Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-06-30


turned into a federal yea Of triumph,
and the good luck will disappear. With
the new men and the new measures
the highIax policy, and the great.bank
policy, and the. land. distribution policy
TO waste the public patrimony, we
shall soon be ready again for new fed
eral bankrupt la,o policy, to wipe out.
with one sweep ofthe sponge, millions
upon millions of honest individual debts,
and then open"a new set Of books"
once more .ze...-
But it is in respcctto the foreign re-
latlons of our country that the con-
trast between the two parties among US
Is most glaring. Thanks to the wis
dom and energy which now guides the
.counsels Of our government, federal de-
ifamation, in striking at the good @ame
and fame of our country abroad, Poun-
.ces upon no ignoble prey. Never was
there nobler quarry for the happy
beak and claw of '.'moral treason!'--
Within the last two years, combina-
tion of great events--of counsels far
sighted and firm, and Of operations vast
in their scope, righteous in their mo-
tive, and, in their result, one long tri-
umpll--has placed the foreign policy OF
this country in a "prlde Of place" before
the world, such as it never knew be-
fore. The deeds have been the deeds
of the democracy. Federalism has
stood by, no, to act, but only to judge
mot to achieve, bus only to comment
mot called upon by the country TO de-
wise or TO guide its patriotic ACTION,
but only adiured by all tha. is dear and
sacred in ihe name of country 10 pro-
nounce patriotic OPINION.
Surely, surely,it was not a hard Or.
deal. The patriotism OF the parry
which could not stand such test. mus,
be at a low ebb indeed Yeti how has
federalism stood it? What has been the
federal comment? Catumny, abuse, de-
famation of the whole cause and policy
of its country-'moral treason rung
out trumpet-toned through all the notes
ofthe political diapason! To annex
Texas, was 10 perperate the robbery
of realmr' To settle the Oregon cues
ton, and thus achieve what the efforts
of seven administrations had failed to
effect, was only TO osctllate .eebly and
(oolishlys from buster to cowardIce-
from loud mouthed braggadocio to
shameful recantation!--To demand jus.
tice and indemnity 70, Mexican outrage,
and fraud, and cruelty, at the. point OF
the bayonet--when all other demands,
long repeated, had wholly tailed--is to
plunge the country into an internal
work of f"rapine and murder" goaded
on. by the fell ''iust of conquest" in de-
fiance of..Gods justice and mans law"
Such is the federal comment on that
which has made its .couatry's renown,
and proved its country,s power, abroad.
In Congress and oul Of Congress--In
speech and in pamphlet, and in The col
urans ofthe press--in the State Legisla-
ture--in the party caucus-on the stump
and al the hustings, the federal party,
under the guidance ofits misguided and
,unprincipled leaders, is at this moment
raliying. or called upon TO rally. on the
assumption, the basis, the postuiate, of
its country's deep disgrace and signal
degradation in the whole conduct ofi,s
foreign policy! This is the federal plat.
form! 1t goes into its canvass before the
people with the fierce cry on its lips
and. lift be honest, with the savage
sentiment in its heart--that the land in
which it celebrates its political Satur-
MALTA is land sunk and stepped in the
damning disgrace Of wholesale national
telonyt 1t tells the world-it tells its
partisans, and it bids them. rally on the
assurances-that on the 18th of May,
IS46, the whole American Congress
fourteen votes alone excepted) went
10 war against a weak and helpless
neighbor, without any just cause or
right motive, and upon an atrocious
Legislative lie, which they were incited
to place upon the statute, book Of their
country by Chief Exeeutive-black.
hearted enough even to them to be
schemeing out whole bloody drama
of robbery and oppression, to: be con.
sumated through traitorous and cor
rupt conspiracy with the chief Mexican
leader! Nor is this all. While the
world looks with wonder on the splen'
did success of our arms, and regards
them as new testimony of the energy
of our free institutions, what is the
comment upon them which federalism
croaks out 10 its followers, TO our jeal
Gus rivals Ia Europe, and to our public
enemy id id Mexico Federalism point.
out the whole campaign in Mexico as ;
proof of the imbeeitHy and incompe
tency of our government. Imbecility
Incompetency! Nay. worse and more
shameful than this. With its hundred
hbrazen tongues, the federal press ring
out. its most atrocious faIsehood-i,
farcical horror Of mendacity-that tn
administration meant and designed t
sacrifice General Taylor and his brav'
soldiers, and traitorously give then
over sasan easy prey to- the Mexica
lancers nlthe deffies. Of Buena Vista
It,is not enough for The federal press t
teIl.all Europe and The world that tn
executive has planned, Jour Congress so
n.,,l,, .t;onod n,,d o,fr brave cit