Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-07-05
FOR GOVERNOR OF OHIO,
JOHN B. WELLER:
of Butler C0s.satg.

| W lhe following iafllcle, ,lglVhg 'ne
votes in the Senate of the United States
upon the bills introduced into Congress
making appropriations for River and Har.
Dor improvements, is copied from the Chi
cago Democrat, edited by Hon. JOHN
WENTWORTH. the Representative in Con.
gress from the Chicago (Ill.) District. The
opponents of Gen. Cass have employed ev-
cry species Of misrepresentation, and re-
sorted 10 evsry manner Of intrigue for the
purpose ofprejudicing the public mind a.
gainst the democratic candidate for the
Presidency, and in their desperation they
have asserted that he was opposed to the
appropriation of money for these objects,
while the fac, stands forth recorded upon
the Journals Of the Senate that he support
ed the bills introduced in that branch Of
Congress while he was member thereof,
and it will not be denied that the appropri-
ations therein asked were as extravagant
as had ever before been asked from the
Cass referred the country for his views and
opinions upon this subject, and the evidence
should and will be satisfactory 10 every
man honestly seeking to know the truth;
but there set Of political demngogues with
whom no evidence is sufficient to disprove
false charge which they have preferred a.
gainst their political adversaries for the
purpose Of promoting their own triumph.
Such are they who make this false accusa-
tions now, and they ,cil not believe them
untrue though they have the most indubita-
BILE proof that they are SO. Their "seren
principles" (tbe "five loaves and two fish
es''iI are at stake, and they imagine that the
result Of the contes. depends upon the per-
tinacity with which they adhere TO their
false charges and accusations.
No person in the Union has taken deep.
er interest in the subject of the improve
ment Of our Rivers and Harbors than has
Mr.. Wentworth, and none would support
the nomination of the Democratic Nation.
al Convention more reluctantly, if this evi-
dence 'sfromihe books" did not convince
him, as it should every other man, that
these charges are entirely without foundo-
tion and wholly untrue.
We commend the following arlic!e TO
the perusal of such as may have had even
doubt upon the subject, t9 whatever par
ty they may belong:
I From the Chicago Democrat.
Gen. CASS on IIarbor and River In
pr0VementS
1t may be expected in times Of high po'
litical strife that the recklessness Of parti.
zans will cause many things to be asserted
of the opposing candidate, that are of them
selves altogether without foundation. The
wings have already showed themselves Ut.
terly unscrupulous in making and promul .
eating charges against the nominees OF the
Democratic party. They are old hands al
secret circulars, roor- backs, &C., &c. The
moment it was understood Gen. Cass wus
the nominee of the Democrats, his letter to
the Chicago River and Harbor Conven.
ton was paraded as evidence of his hostili.
ty to Internal Improvements, while the
fact that Gen. Cass' votes in Congress,
which were always given in favor of such
Improvements, is entirely kept ou: of sight.
In the First Session of the twenty ninth
Congress, where the Harbor bill passed by
a majority Of thirty -four 10 sixteen, we find
Gen. Cass' name in the ayes, as follows:
YEAs-Messrs Allen, Ashley, Barrow,
Benton, Berrien, Breese, Cameron, CASS,
J. M. Clayton, Thos. Clayton, Corwin,
Davis, Dayton, Dickinson, Dix. Greene,
Hannegan, Huntington, flanagan, John
son, of Louisiana, Johnson of Maryland,
Miller, Morehead, Pearce, Phelps, Rusk,
semple, Sewer, Simmons, speight, stur-
geon, Upham, Webster and Woodbridge
"a.
NAYs-Messrs Archer, Atberton, Bag
by, Calhoun, Chalmers, Cilley, Fairfield,
Haymord, Houston, Lewis, ,Mangum Niles,