Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-10-25

hent Jufis's qs our country, must forever
prevent the extension Of slavery into the
free territories nf the United States. They
denied the Constitutional power of Con.
gress TO establish or protect slavery i, the
territories; and unless Congress assumes
the authority to ablish slavery :here it
can never there have on existence. And
yet, these Taylor men are straining every
nerve. putting forth the most extraordina-
ry exerlions 10 convict Gen. Cass Of being
in favor ofslavery and slavery extension.
But while these supporters of Southern
man, the owner Of 280 human cattle, are
engaged in this Guitless task, they seem to
forget tha: The question Of slavery extension
came up in such shape in the Philadel.
phia Convention, rs would have enabled
them, hid they felt 60 disposed, to have
placed The Whig party and it candidate in
an unequvocal light upon the subject -
Mr.. Tilden, the Delegate from this dislric,
we think it was-otfered q resolution
pledging the universal party 10 the
support Ct the nominee Of the conven.
tion on condition that he would adhere to
the principles Of the whig party-"mo es.
tension Of slsre tsrrstory,s &c And how
was this proposition received by that anti
slarery, Wilmct Proriso Wing Conven-
vention2 Was it adopted, and enblazon.
ed upon their banners, and hung out from
the federal foriresses and strong holds,
as the prime article Of the Wing faith?
| No; but it met the fate Of all the o!her
prnci pies of that party-it was ''slaugh'er-
edit was regarded as a fre-brand, and
extin suished Immediately. Over this dis
posal Of The subject, the slavery extension
lists throughout the length and breadth Of
the slaveholding States were filled with ud-
mira,ion and rejoicing at the position taxi
en- by the Wing Convention! Still, these
Whig leaders. orators and presses claim
that Gen. Taylor is opposed 10 slavery and
slavery extension, and that the Wing par
ty is, par escezlsnce, the anti slarsry par
ty Of The country!
They claim that Gen. Cass who lives
in the free State of Michigan, who never
owned slave, who deprecates slavery
in principle ''and prays for its abolition
everywhere" and who is pledged TO use
the Executive veto against any act of Con-
gress for the extension OF slavery into ter
ri.ory now free, is in favor Of slavery ex-
tension; while Gen. Taylor, who lives in
the slare State Of Louisiana, who owns
$50 negroes and who is constantly pur-
chasing more, is opposed to slavery and
slavery extension!
They assert tha. Gen. Taylor will op-
pose the extension Of slavery, when the
New Orleans Rough and Ready Club in
their ADDRESS say:
GAS regards the U'iln,ot Proriso, we
need not remind you, That being himself n
shareholder, a natire Of Ftrgina, a citizen
of Louisiana, acah eryteeling and in
terest identified scith as, we huve nothing
to fear"
They declare thai Gen. Taylor is pledg.
ed no. to veto the Wimo, Proviso, when
he himself declared 10 q committee Of the
Mississippi Legislature, that
"THE SOUTH SHOULD NEVER
SUBMIT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
THE WILMOT PROVISO."
They claim that he will not veto the
Wilmot Proviso, when MIR. Benjamin,
Taylor whig elector for Louisiana, declar-
ed from the stump at Baton Rouge, Gen.
Taylor's own residence:
II can assure my fello,c citizens here
that Gen. Taylor ,uiH promptly reto any
| thing like the Wilmof Prouiso. The in,
ierests Of the South are safe inhis hands,"
Thsy asser, that he is with the North
upon the question of slavery extension,
when the South Carolina Taylor and But
ler men, whose nomination he accepted,
say:
1--WE KNOW that in this great, par.
amount and leading question Of the
RIGHTS OF THE SOUTH, he is of
us. he is WITH Us, and he is FOR
U.s."
All these things these whig leaders know,
and they know, too, that Gen. Taylsr
would promptly veto any bill prohibiting the
extension Of slavery; still they s.udiously
conceal these facts from the people while
they attempt by sophistry to cnjole them
into the belief that Gen Taylor is opposed
to slavery-is an abolitionsst. Out upon
such bare-faced hypocrisy!
Which is 10 be Believed.
One Of two things is true beyond ques-
ton: Either Gen. Toy lor is attempting to
practice a gross fraud upon the people by