Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-07-28
A few AaHHdS Of Tea.

The Mexicans in this country admit our
claims against Mexico, and yet exclaim shut
shall two nations be plunged into war for
lew dollars"" Three nations, some years
ago were plunged into war about few
pounds OF tea, and few reams of foolscap
paper, and such like things, insignificant of
themselves. Mother England said, "pay
me few more pennies the pound on your
tea, people over the Atlantic. in America;
BUY your paper, which you use for certain
purposes, Of me.'' aNo'' said our ances-
tors mot SO, we shall pay you not another
penny on our tea-we shant use your pa
per-. "Ihen we will compel you-with
/ Dayonets and cold lead, and such like argu-
ments." ssVery we'll, so be it." Now it
may be supposed, and we believe it fact,
tnat there were certain people in those days
who loved tea, who said-sWhat! shall we
go to war about little tea?-lo! how shall
we get tea In that case? Our goodly traffic
VIII be destroy will be killed
cities burned, and the land deluged with
blood, IN consequence of this tea business!
Peace! peace! War is dreadful, and war
about tea and few sheets of paper, with
the picture ofa FOOLS cap on the corner. is
most foolishl''
But, we all know there was another and
oiIIefent set OF men in those days, who
SAID the tea was Of ne consequences few
pennies more or ss do not amount to
much in the lens q ebut we see, hidden
IN this brown tea somewhat grave ques-
ton of right, and, although the tea and the
paper are not much, yet it is not right that
we should be taxed for the one nor compell-
| ed to use the other; therefore, we must fight
about flight they did, and WHIPPED
not only the AGGRESSOR but the people
among them who loved TEA and TREA
| SON better than FIGHT and FREEDOM.
The tea people had their descendants
They were alive in the last war, crying,
''what! shall we have war because few Of
our brethren have been abused-war is
awful, peace! peace!" But these fellows
shared the fate of their forefathers.
The tea people are fourishing now
Mexico has dealt treacherously with us,
she has murdered and plundered our citizens
for a series of years. She has refused to
make restitution and at last declared war
against us, when the President meets them,
up rise the tea party and shout-'sstop!
shall we go to war for such trihes-a few
pounds of tea? what if Mexico has murder
ed Our citizens, plundered our commerce.
imprisoned our brethren and declared war
against US! These are small matters-a
few pounds Of tea-shall we go to war
about it? Let us submit to these things;
they are only few sheets of FOOLS cap
paper, more or less, poor matters for chris
tians to fight about Listen, and you
shall hear these few pounds Of tea people
talking in every quarter as the TORIES of
the Revolution talked, as the TRAITORS
Of Nova Scotia talked IN the last war;
They are marvellously fond ofpeace and
tea. They think it best to submit to any
INSULT rather than fight about it, and
are singularly given to talking AGAINST
THEIR OWN COUNTRY and IN
FAVOR OF HER ENEMIES whether
dressed in a BRITISH or MEXICAN
coat You may always know them by
their cry of peace! peace! and shuddering
at the mention Of war! their love of TEA
and Observation-Disclosures Patriot