OHIO -PROSNRIpII0N-
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l We alluded, few days ago, to the abroga- i ton of the contract made under the law 0 l Ohio with the editor of the Statesman for the execution of the printing for three years, by

 the accidental federal majority in the State i legislature. The law under which the con.

 tract was made appointed the mode in whcl 1 the printer was 10 be removed, (il at all : aud this was part of the contract. twas on charges made and trial by the legislature i But there were no charges that could be d. leged and established; and hence, to get rid of him, they were obliged to deny him trial

 and sweep him out by the mere will of the majority, repeating the law; yet he had been induced 10 invest means to comply with the three years contract, 1t being secured for that time by the express terms of the law. unless he committed some offence which would ius- tiiv his removal, upon trial and judgment against him and yet he is turned out, while a whole year of the contract remains unex- pired, merely because his political opinions did not agree with those of the maiorty.- Upon the principle of this act of prescription, there IS no covenant which man can enter

 into with his government, that may not be annulled at any moment by majority which conceNes a dislike to the individual, from a political or any other cause.

 Next in character to this proceeding. is the assaultupon the board ofpublte works This board consisted of three members. By a single act, these men, whose official tcrms extended to one and two years, were legis- lated out, and three others, with advanced salaries, leqislated in. But the act did not stop here. Unwilling 10 trust their own in- struments-the men of the board. to whom was given the appointing power-lhey made the law itself the instrument of vengeance, by providing that, on the lst of April, the place of every collector, engineer, superintendent, inspector, and lock tender, on all the line ol public works, should become vacant. Il is safe to say that, by this arbitrary act ofpowcr, In the repeal of one law. and the enactment of another, aud by one single clause in this new act, at least two hundred men are dismiss sed from the public service, and that merely for their political opinions, 10 make place for a horde of federal partisans. And yet this is the party in whose name the National lntel- ligencer now puts on the meekness of saint, and with whose voice the smooth-tongued editors oi that caating print descant against prescription for opinion's sake, and the dan gers and impropriely of rotation in office The first of lawgivers hath written it in his code, s'thal. with whatsoever measure ye mete, it shall be meted to you again." Let the mtelligencer look al these things; and, know ing them, consider how far, in dcprecatine the rightful exercise of political power prop erly obtained, Il brands itself and its party as dissemblers, who, to glut the full malice of prescription, have overrdden all the barriers of law, scofied at the contract rights of men

 legally acquired, and trampled with their un- holy feet upon the constitution of one of the States of the Union. Globe.