Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-02-14
For the Portage Sentinel.
Personal Malignity of Whiggery.

Mr.. EplToR:-- The greatest rascais are
always the most bitter revllers. lney
would like to show off their hatred OF evil,
to make themselves pass for good. You
last week showed up the hypocrisy OF the
Taylor whig organ in this county, VINO
seeks to cast odium on our friend sheloon'
for daring to take his seat in the Leglsia-
ture as hswas legally authorized and in
honor bound to do. Those bitter wings are
ever aiming their shafts at the most SHIN
ing marks, until we now, and with much
good reason, take it for granted, when the
whig scribblers assail one, that he is un-
doubtedly star in our armament, or else
he would not be a mark for their acrid
venom.
] find another sample Of whig venom in
the Columbus correspondence of the Cleve-
land Herald, in which the writer spits it at
Morse and Townshend, the Independent
Free Soil Representatives in the Legisla-
ture, who, your readers will remember,
voted to admit Pugh and Pierce to their
seats as the Representatives from Hamil-
ton county.
The correspondent of the Herald, who
signs himself "Cavaignac," is understood
to be young man from this county by the
name of R. T. Bruce, who promises fair
by retailing his bitter abuse of men actual
ed by pure and honest motives, to gain for
himse,fa character which no honorable
and high-minded man will envy him. OF
Dr.. Townshend he says:
"Of all wretches known in the records
of infamy, none can compare with this low,
black hearted miscreant from Lorain coun-
ty. Of Morse | say but little. He is SO
far below the heather in everything that
goes to make MAN, that the time spen,
over him, would be poorly appropriated
He is more fool than knave, and a great
deal of both. 1t would require an act OF
Omnipotence to bring Townshend up tc
the level Of Judas Iscariot or Benedict Ar
mold, or Morse to the level of a fool. The
free soil party is as badly treated by its
traitors, as was Jesus Christ by Judas Is
CARROT, or the American army by Benedict
! Arnold"
Is MT that beautiful filth? Such a cor
respondent is disgrace to the paper he
writes for; and late Herald does even q
pologize to the public for admitting sucl
matter into its columns; though the apollo
gy comes late-after the matter had beer
brought before the Legislature on ques
tion Of privilege.
| No true democratic paper would de
scend to such low scurrility. 1t is for tn
party that claims 'all the decency' to de
scend thus low.
AS an excuse for such clustering ant
scurrility Us the wings have let off for i,
while back, we will allow them to urge
their late extreme modification at the re
suit of their labors, for the last year, il
which they have sacrificed every homes
principle to secure power. They hav,
even strove to trample down the Constitu
ton of the State by an unconstitutional ant
unjust apportionment of the representa-
tives in the Legislature. And when, afte
all their pains, and finding, as they suppos
ed, the consummation Of all their antici
pations almost within their grasp, they flint
themselves in minority, and their brigh
fanciful visions of revelling in i'll gottel
power, vanish-their hopes are blasted il
a moment by the votes of democrats ant
those two honest free soilers, Townshen.
and Morse. And thus their whiggery ex
plodes in vapor. As says the CLEVELAND
Plain Dealer, "Such an overflow of viii.
gaul we have not witnessed since JohI
Tyler was President as is now exhibited a
mopg Taylor wings at the votes of Mors.
and Townshend. They are not only MAI
but BLAspHEMoUs."