Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-04-05

U Our amiable neighbor of the Wing exhibits
a very unbeeoming and rnchristian temper to-s
wards us because we don't give It said and CONF
fort,nty engaging in al hitter personal contro-
Syersy with our political friends He accssesus
with sehpracteristic cewardice,n = and an attempt
10 deceive, because do not sitter syilahle o..
bout the Ashland and Mansfield meetings, or the
speeches Of Eirkw Eurns, and other leading
d emocrats, exposing Medary's corruption, or
Observation-Disclosures of Medary blythe Cincinnati
r. neuirer, and other leading Democratic papers"
We have left II entirely with our amiabie neigh.
Dor to derive all the consolation he can from
this personal quarrel, butwe are assured that 1t
will be but present qualification Of malicious
and depraved desire to infict personal injury
Their whole desire is TO break down Medary,
and TO SOW the seed of dissensien in the Demo-
{ forts directed. Now, why this attack upon
Medary? He certainly is MOTTO blame for taking
the printing when it was offered to him In that
he did no more than any Of his rerilers wonld
have done. If any one is in fault it Is the Leg
islature. But the whigs care nothing for that;
all they want is to destroy Medary's: influence,
and for this purpose they bestow their sickly
fattery upon such of his personal enemies in the
democratic ranks as will give them aid and show
ar their coarse and vulgardsnuncations upon all
those who will not furthertheir designs. But il
neglect to allude TO circumstances and facts
which have transpired, be evidence of coward
ieen in the estimation of our neighbor, certainly
be cannot complain if he be measured with his
own measure Is he willing to acknowledge that
his dogged silence in reference to the Allen land
swindle, the Galphin swindle, the Gardiner
smindle, and the peculations and frauds upon
the public treasury by whig officials, is the or
spring of ''cowardice'' and prompted by desire
of .ssuppressing the truth7" Is it .cowardice''
that induces him to conceal the fact that the
Wing Review opposes the nomination Of his IA
vorite candidate for the Presidency-Gen.S Scott
-on the ground of incompetencya Is it coward
ice that induces him to desire that his party 90
into the coming campaign without an open avow-
al of its principles? Is it !cowardicen that indue
es him to keep shady about the late alleged diff
fculties between Corwin and the Cabinet But
still more striking evidence of his cowardice''
and dishonesty is furnished in his attempt to in
jure Col Medary by scattering the venom of his
personal enemies, instead of meeting the ques-
tion of printing, fairly, on its merits.
The Wing accuses US of trying to convey the
idea that all the opposition to the order Of the
Board of Public Works came from the wings.
We meant to, and did say, that the whig press
hoped to turn the opposition to the order to par
ty advantage. But We knew that it met with
opposition from all parties. And we knew, too,
that the wings would oppose and denounce it
sswithouta q why or whereforen with sole view
to party advantage. How we could be 'blindly
subservient to the behests of party while we
were in opposition to the charger number of the
papers of our party as that paper asserts we leave
for the incempa rable genius of the Whig to do.
termine.