Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-10-06

Excess in favor of Day 561,7
We have been told that the Commission
ers made q deduction from one of the fines
included in the amount above set down to
Mr.. Day; if so, it was done contrary to his
advice, and should stand to his credit as
above.
Again, deduct the amount of fines and
witness fees collected, from the amount OF
the witness fees of each, and it will show
the amount Of witness fees unpaid, as fol-
lows:
Day. Paine.
Whole amount of witness
fees, Slo6l,69 $l196,l7
Fines and fees collected
back, 1O59,3O 3O9,l2
Amount of loss to the
county, 2,39 S87,O5
2,39
Excess" against Mr.. Paine, es4,66
This great difference against Mr.. Paine
may be accounted for, in part, by the fol-
lowing ''table," showing the verdicts in
the whole number of Jury trials Of both
administrations:
Day. Paine
Verdicts of Guilty, l3 9
do Not Guilty, 5
From this table, it follows that the wit
ness fees in fve of MIR. Paine's Jury cases
are dead loss to the county, as the costs
are not recovered under verdict of not
guilty. But, we leave the subject without
further comment. "Of course it is mat
ter Of some moment to the tax payers to
know in what manner the duties of this
office are administered" To whose &C.
conomy' does the above show "a compari-
son decidedly unfavorable?" Mr.: Days
or Mr.. Paine's? How say you, ''tax-pay
ers?" Are not the stables turned?"
"IF WERE A MEXICAN I WOULD
TELL YOU HAVE YOU NOT ROOM IN
YOUR OWN COUNTRY TO BURY YOUR
DEAD MEN? IF YOU COME INTO MINE
WE WILL GREET YOU WITH BLOODY
HANDS, AND WELCOME YOU TO HOS
PITABLE GRAVESn-CoRw1Ns SPEECH IN
rHE U. s SENATE.
Electors of Portage county-honest, so
ber-minded, thinking Freemen Of Ohio,-
such is the language of grave Senator of
this republic-such are the sentiments pub
licly propounded as the rallying-cry of a
party, which is now, and ever has been op-
posed to the great interests Of this Nation.
Such, in fine, are the acknowledged views
of that paragon Of patriotism, that embodi-
ment of Federalism, Tom Corwin, who
now stands forth as the acknowledged cham
pion of the Whig party in Ohio. 1t re-
mains for you to say, whether you are to
be found this Fall among the advocates OF
this and other kindred doctrines of this
"worse than Mexican" or whether you
will stand by your country in this her try,
ing crisis. What say you? Shall Portage
county, shall Ohio, henceforth stand as q
blot, foul stain upon the page of history!
or shall she continue to maintain the higt
position which she has already assumed u
mong tie States of this Union? You are
soon to be called upon to exercise the high
est prerogative of q Freeman, and one yot'
may tell, either for good or for evil, up
on the government of this nation fo
years to come. ''Choose ye this day whom
We will serve" 1t is no time 10 harp up
on individual preferences. In such
crisis as this, individual merits among di
ferent political candidates must be who'll,
overlooked. Is the candidate honest, is h
capable, is he faithful to the constitution
should be the only questions propounded
Canvass closely principles--see that tn
, man who seeks your support, is on the sid
ofthe right, a true friend to his country an
her Institutions; or whether, in the genu
inc spirit Of ancient blue-light Federalism
he has already struck hands with her enc
mics, and has sunk to q sta.e so low thd
an old fashioned Hartford Convention Fec
eralst, with all his zeal in making prose
lytes could scarcely be able to find him
that of "worse than Mexican" 1t doe
seem as though the people, the honest yee
manry of Portage county, could not need
caution upon such subject as this. Can
be possible that thinking, reading, reason
ing men, men to whose recollections tn
5 scenes and events of the last war are sti
as fresh aud vivid as of yesterday, will no
f smother their patriotism and Ego it blind?
ill they give their support to a set of mea
= ures and principles which damned the