
the immediate wants of the people, CON-
fning the argument toHfthe question
under Immediate consideration and am
opposed to those long, windy h~arangues, T
for political effect and party aggrandise-T
ment; in favor of couching all laws
in short and simple language, so that
they can be understood by all, and not
clothing them in such language as to
render confusion doubly confused. i
an in favor of paying the members of
the Legislature only for the time actual
ly employed in performing the duties of
Of Legislators and disseminating their
pay during their absence except such
absence as caused by sickness or some
other providcntial interference, over
which they have no control. Iam in"
favor of an advalorum system of taxa
ton, taxing every species of property
In prOportIoH 10 us dctudi |diue, lettlhS
every interest bear its properties of tho
burthens of the government, and the
blessings like the dew of heaven fall in
discrim;nately upon all and in conclu-I
sion, l will say, if you confde to MY
care the responsibilities of the Office to
which l aspire, l go untrammeled, hav-
ing no '.friends to reward" and mo en-
emies to punish" looking for the good
of the whole people and in dischargins'
the duties of Representative, merit and
receive the appreciation of my Country,
men, and that all may say 'well done
thou good and faithful servant.i'1is"
Your obedient servant, rs'<
81 BE-. @ W. C. EMERSON" rf