Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-04-28
For the Portage Sentinel est"
On the mutual Cancellation Of Parties
and PartiSans- Old Party Issues-The
New nStitutiOl,-Slayery. @

Vu tAe Wusuai S0uClidti0H Oh fdftleS
and Partisans- Old Party Issues-The
New C0nStitutiOn.-Slayery.
In a previous communication, | attempt.
ed to show that society might be greatly
benefited, by the union Of effor,s Of tho pub.
lie Press, TO promote:pence and good will
among men; union of effor: to premete,
extend, and more generally dif1use correc,
and useful intelligence to all, beginning
with our own people, ourneighbors Of this
region, which is deemed best prepared for
SO important reform, change from un-
pleasant party coaflcts-nnd may include
also law suits and family and neighborhood
chickering's Of every kind-to mutual peace
and good will. Such change would be
SO pleasant, can scarce refrain from now
anticipating its certain results to make so
ciety better and happier. And to effect ii,
we need the full and efficient aid Of the
public press; the whole press, that most po-
tent engine Of good, or as may be Of evil,-
of good when rightly conducted. or of evil
when wrongly directed. But in this age
and generation, the good has far prepon-
derated over the evil, thanks TO its conduc.
tors and supporters generally. And this,
the efforts Of the conductors and supporters
of the press, so preeminen.ly successful in
this country, and more particularly in the
free states Of this Union, has brought us to
most interesting point al this time, when
it is believed that another important step
may still be taken 10 conciliate socieiy.-
l do not say that party conflicts in time
past may not have been productive Of good.
They have, indeed, elicilee. discussion, by
which many minds have thus been excited
TO useful action. Many minds have been
thus illuminated and many truths dissemin.
ated more widely. Discussions in good
temper do have that effect; but when &c.
companied by horsh iuvecliye and rsproach.
ful denunciati ons, discussion but provokes
opposition. Now If cannot pursuade 20.
litical partisans 10 conciliate their diaeren-
css, | cannot doubt bu. they will at least
be pursuaded 10 conduct their disputes in
better temper than they have done; and
when they will learn to treat each other
with perfect decorum, my object is sure to
be effected. They will soon become
friends, and cooperate together for the
public good. True self interest, well un-
dersteod, will never lead to i'll will. !
hold that in oil quarrels the true way for
lhe happiness of both parties, would be by
conciliation and peace. Alllaw suits even,
might better be settled before prosecuted;
and it would be worth an effort of Philan.
lhropis,s 10 associate together TO prevent
law suits. | have known an association of
hat kind entirely successful. e -
But to our object, the Cancellation of
parties and the press. Let us first enquire
what principles divide them. Between the
wo old parties, the Democrats and the
Wings, as they are now called, there has
been a long contest about United States
Bank, and about an Independent United
States trensury-about tariff for protec- {
ion or for reyenue-about the making Of
roads and canals by the general Govern
nent, and even about the proprieiy Of bes.
owing Offices exclusively on partisans Of
'ur own party-the party in power.
These have been the principal matters
in dispute for the last 20 years;
,ut in the last presidential contest the cleo
ion turned principally on other points,
Fer nsylvania and New York, which States I
ach held the balance vote, both voted for {
Taylor and Fillmore though both were |
i'd Democratic States; and rejected the s
Democratic Nominee from other grounds j
han the old issues. And the new admins d
ration, OF least since the advent of Fill
nore, take no ground on the old issues. $
All parties since, appear content to lei d
Id issues rest The United States Bank P
scarcely mentioned. The independent I
has scarce an opponent. IL sofhe I
Wigs are for higher tariff than the ]
resent one, (Which is one established by C
he democratsl the wings, as party, have o
o, united on substitute, and their Presi- b
en,, in his message, admitted that high v
'ariff' was not desirable The matter of a
,ternal improvements has been tried by v
le progress in Congress of the bill, some. t
hat noted, called The River and Harbor 2
III, there being now no one to contend b
" general system Of, road and canal L