Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-03-19


&ae heretofore silh impuniiy. AMI seemed &c
htFs rsasas1 their elimax N lsr the dynasty
Whisi vas oFsslhs1En ia 1855 ScAs Of hem
we have susosslsi ia answering.
Ga the pablo bgii5iags, useless expendi>
.tures. frauds aad Overehsrges amount 10 more
hAa . qasrsss Of a nthJn Of d,Ilara. Large
sums Ofths public money we're loanea to vur;-
Gus persons. bAaks Aad bankers. aud are still
uaAFsilabls. And ia the matter OF canal con-
tracts under consideration, there is another loss
20 The State cf Ss2i. sos. This is the sPecta.
Gle that grests our eyes-Ihe result Of imnuni-
~ heretofore enjoyed By these who have be-
uayst thsir trusts. Ii the time has NOS yet
arrived. AMI this is not the occasion for Leg
AslAlive action, through, energetic. decisive.
can any one tell when the time will come. and
what scheme. fraught With danger AID dis
grace TO the State, will be sufficient TO justify
III In my judgement. il ws::Will not now act
and act efficiently. il We have not the power
So to act. thea tAs legislature is bu! the shad-
OF Of name, is pOWerless for good, and should
be AbOliIhed, as a useless appendage to the
Board Of Public Works.
So much upon Ihrs subject, sir. And /
would resume my seat was there not one 9th
eT topic with respect to which | ought to say
a word. Ii is claimed that we are running
the Republican party upsn the breakers, aud
that anless We stay our hanl it will be ruin
-. admit that the Republican party is re-
sponslbls for the action of the legislature, and
&his is an additional reason, with me, why we
should take such action in the premises as
will receive the sanction of the people Of the
Site. But | believe they will most likely ap.
prove our course if we do justice.
would do nothing which will demOrslizs
or disorgapize the republican party, unless
impelled bv sense Of duty to the State. for,
in subOrdinatiOn to that, do ! hold my allegi-
ancs to any and every party, believe not
only that the Republican party has accomplish
ed much Of good 10 the part, but that in The
future, the welfare, the honor and the true
glory Of The country are Unidentified with its
perpetuatiOn and its triumph. II there Was
cause for its original organization, that cause
still exists in pndiminished force. It had its
origin in a new deveiOpement Of democracy,
as is cropped out in the Kansas.N Nebraska
Bill, This was not pro-slavery Democracy
run mad, as some supposed, but prc'slaVery
in full flower, or rather, | should say, bear
ing legitimate frat, And tue audacity, tie
falsehood and treachery in which that bill was
conceived, and which triumphed in its passage
il about TO eliminate in the establi shing Of
slavery in That region which our fathers
thought they had secured as a heritage Of free
dom. Every indication points to this result.
with unerring aim. And this question settled
and that region secured to slavery. the incom.
ing administration will be disembarrassed and
free 10 engage in its career Of slave holding
aggression in another quarter, a career fully
fOreshadowed in that brigand document, the
'Ostend Letter." Its only check in its pro-
slavery aggressiV' policy, is the Republican
party. And | ~deFricate any action on our part
which will divest this party, whose great ele-
mental principles are truth, justice, honesty,
right, ofhalf its power, which by lowering its
standard, will weaken It's boIG on the public
confidence and tie public heart. II il would
avoid this, it must avoid all collision with
public plumber, and all sympathy with public
plunderers, and preserve itself intact from po
litical corruption. in no other way can it be
true to It's mission and fulfil the hopes and {
redeem the promises Of its hiends aud fouu-
deTs iii now, in The gristle Of it's youth, shall
fall into the embraces Of its avoWed enemies
and false friends. and be guided by their
treacherous c~ounsels, its history will soon
have been written. Its decay will be more
rapid than lie growth. But on lts ruins some
other organization will arise, which will be- true
to the demands of the age, and will illustrate
its living ideas Of justice. Of progress apd OF
humanity.