The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-01-31

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delude themselves with the vain
notion that by yielding one-Asli
the other can be made securd.L
Such "sops to Cerberus" never 81.
lence the tripple-headed dog Of
fanaticism, And there is but One
way to deal with q revolution
either to go with it totally, Ind
ahead of it, or fight it every Inch
and crush it. We hitherto have
not SO fought the battle, and,Iby
consequence, we have gone down
before the bold, dashing charge Of
the Black Knight with his visor|fp.
And so ii, has ever been; and sd 1T
will ever be, world without endls /
can not add Amen; it "sticks may.
throat" For still l would .reaiem-
ber the sublime old Roman. maxim,
and Eeyer despair of the Republic;
for even now, with more than eisht
hundred millions Of paper monty,
having no other basis than credit
upon credit, fQur7ply, and a ta&a,
ton, State and Federal Cor Imber
rial), quite equal in amount, / ann
not sure that a "blessed strandidg"
in theway Of finance might notIat
any moment, prove the very salfa-
ton of the ship in her last lurchI-
For, as M. Guizot, in his Hsst0rg of
CromtoeU, profoundly obseryes:5kft
is by exhaustion and necessity that
God imposes justice and good sense
upon nations" ~, .a. .',o'l,, {,
Meantime, however, deriving such
satisfac tion--and it is both great
and sweet--as springs from the re-
cent decisions of the Supreme
Court of the United States, con-
victing Abraham Lincoln and his,
Administration of high crime
against the Constitution and pubic
and private liberty, / confne NY
self now chiedy-haging no oAb-
bage-garden to cultivate, especial
lyiduring the present cold snap u
to- the studies and labors of iny
profession, and am content lust
now to look on in politics, and
await with faith and patience The
work of slime, the eorrector ind
avenger.p @ 10 nonGbmo. .dLfli1.
Two suggestions only I would
make mostaespectfully: ,Sa< r.
/. Ought we not forthwithto
begin to agitate- for convention of
all the States, to meet and adjust
upon the basis Of the fundamental
principles of the old Constitution
and the Union, the new and mo-
mentous questions, and the alter
ed condition of things arising out
of the late wars and If the "bar,
gain" which our fathers made for
the sake of securing a Union and
Federal Government at all, as to be
set aside under pretense of estab-
exact justice and equity,
and States are to be dealt with as
the mere creatures of the Federal
will and pleasure, and divided, con-
sOlidated and moulded to suit the |
fashion of the hour and the inter
est of those who can secure and
hold the power, is it not a good
time now to demand that the gross
lniquity of the present senatorial
representation should give way to
equality before the law,n and that
in re-settling the great question of
suffrage upon the theory of Sim
partiality," three millions of cyan
KEGS" shall no longer be permitted
to vote twelve Senators. while three
million of Buckeyes" are gracious
y allowed to vote but two! Would
New England, think you, see the
point? --.i.r u
2. Without single representa-
i've man to whom all defer, in any
department. of the Federal Govern
nent, or any State Government in
he North or West, and without
wen general committee always
n session, and having the conf
lence of the party, and therefore
without any means to give unifor-
nifty, concert and promptitude to
he opinions and actions of the
democratic party, upon the sud
len and very grave questions,
which, in the midst Of a revolution,
very day brings forth to perplex
nd divide, what that party needs
most now, is it not a first class
ally newspaper, say at Washing
on = like the old Washington l
on its pecuniary ,
totally Democratic in
IS politics, controlled by no clique, s
only on the Democratic
1asses for support, the reflex of
heir sentiments, devoted heartily {
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