Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-09-27
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Tlldea's Spsech--The Party Issues =
d. All a scramble to save the State and
County Tickets.
Mr.. EDITOR: At the "Free Soil Rally
last Friday night, Hon. D. r. Tildeu ad-
tnit,ed, what we have long observed, that
the old issues between the Democratic and
Wing parties were all obsolete before the
Presidential nominations. He recountcd
the old issues-the United States Bank,
the Independent Treasury, the distribution
Of the proceeds of the sales OF the public
lands, a psotectirs Tariff: 'The U. S.
Bank is an obsolete idea.' The Indepen-
dent Treasury, if it is abolished, said he,
what shall be substituted? He had found
no one who ventured to suggest subst:-
tute. Will they substitute the pet banks?
That will not be proposed. We can offer
no plausible substitute for the present sys-
lem Of deposiling the moneys Of the U. S.
in our own Treasury. The old propos:-
ton 10 distribute the proceeds Of tho sales
OF the public lands to the States is super
seded by the proposition to distribute the
lands TO the reople-free TO actual settlers,
to which all parties must accede, fori ii is
universally popular, and must soon be a.
dopted. The proposition fer a protective
tariffs not contended for, any further than
such discriminating duties as will raise a
rerenue sufficient TO defray the current ex
penses of government, pay the interest oi
the public debt, and an i2stalment Of the
principa'; and in thai he believed all par
ties were agr,ed MR. Corwin, ho said,
had admitted f.et tho old party issues were
all done away, md Mr.. Corwin was righ,
in that respect. Hs also admitted the same
Bu: wo have a s,ew issue. II is, no exten-
sion of slavery into the free territories Of
the United States.
Thus much Ii iden stated as kind
Of introduction 10 his speech in favor OF
Van Buren. And he clse said: in regard
10 United States Bank: the democrats
have beaten us, and We may as we'll give
il up Ii Mir. T. had stopped there, or had,
when admitting that The democrats had car
ried all of their leading measures, and that
The people now universally sdop;ed them,
iflhen he had exhorted his hearers TO unite
with the Democrats whose measures they
had so unanimously adopted, ard assist to
earry out those measures for the benefit Of
the country, we would have given him the
credit of honesty of purpose. But instead
Of SO evincing his honesty, he undertook TO
make it APP ear that the democratic party
and their standard bearer were for aiding
tho South to extend slavery into now free
territories Of the U 1ited States, when the
fact is, the democratic platform is directly
against giving any aid to the extension OF
slavery, and ours is the ou)y y party that dis.
avows any right in Congress 10 interfere,
leaving it entirely with the reople of the
free territory to make their own laws and
10 exclude slavery, as all free people will
in this enlightened ond benevolent era.
Talk of Californians, who regard slavery
as the worst of moral, social and political
evils, making laws to institute slavery in
aheir new and fourishing territory! You
might with as much plausibilily talk of in
,atituting slavery in Ohio, Indiana, or llli-
nois And in New Mex.co, with her pop
nlation of mixed colors, and all having O.
quail political privileges, would any sane
man honestly believe that such free pop
ulation would vote TO institute slavery, af-
ter having once rid themselves Of it for n
series Of years? Even Kentucky, if once
rid of sluvery would not adopt it; much
less with her colored population to vote on
the question. .-.-
Fellow Democrats, this new issue that
Mr.. Tilden tells us Of, is but a humbug,
a.false issue, raised for the occasion for the
want Of a:real one, and to save their State
and County ticket; and they depend on the
gullibility of the people TO sanction thei'
deception. They find many wings who
are ready TO be gulled, deceived, because
they are ready to believe any slander a
j gainst their opponents, even without evl
dence. Not so with the Democrats. They are
accustomed to examine their ground before
taking such step; and they will do it.
Mr.. Tilden spoke of land reford, irisinu-
ating that Cass and the democratic: party
are against reform. We can tell him thai