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

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of Hamilton, pending the consideration of TIL
preamble and resolutions offered in til
House Of Representatives on The l4th uIt. B!
u Jllr. Tyuesdale Of TrumbuH.
Smith Of Hamilton said: For his par
Il he hardly knew what reference the pream
u bic and resolutions should tal1e--unless
perhaps It might be wisest to commit then
to the keeping of Santa Anna. Ampudia
and two or three other Mexican dignitaries
i He had hoped, for the honor Of the Ameri
can name, that no such paper as these pre-
amble resolutions, and the vindictive inau
gural of him whom Mr. S was compelled
to call our Governor, would ever be read in
this House. But we had arrived at such o
state of things. that treason might stalk
through the halls oflegislation almost with.
out rebuke, and boldly ask for the support
and sanction ofthe American people.
What did these papers propose? Nothing
less than direct and unmitigated censare
upon the national government-upon the
whole administration party-aye rather,
they direct censure to some extent upon
|theparty to which the gentleman from Mar
ion himself belongs. He proclaims the
annexation Of Texas tobe an unconstitution-
al measure; and in bitter terms he SCOTS
at the course of the American Congress-
| In this same spirit proceeds the Governors
inaugural address. He pronounces the
president of the United States a self-consti-
ltuted monarch, and he calls the war with
Mexico % presidential war; Mrs. would
ask the Governor elect for the grounds and
the reasons for these wholesale censures
land denunciations? and if he did not feel al
liberty 10 answer, he would ask his respect
| ed and intelligent friend from Highland
! Mr. Trimble) why were these denuncia
lions made? The gentleman says he won
1 answer. Would the mover Of these resolu
/ Itions answer why? He prefers to be silen
silent as the grave. From the tonbs Q
Ewhiggery the answer could not come forth
4 Aye, sir, if those gentlemen would revert
! .lia4naanoEy. to The past; if on retrospective
wing they would go back a IitfIe,-theJ
would be able to see themselves, about tht
year l64o, drinking hald cider with thei
new governor, and singing bolsterous
hozannas to the praise of ....
'Tippecanoe and Tyler too .,.
And thus it was, (they would remember,
that Tip and Ty' came into power. Anc
when, by the act of Providence, theil
president was removed from the White
House, they would not fail to remember
that Tyler Too succeeded him and swayet
the destinies Of the republic. Nor coulo
they fail, | ween, to remember how they
fawned and bowed TO Tyler, till they foun'
out that he would not subserve their pur
: poses; and then Immediately, how the.
arrayed themselves against him who ha
been their idol. Instead Of shouting 70
Tyler now, they would hear one of thei
leaders from Indiana Mr. Lane) cryin
!. aloud in Congress and before the nation
r that He would sooner see the army an
o navy sunk, and the Potomac rolling il
,, waters over the capitol an hundred fet
n deep, than submit to the prescriptions
1t John Tyler
n But time wore on, and one after anothe
g g Of the measures Of the whig party went IL
ID to successful operation, save Gply the
s. favorite project Of national bank
effect which all their influence with tt
acting president proved unavailing. b
il we find this acting president Tyler fiji
T. deyising the scheme OF annexing the !
t public of Texas to this Union; and tn
TX during his administration the act was co
ii summated. Well, what followed! L
~ Mexican war has been the result; and nc
or gentlemen shrink from the responsibillt
a. and seek to cast all they can conceive
a odium resulting from the act Of one OF th'
- own Presidents on the democratic part
w. They seek to build up here in Ohio pa
an more odious than that Peace party OF
Ike in Massachusetts,; they seek to arrest t
public opinion which is fast consigni
n the memory of that party to the tomb OF
"a capulets, that they may throw on US W
He odium they may think to excite in reterel
is to this war.
ou Well, sir, continued Mr. S., referring n
ex- to the counterpart of these resolutions
,p'1 inaugural address, was sorry, and mt
a of his more immediate friends were so
his to hear the Governor elect declare in
Mt Hall, before Senators and Representatl'
ev- and all that concourse Of citizens Y
in many oftheir fair daughters, to hear
Dry Governor Of Ohio then and there declar
to- that the President Of the United States
ees trampled upon the Constitutional the CO
@ try, by involving it in war with Mex
But the question recurs did the Presld
Of now at Washington, provoke this war
vas Has he by any act Of his, any formal
on claration on his part, invited its ans
old he has not. He has only defended
get avenged the lives ofcitizens slain on q
san that was, and is, and ever will be, our
nan Before our soil was thus drenched
$ American blood, the President had
unfurled the star-spangied banner on