Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-11-19
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The Ohio Legislature.

The Ohio Lesislatare.
This remarkable body adjourned last
May after the most protracted and ex
pensive session ever held in Ohio. tC
meet agnin On the 23d of November
What can this meeting of the Legislature
be for? Have the people not had legis-
lation enough for one year?
1t is thought by some that If quorum
is present on the 23d, the venerable body
will Immediately adjourn over until the
regular time in January. But how then
will this extrao .dinary meeting in No
vember be explained, or accounted for.
Has its necessity passed off; If 50, what
was il? Was IL connected with the
Presidential election. And ifso, was the
result OF the election unfavOrable to a
session at this time?
Many are ofthe opinion that even the
hungry Democracy would not have
thought of session of the Legislature
in November except to meet some fam
cied contingency that was expected to
grow out of the Presidential election
The late canvass has plainly enough de-
veloped what that contingency was. If
seymour and Blair had been elected the
principles of Blair's letter would proba-
bly, have been attempted to be carried
out, and johnson, who was expected to
be on the ticket in place of Seymour, was
expected to Immediately set about carry
ing out the expressed will of the people.
-.That the President elect should compel
the army to undo the usurpations o
Congress at the South, disperse the car
pet-bag State Governments, and TO exc
cute the will of the people by trampling
into dust the usurpations of Congress,
known rs the reconstruction acts ~
These were doubtless the sentim ents of
the Democratic Legislature. and its men,
bers expected them to be incorporated in
some way into the National Democratic
Platform; which doctrines IL attempted
to be carried out by force, as recommend
ed, would necessitate the raising of an
army. This would make it necessary
for the Democratic Legislature to be in
session soon after the election to compel
q Republican Governor to issue his proc.
lamation for troops to assist in trampling
into dust the acts of Congress. There
would then be another Democratic war,
and of course the Democratic Legislature
should be in session to manage it.
-'- Another contingency was that fore
tshsdowed by a number of the Democratic
leaders during the Presidential canvass.
That was, that the unreconstructed
StaIcS-NI NIEkiuid, tklSciSslppi uuu 1cAds
should vote for President and Vice
President, in defence of the laws of Con-
gress Aud if by their votes the Demo-
cratic nominees were elected, the Demo-
cratic party would fOrcibly inaugurate
them President and Vice President of
the United States. This was one branch
of Biair's theory. and understood by the
Democratic party, to trample the acts of
Congress into the dust, if by so doing
they could get into power. This would
have been revolution, and revolution
would have produced war, and war
would have made it necessary for the
Democratic Legislature to be i'm session
soon after the election.
But neither of these contingencies
have happened. They have happily
been prevented; not by the Democracy,
but by the election of General Grant, by
crushing majorities, in
dependent of the unreconstrueted nsates.
There will be no laws of Congress to
overthrow by the power of army, and no
electoral vote to count for Virginia, Mis-
sissippi and Texas. contrary to law. And
the Democratic Ohio Legislature will
scarcely know what it convened for, in
extra session, on the 23d of November,
1853. Possibly Messrs. Kennon and
Nichol could explain. The expenses OF
this extra session, Ii 1t lasts only for two
or three days, will probably not fail short
of $4,000. The taxpayers of Belmont
vePy much desire to know the occasion
of the present assembling of this lumin-
Gus body. Don't both speak at once.
TAXPAfEE.