Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-06-02
NEW GOODS
STILL ARRivING!!!
Goth Stock,
Less ...46

TotaI...l4, precisely, according t.
Daboll.
'Nov by 81. Giles the n5ar goes 6rtreiy on"
g ar. A. GILTETT, al the "Brck Sore'
Ss are sill receiving additions to the largest and
best selected stock of Goods, (best in quality q nd
lowest in price,) ever offered in this Market and
this they will verify to their friends and custom
ers, even though it shall the ''sxty horse
power to explode with rage" They said last
week that "a crisis has arrived in the history of
merchandising in this place, and the public can
see that this is emphatcalty true. whe their ioio
prices have brought down upon them direct per-
sOnal attack, by name, in the newspapers from
bloated and selfsuficient specimen of humanity,
WlO sWels like ''sixty in viewing the past 81 hir-
ty years." review, that if thorough in all res
poets, at this late day, would lead to 'sixty per
cent of unhappiness, for some folks live in such
big glass houses as &c be in momentary danger of
juggling pa'aes to say nothing of those other pains
which are generally supposed TO he associated
with transactions of a certain character
S. A. IL X. A. Gillett have no boosted 'fthirty
years" of their own to explore and gloat over
they have no horse racing laurels to bedeck their
brows-they have no knocked ont teeth as memen-
toes of ancient prowess-toothless, "to chew the
bitter citd of disappointment they have no COHrt
Records to emblazon their fame defendants in
circumstances where the sterner sex ought to show.
at least, the spirit of manhood, if not humanity.
''Hark, from the TomBs doietul sound,
Iis paa,falto mine ear"
They have not s'thirty years. History Of ovet-
bearing and grinding monopoly in Tanning, Tin
ning, Warehousing, >Canalling, Merchandising,
and selling Goods to the poor Irish canal dIggcrs
with no proftS at dH of cOarSei They have not
made religion stalking horse TO public favor, in
order to escape the 'tbad odor" of Slightly dam
aged reputation-they have not made politics an
engine ofoppression to force mems opinions cast
ing them upon the bed of Procrustes, stretching
them when too short and cutting them off when
too long. Speaking of 'coalitIons'-they have
not ''deemed 1t necessary to take the faher OF
clerk into dark chamber. and require of that
father, to pledge bis responsibility for the bones
ty of the son, and in consideration of such
pledge, agree to help fight the battles of tie
son, endeavoring thus gratuitously by espousing
anothers quarrel to ruin rival tradesmen, whose
low prices are bringing down the enormous profits
of 'stirty years"-tlley boast not of having turn
ed the ''nimble sixpence" actively, as to accu-
mulate fortune of One Hundred and Fifty Thou
sand Dollars just to give them ga comfortable
support"-tbey persecute no man for his religion
or his politics-they enter into no stcoalitions" in
dark chambers-they never have here or else
where sold shaving soap at 624 cents cake, and
other articles in proportion-nor have they asked
legislative boons that they might seem to be,
what they are not for the true nature must forev-
er STAND BR 1srIINe out over the Whole surface of
character-for sshigher law" than that ofhuman
legislation is required to change the nature for it
is true and must 50 remain forever, rs uttered BY
the immortal Bard of Avon.
The rose by any other ndme
WI smell s,oeet,"
and vice versa, change of names, cannot az
feet the qaadrupeds of the gutter. S. A. & K. A.
Gillett, content with the designations of Provi-
dence, have not descended from the sshigher law
and sought its repeal by resort to legislative
white-waslIing they have brought down the
price of goods in Portage county, and they intend
to keep them down by small profits and quick
sales, whoever fhay boast and buster, and in his
self eonteited, bloated insolence, stretch himself
up to the ''sixty' feet altitude of Gulliver's
Brobdingnags in utter and unfortunate forgetful-
ness of the sublime fact that
"Tte higher mp Monkey climbs.
The more he sho,ps his tall
Now ihdefance of all sscoations'' Commercial,
Political or otherwise, S. A. & r. A. Gillett are
determined that the farmers and others of Port
age County, shall have the opportunity, if they will
avail themselves of it, of getting full equivalent
for their money and produce, and they have
large stock Of goods, well selected and of prime
quality, which will be sold.
OF CALL AND SEE.
Ravenna, May 10Th, 1851.