Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1869 — Ohio Democracy Illustration. [ARTICLE]

Ohio Democracy Illustration.

Once fafen yeqre fae people ofOhfa try the exoeriment oJ eiecting' a Demovnttse Legislature It is a dear concession to thd parti, <4 reaorton and despotism, but its rdßCftsare JftMual. so far as satissource is / generation as an awful example, and it ,nnrwe«rt■ is not too often to e*eMeyUfe lesson. In the case of the GenhAl Assembly which hwsend'Icmou has been a wetly one, to be well conned by the taxISSptWs. Our Columbua eorretipondent merlins the least item of expense in giving the direct butlav of. mileige and,, “■■jjh ifftM; which reached the tnipreOedent'd amoumu>io%r axjttarier of a mi”ion dollars —orA trine less than one hundred per that of jts Republican ‘ wtdedbrsnr oriHfif-7 We b&vehjidoc--o©«j»si«s/Inert trtore t> coinmenAt on the rifeffiHMßitifcapoß the statute 'book' that the Supreme Court t-et them aside for- glaring unconstitutionality. Testead OT repeal'u “■ * this rafamons iegisfation-st the-adjotirneu eessi ->n, ihqy fre»ttfunlier, and white they utterly ignored the gross abuses of the -..-fiegtiyefranchise whloh had bum pirpeduring the canvass oflß6Sby means <jJi’f tra-hi’eti natvra ixatio 1 p,pr s, they u> wreak lhtir P al aD( i vlndic- •* Wh spite upon an innocent dasrf by prescribing penalties of unliVard-of k £tyverity for such infractiota of the law by colored ePiaens as were only punished in the mildest form when committed by others. Thus, while assuming' the name Democratic, A P ut .'’ ll record an unprecedented dtsuhetion in the penalties prescribed for an strtraclion. of tae same law by different .daaaea _ . '. In bringing tlw power of the party caucus to beaxTn fayor of a law changing the . bafijs of yepfestDla'ion in the State Board Lr »of SAgrfcultnre, and even passing a bi'l t • <*^ r ,I *hp u ’n’ ,£e tl.'rough the Hoose, which * only jailed thcSt-nate for want -*4 of time, they made the first attempt known ft* of <wr State, to fcive a pirtiß&u to the Board. ’’ ‘‘ BKdAbasdhr n law .to tex the bonds of —lhfij>ilki£ oLPkiSi. ’ taj deliberately violated a solemn agreement made “with the creditejmof tin? •, and,bv extendin' this act to include'the borilso'f the pniteci om Sfe’q ufMkm by pfece themselves tm ttie recor. 1116 “ H ' st •bßga- * f ttWpS? arts tnsble even the least rtbservant Blf Ip might be expected if the party anß oi J l S*M lto nF e S e fnttusb d with the Jlations* GSterrnrrent. • The highest possible eviCfßfft»n<tT<d the Mterdj?regard of ttbe Dmau-. wr ttbty .again exhibit he utter re klcs-neseof ibcparjy,whichcaiuniitted it of the iuterestsMl the mtddHngandlower • ■ -w-fvßw < -of-society? The tex-payer f ig ip. qui’ed to .4sr,j tite mmount of bonds for taxation which have been declared the e “P*r from.taiatims. .■ -"The weehoMcrsm bonds, sdeh-astbank'-irtW' J H» l l3fH<ii>«i brag- ia easy «re#jy ino»n(Bnityfrointhiß IWocratio l*w, just.aa tog co ewstenthe pTcprietbrsbHheldMlfagpenio"Wlte journal of the Stete eseapfd the texatiirnmLsCTeulkua^ieJsof greenbacks; but tbUa'Na’a,Wifo* and the eveyy day t-i 11 Jfr!??'«*_*■' t«l have* Jew bunMriwdby ifi aMimtaliiSAtilecoM,n4*ch the so--05 Sffir mass of > We*pew4«*»wisßo‘RdlFpjotc<i a the QtO»3T«ttl If t the j’MeOTWehaW'lnenttbfcW'Win ddaJ samal AeeaubJy of Mw

lyoM traqueably jlimedlOl for /heir pereoMl Mrulffirt* We do ribt propose W«t*fik either. Many of them .we know personally to bo fsir-mind-ttt tneninevrtythlwgbm toUMce, and their offic al history aflonis a strong illrttration of tow dttoriif powprlaH of rMetuce are Itdividaai vlrtue’ind ability in men elected by the Bourbon Democracy to abide the action of Democratic caucna *We hate Men. duiifll the tht’ / *B se-sions which fIU JtwlXthjmaji&ty b bold—ohe of which was order d for the avowed purp,* oi “ Impeaching ” Congrr ’I that *DM* thereii* frr ndepamienoe which' a Dome critic candidate nominated for tVkilabfflty %>ay rsem to posme while awi-J-iMlhe suffrages of h’s noghbon d’sapoeart *>rever from view when he telo bi* official seat, end he becomes only a ffnk fa the Dfmbcrgtte cxncua dhain wilh which to 1 id t’ : members to whatever policy *.e majority of the caucua determine. fa the appniahhfag'exnva* for the election of a new Legislature it wi'l l a well for voters ' > bear ia mind, when urged to support it ir talented and genial Democratic neighbors for the Iz-gislature, that the walking majority of the Democracy ia the last Legislaturwwas obtained by ■just meh appeals, and : yielded abject service to the me st atrocious requirements of the party caucus.— Cincinnati CbronicU.