The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-01-27
Great legislative Pow.wow in Ohio.

Great Legislative PoW'WoW IN ohlo'
The members Of the Legislatures oi
Kentucky and Tennessee were to visit
Cincinnati yesterday and we suppose
that our Legislature adjourned, and its
members went down to escort the distin-
guished visitors to the Capital.
On the reception Of message from the
Governor, in the Legislature, on Saturday,
the House Committee on Finance reported
a bill appropriatng $50 to deftay the
expenses Of this visit from our Southern
brethren and Committees were appoint
ed in both branches, TO see them properly
invited and escorted. The proposed APP
preparation OF $4,000 Of the peoples
money gave rise to considerable debate,
but 1t was finally carried in both the Sem
ate and House and so we conclude that
our wise legislators ere now having a
fine old time, at the Capital or in The
Queen City.
Seriously, this whole thing is wrong,
and we deeply regret tha, our new Re-
publican Governor and Legislature should
sec ft to provide an entertainment SO
unnecessary, SO unwise and so expen-
sive. As an humble but sincere friend oI
the Republican cause, We feel humiliaIcd
at the thought Of it. Kindness to OUT
friends Of the South, when they cont
within our borders, is proper, though VT
. know it is not always reciprocated bu
we submit that nothing more is demanded
at our hands, or would raise US in The
estimation Of rghl-minded men anywhere
Aud certainly, when the State Treasury
is nearly exhausted, and the people are
complaining Of the burdens Of taxation
, great must be the amiability Of our leg
. islators, to induce them to appropriate
$4,000 Of the peoples money to the un
, solicited entertainment OF regiment o
' Southern statesmen. Does ybody sup
pose that our Southern brethren will re
!. gard our Abolition sentiments with NOR
) favor, when they shall have returned from
! this great Ohio treato Will they b
@ more tolerant Of Free Speech and Ere
p; Press, and less cruel in their perseculio
(" Of frecmen, in Tennessee and Kentucky
}. 1t is only fow weeks, since about fort
d citizens wcro driven out of Kontucky, iC
l. Il ,r;pcinlne eucb tho nnnuiIi1o
- party of Ohio profess to hold dear. Til
,d Governor and Legislature Of that Sta
Y were both powcrLess or unwilling to prevc
IA tho outrage. Did thoy afford any prote
NJ ton to FREQ press, whom it was attack,
cs by pro.slavery mob Northern froem
aro tarrud and Gathered, branded, whippC
thrown off from railroad cars, and ev
Y, murdered, for opinions sake, in the Sout
orn States. And, what is more, Southe
law makers openly connive at these crim
and then look on and laugh when they a
boing committed We all know this. a
while We dcnouuce them for it, shull
seizo tho first opportunity to treat tho whc
nY. matter with ovty, and evon got up an I
pensive pow-wow for their especial bench
TIE, Had Democratic Legislature mado
appropriation for such purpose, wha
howl of Indignation VIC Republicans wol
have raised
If there be q surplus of money in
State Treasury, which must be expenc
for purposes not embraced in tho Consti
nod ton, lot it bo expended ir manner VIII
o,s will servo to advance rather than retard ,
,ot cause Documents arc yct to be circuia
Ios- among the people, and scores of tho vict
of Southern persecution to bo relieved
1t is to be- hoped that tho members Of
emf Kentucky and Tennessee Legislatures
I'm. decline tho invitation, and thus savo
we people of Ohio from great aud undeser
ars humiliation.
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