Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-05-13
Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
Tinnicum, MGy 7, l846.


GENT LEMEN:-In my last promised to
introduce you to some of the great men Of
this city, and to endeavor SO to set forth
some of their Characterised that you might
be able to form distinct conception of what
the elements are which constitute their greats
ness. Before entering however, upon the
nsideration Of this subject, you will allow
me to animadvert little, upon some of the
causes which have conduced 10 call forth the
sleeping energies ofthese wonderful men,
to drive from their cool retreats these Lions
of the north.
| In the summer of AS, year notorious for
it's many plaques and pestilential visitations,
upon this devoted city, as upon many other
places in the vicinity; a descent was made by
those "imps of darkness" Cog and Magog,
attended by their usual emmissaries, which
was productive of effects strange and myste>
rious.' Invited here and cherished by him,
their ratreat was in the castle Of the pc oples'
watchman on the Union towers,-they were
puffed and aattered by the SO self.styed ''ce-
leslial' of the place; while broods of infatu-
ated admirers. lowered around them, collect
ed from all the streets and lanes, the high
ways and the hedges; who heard, believed,
and rolled as sweet morsels upon their
tongues, tie words and doctrines, the delu-
sion and fanatlcism ofthese imbittered spirits.
So perfectly we're they infatuated by the
vi als of wrath poured out upon them, that,
clinging to their charmers, like the victim to
the serpant W hich beguiles it, they followed
them to distant parts, giving them freely Of
their store and treasure. Not this only, when
they were gone, day after day, by its solemn
peals, the warning bell would summon to the
conelave, those who loved the poor down.
trodden and oppre ssed: when all the tender
hearts in Tinnicum, would hasten to the
sanctuary, and mingle there their streams OF
sympathy and love. Here first burst forth
the towering genius and maiden eloquence of
those champions to which have referred.-
Here, for the first time in Tinnicum, as they
believe, were tapped truths pure fountains,
whose streams, like those of Jerico, have
flowed, with blighting influence, through all
the towns and hamlets of the shire. Here,
commenced that new era in our public dis
pensations, which is destined to overturn all
our che rished institutions, and sap the foun.
dations of our moral and political fabric.
(provided everthat its principles prevail, and
in which will be sounded the kneH Of liberty,
rather than, as they profess, the trumpet of
its resurrection. Rather than lep off the dry
and withered branches of our fail and fruitful
tree, whose shadow and sweet influence is
spreading over the whole earth; like the
canker-worm and fre-blight, they seek to
kill its root, blast its most comely branches,
and blot its whole existence from the face of
the earth. f4's 1870 g, s~
Batod as they were, it could not be presum-
ed that these agents malignity, would new
er again seek to gull, and prey upon the sons
and daughters of Tinnicum. Humanity must
again put on her bushes, and virtue han q her
head in shame, at the rude and vile attacks
made to dismante, and rob them Of their
honor. Before these desparadoes "mortal
made,'' age, with its furrowed cheeks and
bending form, and hoary hairs,.-the rever end
to the spiritland, ,-afford no shield
youth and beauty, the bright emblems of un- |
sullied virtue, innocence, and heart un-
scared ward not offthe blighting influence Of
their pestifterous touch; and manhood, with
It's vigorous strength, and agile mien, and
quick and piercing sense. has proved unequal
to Withstand the shafts of Magog, though
dog's, hurled with greater strength, and Dip