Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-08-05
The Cincinnati Despatch.


The Cincinnati Despatch, heretofore =
neutral paper, has hoisted the Democratic
banner, and is hereafter to be called the
Despatch and Democratic Union.' Ed.
WIN R. CAMPBELL. Esq, its former Editor,
is now associated with Hon. ALEXANDER
DUNCAN, formerly member Of Congress
from the Hamilton district, in the editorial
department. The new Editor, in his ssa-
lutatory,' says the paper will oppose U.
States Bank, Protective Tariff in all
sbapes-will oppose the application of the
Proceeds Of the Public Lands for any 9TH
er purposes than the support of Govern
ment-will oppose Internal or External
improvements with Government Funds, ex-
cept those purely National or indispensably
necessary to the National Defence-will
maintain the Independent Treasury system,
the independent sovereignty Of the States,
and the right of the Slave States to the full
enjoyment of their peculiar institutions Sc
cured to them by the Compromises of the
Constitution, but will oppose with untiring
zeal the spread Of slavery where slavery
does not now exist, and will maintain the
right Of the sovereign people to prohibit the
establishment of slavery in all Territory
now free; and ut will oppose the free-soil
principle which we understand, the
freedom of the Public Lands to actual set
tiers. In nearly all its principles it con-
ours with the standard of the Democracy
as set forth by the last two State Conven-
tions, and will doubtless do good service
in the good cause. But upon the question
of sfree-soil, or the freedom of the public
lands to actual settlers, it has taken ground
against the position of the Democracy, in
opposition to the general sentiment of the
people, and, as we believe, wrong in prin-
ciple, though we have no disposition, in this
place to enter into an exposition Of our views
upon that question; they have been pretty
fully expressed heretofore through our col
umns.
We have heretofore read the Despatch
with interest, and in its new character We
wish it the most abundant success. ..
F The following talk by the Buffalo
Advertiser, the home organ of President
Fillmore, but lily comports with the tone Of
the whig papers in these parts in their eff
forts to make Mr.. Fillmore out good e.
rough free-soiler:
"The free soil stumble has had its day.
The dgitators have obtained all the po,cer
and place they ever will through its agen-
cy. The veil has become too transparent
to longer hide the deformity which is sought
to be covered. The true friends of Liberty
and of progress have become disguised
with the seLfshness and insincerity Of the
demagogues who have sought to ride into
power upon this hobby. and will no longer
tolerate their claims to be considered as the
exclusive advocates of freedom. And it is
source of satisfaction to every true friend Of
the country and of the integrity of our in
stitutions, that theCabines does not meet the
appreciation Of unprinciplsd agifators on
either side of Mason & Dizon's line"
O. The whig papers, for the purpose of
showing President Fil!more's position upon
the slavery question and making him out
a thorough bred abolitiomist, are copying
letter written by him ts1elue gears ago,
in reply to interrogatories addressed to him
by anti-slavery men, in which he claimed