Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-01-06

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people there TO look on the ensign Of that
! power to which they owed allegiance.
VI Without infringing on the rights Of any,
our soldiers were there stationed, and Gen.
t Taylor reclined on the couch of peace,
: while the President and the country waited
i lfors negotiations by which 10 avoid my
q cause Of war. But our flag was insulted
!, instead, and our minister thrust out from
Mexico by her semibarbarous Prince.
: And, at this juncture, we find a hostile
: Mexican army crossing the Rio -Grande.
invading our soil, and wasting the life blood
of our citizens on the sad plains of Palo
.alio and Resaca de la Palma. The Presi-
dent found that they thirsted for blood-tbat
they still continued to insult our f1ag-to
disregard the rights Of our citizens, which
should have commanded respect even in the
halls of the Montezumas themselves. The
President laid these facts before Congress
told them Of our citizens rights disre-
garded by Mexico, of their solemn treaties
broken, Of our flag insulted, Of our territory
invaded, and our citizens slain. We'll,
what was done? Gov. Bebb says the Presi-
dent declared war. But Congress declared
that state of war existed between this
country and Mexico. The President was
instructed by their authority to call for
volunteers TO march to the support of the
national standard. And sir, said Mr. S.,
if the hearts Of gentlemen in this Hall
still throb in sympathy with those emotions
which fired the bosoms four patriot fathers,
would ask them if they didnot feel thrice
i proud of the republic, when they beheld
the sons of those revolutionary sires, as
i. they marched into the field at their coun-
try s call, and barred their arms and their
: breasts to the foe, and devoted their lives to
t their country's cause. Sir, it was holy
: cause. 1t was the dictate of obligation to
t that common justice which we all owe to
i our common country, whenever she calls
for our service, Well sir, we trace these
, volunteers as they glide down the rivers,
\ and along the Gulf, shore, and as they.
ascend the Rio Grande, and plant tIi6
3 standard Of their country on the high places
r of Matamoras, of Camargo, Of Monterey,
and with no purpose but to serve their cour.
try and assert the rights of their country
men, we see them fight, and bleed, and
conquer.
Well, sir, in this posture Of our affairs,
we are not loath to take the responsibility
of what has been thus done. Ifgentlemen
desire us, We take it willingly. Nay, we
! assume the responsibility. Let itgo forth
to the people, and let each man say it for
himself and for all, ,De take The responsible.
] ty. Let the word go out to the utmost
: north; let it be heard in the voice of Niagara;
let its thunder tones reverberate from the
d Granite hills of New Hampshire, and let
r its continuous echoes be waited on the balrny
r breezes Of the sunny south. Yes, sir, the
democratic party have never yet shrunk
!, from any responsibility involving the de.
q fence of our common country.
IS Mr. S. continued: The President of the
et United States had been styled sslf.consti-
of tuted monarch, by the Governor of Ohio;
. and now he submitted the question, whether
sr twas altogether ingenious for politician
l. to give utterance: after his election, TO such
If sentiments, which he burst not speak before?
to and whether it would be right for Governor
he Bebb to publish now, that which he knew
ut would have been political death for him to
st have uttered prior to the election? For il
e. was we'll known, that, if William Bebb hae
at gone before the people and avowed hi:
m hostility to the war, proclaiming it Presi
he Dental war, and the President himself {
wv selfconsttuted monarch-that if he hat
y, done this previous to the election, he woult
OF never have been Governor of Ohio. Itwa
elr notorious that the utterance of sentiment
"! not half so fragrant as these, by citizen Q
rty Cincinnati, procured him the loss Of hi
Did property by violence, and himselfan intima
hat ton. on time given him, to find him anothe
ing home; and Mr. S. would venture the assel
the ton, that if Gov. Bebb had, before til
hat election, given public utterance to thes
nee sentiments, on the Fifth street Markt
space, that the county Of Hamilton, instea
low Of nineteen hundred would have thrown
the majority of FIVE thousand against him.
my And even now, the hand writing upon tn
rry wall had appeared against him. Ih
this president a seifconsiitated monarch
yes, That single word would consign him an
With his party to a minority in the State.
the Mr. S., proceeded to institute a parable
ing between the sentiments of the inaugur,
had address and the language Of the preambl
un- and resolutions, and the language Of thos
leo! who systematized their opposition to the W,
ent, of 1912 in the Hartford Convention -rea
p ing several extracts from the Oliue Branc
de- by Matthew Carey, Philadelphia,p 100, 81
wer - -
and Mr.. S. did not know where the Cover
soil or was born, but he could almost wish
wn, was not true, as he states, that he was
with native of Ohio. Mr.. S. had heard that
but was born in Wales; but feared itwas i
the the fact But where he { Mr. 81 fist