Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-07-19
For the Portage Sentinel.
The DisuniOnistS and the God and Lib
ertyD Wings in Council.

erty" Wings in Council.
Mr. Sentinel:-I last week attended
meeting in Ravenna, to hear what might be
said by the ultra disunionists, c.. C. Burleigh.
and Henry c. Wright, and propose to notice
them so that your readers, may guess at !,
their motives and objects.
Burleigh spoke first that afternoon. His
appearance is not prepossessing, for his
countenance is any thing but smiling and
pleasant. Indeed it appears to me some
what unpleasant and repulsive. He has
however some of the best qualifications for
public speaker. His language is good
He has at least on his one idea subject a
| most perfect use Of words. He is no doubt :.
learned and talented, and can apply LAM
guage with great facility to express his
thoughts in most energetic, pointed and
unmistakable style. His subject is no doubt
familiar, which makes his words flow the
more fluent His discourse was one con-
tinued political jeremiad. A perpetual COM
plant at our Southern brethren, of the evils
of union with such rascally set of slave
holders, of whom he could say nothing but
evil continually. And, as if to make it the
E more impressive, his manner was impassion-
ed, and his countenance and expression was
the very approximation of the most hate
full malignity. Having attended the meet
ing of fconscience' God & Liberty wings
the evening previous, and heard Judge New
ton and O. P. Brown exhort their friends
against supporting Gen. Taylor and Gen.
Cass, and against the doings of the national
Conventions, he seconded them with all his
might, denouncing king caucus with the
most bitter spirit. He proved, to his own
satisfaction no doubt, that uniting in such
Convention does not make it obligatory on
D US to abide by its decisions. Indeed, his
y discourse went to represent those who would
o support the nominees of those conventions.
). as but knaves and fools. The whole scope
! of his discourse was bitter denunciation. in
,. terspersed with coarse jests and pointed sar-
casms against Southern shareholders and
northern doughfaces.' His audience con-
sisted of about 60 men, women and children.
:. many of whom seemed to swallow all as
u good logic. MIR. Wright occupied por-
ton of the afternoon in similar strain. He
" is more pleasant in his manner, hard
somer speaker, but perhaps not as strong,
- =, certainly not as bitter. He boasted and Jest
- ed of having been an ordained Congrega-
tional minister, and having excommunicated
:, his church and association, that he was now
+" his own church, church by himself Also
that he has abjured the National Union, that
he is disunionist, Come-cuter- no, he is
10 himself Union.
Of They had great many books, many Of
Ia the most ultra character, and claim to be
n agents for many ultra periodicals, all which
i. they hawk to the audience; and their CON-
4 panion Samuel Brook was busily employed
II distributing them to the audience and re-
ceiving payments. They had also lots of
r, prints-pictures, such as Abby Kelley Foster,
>. Lucretia Mott, and / believe some others
n which they sold no doubt at good profit
for heard them fix the price on a picture
% of Abby Kelley at three shillings, for about
IF such one as other picture pedlars would
+ sell for to 10 cents. Then, as if their OBJ
II jects might otherwise be mistaken, Brook
carried about the lat to solicit donations, and
d even went with it among all the groups of
S. women, to draw from them their loose
IS change. They thus, no doubt, make it a
u profitable business; ard besides, it no doubt
o suits their dispositions ard tastes better than
d swinging the scythe or the hammer. The
If great wonder is, that in this country, the
g most enlightened, free and happy of any on
:. the Globe, they can find people ready to
= join them in deprecating Union that has
!, been productive of such happy results, under
1t which our parents and ourselves have been
n the most prosperous people on the whole ha-
. bitable globe. If there are some exceptions
.s to that happy and prosperous condition, the
j. spirit of progress is fast preparing the way
u
Il peaeeable manner, without violence or de-
struction to any human being or any bene-
fetal institution. s.,
. Hon. D. R. Tilden was highly applaud
, ed by the Speakers, for his independence, for
: boiling the Taylor ticket, and was called to
the stand to give an account of the doings of
the Philadelphia Convention. He however
declined detailing the proceedings of the con-
vention, but gave a short exhortation to the
, audience applauding the speakers in turn.
: lYou tickle me and I'll tickle you.) Though
he did not entirely agree with them, he said
e he believed they were doing much good.
: The whole appeared to me like an effort
to excite to civil war-to excite the worst Of
passions of the human heart, and speculate
: on the gulibility of the people. trust
however thatin this country at the present
= time the people are generally too far adj
yanced in virtue and intelligence, have too