Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-10-15
Stealing 'sLocofocO" Thunder


The National Intelligencer of the 9th
inst, contains the following peculiar para
graphs: Read them;
"The wings at least, we repeat, will
yield their cheerful assent to the coming
decision of California and New Mexico, let
that decision be what it may.
"Righlfully, then, in the coming consti-
tutions, the question now agitated over the
country at large may be settled at the good
pleasure of those who are to make for
themselves those constitutions. They may
settle it either way. 1t is for them to do
it; and nobody will have any right to gain
say their decision. II it so pleases them,
[,he people of California; they, can, too,
abstain from settling it."
The Inteligencer has heretofore held an
honorable and responsible position, as the
leading organ of the universal whig party,
and, we believe, is still recognized as the
most respectable and talented journal of
the administration, by the northern adher-
ents of General Taylor. The position
assumed in the article from which these
paragraphs are extracted, evidently be-.
trays the degrading fact, that the whig or
Taylor party, after ridiculing and abusing
the platform Of General Cass" during
the whole of the last presidential
campaign, now plant themselves boldly
upon the identical platform which they so
recently and vehemently denounced and re-
pudated. This is the consistency Of Tay.
lorlsm, as exhibited by the yenterain mouth.
piece of ancient federalism and modern
whiggery. Gen. Cass, in his very famous
Nicholson letter, assumed that the people
Of New Mexico and California possessed
the exclusive right to designate their form
Of government respecting the institution Of
slavery-that Congress had no right to
legislate upon the subject-in other words,
lhnt the irhabitunts OF the new territories
were tho proper authority for permitting or
preventing the admission Of the peculiar
institution within their limits Many demo
cratic supporters Of General Cass deemed
this doctrine sufficiently safe for all practi
cable purposes, in the prevention of the ex.
tension of slavery-not fearing 10 trust the
question in the hands of the people more
directly interested, while many other
members Of the same party disapproved Of
the position; but feeling assured that the
subject would be equolly as safe, if not
more SO, in The hands Of the democratic
candidate than with General Taylor. they
bestowed their sutfrages upon the former.
For this they were abused and villfied by
the immaculate cohorts OF whiggerv.-
Another portion Of the democracy deserted
their organization, and, in company with
an indignant faction of whiggery, joined.
or assisted in the formation Of, the SO called
Iree-soil party.
The wbig party Of the north, ns will be
remembered by almost every intelligen,
man, strongly objected 10 The position o!
General Cass. They positively asserted
that it was the platform which the ultra
slaveocracy OF the south desired. Notwlll,.
standing the falsity Of their declarations,
they pretended TO be sincere in their luo-
lves, and honest in their objects and inten-
tons. They proclaimed long and loudly,
that they were genuine friends OF The Viii
mot proviso that their candidate, General
Taylor, was favorable to that proviso, and
that he would not, dare not, refuse TO sign
bill with the said proviso attached :
Their presses disseminated the jdea-their
orators re-eehoed the supposition, on every
hill-:op and IN every valley Of the north.
Thomas Corwin, the great whig gun of
Ohio, lraversed the State, and announced to
the people that he held in his possession a
letter !rpm ''oid Zack," positively assuring
him that he General Toylor) was fright
on the Wilmot proviso." BY such false
and senseless camor they endeavored to
mislead the masses. Time and their ac-
credited organs, are rapidly developing the
and baseness of the professions
OF whiggery, as promulgated during the
late presidential campaign. The demo-
cratic masses, who unfortunately failed in
combining their opposition to Taylorism,
will now have an opportunity Of gazing
upon the treachery and inconsistency oil
the leoders of the whig party. Can such
conduct deserve aught but future defeat and
reputation? We are sadly mistaken in
the sentiments which pervade the people, ii
they fail 10 rebuke the inconsistency Of the
pledge.breakng dynasty at Washington,
which now disgraces our country.
1 Ho result vi tuiS poiltICul SoIIleTSet-
this palpab.e attempt TO steal the thunder
of General Cuss-cannol positively be de.
termined. The design is evident. The
not being able 10 avoid the
disruption and disgrace which will follow
The action that it should be compelled to
take upon the subject Of slavery at the nexl
session, it now seeks TO change its ground.
In The north General Taylor is committed,
by his friends, in favor of the proyiso-in
the south he is pledged to veto i'll The
dare not seize either horn of
The dilemma-political ruin will inevitably
follow. To avoid the tempest Of condem-
nation which awaits it-if it possessed
enough courage to ''stand up to the rack
fodder or no todder"-it ingloriously adopts
the position Of political opponents. This
is not a surprising freak, when we consider
the proclivity of whiggery to inconsistency.
and the necessity of such a course 10 avoid
m unfortunate predicament. Sic transit
gloria achiggery!-Ohio Republican.