Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-11-10
The last Lcgislatgi;en 10 nsI the one.
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Thelate election 10 Ohio shows con
lclusiyely that the State is true. to Freedom
and the Republicans capse. The loss, Of
the Legislstureat this jnDcture of our af-
fairs, we regard as sub bstantial glin 49,
We, have the State government, The ,popu-
lsrYote, the, real triumph the opposition
have the Legislature, ndwith il tie re-
sponsibilily ofmakipg Abe laws. During
the last two years there has been one un-
ending, never falling, systematic abuse of
the RepubEieap Legislature It had, rae,
cordiBg 10 the locoloco papel s and orators,
done NO good thiDga Its best. acts, were
misrepresented,, and its werstsones5 exag-
gerqtel and perverted, 1t had not, the
privilege sof having IFS doings considered
calmly and fairly. twas the subject of
the grossest, description lof living, aud the
neanest and most dasisyFdiy. soYtl of f,er..
version, When the Republicans asked TO
hayethe offensive statutes pointed out,
they were answered as a ,blackguard am
swers a gentleman, by abuse and--slan-
der. No. wonder then that an impression
should have become general among the
people that the Republican Legislature
had been failure. The outrageous ger
rymandering of the State for the election
OF members Of the Legislature was of itself
alone sufficient, under ordinary circum-
stances, to have given to the locofoco party
the majority;eLut when we take it in
connection with the multitudinous lies
with which the Republican Legislature
was assailed, we should have been surpris-
ed had the result been Otherwise than il
now appears to be. a+ tga
The opposition have the Legislature,
and they will be held to strict accounta-
bility for the manner in which, they dis
charge their. trust, We shall see what
changes they will make. What laws they
will repeal, what new ones they will pass,
and in the end we shall be able to expose
the, shallow pretences and false accusa-
tions by the aid of which they struck down
the Republican majority, and jumped into
the vacant seats of their Republican pre-
decessors.
Since the election, the only reforms
which we have heard that they intended to
make, were bills to establish a Sub Treas
ury, with "a specie clause" to repeal the
habeas corpus act, and to pass law giving
the free use OF our jails and prisons for the
of runaway slaves. Le.
them pass either of these things, and the
places which they hold will pass from /
them as tie shadow of a cloud passes over
the surface Of the earth, leaving no mark
behind.
While we intend to watch their doings, /
and hold them to a strict accountability I
for their aetipne, -sIrall tsceat theI-, with
fairness and liberality, thus acting in in
verse ratio to the manner in Which they
.reated their Republican predecessors
We shall not oppose a measure which we
believe agood one, merely on account of
he inherent badness of its paternity, for
here may be such thing as a, .'good COM
ne out Of Nazareth" though we have
very few instances of it. n Ia, "A. -,
Our position, and that ofthe Republicans
IN the Legislature, will be one of compar-
tive ease to what we all held last year. -
Then we had to defend-now we have but
o attack. Yet, as we said before, no attack
shall come from us upon measures we
believe to be worthy of Ohio and for the
welfare and happiness Of her people; but
when we shall find trucking to the slave
power, repeating statutes that were made
or the protection of the weak and poor
md down-trodden, or whentwe shall find
attempts made TO pass laws to make our
ails slave pens, we,shall not spare them,
or to do SO would be false to Liberty, Jus
ice and the Free People Of Ohio O. S.
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