Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-05-26

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"Now By 81. Giles the acar goes draDely on
g A&R. A. GILLETT, al the t4Brick Store
- are sill receiving additions to the largest anu
best selected stock of Goods. ibest in quality and
lowest in price, ever offered in this market, and
this they will verify to their lrie nds and custom
ers, even though it shall cause the "sixty horse
power to explode with rage " They SAID last
week that 'sa crisis has arrived iii the history of
mercha Adizng in this place, - and the public can
that this is eElphaticay true. when their ioao
prices have brought down upon them a direct per-
sonal attack. by name. in the newspapers, from
bloated and self-suffcient specimen of humanity
who swells like ''sixty' IN viewing the past ''thF-
ty years." a review, that if thorough in all res
poets, at this late day, would lead to 'sixty per
cent of unhappfness, for some folks kve in such
big glass houses to be in momenlary danger of
il lging panes to say nothing of those other pains
which generally supposed 10 be associated
with transactions of n certain character.
S. A. 81 r. A. Gillett have no boasted "thirty
years. OF their own to explore and gloat over
they have no horse racing laurels to bedeck their
brows-they have no kaocGed out teeth as memen-
toes of ancient prowess-toothless, "to chew The
bitter cud of disappointment they have no Court
Records to embaZon Their fame as defendants in
circumstances where the sterner oug bit to show.
at least, The spirit of manhood, if not humanity.
'sHark, from the ToMBs doletnl sound,
It's paintulto mine ear"
They have not a thirty years history of over
bearing and grinding monopoly in Tanning: Tin
ming, Wareheusing, Canalling, Merchandising,
and selling Goods to the poor Irish canal dggers,
with no profits at oil ofconrset They have not
made religion stalking horse to public favor, in
order to escape the "bad odor' of slightly dam
aged repnaton-they have not made politics an
engine ofoppression to force mems opinions, cast
ing them upon the bed of Procrustes, stretching
them VIXEN too short and cutting them off when
too long. Speaking of "coaltlons''-they have
not ''deemed 1t necessary to take the father of
clerk into dark chamber. and require of that
father, to pledge his respols hi!lty for the homes
ty of the son, and in consideration of such
pledge, agree to help fight the battles of the
son, endeayoring thus, gratltoasly by espousing
another's quarrel, to ruin rival tradesmen, whose
low prices are bringing down the enormous profits
of ''tlirty years'-they boast not of having turn
ed the 'nimble sixpence" so actively, as to accu-
mulate fortune of One Hundred and Fifty Thou
sand Dollars, just to give them ga comfortable
s1pport" they persecute no man for his religion
or his polics-they enter into no s'coations" in
dark clambers-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
err STAND BIT 1srL1NG 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 so remain forever, as uttered by
the immortal Bard of Avon. --.-
The rose BY any other name
,- VII smell as sicett," .
and vice versa, a change of names, cannot af-
feet the qaadrapeas of the gutter S. A. & Il. A.
Gillett, content with the designations of Provi-
dence, have not descended from the s'llgher law
and sought its repeal by resort to a Legislative
white washing 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 may boast and buster, and in his
self conceited, bloated insoence, stretch himself
up to the "sixty'' feet altitude of Gulliver's
Brohdingnags in utter and unfortunate forgetfuh
ness of the sublime fact that
''The higher mp Monkey climbs.
The more he shoes his tall
Now indefance 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 a
large stock of goods, well selected and of prime
quality, which will be sold.
Uf CALL AND SEE.
Ravenna, May 10th, 1851.