Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-10-05
For the Portage Sentinel.
Temperance Alliance Pic Mic.
PALMYRA, Sept. gath 1853,

PALMYRA, Sept. 24th 1858.
The Temperance Alliance of the county held
meeting in this place on the 22nd inst, on which
occasion the friends of the 'Fusion Ticket per-
formed great things in their estimation, some of
which deem worthy of notice. 1t will be re-
membered that the Federalists who have ever
been the bitter enemies of the masses and the
Democratic party, have tried every expedient to
defeat the wishes of the people. Every political
campaign these aristocrats and monopolists either
change their name or form new coalition or
sfusion," perform some feat of ground and lofty
tumbling for the purpose of diverting the atten-
ton of the people from the real issues and ques-
tons to be decided. The Whig party by COM
mon consent being dead in this county, and the
Free Soil party having performed its EMISSION"
those who had been leaders of these two factions
of ancient Federalism set their ingenuity to work
to discover some new made to oppose the people
and favor the banks, and the few at the expense
Of the many.
They therefore wheeled right round from their
favorite position aiken in lS4o hard cider suck
ers and Bachinalians, who then took in solemn
mockery at their log cabin revels sacrligiously
the sacrament, using hard cider, imbbed from
people are awake to the evils of intemperance
which they in great measure created and en-
couraged, with loud acclaim proclaim themselves
to be the especial and particular friends of tenn
perance and sobriety. They go on the principle
or article of their creed which, though ridiculous
and false, is the main support OF the doctrine OF
the right set up by kings to rule by the grace OF
God, that the masses, composed OF laborers, far
mers and mechanics are fools, or extremely ig-
norant; governed, according to their great leader
Alexander Hamilton, by their appetites and pas
sions iustead of by their intelligence.
The day was unfavorable, and did not get to
their Pic Mic which was in the grove, but went and
heard the speakers-O. P. Brown, a lawyer re-
Gently from Chardon, in Geauga Co., who there
could not have been elected constable, has been
fortunate enough by acting the demagogue on the
temperance question, to be elected Mayor OF Ra-
venna lead off in the forenoon. His speech was
anything but fair and houest. He set up men Of
straw for the purpose of Rocking them down and
in this manner diverting the audience, but his men
tai caliber and argumentative powers were often
too weak to explode those baseless fabrics of his
own clumsy oratory and creation. Once whilst
in the midst of an everwrought sentence which
was intended to work the sympathies, but
which every one could see was redculously about
to fail of it's intended effect, the ':fusion candi-
date' for Prosecuting Attorney, who sang with
those non-descript vocal musicians who were both
choir and glee club of the occasion, between a
croak and squeak, which is characteristic of him,
exclaimed, just in time to let the speaker down,
sMr. Brown it has been reported here that the
Bank at Ravenna has given two hundred dollars
towards defraying the expenses ofthis campaign,
is this true" Mr.. Brown failed to clear up this
charge satisfactorily, though man of straw, it
was only knocked down by resolution at the
close of the meeting.
In the afternoon Rev. Mr.. Jones spoke, who
said he had no rule by which to regulate his
speeches except by exhausting himself. He,
therefore, went to work saying very common
things with an extremely loud voice in bolster
ous manner until completely exhausted, when
with a cracked voice and an almost naudible sob
he closed Mr.. Hall, on behalf of the committee
on resolutions now came forward with long
string of these very common articles. These de-
yeloped the trickery OF these hard cider suckers
| of 1910.
This temperance Alliance which as an alliance
| or organization had no more to do about getting
! up the "fusion" Of the dead Wing party and the