Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-05-27

Fifty-Eighth General Assembly.
After three sessions, says one OF
our able exchanges, covering more
time than any of its predecessors,
the 5Sth General Assembly of Ohio
adjourned on the 7th instant. Not
enly unparalleled in this respect.
but its cost to the people is still
more clearly unprecedented. Com
ing into power under the cry and
promise of "Reform," it has done
more to promote extravaganza and
demoralize the public ser:ice than
has any other. 1t found the State
treasury full and adequate to every
lawful claim; and it leaves it bank
rupt and unable to meet the demands
made upon it by legislation. In
stead of reducing the expenses in
Cured bv the Republican Assembly
which Democracy pronounced ex
travae ant and wasteful, it has more
than doubled them.
But the financial feature of thl
ease, bad as it certainly is, is les:
Objectionable than the unparallele.
fartizan character of the Legislation,
of the body just adjourn d. Fron
first to last. the ruling spirits in the
majority seemed to regard it as
their sole duty SO to exercise thei'
accidental power as to the creates:
possible extent to advance the il
'erests of the Democratic party
and to this end. they hesitated al
nothing that the forms of legislation
If ght possibly accomplish. Cor
stitutional rights were treated as OF
not the slightest account. Uniform
and repeated decisions of the high
est courts of the State and Of tn
Nation. were set at naught with as
little consideration as though the
were the resolutions as ward eau
Gus. The dearest civil interests of
the citizen, equally with rights +
property, if found in the way OF
nartizan ends. were violated withou'
b tatiOn. And this, too, by tn
party, which, throughc ut the stru.-
gle of the nation tor existence
against rebellion. was SO clamorou
for constituti ,nal rights an,;
would not consent that the life o.
the Republic should be saved, l.
thereby a disloval citizen was to be-
deprived of his ability to give ''aid
and comfort to rebels in arms We
venture to assert, that of the 5Sth
bodies Of the kind which have leg
islated for the people of Ohio, MOI
one has equalled the last in the ex
tent of its partizan action ofits con
tempt for constitutional rights.
The record of this Legislature is
now made up, and npon it the Dem
ocratic party of Ohio is to be place':
on trial. The responsibility for its
action has at no time been doubtful
From the first day of it's session, the
Democratic majority in both houses
has been undisputed The Repub
lican minority has been utterly help
less, and can in no respect be hel,t
responsible for the proceedings
The Democratic caucus. so often
announced from the Speakers chair.
shaped and dictated all measures OF
a partiZan character. and its author
itv was omnipotent in both Houses
Whatever was there Tin panied" :"
was made law by the rigorous ex
actions of party discipline Moth
ing OF fact or reason was sufficient,
to defeat a measure that had the
sanction of that secret cahal Under
such state Of things, there can he no
dispute as to responsibility, and the
Republicans OF Ohio challenge the
authors Of the last two years legis-
lation to trial before the jury of the
State.