The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-08-17
From the Statesman August 5th.
and False Charges Of the Jour
nal,

From the Statesman August 9Th.
Thel Exemption Lasy--The Silly
and False Charges Of the Jour
nal.
More of cool, deliberate falsehood
and prevarication, put forth with the in
tentjon to deceive, cannot be found than
in an article in Yesterdays Journal on
the subject of Homestead Exemption.
It says. -
The fact is that the last General As
scmhly, with amaiority il both branches
upon motion of Nh Stambaugh Demo
crat, postponed and killed homestead
bin exempting q thousand dollars. Mr.,
Godfrey, Democratic candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor. voted for the motion.
(Senate Journal for 1868, 562) 1T did
however manage to get through The SEN
ate bill exempting $500, with the help
ofal! the Republican votes. All the neg
alive votes were Democrats, sF ff5-F
The bill alluded to was that introduced
by Senator Berry, during the first ses-
sion Of the last Legislature In the pro
ceedings, on page 562 of Senate Journal
for 1868, it will be found that Mr.. Stam-
baugh submitted an amendment, to come
in rs section 3, as follows:
Section s. That it shall be lawful for
any resident of Ohio, being the head OF
family, and not the owner of a home
stead, to hold exempt from levy and sale
as aforesaid, personal property to be se.a
lected by such person, his agent or att
torney, at any time before sale, not ex-i
ceeding one thousand dollars IN value,
in addition to the amount of chattela
property now by law exempt The val
uc of said property to be estimated and
appraised by two disinterested house.
holders ofthe county, to be selected byr
the officer holding the writ, who shall be
sworn by said officer imparsially to make
such appraisement.
Fearing that the bill might not pass,
Mr.. Stambaugh, its firm friend, moved
that the consideration of the whole sub
ject, including the bill and proposed
amendments, be postponed until the
second Wednesday in January next,
which motion was agreed to-yeas Is,
navs 10.
On this motion, which, the journal
says s,postponed and killed the the Hometa
stead bill, Messrs. Biggs, of Hamilton;
Brooks, of Columbiana Conant, Of Pora
tage; Corey, Of Fulton; Griswold, Of.
Lorain; Hall, of Lucas; Kessler,. of
Hamilton Kramer, of Hardin Terrence
of Hamilton, and Yeoman, of Fayette,s
ten Republicans, all Radical, to eight
Democrats, voted in the affirmative. =
Against, it ten Democrats and but
four Republicans are recorded as vot:
ing -.
If, then, this vote s'posponed and kill
ed the homestead exemption, then the
death can be brought home to Radical
doors.
But while it postponed, it did not kill,
the bill, for at the next session, to which
it was postponed, it came up again, and
passed the Senate on the 9th of January
by vote of twenty-seven yess to but
five nays. OF these five navs, four
Messrs. Biggs, Stedman, Terrence and
9eoman-are hitter Radicals - fia7f i'ii
The same bin pessed the House by a
vote of yeas 56, to nays % Politically
the vote on it's passage stood: .5s5s48s
| Democrats Al
| Radicals .15
! EGai 8 10 RI
Majority Of Democrats 26
Against its passage:
Republicans 18
! Democrats 4
Majority of Republicans j'iH ia Il A.
Among its supporters in the Senate,
with the exception of Mr. Berry, its an
thor, no Senator gave it more devoted
support than Mr.. Godfrey, the Demo
cratic nominee for Lieutenant Cover
nor. go sstgt
The bill was not passed with the sshelp,
Of all the Republican votes" as charged.
! by the Journal. The exemption of pIoir
perty from taxation was eight hundred
dollars, and not three, as the journal
willfully, for partisan purposes mistates
it. Equally, if not more base, is the false
hood that in its passage through the
Senate aaH the Negative Uotes acre Delhi.
ocrats.' The negative vote, as we be-
4 fore stated, was one Democrat to five
Republicans. a s5st.asaaEs.
If such are the kind Of falsehoods that
the journal intends to give to its read
ers during the election campaign in
Ohio this fall, the inference is an irresis-
able one that its editor has abandoned
all hopes of success by fair means, and
is now trying the experiment of success
by willful and deliberate falsehood. -
The Dents Forever.i
Early after the inauguration, offices
and honors were heaped, like. Attila,s
bucklers, upon the heads of. the royal
house of Dent, You might have heard
here among certain -sagacious Western
men pertinently suggested the establish
ment of frms'' to go into the bfether-in-
law business" The suggestion, had
dropped from my mind until, rising from
my sick bed, hear the buzNngof fresh
smarm of fDents.-come out like locusts-
applying for satrapies in the South,
west
j One believes almost that there is
somewhere brokerage of this magic
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