Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-06-20
WHOLE NUMBER 211.

spoils of office. Answer me! | have a
| right TO ask IN answer. You pledged
YOUR faith to me, an humble citizen, and
| | believed you, and tod my fellow citizens
that yo1 had never broken your word, nnd
EcoRld NOT forger 10 morrow what YOU
pledged today. -''
Was that letter of July "a, which bore
through Pennsy lvonia, only cunningly
devised fable? Was il your intention TO
send me forth TO the masses of the reople
with lie in my mouth! To youch for
your independence of party'' in October,
in order 10 find veufn May al the head OF
a mere cabal of party? Did you make
a dnpe of me, SO that l'might become your
agent in duping and swindling my fellow
citizens into the trammels OF the Wlig
Party?
You know that the wI,ig party Of itself,
or by its own issues, could neve err have ne
complIshed your election. You know that
the whig leaders, fresh from the slaugh.
ter of Henry Clay-of that man who has
for twenty four years sacraRccd TO whig.
ism the best instinct which God implanted
in his nature-couh never have elevated
you to the Presidential! chair.
You were elected by Democratic votes.
These votes were secured TO you by the
force of your Independent position. They
were not bought with silver, gold, or the
hope ofoffice, but won t. you by your
pledges.
And now, sir, you will allow me 10 ask.
you one or two questions.
In what part of your administration are
these democratic votes represented.
Among the army of office hunters who
now besiege the White House, how many
of your democratic supporters can you dis,
covefF
Sir, the truth must be tod; and rs sun.
ported you earnestly and sincerely. VIII
speak the truth with most uncourIly rro,k.
ness.
Your election Las been fruitful cplv in,
discomfort and dissatisfaction. Elected
in the name Of the reople, YOU are snr.
rounded by advisers chosen not even from,
the manhood of The whig party, but from
its veries; hacks and trimmers These nd.
visers seek TO entail upon the country. ON
a cofosaF scale, system of error and mis-
rule such as disgraced the age in ths
shameless expenditure of the GirorI be-.
quest " The whig corporation of the civ
of Philadelp pkia.
Had you been elected us wl,g ma
uPonthe strength ofony known wi iscrecd
| won q not complain. ls.it no, a painful
thought that you, the man of the reon,o
should st there in Washington as the Lead,
er Of the mere fragment Of partv-na
The embodiment not of a whigism like tho,
OF Henry Clay, which states its princinles
and fights its battles in The sun, but Of a
whglsm which works in darkness. gathers
strength BY nnhoiy coalitions, aad build,
It's power upon broker pledgesr
And Row, sir, as wash nv bands of
the last traces of Taylorsn as s,ote NV
regret that L ever acted the part " bich
your pledges made me act, YOU n, less,
must admit that never served YOU wiz,
the hope OF office, that have always been
among that humble band who working
well and long for you, under the impression
that they also worked for the good of their
country, could neither ask nor accent of.
fee at your hands; for those hands which
were free al Buena Vista, free in the late
campaign, are now tied by the trammels
which have been fastened from the yerv
ruins OF the whig party.
~ GEORGE LIPPARD.
10 President ZACHARY TAYLOR.