Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-08-17
whig sympatn1cs and Tendencies.

It cannot fail to impress itself, as palpable
fact. upon the minds of all candid and unpreju-
diced observers of political movements. that there
is remarkable proclivity towards whiggery, as
their original root, and almost inevitable gaol, in
all the prominent political heresies of the day.
One may see it exempli6ed and illustrated, IN the
rise. progress and final results, of all snch move
ments-and the conviction that it is SO is one
great reason, we think, why, now that the eyes OF
the people are more and more widely open to those
matters the truly patriotic, the substantially hon
est and the carefully thinking portion of the COM
munity. are with more and more unanimity coming
out and taking their stand in defence ofDemocrat-
ic principle.
@ Take any one of those radical, revolutionary,
rebellious, riotous, wrongheaded cliques, which
designing and reckless leaders have been getting
up among us of late years, and which have from
time to time been able to attain greater or less
degree of consideration in point of number and
influence until it has become, at intervals, OF i'm
portance to some one party or other, to swell It's
ranks by attaching them to its standard; and with
which of the political parties do we see them ally
ing themselves. Look at this for moment
practically Is it Free soilism! whittier do the
sustainers of this fanatical and mischeivous doc
trine naturally tend politically! where, when
they would make themselves felt in the politics
of the land do they go? To whose willing, aye,
inviting arms do they fly the doves to their win
dows? who is it that encourage the fantasies which
addle their poor brains, and keep them together
ready and capable of being operated upon as a
BODY for the purpose of attaching them to the tail
of their own political sect! In whose ranks do
they ever find sympathising welcome, frater-
nal embrace! 1t matters not how weak their creed
or how dishonest their practice, how revolving to
our ideas of moral and political honesty, or how
shameful their trickery-which is the party that
finds nothing abhorent to its own faith in theirs
SO they will but aid it in its peculiar and all grasp
ing designs! The history of the Banks and their
diipes, both before and since their incursve, in
yasive and aristocratical 'ssquattng in' on the
rights of the many, is full off facts and experience
warranting the reply that it is with the Wing par
ty alone that such men find sympathy. Is it re-
bellion against constituted authorities under shall
low and baseless pretences for the purpose of OBJ
taining that power which constitutions and laws
have fortunately for society placed in other hands!
Look atthe position of the Banks of Ohio in their
opposition to the will of the people and the laws
of the state, and say what party it is that gives
thena ready support! what would that poor, mis-
erable,~ abortive attempt have ever proved be-
yound the failure and disgrace which will event.
ually overtake it, had it not been for the ready
sympathy of the party calling itself par-ercellemce
the7Whig party ofthe country! There was glo-
rious opportunity for whiggery to display itself in
its true costume, with its own scenery, decora-
tions, and properties, and gallantly have they
ayailed themselves of it, those dear order lovtng
friends of their country and its its free and glori
Gus institutions. Loud and long were the chan
ges rung on 81 Democratic oppression" many the
sympathising meetings held by the Jack Cades
of the party and abundant the crockodle tears
shed, and now that they are reaping the reward
of their misdaeds, with reeklesmen incident
only to the last stages of desperation they are
deavoring to hitch on, and hide under, the cause
of temperance, to cover and evade the true issue
at stake, in very poverty of argument not daring
to show their hands in the campaign.
A few days ago we made exposition of the com
ponent materials of an association recently form
IN this county. What do we see? true to thei
instincts, following out those inherent sympathie'