Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-08-04
A MrsrAKE.-The iVhig corrcets

week IN statlng that the majority lor Tue
New Constitution was sfover twenty thou
sand p" We imagine that no one wall
charge us with an. design to misrepresent
when it is known that we have published
The official vote, showing that the majority
was only 1928, which our neighbor ofthe
Wing thinks is quite small, and not very
TO the wings. After stating
the majority for the New Constitution, that
paper adds:
-"Anf barely two-thirds Of the voters in
the State attended at the polls. Such being
the facts, we don't see that victory has
been achieved by the locofecos and their al
lies, the peculiar friends of the cojersa race,
that will bear m@ch Dragging over. Had
the opponents of the constitution been as
active as its friends, the 10000 majority
would probably been the other way"
The above paragraph contains virtual
acknowledgement, though doubtless amin
tended, that the wings are stih hostile TO
the new constitution, as they ever have been
to the principles Of justice ard equality it is
designed to establish, and that the people
who have adopted that instrument need ex-
pect nothing at their hands. Indeed, how
can it be expected that party who believe
tha, the constitution reflects the sentiments
of bat minority of the people, should have
a sacred regard for its provisions?
The question Of the permanent establish
ment of the reforms contemplated and pro-
vided for in the new constitution, are, and
ever will be before the people for their de-
cision, because they are in direct conflict
and antagonism with the doctrines of spe-
cial privileges vested rights, and monopoly,
which have waged an unrelenting war up
on the equal rights of the people. The
whig party is the instrument through which
the privileged orders are seek to perpetu-
ate their rule. The people have adopted a
new organic la W, ia which they have declar-
ed against monopolies, special privileges,
and long train Of abuses which the wings
endeavored to perpetaate by fighting against
its adoption. OF what advantage will all
this be if the construction of this new fun.
damental law is given into the hands Of
those who opposed lis adoption and who
are still its most inveterate enemies? Does
not the political history Of Ohio for the past
few years furnish ample proof of the un-
scrupolousuess with which they will set at
defiance its plainsst provisionse And in
view of these facts, can those who labored
for the success of these great reforms, trust
the charter by which they are secured to
their most bitter foes?
The assertion that chad the enemies of
the constitution been as active as its friends,
the 5000 majority would probably have
been the other way" is supremely foolish
and ridiculous. Who does not know that
its opponents, from the great Wing Cen.
trail Committee down to the yerriest Whit
fet that barks at their bidding. did all that
they could do by falsehood and fraud to
compass its defeat? And who does nos
know that, but for the edicts of that Com
mitte, which found willing, supple tool in
such beings as the editor of the Wing,
not even decent show Of opposition would
have been made to his adoption?-that un-
til that edict was put forth, there was no
organized opposition oit, and even many
of the whig press had spoken faverably Of
it, when, all at once, new light burst up
on them, and the whole phalanx were out in
opposition to its adoption, denouncing it as
a base partizan instrument, and appealing
earnestly to their followers to aid them in
securing its defeat. But they appealed in
vain. 1t was like calling spirits from the
vastly deep-they would not come. They
saw too clearly the advantages that would
result from it adoption; and we doubt not
that, had there been a full vote, instead of
receiving 10000 or 10000, the majority
would have been over $4,000.
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMEMORATIVE
body assemblies at Columbus day after to.
morrow. We shall be able to announce
the nominees of the convention next week,
and we hope, and do not doubt, that the
Ticket put in nomination will be such IN
one as will be acceptable to the patty, and