Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-08-04
For the portage Sentinel

ME6SRS. .EDlToR6:-4ne ne lineage Con.
.ent;on has been the themeof some consid-
erable comment in the North and West.
Among those who anticipated great results
from Che movement, its proceedings are
spoken Of with the greatest satisfaction. =
Those who withheld their views until after
h should have adjourned, and until its ma
chinery was tried, and the powers that NOV
cd i. fully understood. have now the mate
Fails upon which TO form their conclusions.
The business tours, and pleasure excursions,
peculiar to the season, undoubtedly helped
materially 70 swell the numbers in attend,
ance. But these objects, j. is supposed,
however pecuniary and personal in their
character, may beiincluded under the head
Of .sLake and River interests" and demand
protection from the federal government the
same as any other aforeign trade
1t was undoubtedly q large, and imposing
collection ofsalent and influence. Its del
egates all had deep, and unmistakable in
ieres,; and if with any one it was not Pc
cuninry and sectional, it was political. If
the ared haired delegate from Toledo was
calculating gains from the rise in the value
Of his water lots, the Mexican Corwin was
calculating the dollars that might be ab-
straesed from the army in Mexico, and the
embarrassment Of the national treasury. IF
s.longn John Wentworth was there to show
the neglect with which his city, ana its har-
Dor, had been treated by the Presiden,, and
10 complain Of private losses to himself on
that account il was oil well enough. But for
what purpose was his brother editor, Judge
Wright, Of Cincinnati, therei 1t is said
that q remarkable degree of unity Of pur-
pose and feeling wns manifested in the Con-
sension. But what ails Judge Wright and
CINCINNATI Bob schenck, Bobb, Tom Cor
win, and the Miami District Did they go
up to Chicago 10 tell the people that their
favori.e city. s'she Queen city, and metrp-
oils of she w cst had within few yoars,
and since the death of the lamented Hero
of'Tippecanoe, swelled from population
Of Is, 900, to I2o, 900; and that the pros
peri,y Of the whole district they represent
ed corresponded with this unparalleled in
c.ease7 Was this the burden of their song,
and the theme of their complaint Was it
this that made Wentworth sympathise with
Wright and Wright with Wentworthl and
did it take all these notorious politicians
and demagogues just named, from the lii
ami xnllsy, 70 show on thnt importan, oc-
casien. that President Folks veto of the
Harbor< bill was the cause Of this astonisll-
ting growth Of their cities and country4 -.
And Gray, and Greely, too, were there,
|. is reported, ''both for the same purpose u
The one claiming, heweyer, that the prcsi.
dents construction OF the constitution did
not favor Lake Harbors, Cleveland ani
his circulation, enough-the other, not pre-
tending but what the harbor, and city he
represented, and his immense circulation,
had received all the attention the govern.
ment conld bestow upon them-but claim
ing to have been prompted, and nctua,ed
only by pure sympathy for Gray, the Lake
country and the Western interests gsne-
<asiy, ii responding 70 the call, and favor
; ing thefcenrsntion with his presenre. |,
Is not easy to define this kind of c6iaiy Fl
interests and feeling. only upon one hy.