Year: 1868

What sweet boon we have in our


Democratic Legislature. What a


a gush of supreme content fills US all


when we lean back and contemplate


its harmonious majority in whole and


In detail. What treasure it is to


the cause of broad minded, large


hearted progress; what gilt edged


commentary on the nobility of free


government; what q monument to


human intellect and sagacity; what


a shining credit to civilization; what


an ornament to the century; what a


blazing breastpin on the shirt front
of contemporary history!


In ancient times all roads led to


n - So pow for statesmanshin


martial genius, and oratorry5, sVehfS


eye turns to Ohio. The country con
cedes that the Coming Man is an
Ohioan, though ignorant of his 9th
er name. We have Grant, Sherman,


Chase, Sheridan, Groesbeck, Pendle-
ton, Ben Wade, and a dozen others,
all regarded as pre- emihently the
men of the era. Some States have
but a dew of national regulations -
Ohio has heavy shower of them
And, as if Providence intended to
rain renown on us for forty days
and nights, we have also a Demo-
cratic Legislature. The more we
learn of this great blessing the more
we wonder at the startling partiality
that naturei is showing Ohio.


Ordinarily the. dame insists on
her system of compensation. But
after pelting us with nuggets of
precious ore, she fairly knocks us
over with that ponderous brick of
gold, our Democratic legislature
'Tis well. If the country drafts our
great men into its broader service,
we must have hot-bed for the fore
ing of new ones. Such a conserva
tory our Democratic Legislature
promises to be. For every rose
plucked from the parterres of our
goedly State, the Democracy pro-
pose to plant a magnolia, trusting
that no nipping frost in the shape o:
a reaction will come to blight the
tender shoot, or dwarf it SO that it
will be choked with Republican gim-
sons and rag-weed.


To convince ourselves that our
Democratic Legislature is engaged
in Horticulture of this sort we have
only to learn something of the guano
it uses in the garden beds. There
is the fertilizing "Visible Admixture
Law" This Is warranted to grow
white roses in the shape of Demo
cratic majorities. This particular
kind of manure has been known to
produce fungus called the White
Liver and Tin time of war) the
White Feather, but such men as
voted for the law have been known
10 carry concealed nosegay of the
irst, and decorate their hat band
with sprig of the second.


In gardening it is necessary to
1proot no less than to plant and to
The law disfranchIsing stu
tents who are imprudent enough to
20 to college, is an uprooting law
Education is succulent grass, and
las a vexatious tendency to spread,
10 the detriment of the Democratic
So up comes the grass
Is far as Democracy can effect its
.xtirpation. In passing that law the
,arty was entirely consistent with
ts past, present and future. No
,ody has right to complain. The
moment a Copperhead becomes
Transformed into penetrable stuff, he
8 lost. Colleges tend to make men
,enetrable to reason and philosophy.
30 Democracy fears and seeks to
blight them. De-li-ci GUS Democ-
acy!


Then there is the law disfranchIs-
ng crippled Union soldiers. we
will not speak of that from the nor
icultural point of view, except 70
,ay that the Legislature in spreading
hat over the Democratic field Is dll- l
using an odor that smells to heaven,
md tempts every decent man to hold
,is nose. What political gam can ]
.esult from the disfranchisement of &
mem mangled in cause that has had +,
he seal Of grand success, and has