Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-08-26

I,
and please TO accept the assurance of my
highest esteem and most peculiar venera-
[tion. 90 .-.rt. L.. kOSSUT -,
...... Anc. Governor of Hungary.
To,the Honorable the General CAss,
W ashington. .. .,-..a, ,.-....g-..s-s
hope you will excuse my bad Eng
lish. ! thought it my duty 10 address you
in your own language. .-.-. q .,5-s. E..
A Good Story.
One of the best legal stories we ever
heard of is that of the Round Robin, as it
is famililarly called in the lower circuits of
North Carolina, and owes its humor to the
very fertile and cultivated mind of a lawyer
who is still alive in distant Western State.
All the lawyers attending court about the
year 1910 boarded at the house of Mr.. S.
who at the beginning ofh life as publi-
can, was assiduous and provident, but rich
es multiplied and Boniiace became lazy,
crusty and parsimonious. His accommo-
dations, as they were usually called, from
being the best had by degrees degenerated
into the very worst in the country. This
was borne with muttering from time to
time until, in fit a despera ton, the whole
fraternity of lawyers, alter mature deliber-
alton in Congress assembled, resolved to
quit the house and remove to another house
in the town. The duty of announcing the
separation was devolved upon the funny
gentleman above specified, who being some
what struck with the mock importance the
affair had assumed, wrote the following,
and sent it to the landlord signed with
names of all the descedents il round ring
below. g.L .,ss.-.a.E g.. 5s ---.s 80
, DECLARATION. .. --;..
70 When in the course of human even is, it
becomes necessary for a hali-hungry half
fed, imposed on set Of men, to dissolve the
bonds of landlord and bearder, a decent re-
spect. for mankind requires that they declare
the causes which nave impelled them to the
separation. ....-... 1.s..--- .....a.-.-
We hold these truths to be self evident
that all men are created with mouths and
bellies, and they are endowed by their cre-
ator with certaininallienab rights, among
which is, that no man shall be compelled
to starve out Of mere complaisance to
landlord; and that every man has III ht to
fill his belly and wet his whistle with the
best that is going. 's-= s..a'al ,ras' -tv
The history Of the present landlord Of the
White Lion is a history of repeated insults,
exa ctions, and injuries, all having in direct
object the establishment of absolute tyranny
over our stomachs and throas S. To prove
this, let facts be submitted to a candid
world. A'A ..>-,
He has refused to keep anything to d.ink
but ball-faced whiskey. a.- q. II q as 4.
7 He has refused to set upon his table, for
dinner, anything but turnip soup, with a
little bull-beaf and sourkrout, which are
not wholesome and necessary for the public
good. 81"
: He has refused to let his old blind eve
Joe put more than six grains Of coffee to
gallon Of water. .E .-...r..,
He has turned loose multitude of fees
and swarms of bed-bugs to assail us in the
peaceable hours Of night, and to eat out our
substance. .1.gfi,.Eas b s.sa.-..a -f ,-ssstc
He has kept up, in our beds and bed
steads, standing armies of these mercless
savages, with their. scalping knives and
whose rules of warfare is un-
distinguished destruction. "'-' -' -~'''-+
He has excited domestic instructions
among us, by getting drunk before break
fast, and making his wife and servants so
before dinner, whereby there has often been
the devil to pay.
He has waged cruel war against nature
herself, by feeding our horses with broom
straw, and. carrying them off to drink
where swine refuse to wallow. .,.-s..
He has protected one eyed Joe in his vii,
lainy in the robbery of our jugs, by pre-
tending to give him a mock trial, after
sharing with him the spoil. -tgHs57
He has cut off our trade with foreign
ports and brought in his own bald-faced
when we have sent him to buy
better liquor abroad, and with perfdity
scarcely paralleled in the most barbous
ages, he has been known to drink our for
eign spirits, and fill up our bottle with his
own portion. 'r52ss'- : 7la4s5---'. ".' III III
He has imposed taxes upon US to an enor-
nous amount, against our eensent and
without any rule but his own arbitrary will
and pleasure. 81
A landlord whose character is thus
marked by every act which may define a
tyrant and miser, is unfit to keep board
ing house for Cherokee Indians. eE
Nor have we been wanting in our atten-
ton to Mrs. S. and Miss Sally. We have
warned them from time to time Of the at
tempts of S. to starve and fleece us.
We have reminded them Of the circum.
stances Of eur coming to board with them
we have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity-we hive conjured
them TO alter state, Of things which
would inevitably interrupt our connection
and correspondents. They too have
been deaf to the voice of justice. We are
therefore constrained to hold all three of
these parties alike inimicai to our well
being, regardless of otr comfort. S-:.s3z
We therefore make this solemn declar-
alton of our final separation from our former
landlord. and cast OUT defiance at his teeth.
1t is always safer to err in favor of 9TH
ers than Of ourselves. "s.-easE .