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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856<br />
Abstracts 2806 - 2809<br />
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - Ohio (Cont'd)<br />
"A man of ordinary intellect would have thought it better to appropriate<br />
the money to erect a building for a Deaf and Dumb Asylum, but Mr.<br />
Bresl in forsaw it was better to lose every cent of it and save the Ii berties<br />
of the people of Ohio." (17)<br />
2806 - L Feb. 16; ed: 2/2 - It would be scarcely possible to compress within<br />
a single article all the topics which a two day's sojourn at our state<br />
capital would naturally suggest. The first thing that strikes the attention<br />
of one who was in Columbus during the session of the last legislature<br />
is the decided improvement which the people last fall made in<br />
their choice of those to whose care they have intrusted their affairs.<br />
In the last legislature, it was a mark of distinction to be able to<br />
speak tolerably good Engl ish!<br />
There are, in eIther branch of our legislature, men qualified for any<br />
post within the gift of the people; and we hazard little in saying that<br />
their present duties are infinitely more vexatious and dangerous than<br />
those pertaining to a far higher post. (15)<br />
2807 - L Feb. 26; ed:2/2 - Mortification is shown at the open insult to<br />
Governor Chase at a military ball in Cincinnati on Feb. 22. While Governor<br />
Wright of Indiana was cheered by the crowd, Governor Chase was<br />
hissed. Chase showed that he knew how to maintain digni ty by leaving<br />
the banquet.<br />
"It was not Salmon Chase that was insulted but the Governor of Ohio,<br />
and in him evel'Y citizen of the State." (6)<br />
2808 - L Apr. 5; ed:2/l - In 1843, during the memorable contest in Congress<br />
waged by J. Adams in behalf of the right of peti tion, which grew<br />
out of his presentation of a memorial for the dissolution of the Uniona<br />
petition of which he disapproved, but which he contended should be received<br />
- the legislature of Ohio passed resolutions of censure against<br />
him and spread them on the journal. An effort is making in the present<br />
legislature to rescind these resolutions; and it is but justice that<br />
should be done. The effort in Congress to expel Mr. Adams for presenting<br />
that petition was a signal failure; and any censure that may have been<br />
cast upon him in moments of partisan heat was unworthy of those who suffered<br />
themselves to be betrayed into it. It is time to wipe the blot<br />
from the record. (3)<br />
2809 - L May 3; ed:2/1 - It has often been said that the only way in<br />
which the North could get along with the South would be to refuse her<br />
demands. This opinion does not meet with the approbation of pro-slavery<br />
men of any party. The argument against Mr. Chase last fall was that if<br />
people of Cincinati voted for him, southern trade would be lost to that<br />
city. Consequently Chase polled less than one-sixth of the vote. This<br />
and several other incidents convinced the union-savers of Cincinnati that<br />
they must stoop still lower or lose the trade of the South. Cincinnati
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