Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-10-20
Democrats of Ohio, stand to your

Democrats of Ohio, stand to your
A victory worthy of our seand scommen-
surate with the hopes of nation,1 has Just been
achieved by the brave and tried Democracy of
Ohio. They fought against foe that mustered
all its clans, to a man, scorning every principle
of honorable warfare, and STOPPING at no baseness
calculated for their temporary advantage.
j While the Democracy from one end of Ohio to
the other has been thrown against the whig party
with every personal advantage our side, and
every disadvantage of that kind on theirs, we
have endeavored to preserve the dignity and de-
cency of upright contest. We have been met
with all manner of Wing defamation, detraeton,
and abuse. No Democratic candidate has been
spared the ordeal of personal attack from the hour
of his nomination until the close of the late con-
test. FRANKLIN PIERCE has been assailed by the
inhuman hyenas of whiggery, with degree of
hateful villifcaton unknown even to his pursusrs,
since the assaults with which their political fore
fathers hunted Jefferson, and thus wrote "infamv
before and after their own names.'' From PIERCE
to STEEDMAN, the change Of attack was but to
increase the shameless grossness of Wing misrep-
resentation. From STEEDMAN to OLDs, from
OLDs to every other man on our ticket, in every
county, and in every Congressional district in
the State, the same malignity of personal as
sault
But over all this mountainous array of Wing
sander and yituperation-over all their falsehood
-circulars-anonymous lies-distorted fables
baseless charges-over all their insoence, insult,
and rage-the victory of the fearless, incorrupti-
BILE, and intelligent Democracy of Ohio, is over
whelming and complete. In this victory, assailed
| as were our national candidates, FRANKLIN PIERCE
has received triumphant vindication at the hands
of the people of this third state in the Union
| Twenty thousand Democratic majority of this peo-
pie, ratify his selection our national standard
bearer, and pledge the faith of their hearts for
the electoral vote of the State to him in Novem-
Der. -e.e
The election of Caldwell and Steedman repeats
the sweeping verdict of last year, in behalf of
the principles and policy of our party in the State
The success of at least twelve, if not more, Dem
| ocratic candidates for Congress from Ohio, seals
| the fidelity of her sons to the great cause that
unites them with the dominant progressive party of
the nation. Looking back at the calm and conf
dent demeanor of the Democracy of Ohio, in the
late struggle, and the other hand, to the fran
tic and reckless desperation which our federal en-
emies assailed us at every chosen point, was there
ever victory won by the Democracy of any State
so glorious and SO momentous :! All parties, in
| all the nation, have for months regarded Ohio as
the battle ground of the Union-where rested the
| centres of the opposing forces. The agonizing
solicitude of the whole Wing party of the country
as to this result, exposes their consciousness of
its fatefu foreboding of their prospects in the No.
vember election.
Ohio, then, is finally and unchangeably Demo-
cratic. Whiggery has no footing within her bor-
ders. She is Democratic now and forever. All
that is necessary to assure even opponents of
the fulflment of the hopes of her democracy for
the future, is the vote she will give for Pierce and
King. Allthe arguments capable of being drawn
from our late victory by the Whig party itself,
prove the success of our Democratic electoral
ticket.
The result of Tuesday has difused incalculable
courage to our friends throughout the Union -
Superadded to our own victory, the democracy of
the mighty States upon our right and upon our
left fanks, Pennsylvania and Indiana, unite and
Join with US in the joy of common triumph. With
what fearful certainty do Scott Wings everywhere
read their imminent doom in the late victories pro-
claimed by the Democracy of Pennsylvania, In
diana and Ohio. How richly is that doom deser-
yed. The Whig party have held power for years,
In that time not less than of fatal and hui
initiating bunders have been committed in our for
eign diplomacy. The commerce of the country
has been perilled and left at the caprcious and
self-interested mercy Of every foreign rival, our
citizens have been caught in the open sea, un-
armed, defenceless and fleeing homeward-and
have been shot like very dogs. The very name
of the American Republic has become. .powerless
for protection-our foreign representatives have
become pimps Of royalty, and have provoked de-
rision to the very name Of Republic from every
despot on earth. The same whig party that has
brought shame upon the country everywhere
abroad, have at home offered up the treasure Of
the people to the peculatng hands of Galphinism,
Of Gardnerism, of Corwinism, Crawforlisnn, and
EWngisln-and sWelled our national expenses to
52,ooo,00o of dollars per annurn. And yet, for
the purpose Of fperpetuating this Infamous misman-
agement of our national affairs, which has involy-
ed us in national disgrace without, and fearful
travagance and corruption within, this whig party
have endeayored to blind the people with military
passion, and re-establish themselves in power BY
mere popular hero-worship. s-asA.6 sss
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana have just visit
ed upon that party terrible rebuke. Democrat
ic maiorities in all these States amounting in the