Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-12-31

FRIEND @F1Akkis:-lt. mas now Deen
some, seventeen days since the. time the
Constitution points out. that the .,Legis
lature sh,ll meet and proceed to trans
act such business as the requirements Of the
people demand. But up to this time, moth
ing has been done. And why? Because
the wings, or alaso and order party, as
they call themselves, have refused and voted
down every proposition offered by the DEM
ocratic members Of the Senate to effect an
organization! But once before, l believe,
in the history Of our State, has the Legisla-
ture presented a similar spectacle of disor-
ganization, alike ridiculous and disgraceful.
The disorganization proceeds entirely from
a spirit Of factiousness, and should, in a
great degree, be charged on a few men
who make hollow professions to belong to
neither Of the great parties Of the State.
Let the people Of this State mark them
let their free and enlightened constituents
give them no longer their votes-let such
men as Brewster Randall, John F. Beaver,
and Harmon G. Blake, be remembered.
On their shoulders rests the responsibility.
Their professions ofreform, Cancellation and
attachment to principles not congenial to
the Taylor party, cannot be received as an
earnest Of their political faith. Their votes
in opposition to the plain.intent Of the Com
siitution, demonstrates clear as neon-day
their devotion TO the Hunker Teylor party.
Their little anxiety for the organization,
foreshadows too yisibly their oppo sition to
the call for Convention to form a new
Constitution that shall contain the refo forma-
tory and liberal or progressive sentiments
Of their party and the masses Of the people,
The proposition. Of Randall, for Johnson to
leave his seat, when he has been regularly
sworn as Senator on the presentation Of a
legal and formal certificate, whereby the
Taylor wings would have majority in
the Senate, and thereby have the controlling
power, is absurd, as it is the mouthpiece Of
the disorganizing Taylor party.
That proposition of Randalps has two
horns to it. The first is in the form of an
excuse for not orga nizing and thereby de-
feat the new Constitution for the people.
The second is, that il democrats and free
soilers concede to it. Johnson may be ousted
and Broadwell admitted, or both, and
thereby defeat the. passage of provision
for a Convention to frame Constitution
for the election of all officers by the peo-
pc, &c !, DC.
# the Taylor party had not, at the last
election, shown SO little interest in such a
desirable provision for the people-if they
hads not shown themselves in the manner
they have since the assemblage of the Sem
ate, there would be less grounds for censure; !;
but as the matter stands, it must demon
strafe to the conscientious of their own par
ty, that the leaders are opposed to any pop
hlar demonstrations Of the people for the
security of their rights and return of that
power to the people which has been un!or-
tunately assumed by the few.
. When the Sena'e will organize / cannot
tell. Nerrly 200 ballotings have been held
for Speaker, without an election. Swift
and Randall being the candidates, Dim
mock and Dennison having withdrawn
their names. Last year Swift voted for
Randall for Speaker. This year Randall
| prefers to vote for himself and continue the
enormous expenses to the people, which are
fast accumula,ing without any favorable
result to the taxpayers.
Many of the whig Senators daily indulge
in jokes, bandinage and propositions to ad-
journ over till next October, or that the tel
lers put into the ballot box sc votes, Is for
Swift and Is fer Randall and count them
over and over till the time for an adjourn
ment. These things may all seem very
witty and langhable to vagabond politi-
clans, swindling three dollars each per day
from the peoples treasury, but, if am moi
mistaken, the people will regard it in anoth'
er ligbt-that of positive disgrace.
| What do the Wing Senators intend te
do? This is question that is asked from
all sides. VIII they keep up their ballot.
and jokes all winter, and leave the State te
suffer in its vital interests, as it is now do
! ing, OF have they patriotism enough left tt
compromise by selecting a Speaker and th'
other officers? They must compromise
the two great parties-or take up with th'
dictation Of two or three by brid disorgani
zers-whose principles are neither for tn
right nor the justice Of the case involved
but who misrepresent their constituents ant
disgrace alike themselves and their adoptet
State. "a
The House adjourns from day to da.
having no constitutional power to transac
any business until the organization Of til
Senate. zS
There is a rumor quite current in th
city, and there are many things to substan
tiate the truth of it, that the Banks has Of