Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-01-19
Ohio LEGISLATURE.

| Ohio legislature.
The long talked Of speech of Mr.. God
dard, on the subject of the war. and IN ~
fence Of Mr. Corwia, came off TO-DAY.
was long, with an occasional we'll turne,
period, but so stale, so fat, and so uttert,
Eunprohtable, that his friends wondered hos
SO great man could be made ofsuch sinai
na,erial' 1 and how = speaker, famed fal
and wide in the'ranks Of whiggery, coule
give birth to SO small beer speech. II
truth, though whiggery sxpec,ed much
from this speech, ,which-was to be thr .o.sct
OF the session, and to place the party srioh,
sideaup with caEa,' ,'.yet, ,=when fn;:h.d !;
reminded one of Hudebras' gun.
(which, when aimed at duck or nlov.r
"Recoiled and kicked its owner oyer,n
Mr. Olds replied, and defended the Ad
ministration and the war in a masterl,
manner. After doing this he carried n,
'swar into Africa" and showed up Mexi
can whiggery in its proper light, as trea
sonable and black as the shades Of Erebus
The speech will, we doubt not, be writer
out and published - Statesman, Jan. IL. ,
In Senate, on yesterday, Mr.. Wilson
from the select committee to which the sub
ject Of a fair and honest apportionment q,
representatives among the several coun.
ties, had been referred reported bill, and
q beauty it is.f Il cuts Hamilton county,
and gives the city delegation in both
branches Of the Legislature, independent Of
the rest OF the county, which elects Sena.
tor and Representative without the aid OF
the city votes. This daring infraction OF
the plain letter und meaning OF the cor1sti.
tuition, which members are sworn TO sun.
port, is the offspring of that Pandora's box.
the whig Tin Pan" - -
Cincinnati is supposed to be Whig,while
the county.is largely democratic. To get
one whig Senator and two Representatives.
to aid whiggery in consuming time by up.
holding Mexico, and opposing their own
country, tho leaders of that party, by their
acts show that they regard their oa,hs to
support tho constitution as little as they do
the interest and honor of their. country,
AS the bill fixes the Senatorial districts
the majority for two Senators, in the Ham.
ilton county and the Richland districts. the
democratic majority will be sufficiently
large, it the votes to spare were formed
into division, to march through Mexico
and to storm and take every fortified place
in that Republic. In another column wa
present this beautiful bantling.
Immediately after the bill was presented.
Mr.. Olds offered for adoption a preamble
and resolution, calling upon the ATTORNEY
General for his legal opinion on the sub.
ect of dividing counties. =.
The resolution was a bitter pill. but
whiggery had to swallow it, because the
Attorney General was Of their own party.
and was the legal adviser of the Lepisla.
ture. The preamble, which presented
legal argument against the right thus to
divide, was laid on the table to be printed.
ust as the question was about being put.
Mr.. Lewis objected to the decision of the
Speaker, and took an appeal from his de.
cision, on the ground that the preamble
could not be separated from the resolution.
Two or three wings and all the democrats
but one, sustained the decision of the
Speaker; and tho bitterest pill of oil was,
hat the preamble was laid on the table to
70 printed. -
To-day, the business Of both Houses. as
.sual, has been entirely local l-Statesmon.
Ian. 13.
In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr.. Beaver.
# Trumbull, from the committee on |
Claims, made report on the claim OF John
J. Mcbride, for the loss Of boot ON the |
anal, concluding with q resolution to allow
ir. Mcbride to commence suit against the
tate 1t was referred to the committee on
,e Judiciarv