Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-02-04
Tbe petfage 9e,ttineI.
Whig PROGRESS.
OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY,

Wing Progress.
In another column will be found the mes.
sage of President Taylor to the House of
Representatives Of Congress, in reply to
resolution of that body calling for the in
struetions given by him to T. Butler King
and other Government agents in California.
This message gives ample proof, if more
were needed, of the hostility of President
Taylor to the Wimot Proyiso. He now
takes an open stand in favor of the doctrine
of non-interference upon the slavery ques-
ton, claiming for the people of California
the right to control their own domestic
affairs, and declares that any attempt to
to deny them this right, will infallibly be
regarded by them as an invasion of their
rights, and upon the principle laid down in
our Declaration of Independence, they will
certainly be sustained in their resistance a.
gainst it by the great mass of the American
people," He again urges upon Congress
the let-alons policy recommended in his an
nuaI message, @believing that we shall thus
avoid the creation of geographical parties,
and secure the harmony of feeling so neces-
sary to the beneficial action of our political
system.
The President has now shown his hand &
left no ground for doubt as to his position
on this exciting question which has convuls-
ed the Union from its center to its cireum-
ference. He stands WI here we ever suppos-
ed he stood, aad~where his position and per-
sonal interests have ever indicated-oppos-
ed to any and all interference by Congress
with the question of slavery in the terrific
ries. The people had right to know the
position of Gen. Taylor upon this question
before his election, and had they known it
then as fully as they now do, he would nev-
er have occupied the Presidential chair.
But through the frauds and deceptions OF
such men as Thomas Corwin, Columbus
Delano, and other whig stumpers who trav'
ersed the Northern States, claiming to have
in their breeches pockets evidence from Gen.
Taylor's own hand that be was in favor OF
restricting slavery by Congressional enact
ment, aided by cart loads of Horace Greely's
appeals to the people, strewed as thick as
autumnal leaves over the country, the peo-
pie were won to his support, and he was
elevated to the Presidency. The game of
deception, however, did not end here. From
the day of his election to the delivery of his
annual message to Congress, the whig press
has constantly endeavored to strengthen the
belief that Gen. Taylor was in favor OF the
Proviso. They averred that, on his recent
tour through Pennsylvania, he declared at
Pittsburgh that he was in favor of applying
the Ordinance of '87 to the territories. Can
any one doubt their intention, to practice a
gross deception uponthe people for the sole
purpose of party aggrandizement, that for a
few short years their party leaders might
feast upon the spoils of Office? They tri-
umphed by means of fraud and falsehood.
the only means by which they have ever
been, able to gain the ascendency in this
country. But that triumph will be of short
duration.
And in view of the fact that the head of
the Wing party has thus boldly denounced
the Proviso and proclaimed the non-inter-
vention doctrine, what course will the lead
ers of that party pursue, who SO recently
shouted @dough-face," @subserviency," &C.,
&C., in every public place and at every cor
ner Of the street to those who adhered to
General Cass while he held to the same
doctrine? Will they desert and denounce
their President, or will they adhere to him
and progress till they can stand with him
upon the let-alone platform? One or the
other they have got to do; and there can be
but little doubt as to the course they will
adopt. The hearty response given by the
universal whig press CT the North to the
annual message of the President in which
the same doctrine is avowed, gives proof
that the leaders of the party are making
preparations for change of front upon this
question of slavery, and ere long he who
shall presume to dispute the justice or poll
cy of their new position will be denounced
as foe of the Union who is seeking to dls-
turb its peace and harmony. The north
srn wing of whiggery, that at every return
ing campaign has donned the abolition gar
ment and prated long and loud about the
attrocious sin of slavery and their sincere
attachment to the cause of freedom is bound
to adopt doctrine which they have de-
nounced as pro-slavery and fatal to freedom
in the territories. Hereafter we shall expect
to hear no more prating about dough
faceism," asubserviency, and the like from
that quarter.
o. Gen. Morris gave the following
toast at the recent Printers Festival IN
New York city,
The american Umion-~What God
has Joined together let no man put asunder"
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