Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-03-04
Bebb at Home.

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one of the strongest men of his party
in the State, and that he will beat Tod
"aH hoHo,o" OF the October contest
The following account ofa great gath.
ering Of the wings of Butler county, TO
respond TO the nomination of their fel-
low citizen, and to hear him spout his
eloquerce, we copy from the Hamilton
Butler county, Telegraph. Surely
this Bebb must be one OF the tall coons
to call together such vast congrega.
tion:
FRIEND SToKEs:-This day may not
have been the least in the history of the
Wing party in Ohio. This day was a
rich comment on the estimation in which
the whig party hold Mr.. Bedd, at home.
The whig caucus in Columbus saw fit to
confer the nomination for Governor ON
one Of oar citizens-Wm. Bebb. ltIaay
not be Improbable to notice how tho new
candidate is received by his party at
home; nor do we deem it unjust that we
should let our democrotic and whig
brethren at distance know in what light
and estimation he is held where he is
known-how the cadaverous. visaged pill.
grim was met by his party on his return
to his native village. His pilgrimage
was love-his love was office; but Of its
sweets he has not tasted, nor will he.
On this day, Saturday, Fed. 18th, was
held-or intended to be held-a largo
whig meeting, TO respond to the nomia-
alton of William Bebb. Bebh is filled to
the brim with froth and wrath, which he
yearns to ease himself Of, which, in his
opinion, will be the death stab to the
Locofoco party. The hour Of meeting
arrives-the bell Of fthe Courthouse tolls.
A reporter tells Bebb that there are ten
men in audience Beb5 grimaces, the
bell again tolls. Bebb eager appears al
the door Of the Courthouse in person
ventures casually to look in, sees fifteen
men, all told, In uneasy attitudes. Bebb
scowIs, and without even stroke Of his
whisk ers, girates-walks TO and fro, for
what no man knows, but all guess. The
bell is vehemently disgorged for the third
time, when Bebb bsginsto to see most plain.
Iy, that with his frolh, wrath and tears,
he must sleep several nights-if sleep he
can. He sees, too, his nomination will
not, on this day, be 10 any pleasing way
responded to, and most natural for human
nature, asks himself "what will the coun.
ties where am not known do on seeing
that where am kao,on my party thus
treats me?" This last sel(>asked, but
most natural question, was accompanied
by a contortion of features on which may
have been most easily read "deliyer me
from mine friends He essays to look
more calm, but there roared within a
tempest-pent and barely checked for a
moment: which roars louder with sick
ening low growl. 1t breaks upon the ILL
dissembled calmness Of his features, and
bescowls its past description. The third
tolllng Of the bell produced still sadder
spectacle. Five men may have been
seen scattered here and thore about the
room, four Of whom were positively
democrats. Bebb retires to his home, to
seek consolation at his freside, with an
awful scowl upon his brow-and 10 no
dout this moment, no o'clock at night
wishing to his stars, as masy Of his party
do pith him, that the ''nomination had
fallen on Collier,'-wishing that the
"hard money doctrine was in Guinea, "
and the Hamilton and Rossvlll wings with
it. All me! perhaps-yes, thought
now strikes me. l may make the wings
believe that the sentiments Of w ashing-
ton. John Adams, Jefferson, Webster
and Gen. Harrison. as printed on the
backs Of Bank bills, are 'garbled ex~
tracts, ,"-and if fail in that, | will sat
isfy them that had those men lived and
got their learning IN my day, IN this en-
lightened age, they would not dare to
have thus expressed themselves before
me. Thus no doubt soliloquized Mr..
Bebb, while setting at his fire-side, or
rolling on his couch. Poor distracted
specimen Of whlggery! who has ol,oays
sought office, but neuer found It. Why
the wings treat Mr.. Bebb so, we know
not, nor can any one with human intel
lect divine. Perhaps it may be they
remember how in ls42 Mr.. Bebb and
John Brough met in the grove below
Hamilton-not with rapier and shield,
but to thrust and parry political shafts;
how Bebb withered under the well-direct
ed thrusts Of Brough.-which thrusts he,
veal and unskilled in such warfare, could
not parry. Whatever may have caused
the wings to receive their candidate thus,
or when they will treat him better, is yet
to be made manifest. But of one thing
we are certain: that with all Of Bebb's
scowls and grimaces at whig codness
and endorsed bank bills, there are scores
and thousands Of wings who are sick of
the rag money system, and heartily sick
Of Bebb, and who are eagerly espousing
the constitutional hard money doctrines,
in spite Of themselves. Bebb may mutt
late his face ia q thousand ways. and