Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-11

Look Ont for Agitation!
Yes, look out TOR agitation! tits coming
and is bound to be tremendous. There is /
nothing that can prevent it. The people
are arousing. They gather together at the
street corners of villages, towns and cities,
even In this cold weather, and they there
talk and gesticulate vehemently; and, in
fection like, this agitation is spreading into
the country. When it eliminates it will
be terrible-..an army with banners would
not be circumstance to it. The Legisla-
ture-the Democratic portion of it's to
blame. So say the Cincinnati Commercial
and several other Republican journals,and
they would not say SO were it not true
They are veracioas-they would have you
believe that the Bible is not more relia-
BILE. Indeed, there are great many Repub,i
licans who would sooner read the Com
mercidl and other Republican papers than
the Bible. Whether this is complimentary
to their taste is not for US to decide. We
digress slightly, however. This has no
immediate connection with the impending
agitation or its cause. The "Ohio Legisla-
ture," that is, the Democratic portion of it,
not seeing how the well-being ofour people
could be promoted in spending from five
hundred to one thousand dollars CT their
money by inviting Generals SHERMAN and
THOMAS, who were at Cincinnati, to accept
reception here at Columbus, declined to
tender reception. That reception would
have consisted of committee going to
Cincinnati to tender to these distinguished
Generals the invitation; then there would
have been q committee appointed to
go to the depot in carriages to re-
ceive the distinguished guests, and to
swell the escort, doubtless, the Mayor,
City Council and some leading citi-
zens would have been invited to
participate, and as the guests would be
military men, the Sherman Guards and the
Emmett Guards would have been invited,
and If the Negro company would not
have been included among the in
vited, then the Republican press OF
the State would have set up loud.
|unpacifiable bray. The procession would
have filed down High street, the General
Assembly beforehand having adjourned for
the day. The guests would then have been
taken to the rotunda of the Capitol, where,
in wrapt admiration, they would have
gazed upon the great paintings that ravish
the sight of all beholders, and said how
de-do to some of our ladies and gentle
men. Then there would have been a
sitting down of the invited guests and the
members of the General Assembly,
the Mayor, City Council and few OF our
leading citizens, to sumptuous dinner
with costly wines. The Press would have
been invited to write it up as a great and
grand demonstration. This is about all
the reception would have been, and the
cost of it, which would have been paid
out of the taxes collected from a people
who are now taxed beyond almost endu-
rance, would have been from .fue hundred
to one thousand dollars. It is much easier
matter for Legislative bodies and corpora
tions to vote away the money of the people
than not to do it; and we are glad that the
Ohio Legislature has decided against
squandering the money of the people
In these days of terrible taxation and uni
versal stagnation in business, upon recep-
tions that amount to nothing except in big
bills. Untilthe people throughout the State
shall get up Indignation meetings because
none of their money was squandered on
this occasion after the style and manner in
which it was squandered by Republican
Legislatures in times past, we will think
the Legislature did right in not going
into the Reception business. The less of
the peoples money the Legislature spends,
the more popular they will be. There is
no danger of spending too little of the
public money.