Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-05-24
Individual Liability.


The Cincinnati Gazette speaking of the
1--WE are info med that the stockholde- s,
are individually liable. for their notes. If it
is so, they are good"
The Gazette and its federal brethren have
never before admitted that @ipdatidsldl iaa-
balsty" gave any security whatsver. In this
case, tits only TO bolster up the paper, that
the holders ef ii. may refuse to-sell, and al
timately lose all. essa
But here's comfort, even If there should
be despair in the above: Says the last
Wooster Democrat
@Some ef the Wooster bank directors
have been aaxiously expecting some state
ment from J. S. Lake, relative to his fall
ure, liabilities, &C., but instead of receiving
anything of this kind, it seems that L axe
has written to one of the pioas direeto-s
that che is suffering the most excrucidtng
anxiety cf mind" !" AID requests sad aireo.
tor to spray for him." Oh, clackee. Just
think # it, A Wooster bank director on
bended knees praying for Joe Lakep
Well, if that aint capital; it Is snteresti N
ing! S.s ~
Friend Means, we have two ones tf the
thief tickets, which we wish you would tell
said pious directors to remember in their
next prayers!
But speaking ofprayers- Bankers pray
ers / How are they worded -sotnshoW
hds?-"Oh, great and omnipotent Lucifer,
PRINCE of bankers, who reignest over all the
kingdom Of paper thisring, protect us from 5
this ,bottomless Lake, who has denied to US
the binding admoni!ion of @honor among
thiereS,' I" sc. s1' tgz. sEpe
d Praying BANKERS! That is lis much
as saying. that there is one court, at least,
where they fear "indiridual liubflity!"--sz
Ohio Eagle.
Liberty Bon.
There is a glorious old Bell which hangs
in the tower Of the old Sthte House in Phil
adelphia, which was rlng tc call together
the signers Of the Declaration of Independ-
ance. 1t was the very bell for that work,
for it had been cast with the Gcd-inspired
motto upon -@Proclaim Liberty through-
out the land, unto all the inhabitants there
Of" Lately, as we learn from d Philadel-
phia correspondent of the National Anti.
Slavery Standard, they have been filing off
this Same old bell: And what do you think
they have done with the filings? They have
cast a little bell ard given it to--Mr. Clay
He will use it to eau his slaves, when he
wants his illustrious boots brushed, or any
such matter. which no great embodiment can
do for himself They have, of course,
omitted to cast on the rhetorical flourish
about proelaiming liberty: That would not
chime in exactly with the other Mr.. Clay
would have to give to the individuals that
would present themselves at the soundo of the
little bell Nothing could be more inap-
propriate Why then did not the poor
sneaks who stole off the filings from the glo-
rious old bell, cast on a motto that would
be appropriate! They might have found
one exactly to their purpose in Mr.. Clay's
speech in the U: S. Senate in 1899, which
would have read beautifully thus: @That
is property which the law declares to be
property: Two hundred years of legisla-
ton have sanctioned and sancti6ed Negro
slaves as property" That would hare
made, Just the bell with which TO call a hu-s
man chattel to act as your boet-iack.--s
Boston Chro'aotype.
Tc O boo.La,ds -, , La i, nine baN3 Ytnnzse