Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-10-07

this charge against Mr.. Russella Simply
these: He had attended two or three Of the
lectures of Mr.. and Mrs. Foster-he neg
lected to vote at an unimportant township
election, (athing done by hundreds Of dem
ocrats and wings in the different townships
of this county every spring and lastly neg
lecting to qualify, after having been elected
to township Office, not because he was
to take the oath required by the
laws Of, the land, but, because he had borne
the. burthens of township Offices which
yielded him no adequate compensation long
enough-and long before he had ever
thought Or heard Of the doctrines of this
band of disunionists, he had for neglect to
qualify under an election to township Office,
paid the forfeit required by law.
Now, these charges are preferred against
Mr., Russell for no other purpose than to
draw public attention from like charges
and the proof of their truth made against
the whig candidate for Sheriff. But the
editor of the Star-he who has such an un-
quenchable love of truth, and who has es-
tablished such character for truth and We
racity-for the purpose of carrying convic-
ton to the minds of the people Of the truth
of these assertions against Mr.. Russell, adds
the mighty weight Of his testimony. He
says that seven the last meeting held here
by Foster and wife, on Sunday the 2nc
day of August last we are told that Mr.
Russell, came down from Streetsboro' tc
attend and expressed after that time his full
concurrence in their obnoxious doctrines u
1t is not pretended that the charge brought
against him can be substantiated, from the
bare fact ofhaving attended their meetings
No; but that he has given 'his full concur
renee in their obnoxious doctrines" Mr..
Russell denies that there is the least shad-
ow of truth in this charge.
1t seems to be admitted by the Star, that
the entertaining of such sentiments should
disqualify man for receiving the votes of
the people for an Office of trust and import
ance; and to that sentiment we give as
hearty an "AMEN," as ever COL Frazer
did to the charge of Foster, that "the Con-
stitution is covenant with DEATH, and an
agreement with HE'LL" And we say, that,
if these charges be true, we ask not the
votes of the democracy in favor of man
who is obnoxious to such charges. And
dare the editor of the Star say as much?
No; for he knows full we'll that such char.
ges made against their candidate for Sher-
iff, are backed by the most unquestionable
proof He knows that they were not only
believed, but kno,c" by himself to be true
before the nomination. We rely for the
proof, not upon the fact that the Col at
tended their meetings, not that he tacitly
admitted their doctrine 10 be true--but that
he used the most active means in his power
to give them currency-and whether as
agent for the "Anti-Slavery Bugle," pa
per which reflects the sentiments of these
disorganizers, or as pedlar of Fosters
stBrotherhood Of Thieves" or as chorister
at their meetings, held far distant from his
abode, or as superintendent of the job of
erecting, on the Sabbath day, scaffold
from which they were to proclaim their
doctrines, he has been most forward Nor
is this all. Untilthe day of his nomination
he had attended all the meetings held by
these ,Uorthiss, when, on sudden he quit
them. And though Mr.. Foster and wife
discoursed in Franklin on the Sunday after
the whig nominating Convention he was moi
there, and we are not aware that he has
attended one Of their meetings since. We
are told further that Mrs. Foster at the
Franklin meeting declared that the Col.
"had fully committed himself to Obsr." But
the editer Of the Star asserts that "Col.
Frazer, has uniformly expressed his dissent
from the peculiar doctrines of the sect. u
Now, if such be true, (and the editor of the
Star kno,cs IL is not) why was it that one
who had followed him in the whole length o.
his mad career, when before the convention
which nominated him, he denied that he
"endorsed all their ultra doctrines, declar
ed that he had "denied his Lord and Sayior"t
Why was it that one, if not both, of the
publishers Of the Star declared that he
: could "get none but Abby Kelley votes.'
!, !, Such an array ofproof would convict 8
!, = man Of murder and stretch his neck upor
,c the scattold a spectacle for otber roo.,o,