The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-06-04
From the steubenville American Union.
The eAnti-Nebiasla Retrenchn.enI
and Reform Legislature.

ITOfl tiit -AtNusuf-AlN AMERICAN ulOu
The Anti-NebfaslNa Retrenchn.enl
and Reform Legislature.
Although it has been said that the Demo.
cratic press would, ofoo,sse, make ali undiscrin-
mating onslaught upon its acts, we approach q
short review OF its promises and performances
with no such feeling We merely propose tc
recall the promises upon which the majority was
elected and compare its course with these prom
lses.
! /. Anti-Nebraska was the leading plank in
the Black Republican platform Of 1855. Yet
let any man run over the proceedings Of the
! two hundred and eight days, during which the
Legislature remained in session, and sec if he can
find single measure that had the most remo e
bearing in favor of establishing freedom or re-
storing peace in that distracted territory. Nc
such measure can be found Instead Of dOmg
good, it did harm; for Incorporate manner in
which everything relating to the subject was
discussed, tended to iiIiiame tie passions ui
Southern men, and operated 10 increase the dis
tnrbances, and render more deplorabe the exist
ing state of things in the Territory. Its mem
bers knew that the people oiUhioare anti-sav.
cry, and that if they could only have their feel.
ings infamed sufficiently, they would lie indu.
ced to keep black republicans in Ofice and this
being their first ogject, the baneiul effects o
their conduct upon Kansas were either unheed
ed or wilfully contemplated and embraced. it
is consuling to the true friends of the Country
and the prudent friends Uf free Institutions in
Kansas to know that this reckless and unpatri.
otto course has fallen short OF the consequence
that might have been anticipated Kansas wit
be free by the laws of emigration and the voice
Of her people,, Black Republicanism in the o.
hio Legislature did nothing to produce this re
sult--the tendency ofits discussions had an op,
posite effect; and upon the first branch of it,
platform---"Anti Nebraska'--it has mseraby
failed, ~ Hb .Ns.--.-. .. ri.
@ Their next plank was "Retrenchment ant
Reform" And what have they done to carry
this into effect? The reader will recollect the
specific charges they made against the Democ,
racY, and their rpromises OF how much better
they would doifputinto power. The pay of mem
bers had b0en increased 10 four dollars per day
We thought this right; they said it was wrong
But they sat two hundred and eight days. anC
never made an effort TO reduce the amount
They complained of the Democrats for holding
an adjourned session, though no well informed
man doubted that one was necessary in order t
put the new constitution into full and success
ul operations; but they themselves held one
when no such necessity existed.
3. They complained that the Democracy hat
made the taxes unnecessarily high although
they had been paying oil the State Debt at the
rate of half million year out OF the amount
collected yet they they themselves made taxes
equally high, and paid off but tWeaty dollars 0
The State Debt last year out fine means which
thus provided! And to do this much, they
emascalated and spoiled the symetry Of oul
school system by Withholding the annual ap
preparation OF $8O,UU3 to the school libraries
This year, the appropriation has again beer
withheld, and although the rate OF taxation ha
not yet been ANNOUNCED, we hazard nothing il
the prediction that ths State taxes of this ial
will be equally as high as they were last year
4. Upon the subject OF Temperance, although
not mentioned in their platform tbs well knowr
that they male side issue ofitin every local..
ty where they thought such a course would
make votes, accusing the democrats, who made
tue present enactm snt upon that Subject, OF be
ing favorable to lntemperance. But they have
adJou,n2d without making single alteration il
the liquor aw.g.. . .tars ssss~
These were the matte openly put in issue by
the Black epab cans and in each and every
one them have they proved recEe4nt to then
promises. ast.uF s.uH..r
But tn s is not all. Of the combination whicI
S vept the Sta-e in 1885, probably tive-sixths
were members oI Il secret political society, hay.
in for its objects the exclusion Of natural. zed
citizens and Catholics from public Station, and
an extension or abrogation oihe naturalization
laws. These men were bound together by sol
emn, though ileg tl oaths to effect their purpo
ses and scarccl a man OF the black republicans
found his way to the Legislature otherwise thar
through the door ola Know Nothing lodge Yet
bound as they were by solemn oath and hav
ing full power to make their oaths laws, they
d d not only fail to do so, but actua " conferred
the United States senalorship and other high
positions upon men who were known 10 be
hostile TO them upon those subjects. The
course OF h. legislature upon this matter, La,
been the gre test farce ever recorded in poht5
Cal history. While we rejoice ior the good O
theepuntryi that tits SO, yet sthis no excuse tt
the many deladed but honest men, who were in.
dueed to enter the know nothing order because
they thought its objects good Such men, and
they are legiens OF them, have been in an espe
cial and outrageous manner cheated and mp0s-
ed upon. Although they had Il right to expect
that the Leaders who induced them to take the
oaths would themselves 1--we up to them wher
put into office, yet have they violated them in
every particular, and with scarcely a show OF de
ceBcy. .a -asE.H -..
Such things as these may be done by party
once; but the people generally apply the correc
tive at the polls On the first opportunity