Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-25
FROM HARRISON COUNTY.
[COrrespondence Ohio statesman.l


Bingham, whom old "spoony" denounced
as being guilty OF hanging an innocent wo-
man. L am Informed that the aforesaid
hangman is greatly depressed at the polit-
ical Status of his party, and the terrible re-
action that has evidently set in against it.
His usual energy has left him, so that he
takes the stump in defense OF the present
issues with evident reluctance. He finds
the old cry of the demagogue about strait
Or" "copperhead," "butternpt," ''sYmpa-
thizer," &C.. &C., SO potent years agone to
frighten the unthinking and the prtju-
diced to vote the dogmas thai
enslaved the many to the few, and
that placed power in the hands of New
England monopolists to lord it over the
West and North West, will; no longer do
that the people begin te read and TO think
and to feel for themselves-that they see
that something is wrong-taxes high, pub
lie debt enormous, rascality rampant, cor
ruption among our rulers and place-men
everywhere unparalleled, and they are de-
termined to be deceived no longer by the
snobby song of loyalty" or by impas-
stoned appeals to their party pride or for
mer predictions. And especially is the
bitter dose of Negro Suffrage, attempted
to be thrust violently down their throats
in the form of the 'sAmendment," awaking
disgust in the minds of thousands against
the whole host of Radical rascals that are
seeking to destroy the Government of our
fathers and bring us and our children
down to an equality with niggers for all
time to come!
Poor Bingham sees this and in private
confesses to others that the days of Radi-
calism are about numbered-that like the
jaw bone used by Sampson, it will be
thrown away, (Amen, say we, and may it
lie forever among the vile debris of the
past.) Hence, Bingham, on the stump, is
Respondent, and runs over and over again
his stereotype and intolerably stale illus
tration of the lightness of the poor mans
tax in this District compared with that of
A. T. Stewart, the princly merchant Of
New York, who he says pays more tax
than is paid in Harrison, Guernsey and
Belmont counties. He seems to forget that
Mr.. Stewart is an importer and adds to the
price of his goods all the import duty or
local tax he pays. The wholesaler next
pays this. Then the western merchants,
who buys OF the wholesaler, then the consul
mer who buys of the retailer. So it comes off
the consumer at last. Mr.. S. only ddudnces
this tax. He does not pay it, as Bingham
is so fond of asserting. But the people be-
gin to see this, AMI will vote down all sophis-
tieal hunbugs who are trying to deceive
them with false statements and issues. Hnr
1t is good omen to the Democracy OF
any place when the people begin to think
for themselves-to take papers and support
the Democratic press. L have no doubt
but our journals have largely increased
circulation now over all former years; and
yet there is vast room still for improvement
in this matter. The subscribers send you
were obtained in a few minutes. The
names are men who live in one of the
most wealthy and intelligent regions OF
the State, and although supporting their
county press, the Cadiz Sentinel, an excel
lent paper, have not till now taken any State
or National journal of our party. How is it
that any man. claiming to be an intelligent
Democrat, can get along and keep posted
in the current political news and move
ments of the times, and take no paper but
the weekly published in his own county,
and indeed, sometimes not that? for our
local press is not half as well supported as
it should be. Democrats, everywhere must
wake up in this matter. Let central COM
mittees see to it that there is more gen.
eral subscription in support of our daily
and weekly journals, and if here and there
a man be too poor to take more than one
paper, let funds be raised to furnish anoth-
er gratuitously to such, and let these pa
pers when read be handed to our Republi-
can neighbors, who are growing weary OF
their own party sheets, and the effect will
be most salutary. Just try it friends, and
you will be astonished at the influence pro-
duced, especially when such speeches as
those delivered by Thurman at Marietta,
or Ranney at Wooster, or Pendleton, or
Van Trump. or levitt, or Vallaadigham at
other places are contained in them. Nc
man, (unless he be stone blind) can read
such speech as that of Judge Thurman, land
published recently in the STATESMAN, with
out seeing and feeling its force. The speech
itself is worth three times the price of the
WEEKLY STATESMAN for one year. Get it
friends-read it, and test the truthfulness
of this remark.
Let me then say to all who may read
this-go to work, and see to it that every
Democrat in your county takes some DEM
ocratic paper of State character as well
as the paper of the county. however good
that may be, and it will not be long till
shoddy rule will give way to that of justice
and righteousness. Light, light! light!
Twin do it. Light is what the masses need.
The news from California awakened the
friends of Constitutional law in this COM
munity into flsilade of joy! Such time
OF mutual congratulation is seldom seem
Then came the news from Maine, and Mon
tana, and even Vermont! Hobo!
Higher and higher rose the felicitations
of ALL Thanks to the DAILY STATESMAN
and Enquirer for bringing this good news
from far country. We are not without
hope that we may redeem this hitherto
black county from Abolition blight this
fall. The changes in our favor are many
and as said, even the leaders of the op-
position are despondent.
o, shoddy, shoddy!
1.-THE day of thy destiny is Ger,
And the star of thy doom 3 in the dawn. E"
Tile tide Is turning for the Democracy,
which, like that of the "Pontic Sea, whose
onward current and compulsive course has
no retiring ebb." S. S. S.
THE territory recently ceded to the Uni
ted States by Russia, according to mill
tary order issued by General HALLECK, is to
form part of California, and is to be called
the military district of Alaska. Two COM
nanieS of trnnns are assipneh a. tie na rri :