Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-02-02

the coon Senators to make the bill slide
more easily through. Writhing under the
Of Messrs Archbold and Olds,
the Speaker, flushed in face like full
moon, soon commenced his usual slang a.
gainst the Ohio Statesman and its editor.
The Statesman had charged that this bill
and other bills were tin-pansed, and thus
were party measures concocted by party
out OF the Senate chamber. This he deni-
cd, and ceclared that he never heard; ;or saw
anything Of the kind! 1t is we'll known
here, but may not be known in other plac-
es, that this Mr.. Speaker Goddard, has
scarcely been on sufficient terms of trust
worthness and good feeling with his party
tor year or two past to make his pres
ence or his counsels very acceptable or a.
greeable to his party. We heard good
wings and old pioneers Of the State de-
nounce him last .winter in more bitter
terms OF reproach than any other man in
the Senate. They did not fail to publicly
pronounce him green scion from the
stencil of Hartford Conventionism. One
old whlg assured US that he was at Wash.
ington when his father came there~as hear.
er Unreasonable resolutions from the HART.
FORD CONVENTION to lay before Congress,
His personal and malignant abuse Of u.s.
both last winter and this, we let pass as the
idle wind; such abuse only renders ridden.
lous the authors, and they must bide their
time. When we look around to see what
has become Of those who followed US here
tofore with the greatest fury and maligni.
ty, we only pity the asses whose long ears,
or self-conceit. tempt them to founder in
the same dirty POOLS venom and disap.
pointment.
But on the subject of this apportionmen,
bill being poiitical one, we have some.
thing to say in addition even to the over.
whelming proof brought forward by Mr.
Olds. 1t is not only political, but so bare
faced and wicked, that every whig Senator
showed guilt in his countenance as the base
thing was talked about, and we are free to
| confess that Us much as we have seen o
that party, and as much as we have suffer
ed at their hands in former times, vet W.
could not believe still that they were bold
reckless and wicked enough to seriously at
| tempt the passage of the bill now before thu
Senate No man ever arose in his plac,
to defend an honest measure that presented
such blotched face of fire red, and pale
livid lips, as the Speaker of that body ex
hibited today. The guilty conscience with
in gilded the surface without with its nev
er-failing dye, prepared by God himself, (ol
| the purpose.
But is this party bill, mere partisan
grasp for perpetual power? We might re
fer to the article, previously copied from
the Dayton Journal! But we have the
highest authority-the report of the whie
portion of the joint committee of the two
Houses. They take up the matter not il
a constitutional sense, but in politica
one; they boldly declare that party entered
into their calculations, and in their argu
nent (?) present this extraordinary feature
viz: n
"Should complaint be made that Colum
biana and Mahoning are short in represent
alton, ready answer is at hand in the un
due representation given to their politica
brethren in ''Old Butler" more than suf
fcient to balance the surplus of the two
former"
Should Massachusetts complain Of toe
soedE representation, she can have the
consolation Of Of knowing that South Caro-
lima has more than she is entitled to! In the
name Of oil that is decent, just, or consti
tutlonal; is cne extreme portion Of the
State to be pacifed for the injustice done
her, by the cry that more than justice i.
done in the other extreme portion. Woule
such thought of reasoning ever cross the
brain ofany man not sunk in the depths o.
political prostitution and insanity? Politics
have been at the bottom of the whole cal
culation, and Mr. Goddard's attempt to es
cape from the curse of such bill, by igno
rance, was not only heightening the guilt
but a most stupid farce; the boldest attempt
at disfranchisement on record, and whie
paper before us complains that Clermon
and Brown were not s'provided for" Hea,
it: .@-
"Clermont and Brown are left out of the
whig protection, and these are about the
only counties not provided for, where it was
just and fair to extend such protection. -
We are hardly prepared for this inexcusa.
BILE neglect.
"By this bill, the wings will Olect 80
Representatives, certain, and leave Huron,
Erie, NJ edna, Lorain, Jefferson and Nor
gan, with members, that will very prob
ably be all whig-making Is Represent
atives.
"The Senate will be 10 whig, certain,
leaving Medina and Lorain, and Huron
and Eric, with 2 Senators that will very
probably be whig-making 21 Senators.
So, should the bill pass as reported, we may
set down the members as follows:
Whig. Loco.
Representatives, As 81
Senator'S, 81 Is
--.e a.t @ - &c AZ
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Wing majority, "a on joint ballot -
Tho democrats nioht haye n maiorify