Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-06-01
opening of the Campaign.

| that Horace Mann is to be imported ~ 1 !. :.
the great work The whole effor. > " De VI
rected to securing for that party tne Daiance o'
nower in the next Legislature, in hopes thereny
70 soc,-o tho recollection of Salmon T. Chase to
tha 1Tn;,ed states Senate; and to effect this OBJ
-. M means will be left untried. They will 1
to aid them in this object. They have avowed
in their conventions the principles upon which
their political organization is based; but we have
already seen in this vicinity their willingness and
anxiety to abandon those principles manifested
by the organ of the party, and the open PROPOSE
ton to form an alliance with party of directly
opposite principles.
The lust for power, the extreme anxiety OF the
leaders Of the party of purity to obtain the ascend
|ency, in the political affairs of the county, and
State, have been satisfactorily exhibited, ever
since the treacherous attempt of the Star to sell
the Free Democracy" !" soul and body over to the
banks and other monied monopilies.
Heretofore the editor of that sheet, had assumed
to be the champion of free principles, and liberal
sentiment He proclaimed upon the house tops,
eternal hostility to every form of oppression,
over the mind of man. equal rights, equal priv
[ileges-and equal taxation, were heralded through
the columns of his paper, aud proclaimed upon the
stump throughout the county. Distinguished Free
Solers from abroad, have canvassed the State, and
reiterated the same doctrine. One convention
after another has ratiied and confirmed it. Free
Soil organs all over the State have labored inces
sanity to impress the belief upon our citizens that
the "Free Democracy were aiming at the de-
struction of the old aristocratc theory Of vested
rights, and exclusive privileges. The new con
stitution which aimed death blow at these mon
opolies, was supported by large majority of the
Abolition party. All these tended to increase the
party, and to give impulse to its honest supporters
By this means, many honest and rejecting
Democrats, discovered, as they thought in this
progressive" movement, prestige of the yicto-
ry for which their party had SO long been battling
Tho consequence was. that many of the Demo-
cratic party were induced to abandon the ranks,
in which they had long and faithfully contend
| ed for principle and right Seduced by the sy-
rem song Of equal rights, and privileges, they
fancied that should the Free Soil party succeed,
the principles they avowed would be carried out,
that the property of Banks and other corporations,
| would stand upon the same basis, subject to the
same assessment, and taxed by the same uniform
rule" as the property of individuals. To those
Democratic Freesoilers, to every consistent voter,
to every elector who has witnessed the sordid at
tempt of the money power, to crush the energy and
swallow up the substance of the people of this
county, and grasp within its clutches, the wealth,
the privileges, and the liberties of the people, we
would say read the three column "leader'' of the
Star in its last week s issue.
Here is an open unreserved, unqualified invita-
ton to the Whig party-banks and ALTO come
over and unite with the Free Soil party, setting
forth that the Free Democracy are ready to do,
just any thing at all, provided the Wing party
will unite with them. That the feuds that for
merly separated them, no longer should divide
them,-that lamentable division separated the
wings and abolitionists at the Philadelphia Con-
yention but that the necessity for that separation
no longer exists and that it is necessary to defeat
the @Ioco foco Democracy that coalition should
| take place.
Are you willing, Democratic. Free Soilers, to
be sold at such price! Have you lost sight of
the principles for which You have battled for years
the reforms, which the Democratic party have
effected! Are you satisfied to abandon the time
honored principles of the great Republican party,
which have so recently been ratified by SO large
a majority Of the people of this conntrya Look at
the course of the Star for the last few weeks.
4 The principles of the Free Soil party as once
contended for, are forgotten; in their stead are
found long prosy articles, denouncing the law that
taxes banks and bankers, as private citizens are
taxed, ,-declaiming against the acrow bar law,
that enforces the collection of banks taxes as the
taxes of the farmer and mechanic are collected,
abusing Cassius M. Clay. the avowed champion
of Abolitonism, for charging Tom. Corwin with
dishonesty, the man who welcomed American
citizens swith bloody hands to hospitable graves
4 in Mexico, and now stands charged with fraudu-
! lent practices and peculations on the Government
treasury, and merely because Corwin is Wing,
and therefore has the good wishes of the editor of
/ the Star.
The ass in the fable had for while succeeded
4 in afrightng the people, when clothed in the
lions skin, but the terror caused By his braying
was succeeded by disgust, when his ears were dis
covered, and his character determined-the lions
skin would not cover his ears, and cons equently
the humbuggery was exposed
--latest frem the Seat Of War! Highly
Important.
/ A letter dated. Ell Paso. April 25th. published
in the New York Herald, of the 9th, reports an
immense excitement along the disputed Mexican
boundary.
Gov. TR1As had arrived with 75o men, and 100
officers, to command the levies of militia which
he had made upon El Paso, lie Real, and Sineca
frnm which nlaces he made q call for 7na men