Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-08-13

represented according to their members. She |
won't send an united delegation belonging to |
one party to represent only faction OF the |
county. &inorlties can be represented. Their
rights can be respected. II is an approach to
perfection in good government that parties
may hare representation according to their
numbers and strength. In Hamilton county,
the way il has been, which ever party has the
sends a solid delegation there, and
every vote is gievn In the partisan interest of
the majority. With this 1t all ceases, and
there are chances for other parts OF the State.
When they want to do any particular thing
they send men there interested for that busi>
ness and they can carry it through by having
suca strength, solidIty and union among
them. This makes that virtually Improbable,
and that is d good thipg-mincrity representa-
ton.
There are many things in this new Constitu-
tion that should recommend it TO the people.
have talked here some time. There are q
great many other reasons would like TO give
We won't have such chances for years to come,
perhaps, OF effecting these great improvements
over the past. With this Constitution adopted
1t seems TO me 1t will put Ohio in the van of all
the other States in the way of her Constitu-
tion as she Is almost the first State, If not the
first in the reputation of her own people and
her distinguished sons. Let Ohio take no
backward step and cease wearing the old gar
ments she put on % or "a years ago and which
she has out-grown. For the % or "a years to
come she needs new garments perhaps more
than she did then. Let Ohio be clothed anew.
Why there were sixty-five lawyers in the
Constitutional Convention. What If there
were ? What if all of them were lawyers, or
were farmers: What has that to do with the
approval of this Constitution? II there were
those men there who for 81 per day would ab-
sent themselves from home, bear their own
expenses, sacrifice their own business and
stay there through protracted session to
make Constitution, are nol they interested
in the State as welisas aEy other people. Who
else had the time or The inclination? Who
else was well fitted to work with patience, who
would toll SO long to do this as these men
They are 10 be governed by it, Gentlemen.
their work is before you for approval in that
way, No party now uses its whip over the
head of any man to say how he shall vote. No
party calls its ConventioE.until after this elec-
tion is over. Men of all parties approve, men
of all parties oppose, 1t. Those who do, let
them give some reasons. Over here in Cad1z
an United Presbyterian clergyman made the
wonderful discovery, the other day, and
preached great sermon against the Constitu-
ton because in the close Oft "Done In Con-
stitutional Convention in the year 1874" the
words OF our Lord 4" were left out. He said ii
was in the old one and it was left out on pur'
pose, because +" the infidels demanded 1t, and
there was mo recognition there of God AL
mighty" in the Constitution. Why in the
very preamble in the first line it says " Crate
ful to Almighty God for our freedom" &c.
and SO on. That is enough. What does
he want more?. But "our Lord is left out
guess be thinks it is a kind of Unitarian in
strument and ought not to be adopted. AND
our good old Methodist clergyman writes
piece in the Commercial to tell you that wonder
fLl discovery and show it is an "infidel" docu
ment and ought to be upset. don It sympa
thize with either of these persons or with an!
other persons who want such things in or out
They have no business in these laws. Tn
whole theory of this Government is founded
on other principles-no established State re
lligions; nothing of the kind. Every man ha
a right to hold his own religious connection
whether he holds any or not. Nobody is Il
condemn him on that account in this country
Thank heaven for thatl We are not to b
any such things; and these men who desire t.
claim to put that in. do not like that; sucl
fanaticism, such hide-bound prejudices ar
unworthy of men.
Gentlemen, hear these things, examine tina
Constitution, see these changes-and these ar
only some. leave the discussion OF others t
|, Judge Cowen. They, all of them, show tina
, these improvements are worthy an effort t
, have them adopted. 1t SO, vote for the neN
, Constitution. They cannot be adopted in an
z other way. lit falls, 1t all falls. They hav
been telling us betore-they tell us now-w
/ can amend the old Constitution. 1t has bee
. tried and all the time utterly fails. 1t canno
be done.
, have given you some reasons why fave
the new Constitutian-why am in earnes
and anxious lit should be adopted on accour
1 of the great improvements in it; the advance
ments OF our material interests on accour
y that such improvements are just and equitab
e and right and proper to be made and ought I
I be; and without it, it seems as though all tt
s labors of This Convention would go for ough