Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-03-01


snAnr.-ou brilliant neighbor Of the Wing
is not yet able to discover how The people or the
State gain anything by compelling the Banks to
pay taxes the same as other property, since the
Ravenua Bank does not pay as much by some
S3co. True there is not another bank whose
taxes are not increased, and ths additional a
mount brought into the treasury is about SlCe,-
COO, bat still he can't zee any advantage in that
as long as the Rayenna bank don't pay as much!
nd we venture TO say that the henest thing will
never LET Its readers know the facts through its
columns. *s
1t is but few years since that pink Of homes.
ty fabored to deceive its readers into the belief
that the bankspafd more taxes under the sys-
tenn of taxing them upon their profits than they
would pay If taxed the snme as other property.
md though the reports ofthe Auditor of State
for two successive years have branded his ar
guments as false, our truthful, honest, and high
ly Intelligent neighbor has never found it out;
or, if he has, be has not meant his readers sho'd
through his columns. -.
When he found that his humbuggery wouldn't
take any longer, he made a. week and foolish
attempt to deceive his readers by denying that
any body had ever opposed compelling the banks
to pay take, the same ss other property, and
thus to hide his past iniquity and folly.
Thus has he performed all manner of twist
ing and turning on this subject to get rid Of q
frank and open acknowledgement of his first er-
ror, presuming upon the credulity of his readers
for success. lie certainly is entitled to premi-
um for his stupidity.
'-------~-~-
The sWhig' asks US to publish GreeleJ's
five column apology for being whig, and in
consideration therefor agrees to publish the ar
ticle of j. H. in our paper of last week, and
another of equal length by the same writer
We most respectfully decline the proposition.
We have too little room already for matters of
vastly more importance to our readers than are
Horace Greeley's excuses for being a. Wing.
Besides, We shall rot limit our correspondent
in the space he may occupy in reviewing Gree
ley's budget of absurdities, nor deny ourselves
the poor privilege of commenting upon them, as
our ncighbor asks US to do. There are many
facts not noticed by j. H. going to show Gree
ley:s wantscf candor andihis heartless hypocricy,
and those; toe, which stand forth more promi.
neRtly than any to which he has alluded For
instance, Greeley attempts to impute immorrali-
ty to the Democracy, by referring TO the political
complexion of the'F'ive Points, but he forgets
to allude to the morality Of treasury plunderipg
by high oficials-by Ga'phins, GARDENERS, &c.
He forgets to aflude to the moral influence of
his own pastoraI letters scattered os thick IS the
leaves of autumn over the surface of Ohio, to
induce our people to support the Slaughter
Jousen nominees, whose principles were kept
concealed from the public eye, that the leaders
of wLiggery might more readily practice their
deceptions upon the people. He forge.s that be
has SO little confidence in the rectitude and vir-
tue of his own principles. that he has but recent
| ly urged the unsa fety Of holding q Whig Ma
tional Convention, for fear that Convention
may make a declaration of principles, and thus
destroy its hopes of success by means of false.
hood and fraud. These are some of the moral
acts of whiggery, which the sainted Greeley en-.
tirely forgets while imputing immortality to his
political adversaries, and which entitle him to
credit for candor!
| But it is not cur intention to review any por.
tion of this letter. Oursreaders arc too we'll &C.
quainted with whig measures and their tendency
to need any such review. 1t was not from any
desire on our part that the review of j. Hap
peared in our columns. He had proposed to the
editor of the 'Whig' to review Greeley's letter
in his columns, who sgnifed his unwillingness
to permit him to do so, when he applied to US