The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-01-17
THE JOURNAL


We lay before our readers this week
the Address Of Gov. Hayes, delivered
to the Legislature at bis, Inauguration
last Monday. aIh- all respects il is an
excellent and practical document Its
briefness alone, which is not the least
ofits merits, will insure its prompt Pc
rusal generally by the people. After
paying a merited compliment TO his
predecessor, Gov Cox, on the score Of
culture, ability aud integrity, Gov.
Hayes reviews briefly splne prominent
aspects Of the past political and finan-
cisl history Of The State, and then, IN a
respectful but decidedly pointed man
ner, presents TO the Legislature his
views on the course the Legislature
ought to take in its action. . is-ia f.
It's to Be inferred from his remaik ks
on the question Of taxation, that Gov
ernor Hayes believes the Republican
policy is shaping itself toward the sup
port Of the doctrine of taxing U. S.
bonds the same as other property. This,
we take it, is what he means by saying
snow men of all parties concur in the
''opinion that. as rule every citizen
Ought to be'taxed in proportion to the
actual value Of his property, without
regard 10 the form IN psich he perter,
80 inpcst It." This is what Congress
the only authority competent to levy
aud collect taxes on Government bonds
lis aiming to accomplish. 1t is the
marrow of all the financial measures
proposed. .as aso9
The Governors reference to the his
t1ry of the Equal Rights question il
this State; his showing how the move
ment has grown in popular favor since
the adoption of our present State Con,
ttitution; and the expression of hit
i.ith, supported by the fsess and figures
of the past, that the principle viii even.
,uaIly be carried into practical opera
ton, must have been a bitter pill fol
the rebel-sympathizing Democratic
Legislature to swallow. The giving Of
equal civil and political rights to al
classes is only question Of time. The
temporary success of the disorganizing
.lemoralized element Of Democracy IL
our politics may delay, or it may has
ien.that time. We incline TO the opinion
.ahat the Democracy win be so injudi,
i9us, rabid and virulent in power, that
the one great political reform of this
ueneration,-yiz: the practical recog
milton of the rights of all men, regard
less of race or color, to an equal partici
patton in the administration of the gov
,rument-will be, hastened instead o
retarded. - is -o'sf"-- ?
The Democratic Legislature Of ohic
has already, in a very striking manner
exhibited specimen Of rabid legisla'
uon, which truly illustrates this viev
of the case; we aliide to its action II
withdrawing the assent of Ohio TO al
Amendment TO the Constitutions of tn
limited States, which the last Genera
Assembly ratified, and which is almos
As Important in the work Of Reconstruc
ron as the Amendment abolishinI
layery itself. Gov. Hayes could nc
avoid reference to this matter,-and b
certainly put pith and point in hi
necessarily brief allusiO6. The Peopl
of Ohio have heretofore given their en-
rhatic assent to the Amendment ]
question, and the oyernor submit
that if any necessity has since arisen
Justify the withdrawal of the assent
The State, that necessity has not bee
brought to the attention of the public
that it would be better to postpor
action on it until the people could agal
have the opportunity of passing on
themselves. But Needless alike
caution and advice, the rabid Den
ocracy blindly carried out their pr
rramme by passing the resolution wit
drawing the assent of the State to Il
ratification of the Amendment.
1t is bad enough to have rebe
sympathizing Legislature, but the SIT
alton would have been worse 1t u
Democracy had succeeded IN electll
State officers. We are not compell'
to read the unrepublican and unpat
ot;e messages of Democratic Cove
nor Let any one refer to that part
Gov. Hayes Address in which ne CO
Graduates the Legislature and the pc
nle that State questions growing out
the wa, are so nearly settled by exist
laws as to require no additional iegls
ton, and then imagine the style
which Democratic Governor wot
have referred to the same subject
stead Of the admirable commencem' !
Of the paragraph: "The part which
triotism required Ohio to take IN
War 10 suppress the Rebellion dc''
we aboald have had: ''The unfOrtun
and eyer-to-be regretted part whlct
aespotie administration acting u =
rant violation of the Constitution &C
- k,l-a IN carrvlrO on