Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-11-01


every important measure that has been
proposed, calculated to benefi, the mass OF
the People.
O. We copy the following from the O.
hio Statesman of the 25th ult, Let The
people Of Portage read it, and ponder well
upon the effort that is now being made 10
decoy them into the support Of party led
on by such set Of base political dema-
gngues, and let their votes tell at the ap
preaching election that they spurn then,
and their candidate.
Whiggery North and Whigyery South -
Its Leaders caught al their Dirty
Tricks.
Truman Smith, Of Cnnnecticu;.t 1.-The great
head of the whig iranking committee of
Washington, whose secret letter, or iering
The wings of this state 10 carry Ohio, we
have published, has been detected in a con.
temptible trick, and is justly held up to the
scorn aud contempt OF all honest lren -
he reader will see the full force of the
| following, when he reflects that Truman
Smith is an aboiitionist, and has ever pro-
iessed 10 hold sentiments IN common with
the party. He is now the eulngist and
supporter of Gen. Taylor, and did more
Than any other Northern man 10 secure
his nomination by the Philadelphia Slaugh.
Ter. House Convention.
We copy from the New Haven (Conn. J
Register:
Truman SMITH. This political trick
s.er has at last been caue ht in his own trap!
friend in Alabama has sent US 4 speci-
men of the fasennods with which he is GeIu-
ging the South, attempting !" prove tha.
'eGen CasS is an a5olitionist," and Aiillard
Fillmore n friend OF slavery! We have
the documents in our possession, under
T. uaaaass cacn frank and seal Vi hat II
hypocrise! One day writing to the editor
oi the Courier that Taylo will not veto
the Wilmol Proviso, and franking election
eering documents in;o New England repre-
seniing Gen Cass RS pledget t, the Stare
interest, and then scnoing TO the South an
entirely different document
Others OF the whig party are enga ged
| in the same disrepu.ab'e work. and nj the
head of several OF the southern papereS, is
an article warning lie democracy hat they
,unot vote for General Butler. without
also vntfg 'for Cass The Atlationixt
We have how bei;,re us, the idress Of
he "Naw Orleans Central Rough and
Ready Club dated August lMh, 1913.
and signed by S. S. Pren,iss. s.BaIio Pey,nn
and others, as 4 commune hich endeav
| ors 10 prove the same lhing. g.nnd ;'iier sum
ming up the evidence, which consists "i
detached para graphs from his public wri-
tings, the address says:
Are we not then justified in saying (el-
low citizens, that Gen Cass is no trieni to
the sonlh on this subject, (lhe slavery les
lion, but a dangerous oe,"-sss page 10
Of the address.
The same document, in allai;;.s l., Gen
eral Taylor, sass:
The election Of Gen. Taylor, will af-
ford to the south and TO the west the strong
est of all guarantees for security, during
his administration, on both the great sub
iects to which we hav> referred. AS re.
CARDS the WiImo, Provisn, we need not re-
mind Won, that, being himself u Stare hold
er, q Nutire Of Virginia. CIT zen OF Lou
isianz, acih erery Jeelzmg and interest a
dentited arith as, acs hare asothing to
fear," &c.
The practice, prevalent among federal
politicians, and in the federal newspapers,
of holding up Gen Cass in the South as
an abolitionist, and in the North as n pro-
| slavery advocate, shows at once the dis
honesty of federal practice, and the scoun-
| dreism of its leaders.
While thus they act towards Gen. Cass,
they pursue a different course towards
Gen. Taylor. la the North, Mr..
Cnrwin processes 10 have letter from the
whig candidate, in which he says he is in
Virginia, DR.. Pannell, a Taylor wh;g elec.
tor, and said to be Il relalve OF Gen. f'ay-
lor, reads on the stnnp a letter fro u Gen.
Taylor, denonncing the i,nputation that he
favors the Wilmot Provis, us gross cal
my. Nj Corwn refuses 10 publish the To-.
! Ter il, his possession, because as his friend
f. Burke Fisher says, it is vile Koor.
back, aud Dr.. PannelI refuses tn allow the
letter in his possession TO be published be-
canse, ns he says, promise was given I"
Gen Taylor, that it would not appear in
The newspapers.
he conduct of Truman Smith, pro.
fessed abolilionis., in franking documen's
to the Sou:h. charging Gen. Cass with be
ing an abn,tinnist. while the same docu-
ment declares NlilIard Fillmore to be n
friend 10 slave is probably the bases, in
the catalogue The etfor's OF The same
man have been directed to prove directly
the contrary in the North, and the expo
sure of his boube dyed hypocrisy ind
ta!sehood, sinks him almost beneath con.
tempt.