The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-09-30
The independent treasury.

AC AhUVPSAASASAAN AbCJsf
Some few, indeed. many of the Repub.
lican papers are growing like wrath be.
cause, they say. ,..some Of the County Treas
urers of this State are demanding from the
people portion of their taxes in "Uncle
Sans" currency, instead of the beautiful
lampblack pictured promises of the rag-mils.
This is complained Of as great oppression
to the taxpayers by the "pesky Loco-fo-
CO.'S" These Republican grumblers forget
the time when they were promising the peo-
pie of this State, a "Sale and solUent home
currency sOhich should be easily convertible liz
to specie at tie 0iA Of The holder. If their
pet institutions have accomplished the
end for which these Republican journals
claimed they were created, there will GER
tainly be no difficulty in the peoples com.
plying with the requirements of those Coun.
ty Treasurers who desire to collect portion
OF the public revenue in the constitutional"
currency, and this growing of these Repub-
lican sympathizers with the "dear people"
is all for mir, and they may as well "dry up"
If on the other hand the banks have not fur.
nished such currency, will the people or
ought these Republican journals to COM
plain because the officers of the State--the
agents Of the people--require some small
portion of the public revenue to be collected
in a currency about the genuneness and
safety of which there can be no quest on !!
But this grumbling is kept up, and the few
County Treasurers who are demanding spe.
Gle for taxes, do it for the purpose of rem
dering the Independent Treasury law, pass.
ed by the last Democratic Legislature, odi-
GUS with the people. They know all the
time that there is no requirement Of that
law by which County Treasurers are reqar.
ed to demand of the people any portion of
their takes in gold and silver. The grand
object Of the law, is to protect the peoples
treasury from peculation and plunder such
as has been practiced upon it in years past,
to the oppression Of the already tax-rieden
people, and almost to the bankruptcy Of the
State; and right we'll does it provide for that
object. Let this law but remain upon the
statute book and be faithfully enforced, and
farewell to the Gibson and Breslin treasury
plunderers in Ohio.
The Independent Treasury scheme is no
new idea with the Democracy Of Ohio. 1t
is measure which has worked admirably
in the managing of the fiscal affairs of the
General Government, and, as the Democra.
cy believe, is equally we'll adapted to the
management and regulating of the finances
of our own State. 1t is measure which
was demanded by the people, and upon
which the Democracy went into the contest
last Fall, and triumphed by electing to the
Legislature a majority of men pledged to
carry it out, and is a measure upon which
we shall always triumph whenever the op-
position shall dare to attack it.
We say again, there is nothing in this law
which requires County Treasurers to de-
mand from the people any portion of their
taxes in gold and silver, and the Republican
editors, who are striving to frighten the peo.
pie, and those Republican Treasures who
are endeavoring to make capital for their
party by demanding specie for taxes, know
it. But supposing it were otherwise, it
would be but carrying out the recommend
atoms of Governor Chase in his message to
the Legislature, on the 4th of January last.
In that message he recommended the fol-
lowing, viz -
IL RECOMMEND A PROVISION OF THIS MA.
TURE, AND THAT HEREAFTER ALL PUBLIC
MONEYS BE REQUIRED TO BE COLLECTED IN
SPECIE OR NOTES OF sPEcIE.PAYlNG BANKS OF
THIS STATE, AND THAT NO PAYMENT BE MADE
FROM THE TREASURY OF ANY SUM UNDER
TWENTY DOLLARS, OTHERWISE THAN IN
COIN"
II the Republican party repudiate the re-.
commentators of the Governor of their
choice let them out with it; and if they want
to make an issue with the Democracy upon
this question OF the Independent Treasury,
let them leave the ,Uool business for brief
season and come out fairly and squarely up
on the question, which is one that immedi.
ately affects the interests of the people of
Ohio. AS "opposition" is the whole length
and breadth of the Republican Platform, let
them engraft upon it a plank in Opposition"
to the Independent Treasury law.