Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-02-02
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RAFENNA OHIO WEDNEsDA FEB 2 1913

lionel TO sing it out, was no go. At last he
struck up'a stanza in favor Of Henry Clay
and the mass of whiggery departed with
theiseductive strains still ,ringing-.in Their
ears. They wanted their dinner.
At closing, the Corwin and Delano stock
was decidedly in the ascendant. -
AFTERNOON SESSION.
| About 8 O'Clock it was understood that
I the committee to nominate a candidate for
Governor, after severe travail, had J a,
length succeeded in procuring the nomina-
ton of a candidate, and the convention re-.
assembled. - 4 g. -, <. ,ss..z...,.ss...
A coarnmiitees vas then &ssps Mr.
Ford, and after a time he appeared on the
stand and recited his speech. He took
ground against the war, feebly, it is true,
but still against it, not in, the Corwin and
Delano style of fierce denunciation. but suf-
ficient to satisfy the anti-war men that had
supported him, but not sufficiently strong to
offend the Collier men, who went the war,
and went Ford against Delano. ... ,.,..
MIR Polk also came in for large share
of fdenunciation-as did also Mr. Tyler, the
President elected by the wings, in $780,
While boasting Of the triumph of whiggery
in that campaign, he deprecated the dis
grace brought upon the country by the
reign of rylerisn. -.--..
On these subjects Mr. Ford went his
length, and was occasionally cheered by
the audience. .---.a
When he finished, Columbus. .Delano. was
called to the stand. He was opposed to the
war, and once he said he, had called it q
'damnable ,car," and he still called it so
1t had already lost the country, by the best
accounts, one hundred and fifty millions.
When that bill, containing the falsehood
that the ''war was commenced by the act
of the Republic of Mexico was before
Congress, he had voted against, and if ev-
cry man before him-every man, woman
and child in the State was to offer to make
him Governor, or to give him anything
else to vote so great falsehood, he Mr.
Delanol loved truth too we'll to do it, and he
would spurn their offers. T.. .....
That law was the ccmmencement-the
primary cause Of all our difficulty. 1t
furnished men and money to the President
to carry on this infamous war. True 9TH
ers had voted for this, but they had not ex-
amined the question as he, MIR Delano had
done, and they had voted under protest.
The charge that American blood was
spilled on American soil, was an infamous
(alsehood. That territory belonged to
Mexico, as he Mr. D ! believed, and as the
evidence would show. Those who voted
for that law did not know this, but he Mr.
D. did. He had had prisate converse.
ton with Gen. Shields, and Gen. Shields
told him that we must have brush with
Mexico. He Mr. D. was prepared to vote,
and he had voted against the lie that Mexi-
CO commenced the war. e-
Mr.. Delano commented at much length
upon the war, but that portion of his speech
met with poor response. Some half a
dozen leading coons would attempt to raise
a shout, but from the mass nothing come,
and the speech, for want of enthusiasm,
was failure. ~ = =a
He pledged his efforts to aid the election
of Mr.. Ford, and pledged too, that Knox
county would sustain the nomination.
MIR. Griswolld, another defeated candi-
date, then took the stand and spoke short
time. He lived in Stark county, he said,
and he spoke of the changes there, and in
the surrounding counties which formed the
backbone of the democracy. At the two
last elections these changes had been so
great as to save the State to the whigs,and,
continued the speaker, we will save the
party again. ..=a.>,E
About this time some one proposed an
adjournment while Mr. G. was speaking.
Another proposed that he should finish af-
ter night, and while Grisworld was protes-
ting that he didn't wish 10 speak, and was
about done. III. ...
The convention adjourned until to-mor.