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

qualifications. II }HesweHk Hkknew. the amiable
ductility oGsuch gentle reasons and how
suddenly they yield to the pressure Of that
''soft Impeachment, which obliging friends
prefer. His reasons were made ofsterner
stuff. They were founded in q deep con-
victionl of what wasf due4 do the harmony
and stability softhe Democratic part rty-and,
what was more, taking into view the late
Slavery ropagapdist test, invented without
sause, and dag grantly for the next Presi-
Dental election-taking this into view, and
his reasons were founded not only in what
was due to the party, but to the harmony
and stibility of the Union, and to the future
existence Of any party, founded on any po-
litical principle. To the Northern De-
mocracy, he had long and often proclaimed,
the next presentation of our Presidential
candidate belonged; and in no event could
his name ever become an obstacle to such a
consummation. These were his reasons.
They would carry conviction Of his real
intentions to all candid minds-put an end
to all future mention Of his name for the.
Presidency leave him with the pleas
ant task Of adding to his many thanks, to
his constituents, for their long and steady
support of him as Senator, the heartfelt ex-
preston of his gratitude for the repeated
manifestations Of their wish to raise him to
the highest station in the Government
Col. B.. said that he had not heretofore,
on any occasion, made the full and formal
acknowledgement of his gratitude to the
people of Missouri for the honors they had
conferred upon him. He had not at any
time, done it in words; but he had been en-
deavoring, during the whole time, to do it
in acts. He had endeavored to manifest
his sense of their favors by the manner in
which he discharged his duties, and the
preference which he had shown for their
service. It had been faithful, and disinter-
ested, and proof against the seductions of
executive appointment, and equally atten-
tive to the rightful claims upon him of all
his constituents, without respect to persons
or parties. Neither missions to the first
courts in Europe, offered to him by Presi-
dents Jackson and Polk, nor cabinet ap-
offered by President Van Buren,
could withdraw him from the Senate
Proud of the place ia which his constituents
placed him, he had refused to quit for Eu-
ropean embassies, or home appointments.
IF on recent occasion, he had been will
ing to leave the Senate, it was not for the
honors and emulations of Office, but for
the risks and hardships and responsibilities
of service in which he hoped to do. some
thing useful to his own country, and to a
sister republic. Nor did he adhere only
to the office Of Senator, but to its labors
and duties. Always at his post, nothing
public or private, in the committee room Or
the chamber, escaped his attention. Disin-
terested and self-denying, as well as labori-
Gus and attentive, no Office or CONTRACT
no place in the military academy or the
naval school,-had gone to any one of his
blood in the long course of his public SER
vice. In this way, by remaining where
he was put, adhering to the place which
his constituents gave him, discharging pub
lie duties for the public, not for himself, at
tending to the rightful claims of all upon
him, he had been all the while manifesting
that gratitude to his constituents by acts
which he now expressed in words.
Col. b. said he owed thanks to the people
of Missouri not only for his own fame, but
for that also of a member Of his family
Col. Fremont Though bearing COM
mission from the federal government, his
expeditions were essentially Missourlan-
fitted out in Missouri-equipped and start
ed from Missouri and sustained by men,
the greater part from Missouri, in all their
perilous, and almost fabulous extent. The
young man who has earned from the van
quished Mexican, and from the savage, in a
distant and almost unknown land, far, far
towards the setting sun, the glorious title OF
the JUsr, has not been and will not be, un-
Just to the brave and faithful champions of
his suffering and dangers. Every. one will
find his place in the book the same that it
was in the dreary desert, the freezing
mountain, and burning plain, the foaming
river. the stormy lake. thu long march. the
starving camp, the surrounded column, and
the bloody fight. Every one will find him
self in the right placein the book, except
one without whom there would have been
no book, and no expedition, and no fame
for any. He that was foremost in the ex-
pedition, is in the back ground in the book.
Justice has been, and will continue to be
done to all, and sons of issouri, as well
as others, will find their names to become
historic, and romantic, from their associa-
ton with Fremont in the long expeditions
fitted out from our State. and conducted to
glorious Examinations by their joint cour-
age, perseverance, fidelity and suffering:
AS the father -in-law of Col. Fremont, and
as the complement Of his thanks to the peo-
pie Of Missouri for all their favors, he adj
ded his Acknowledgements for the fame
which the sons of Missouri, more numer-
GUS than the rest of his comrades, had ena-
bled his son-in-law to gain. sst5zs z7
Col. B. said the time was auspicious for
a speech ofthanks. twas time of felic-
ity. The country was prosperous; the ar.
mics victorious; crops abundant; prices
good; produce and labor in demand; the
currency solid; exchanges even; banks pay.
ing specie; shinplasters gone; gold plenty!
and all without a regulator! without a king
/ bank. or q king man, to keep commerce
currency and industry alive, This was a
| pleasant spectacle to behold, an inspiring
influence to feel, and subject for study tt
the reflective, contemplatiye mind lei