ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1817 - 1820
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - State (Cont'd)
1817 - H&G Oct. 31; ed:2/2 - "The official majority in favor of the
amendments to the Constitution of Pennsylvania is 3,364. The old roof
must be pulled off. The people have so decided.
"May the new prove a good one to the Keystone." (1)
1818 - H&G Dec. 21; ed: 2/1 - The Legislature of Wisconsin assembled at
Madison on the 26th of November. On meeting, the sages of Wisconsin
were in a queer predicament. The State House was unfinished and could
not be occupied, and the members could not find sufficient accommodations
at the hotels, leaving liquor out of the account. The Secretary
had no stationery. Resolutions were offered in both Houses to adjourn,
in consequence of want of accommodations.
"The best plan to save the enactment of bad laws and prevent long
sessions yet devised." (2)
1819 - H&G Dec. 28; ed:2/1 - Mark the militant course of the organ of
Locofocoism and Martin Van Buren in this state.
The OHIO STATESMAN declares that Government in Pennsylvania is at
an end, and the people must instantly proceed to elect delegates to a
Convention to organize a new one and create a new Constitution in the
capaci ty of a Terri tory under the protection of the National Government,
if found necessary!
The same mob-sustaining paper contains a call for a meeting in Columbus
of members of the Legislature, strangers, and citizens to give
the aid of public opinion abroad in helping forward the threatened revolution
in Pennsylvania. It speaks of a crisis at hand, and says it
is the duty of Obio to furnish troops to quell civil revolutions in any
section of our confederacy. To the Pennsylvanians now in Ohio an appeal
is made not to be indifferent to the struggle now raging in Pennsylvania
between the People on one hand and the Federal Aristocracy on the other!
"Such is the sympathetic mob spirit evinced at our own capitol - the
bitter fruit of the law-defying reign of Jacksonianism, and a fearful
foreshadowing of the anarchy Locofocoism would establish and uphold."
(5)
1820 - H&G Dec. 28; ed:2/1 - The OHIO STATESMAN, prominent Locofoco organ,
in speaking of the Harrisburg, Pa., outrage in which a mob drove the
Legislature from the capitol city, says: "The Government in Pennsylvania
is at an end, and the people must instantly proceed to elect delegates to
a .convention to organize a new one, and create a new Constitution in the
capacity of a Territory under the protection of the National Government,
if found necessary."
The writer for the STATESMAN appeals to the natives of Pennsylvania
settled in Ohio, not to look supinely on with folded arms, apparently
indifferent to the termination of the struggle which is now raging between
the People on one band, and Federal Aristocracy on the other!
(H) "Such is the sympathetic mob spirit evinced at our own capitol -
the bitter fruit of the law-defying reign Jacksonism, and a fearful foreshadowing
of the anarchy Locofocoism would establ ish and uphold." (5)