Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-08-31
"reminiscences.

ssA change came o'er the spirit of my dream"
Byron.
IT'S distance lends enchantmentt to the view,
And robes Free Soilers in a different hue.
Pleasure Of Hope.
It is refreshing to every person to look back
for few years over the changes and varieties
of the past. Men who lived and fourished few
years since, have died and are almost forgotten.
Events, then big with interest to us ALL have lost
their power to excite, and their very existence
recurs to our memory, like the idle phantom that
haunts us in our dreams Still their remem-
brance is pleasing, it brings back again the image
that which is gone forever. 'No man can tether
time nor tide, lifes fitting pageant glitters for
a moment on the canvas, and then the curtain
drops, and others take our places, to behold the
panoraman of this briet existence,-life. But
still the memory of departed days is fondly cher
ished, the remembrance of our early homes, the
s'sportive joys' of early life are wont to cluster
round our recollection,
Like the which have been distilled,
You may break, you may ruin the vase ifyou will,
But the scent of the will hang round it still.
We say it is refreshing to look back over the
past scenes of early life, and revisit the scenes
sof many festive SPORT"
ssWhen the heart promised what the fancy drew.''
How refreshing too, it is, to revisit the dear
old mansion home, "the old Familiar tree,'' the
old associations that surrounded our boyhood
life, And among other things it is refreshing to
examine the files of an old newspaper and find
the following in paper that goes it's length for
coalition with the wings, and has succeeded in
giving it a start:
ssTHE FREE Soil VoTE.-It is impossible, un-
der the circumstances of the case, to arrive at the
true Free Soil vote in Portage County this fall.
The Free soilers nominated county ticket of
their own, composed of their own party. The
wings subsequently nominated our ticket, with
the exception of one candidate. This movement
was was not from the impulse of principle, but
was the simple dictate of selfshness-and in the
very act of nominating our ticket, the wings
could not omit the opportunity to insult us.
X 1t is enough that we endured
in silence their nomination of our ticket-we
will not endure in silence their false represen-
tations' we would say, from
henceforth, let us and our candidates alone
We have principles, and aparty organization to
sustain and give force to principles. That
organization we are bound to sustain, as just and
consistent men, and shall look with contempt up
on any effort to entrap us into,or entange us with
an organization, whose leading men lie PROSTATE
at the feet of the slave power, 1--WE thought their
antecedents were all rightly whose President and
Cabinet are the servile instrument of the slave
power, &C., &c.
We hope our friends who have for a moment
| swerved, will upon candid review of the whole
subject, see their error, and guard against the
| like for the future.
If the history of the past is not sufficient to
warn us against entangling alliances, we should
probably not be benefited though one should rise
from the dead.-Ohio Star, Oct is, 1850.
That was the opinion of the Editor of the Star
three years ago, now he says, let there be unit
ing of the people without distinction of party!
does he need any dead person to rise and tell
him he will be most gloriously defeated this falls
Consistency! Progressiveness 3! Honesty III
Home Companion and Wing please copy. .