Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-09-21
Is it not an Issue?

The Star, in commenting upon the resolutions
of the Democratic Convention in this county, says:
''The effort to get up an issue on Bank taxation
is all CANNON. There is, there can be no issue
in favor of equal taxation, whether it be property
of individual Is or corporations"
The Wing takes the same ground.
Now, is it true that there is no difference of
opinion upon this question! Has the Star backed
out of, and abandoned the position which it occu-
pied few months ago, when it denounced the
law taxing Banks, and the law to enforce the col
lection of those taxes ''unjust and oppressive,
and which position it never dared to undertake to
back up by single fact or argument, though re-
peatedy called and urged to do so ? Has the
Wing abandoned the position of its party leaders,
that the privilege of the Banks to pay taxes on
their profits o7ay is .vested right, of which there
is no power in the State that divest them with
out their consent-that it is a solemn contrast,
upon which the people may not rudely lay their
hands! If they have, let them come forth and
past they have been untrue to the people, and prac
openly confess their error acknowledge that in the
ticing fraud and deception upon them. If they do
not this, then, this question of Bank taxation IS
still in issue, and there is ''gammon' about it,
unless it be Egammon'' by which these organs of
this s'f1son'' movement are seeking to hide the
fact from the people. is not an ssue,'' eh
Will the Star or the Whig inform US what is
meant by the reference to the subject of "equal
taxation in the SCALP and resolutions of the "fu-
son convention, if this question be not in issne!
What do they mean by declaring themselves in
favor of the ''repeal of oppressive partzan laws,
if it be not the repeal of the Bank law and the
''Crowbar'' law, against which they have in the
past uttered their denunciations being "oppres-
sive partizan laws" and in regard to which their
columns have been as silent as the chamber of
death, since the conception of this 'fuson' move
ment. We ask again, what is meant by ssthe re-
peal ofoppressive partizan laws?" We have ask
ed the question again and again, but have received
no response. The fact is, they mean by it the re-
peal of the Bank tax law and the "Crowbar'' law,
but they dare not unfurl that flag TO the breeze
they dare not show their true colors but they seek
to shield their real objects behind the Maine Law,
which is held up curtain to hide their ulterior
intentions from the public eye. These organs of
the "fusionists' presume too much upon the gull
liblity of the people when they think to deceive
them by such clap-trap.
The Democracy nave declared themselves In
favor of the Tax law of 1852, and the "Crowbar'
law. The Star and Wing have, in the past, declar-
ed that these are Oppressive partizan laws,'' and
ought to be repealed. The sfusionists,'' in their
'scall' declare themselves in favor of sthe repeal
of oppressive partizan laws And yet, these pa
pers inform the people that the question of Ban k
taxation is not an issue, and cannot be. Who
he1iaves thema Who does not soc throuoh the
gauze veil with which it is attempted to hide from
the people the real objects of this tfusion" move
ment! >..