The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-04-09

;. - VOLUME, XIX. \. II.
% SYNOPSIS OF A SPEECH
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silkads 5ysJ.s D. O,C0MNOR.inthe the Senate
.s's,s = :, sssf OHIO, March 2lst, 1852, on a BIZ
proposiny to reduce the State Levy fo,
LOB sSSchool Purposes. to One and Tsoo tenths
MsAs--and restricting the Local Levs
1ss, = ' y ths Ike saas Of One and Too ts'sths
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Nh. CHAIRMAN: A few days ago ad-
:. dressed the Senate, at some length, on
the subject of Common Schools, against
81 the reduction of the State levy for school
purposes. At that time thought that
had said all that / would desire to say
4, upon the subject under consideration. but
the discussion has assumed much wider
range than was then anticipated--and
matter very foreign to the real issue intro
duccd, and dwelt upon for long time by
honorable Senators. When / spoke to
you before, I endeavored to show the i'm
portancs, yea, the necessity of maintain
ing our common schools during the pres
. zent acknowledged demoralizing influence
~ Of civil war, in full force and power. For
this have been arraigned--not only have
~ been arraigned. but my people have
been abused by the gentleman from Mi
ami (Mr. McGlung,) and .he gentleman
bifom Hamilton. (Mr Whetstone,) y for re-.
cefviog more mooey from the State com,
mon school fund than we pay to that
!. fnnd, thereby appropriating the fund of
~ other couaties to our ownsuse. The Pc
titiens introduced BY me from the 'citi-
xens Of my district, demonstrating against
the reduction of the State levy for com
J mon schools, have been denounced as
res ssbearing the marks of the beast."e From
the remarks 1.-THE gentleman win excuse
me, cannot dignity them with the name
es Of aFgament) we would be led to sup
ieapose that a few counties in this State =
and Monroe county in particular, were
= mere .excrescences, living as, mere benef
Charles on the body polite. and drawing
= her hourly subsistence from Miami end
= Hsmilton counties. rs f'Mssn 7seis
~'ss Now, Mr.. Chairman. propose, in a
very brief manner, (without giving you q
s!ssshash of my former speech on the real
aaqssstion before us,) to show who are aud
hare been excrescences, worse than bene-
dciaries, upon the body polite Of the
o. State aDdo what counties Iedlly have.up
on them "rhe mark of the beast" And
ii order that we get at this matter in a
s proper, manner. il will be necessary to in :
i quire how much has been raised in the
q Ststesof Ohio during the last year, as the
Aggregate result Of the State lew, fol-
common, school purposes, From the re,
~ port of the sAudisors of State now before
me, I@eud thatsthe amount raised by tht
q Susie levy for the support of commol
o schools, is. for 1851. one million two hun
dred and eve thousand one hundred art
70 sseyeni dollars andstwenty cents, 81, ,205,
"a lot 90. H9a1i ,iersA% - - s'1 ssss
Oot Of this large SUM thus raised. j
has been alleged that Monroe county re
= csives more than she pays. While this i
true as alleged, it is not true as alleged
BY implication at least, that Monroe coun
~ stands alone on the list Of sbenefcia
riesp 6nd by reference to the sam
report Of the Auditor of State, that fifty
.ir other counties of the State stand i
the 90 the gentleman from Hamilton) un
enviable position with Monroe, and re
ceive more from this fund than they PAL
But / am not so much surprised at th
apparent oversight of my friend frol
Hamilton, in thinking that Monroe cour
ty stood alone in her receipt of schot
funds. when find that q few pages ful
nther on. in the same report, we have SON
Statistics upon another subject, that lea
me to the conclusion that the oversigt
tizofa my friend was more apparent than re
- al, and that further pursuit of his il
vestigations would, if it had not remove
- the scales from bis eyes, at least remove
the encrustation that has hardene
through long years around a glass hous
in which soma men delight to dwell.
,,,see But to the report By it We find thu
.sthe State of Ohio is now, and has bee
= for long series of years. annually payin
the sum of o,se million of dollars, as inte,
est upon q dshtagailst the State of Obi
tor the heconstruction Of certain canals.
To say nothing of the benefits derive
from the original expenditure Of the lars
snm of money as princi pal, that now r.
quires the sum of one million Of Golla
s.annually as interest, who are the peopl
and what counties receive, the benefit