Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-08-11
[Correspondence Of the Plain Dealerl
Wade and his Anli-SlaVeryism-Sc
and the Fugitive LaW-The Forest
City and Its RaSSW00d Editor.
WAsHrNaroN. Anaust 2

Wings Of the Reserve when Wade was
elected Senator, that she was the man for
the times, she would beard the lion of
slavery in his very den, and il would not
uo ior Southerners TO measure lauces with
nm taat he would'not betray the cont.
asnee OF those free soilers who voted for him
IN the Legislature, and all that. But how
have they been disappointed and BETRAYED.
The man OF whom they predicted spcb Great
things, who was SO bold when the enemy
was far off, who could swear all sorts of
vengeance against slavery ON the s,umn,
SO much so that the strongest importunities
Of few of bis friends here were of NO
avail, when they desired him to prepare
himself and resist that infamous Watson
claim-a claim which has no parallel in in.
iquity-a claim which takes from the pock.
cts Of you, Western Reserve men, money.
to pay a regular blackleg, for human beings
who are as free as you are; who were never
proved slaves, and even had they been, the
crime of the whole case would have been
none the less enormous. A claim which
certain Southern men voted against because
OF its injustice; claim which was resisted
| by slaveholding officers, and which an off.
Ger in the Florida war, and former acting
Governor of Florida, and slave holder too.
Of the strictest sect, declared to me to be
an enormous swindle, and which Cobb of
Alabama, in The House opposed and as.
clared as such also. Yet this claim, purely
criminal and wholly devilish from its first
conception to its final issue, which deerades
the general Government to the damnable
work of dealing in human souls = of putting
market price upon humanity, of barter.
ing and parleying with blackleg slave kid
nappers. Frank Wade did not and uould
net oppose, though he was urged 10 by his
colleague Newton and others week before
the final vote was had upon it. In fact be
had been furnished by Messrs Giddings and
Newton with all the facts and documents
in the case, and their briefs of it, and they
expected that he would oppose il. But
when the crisis came, ne kept bis mouth
sealed-was as mum and dumb in the pres
ence Of shareholders as though bis lips were
closed in death. He would not lose caste.
with Scott and his party by opposing the
South, And now with impudence unparaI-
eled be presumes to instruct the anti slavery
men Of his section in regard to their duties
in voting. He seems to have set up fac.
tory here with other doughfaces 70, the
purpose of manufacturing abolition NATE
rial to induce freesoilers TO become ike him.
self, men of straw before Shareholders:
miserable towards, time serving traitors.
1t seems that Tilden has been employed as
bis agent ON the Reserve to peddle off bi.
bunglingly manufactured wares. What of
Tilden? EmPbatically nothing, except that
he was once a member of Congress, was a
Whig, and after being drilled long time.
by Giddings be became an anti,sIapeyv
whig; in 48 he became free soiler; then
when the Democrats got the State and there
was prospect Of bis getting an office, he
became Democrat, obtained Office, as long
| as he held the Office, remained democrat,
| then he turned free soiler again, and lastly
comes out wing and is now attempting TO
make the people believe that Gen. Scott is
going to deceive the South and NOT abide by
the Wing Baltimore Platform--in other
words that Gen. Scott if elected will prove
liar, and because be will become such,
anti-slayery men must vote for him. Til.
den is truly fit tool to be engaged in such
a work, but wherever he goes he should
keep clear Of the school children, for thew
do not thrash off his lions hide they laugh
him to scorn.
Scott opposed to the fugitive law, and,
the Compromise measures! The man who
would believe this, and argue i, to the peo-
pie ought to be put into straight jacket
and sent to the lunatic Asyluzs
After doing what be couiU 10 get the
compromise through, fugitive act and al;
and when Senator Cooper, after their pas
sage, congratulated him on the success Of
bis labors, said Scott to him; sir, / ,goald
mach rather haze seen you vote in faroy
Of the fugitive law than as it is ao,c re-
corded, against it.-Senator Cooper bad
voted for all these measures except tho fu-
gitive law. This was a real aoon nversation"
with Scott, not trumped up to suit the times.
Let him who doubts it, get Senator Coop
er's denial if he can, in black and white.
Apaper called the @Forest City,s hail.
ing from Cleveland, is kept on file at the
National Hotel of this city; many South
erners have read it and expressed the opins
ion that its editor is more of fool than
Enaue, for they cannot see how a man with
two grains of reason, or common sense
could dispute the fact that the whie plat.
form will not be sustained by Gen. Scott to
the fullest extent; and that the platform
does not make the settlement of tho Com.
promise measures, Fugitive Law in all e.
nal.
One Of the creatures Of that bass.wood
editor writes to the new York Tribune, that
the Forest City was doing great work
among free-soilers, in bringing them over
to the support of Scott. Can it be posi-.
BILE that the 3Scapengsr's" gatherings will
have any other, than nauseating effect.
upon the intelligent people of the ,Reservef
THE BOBBY bass.wood really talks as though
he was commissioned high Priest sent to
enlighten the Reserve and lead her people
through the wilderness to the land of proms
Use. In fact the impudent saphead seems
to act as though, all who will not swallow
down the miserable talk of his lying, cab.
bage-leaf paper, are knaves above measure
deserving external retribution. Yours.