Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-05-13

did no; you support Mr.. Darius Lyl-
man, the anti,mason nominee, for Gov
ernor? and, sir, was not your Presiden.
tial election ticket made up with some
Nationals and some Antics? Examine
where your influence has been cast.
Now as these deceptive plans had not
elected Henry Clay, what was the
next great and general plan that was
next laid by the Fedetalists to entrap.
ensnare and bring to the ballot box,
the unsuspecting and the ignorant por>
ton Of the community, Why, sir, did
you moi conclude that there must be, d
deeper and more plausible plant Now,
Fsir for the plan: 'Whig' IS a venerable
old namel Let us assume that name,
and blow ourselves up to be real ,ohigs.
Under this name, and by this course, it
lis thought will be the best and most
likely way TO succeed. Agreed on all
sides of the house; yes, agreed gentle.
men! Now for home TO set oar energies
at work in proclaiming osrselyes w6igst
and in so doing we will deceive our
thousands! Well, sir, in your great
blow OF whiggery you did not succeed;
but in looking over and making calcu-
lations, your party found that through
those former deceptive plans, they had
gained some strength; well, gentlemen,
tas we have not succeeded in our object,
now what must be done7 We will look
over little and see. On examination
we find that the anti.masonic excite
ment had wonderful efiect amongst the
Methodlsts and Bap,ists, and those of
them that got led into our own ranks
by the means OF ami masonry we kept
through the course Of whiggery and
now there is but little danger, we can
retain the major part Of them, let our
process be what it will: and we find al
so from our past management. that all
Of the low, mean, bigoIed and supersti.
tlous passions Of men must be appealed
10 in a greater strain than ever in order
10 carry our point; we see that the
christians Of several denominations are
on our side and they will! bear anything
that we devise, let it be ever so mean.
base and wicked in ITSELF we'll, what
must be done2 Why, in ths frst place.
I we must subject all our noble passions,
principles, Gf we have anyy and con.
solidate all of our factions, and come
out upon the one general principle Of
humbuggery, and raise great hue and
cry!-Belween the two, Henry Clay
and General Harrison, was ii not con.
ceded by the Harrisburgh Convention,
that, as they were situated, they could
make the best push On Harrison, and
for this reason was the plan concocted
of electioneering by the means oil build.
ing log cabins; by the aid of hard ci.
der to strengthen their ambition to per-
form their duty in so laudable an under
taking, they ornamented those cabins
in II splendid manner with all sorts of
trumpery, such as OK yokes, hog yokes,.
dried pumpkins. owl skins, hawk skins.
&c. What were the general effects
ofthe plan that was concocted at Hal
risburgh? In addition TO the above was
not sea & land, lakes, rivers & canals,
compassed to make proselytes? Were
not voters to be imported by the simiF.
itude Of pipel Was not the throne Of
grace besieged In behalf Of the whiE
cause by those that possessed o, suffi-
cient spirit of audacity 10 do soi-wwas
not the throne Of grace bssieged az
some Of those log cabin meetiHgs for
their success in making prOselytesi-
did they moi then 60 on drinking their
sour cider with old rusty tin vessels,
and old gourds, and in some cases With
vessels not fit 10 be named, gnawinR
old beef and pork bones at the sui,e
time7-was not their services attended
with the nibbling Of jonny bread in a
very curious manner, and az proper in.
tervals between praying, drinking and
gnawing, did they not sing those songs
SO curiously invented and adapted to
these cases. and oft times would thew
not break ou! in loud acclamations and
sing 'goit Tip and Come II Tyler,' .hur-
rah for log cabins and hard cider and
in conjunction with proceedings were
not some preachers, with deacons. and
other church members, warmly enQag,
ed on the stump, and did thew moi tE'sans sal,cs
ton all Of these proceedings as being of
great utihty2 How many were there,
sir, that esteemed themselves genile-
men that had their wives and daugh-
ters aproned, but not sir with clean lamb.
skin or white aprons, but aprons paint
ed with different cmbiems, such as log
cabins, hard cider barrels, and other
paintings that were in unity with. the
sense Of the campaign! Twill mention
one incident, you no doubt well recol-
lect: There was a great Temperance
party in operation previous 10 the sit.
ting that great and notable conven.
tion that met at Harrisburg; after their
deliberations were made known fotheir