Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-08-02
From the Ohio Statesman.
Another Slander Nailed TO The Counter

he TfeSluenlal contest IN which we are
now engaged, gives promise on the part OF
federalism Of being one of the mos: reck:
less that we have yet seen. All sorts OF
charges are made against General Cnss,
and they are put forth with the most un-
bushing effrontery, although known to be
basely false when penned.
The latest charge, and perhaps the most
Infamous, is made by reckles sheet call
ed the ''Daily News and Chronicle" pub
lshed at Philadelphia, and in which sen
Cass is called the ''Ilsh Relief Candid
ate" We say this charge is among the
most infamous, and we base it upon the
fact, that the charge of hostility 10 the law
which allowed ships of war to be sent to
Ireland, 10 carry to the suffering poor of
that unhappy land, was once before made.
by the correspondent of the New York
Tribune, and proven basely false at the
time. 1t is now renewed. and the yelping
ours OF federalism, hard driven for some.
thing 10 say, will catch it up, and it will
form the basis Of attacks made upon Gen
Cass, for the purpose Of attempting to catch
Irish voters.
The Irish relief bill, which passed Con-
gress, and was approved by the President
and became law, and which sent relief 10
many of the starving inhabitants of the
Emerald Isle, was strongly advocated by
Gen. Cass.
The following synopsis Of his speech, as
it appeared in the Washington city papers
at the time, we publish for the purpose of
mailing this slander again TO the counter,
as the base coinage oil the federal brain.
body, he felt obliged to the Senator from
Kentucky, for the motion he had submitted
and for the appropriate remarks with which
he had introduced it. lie had continued
Mr.. C.) expressed my sentiments but with
an eloquence peculiarly his own. While
physical want is unknown in our country,
the Angel of Death is striking down the
furnishing population Of Europe, and espe-
cially the suffering people Of Ireland. The
accounts which reach US from that country,
indicate a state of distress, in extent and
degree, far exceeding any previous expert
ence in modern times. 1t is a case beyond
the reach of private charity. Its fountains
are drying up before the magnitude Of the
evil. 1t is a national calamity, and calls
for national contribution. The Starving
millions have no Egypt, ''where they cnn
go and buy corn, that they may live and
not die."
''Flom our granery Of abundance, let Us
pour forth supplies. Ireland has strong
claims upon the sympathy Of the United
States. There are few Of our citizens who
have not Irish blood in their veins. The
country has sent out large portion of the
emigrants who have added numbers to our
population, industry and enterprise 10 our
capital, and the other elements of power
and prosperity which are doing that mighty
work from the Atlantic to the Pacific, tha,
is already exciting The admiration of the
old World, and will stimulate by its exam.
pie the exerlions Of the New. Our popu-
lation of Irish descent, have fought the bat
ties OF the country, with as much zeal and
bravery as any class Of citizens. And from
the heights Of Abraham, where Montgome.
cry fell, to the walls of Monterey, their
blood has been poured out like water in
defence of liberty.
"We can no" send 10 Ireland, not in
deed what she has sent to us, her children
those we connot part with-but food for
their relatives, our friends, upon whom the
hand Of God is heavily laid. In a PROPOSE.
tion presented yesterday, by the Senator
from New York, was a suggestion which
ana grattied to find embodied in the bill
reported by the Senator from Kentucky,
and which ! should be happy to see carried
into effect; to employ, in the transportation
Of provisions, such Of the armed ships of
the United States as are not required for
the operations of the war. 1t would be a
beautiful tribute to the advancing spirit oi
the age. The messenger of death would
thus become messenger oflife; the agents
OF destruction agents Of preservation; anG
our eagle, which has flown above them, and
carried our armies 10 the very coast Of Ire
land, would then become the signal of hope
where it has been the signal Of defiance.
shall lend the bill my support with great
pleasure
Who, after reading the above, but will
pronounce the charge made against Gen
Cass, Of hostility to the Irish relief bill, all
infamous libel, put forth for the basest o
party purposes.