Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-09-15
For the Empire.
Usury Again.

I
anxious 10 make the impression that this
question is raised in the present canvass
in this county, by the Democracy, for the
purpose Of escaping what they call the real
question at issue, to.wit Slavery.
II is almost time chat the impudent and
transparent humbug Of introducing and Civ
ing prominence TO national questions in coun'
ty, municipal and local elections, should be
exploded Il Is becoming the fashion, now-
a'days that no constable or township trustee
can be elected without raising hue and
cry about slavery" Local interests and
institutions are disregarded--the inferior
Legislative Offices, which are Of more imme,
diate Importance to the people in their every
day life and business, than those which are
regarded as Of the higher ranks, are left to
be filled very frequently by incompetent and
corrupt trieksters, with vicious principles
and worse morals, whilst the newspapers
are engaging themselves in fretting the pubr
lie mind into bitter sntagonism on the ques'
ton whether Cuifee ought to be compelled
to make his own living
Now, 80 far as we ere concerned in MontI
gomery county, the negroes we have among
us, for the most part, live off the white peo,
ple-with some oreditable exceptions How.
ever, they don't trouble us much, because
there are not very many OF them, and they
behave themselves reasonably we'll As co
the question, whether STAKEHOLDER ought
to be able to take his negro into any of
the unsettled territories of the United
States and hold him 10 service there, that
certainly is Of national Importance; proper
to be discussed in all elections for officers
connected with the administration of nation,
al affairs So.
But we are now engaged in canvass for
the election of men to exercise, as our Rep
resentatives, the power we possess to say
what State laws shall govern us; how our
institutions Of public charity shall be con-
Quoted; upon what principles the great sys,
tenn for the punishment of crime and the
reformation of criminals in Ohio shall be
established in what manner the interests of
She State in those important public works
which gave energy to her youth, and the
first impulse TO her astonishing prlgress, are
to be best protected and subserved; how the
money of the people ID to be kept out Of the
hands Of genteel thieves as well as common
loungers; and what is perhaps, of more inn
portanoe than all, to active business classes
es at least, what is to be the FINANCIAL
SYSTEM OF THE STATE. Is our circulation to
be the worthless shinplaster trash of other
States, imported amongst us by money deal
ers, and traded in as a commodity, or are
we, through our Representatives, to regulate
and control our own circulating medium Is
money to Re restored to its legitimate funo'
tions, or is its free circulation amongst the
people to be impsdsd and obsructed, by its
accumulation in the hands of borrowing
brokers, thereby making an article of mer-
chandise out Of 1t, and increasing exorbitant-
ly the price of its use, by monopolising to
gre at extent the supplyH
Now, few men who have any regard for
honesty or candor, will deny tn at these ques
tions Immediately concern us, and are emf
nently proper to be discussed and seriously
regarded in elections for State Legislators
But it is claimed with indignant persistence
by the Journal and Gazette, that 1t is only
in Montgomery county that this question is
raisedI Admit this to be true-what then2
Because the people Of other counties ignore
these important matters, is their consideration
interdicted to Us, particularly when We are
admonished by the nomination of oandi.
date for State Senator, that it is the purpose
of the Republicans Of this soHnty, at least,
to perpetuate the present vicious condition
of our monetary systeml Bot it is said also,
that Mr. Ranney did not say anything
about asury Well, suppose he didn't does
that make the efforts of the Democracy in
this county iRsincere, 80 far as they are con.
cerned, 70 effect the passage of a usury law2
This is no way 10 meet the question-nor
will the entire opposition unless am much
mistaken, be contented to have it met in this
manner.
1t is time at last that we should give more
attention TO ourselves than to the negroes
Of the South; more attention to our local in
terests and not quite 80 much to grsnd ma
tional clap traps. The Union is to be saved
every twenty four hours. We are called up
on to work ourselves up into a frothy ex,
citement about buying Cuba for two hun,
dred millions (''which 200 millions 2'') when
there is no more probability of Spain SELF
ing it, than the United States selling Long
Island Why2 Mr.. shdell wants to be
President Now We are to exercise our
selves furiously about the re opening of the
I African Slave Trade, when there is no more
likelihood that the Slave trade viii be re-
opened than that the States will return to
their colonial condition Why this new ag,
itation Only that Mr.. Davis, Mr.. TOombS,
ct al, want to be Presidents. We have been
convulsed with excitement for three or four
years, lest Slavery should 80 into Kansas
when God Almighty had long ago said in
the immutable physical laws of soil and cli-
mate that il would Mt 90 there ; and it hast
) gone there. Self'denying, disintere5ted, phi
: lanthropic gentleman Of the anti Slavery
persuasion, having no idea Of the sweets or
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