Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-07-08


constituents. We find it in the Ports
mouth Times, whore it occupies some six
columns. In order to show the temper Of
the document, an9 believing that a major
ity of our readers will be interested in see
ing what an anti-Lecompton Democrat
can say of the Administration at Washing
ton and its minions, we venture to give a
few extracts: 4t
STARTLING STATEMENTS.
'sThe expenditures of the Federal Gov
ernment alone, now exceed the expense Of
the thirty-one State governments, by more
than twenty millions year; assuming that
the expenditure of the Federal Government
is only equal to its income. The taxes
paid 10y the people of the State of Ohio,
for State purposes, including common
schools (and $4,000 for school library are
at present 81, l,6O9,39 while at the same
time We pay to the general government
over SIX MILLIONS ANNUALLY in
addition to all that is collected through the
post office. During the past ten years,
every scheme gotten up IN Washington,
based upon large expenditures of money,
and promising lucrative appointments TO Of
flee, has passed through Congress and re-
ceived the executive approval. The expen-
ditures of such immense sums of money is
indicative of a degree of reckless extrava-
gance and corruption that Should awaken
the people to close scrutiny into the con-
duct of their public men. There is work
for investigating committees in Washing
ton as well rs in Ohio" -
CHANAN.
"During the past ten years, slavery has
formed the staple of Congressional deus
sion. The agitation
which commenced on the Wilmot Proviso
terminated with the. compromise measures
of 1850. In 1852 both the great paities,
in national conventions, pronounced against
further agitation. Soon after the Nebras-
ba bill was introduced more intense ex-
element than any which had preceded it.
Its Immediate effect was to batter down
the Democratic party in its strongholds in
the Northern States. The Cincinnati
Convention of 1856 affirmed its principle,
and in the most formal manner declared in
favor of the peoples sovereignty in all ter
ritories. The President elect pledged him
self to the support of the principle while
the oath of office was vet fresh upon his
lips. That pledge was kept good until the
Lecompton machination Tor constitution
was hatched. The declarations of his Of
fetal newspaper, and his instructions to
Governors Walker and Stanton, prove this
beyond cavil. What caused his most ex-
traordinary change of policy none know ex-
cept those in the secret of the foul cheat,
but that he did change, in the face of the
Cincinnati platform, and of the pledges
every where made by his friends in The
canvass of 1856, is seen and known by all
informed men. Those who differed with
him and chose to maintain the doctrine of
the Democratic party, that the people of
every territory should regulate their insti-
tutions by the will of the majority, were
struck at by him and denounced as enemies
to the party. He was guilty of interfer-
ence with the delberation of Congress, and
through his parasites attempted to control
the legislative department. II yas acts
like these that cost Charles the First his
head and his kingdom.
FORCING KANSAS INTO THE UNION AS A
H.ur SLAVE STATE.
Jefferson declared absolute acquiesence
in the decision of the majority to be the
vital principle of republics, from which there
is no appeal but TO force, the vital princi-
pie and immediate parent of despotism.'-
On the 4th of January the people of Kan
sas, at an election legally and fairly consti-
tuted, vcted down the Lccompton swindle
by clear majority of ten thousand votes,
and yet that high and solemn act of SOW
ereignty on the part of the people was
treated by the President and his followers
as the act ofrebels. The damning deeds
of John Calhoun and his confederates were
erected into test of democratic orthodoxy.
1t was determined to force Kansas into the
Union against the protest of the people, at
tempting to destroy the principle that gov
ernment derived their powers from the con-
sent of the governed That principle is
Democracy-it is the soul of the Republic.
During eighty-two years it has stood forth
as the national idea, instinct with energy,
because, it embodied fundamental truth.
1t has been assailed in the name of Democ-
-acy, by the very men who had been fore
most in shouting its praises, and assisting
N its triumps. These architects of ruin
net lion in their pathway. in the person
If Stephen A. Douglas, who sternly kept
hem at bay for five months. But power
md patronage in venal hands finally tri-
implied. Well may the eloquent and pat
'iotic Forney exclaim ''The burden which
his outrage attaches to the Democratic
,arty cannot be carried without crushing
C." sIsss
'IIE ENGLISH BRIBE AND THE RENEGADEs |
..-.. cox & CO.
''The rationale of the action of the ad-
ninistration and of the majority in Con-
,ress, is that white men are incapable of
governing themselves, that $4,000 inhabi-
ants are enough to form Slave State
5esldes' the English proposition offers to
he people of Kansas direct bribe ofab out
i've thousand sections of land, and five per
ent IN money on all land sales in the State
they will consent to be governed by Cal
oun's scheme, based on forgeries, PERU
les and stuffed ballot boxes. The Demo
ratio members from our State, all except
wo, LII the very beginning of the struggle
Congress, took positions in accordance
18th the recognized doctrines of the party
nce lS4s. To strengthen them in this
osltlon, the Democratic majority in the
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