Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-06-01
Neutral Papers.

Mr.. Sentinel: There are many papers pur-
porting to be neutral in politics, which at the
same time are extremely PARTISAN Among the
newspapers subject to this charge is the Saturday
Eueaing Post, published at Philadelphia. It is
extremely foreign in its international policy, and
anti-American. Ibelieve in domestic matters it
is in measure neutral; but in all its editorials
and selections, it always takes sides against
United States policy and our leading Democratic
Statesmen. In regard to the Monroe doctrine,
no Federal press in the whole country was more
rabid unfair and bitter than it was in denouncing
Lewis Cass and others who took the only Ameri-
can position that enlightened Statesmen, who
love their country and its institutions can take
But not satisfied with denouncing American
Statesmen and policy, it is always the pondcrer
to British intrigue and the ready apologist of hef
crafty, ambitious and aggressive acts. And, in
regard to Mexico, the same paper, from the first
occurrence of a misunderstanding between her
and the United State, took the Mexican side and
opposed the United States. Now this paper is
uniform and consistent in its constant abuse of
American Statesmen and American foreign pol
icy, and at the same time claims to be neutral in
politics. Such duplicity should be rebuked by
the American people. This paper on the account
of its light literature and insiped noyeletts has
wide circulation, and is generally sought after by
sickly sentimental women and precocious girls;
but yet its more serious articles have an influence
to un-Americanze and render unpatriotic the
readers of its worthless pages. do not meanby
this that there is not ability displayed in its dsin
genuous assaults on such men Cass, Douglass,
soule and others; but, at the same time it pleads
the foreign and Federal side as much as though
it was pensioned and paid for doing so by the Bri-
tish government. write this to call the attention
of the public to its Mexican policy in regard. to
the Mesilla Valley question, No Wing or Mex
ican has taken more pains to place in the wrong
the United States than this pretended neutral pa
per. fit is neutral its province is to give the
facts on both sides and let its readers Judge them
selves in regard to it. Why should it have col
umn after column, week after week, and year af-
ter year, abusive of American statesman and
American policy! The treaty with Mexico pro-
vided the point where the town of Ell Passo is
shall be the place of departure West for the di-l
viding line of the two republics. The treaty does
not stipulate that the line shall be run on the
line between the States of Chihuahua and New
Mexico. Commissioner Bartlett argues the ques-
ton just as though Ell Passo included the whole
provinces Of which it is only an insignificant
town; and there is no reason to believe that Trist,
in making the treaty, intended fifty miles North
of Ell Passo as the starting point West on the
Rio Grande; but only Ell Passo and the suberbs
thereunto belonging SHOULD remain in Mexico
and all North of this point should belong to the
United States. Governor Lane therefore is right
in preventing Mexico from occupying the beauti-
full table land which with all New Mexico, Dam
iel Webster declared in aspeech in Congress, and
California with it, was not worth dollar. But L
am somewhat DEPRESSING. The Saturday Eve-
ming Post true to its anti-American instincts in
common with the lowest of the Wing press takes
the Mexican side. ] want the Democratic coun-
try press to be on the lookout for those pretend-