Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-07-05
WhatwiII be the issues--A word to the
WhIgS.

WhatWiu be the issues--A word 70 ths
wings.
The time is near at hand when the question L
to be determined as to what shall be the issue a
the coming contest.
Until the great sanhedrim Of sore-hesded Dem
Ocrats, disappointed Wings, and ofiee-seekinl
Abolitionists, convenes at Columbus, and devise,
plan of operations, there is no possible way tC
divine the questions to be met by the Democratic
purity.
II would seem from the tone Of the Fusion or
gan, that whiggery with its cherished principles
is no longer in the contest The former organ
, of that party, has been discontinued, with the
open announcement that there is "nO longer a
Whig party an Portage County" The continued
efforts of the Fusion paper to confirm the truth o
the assertion, betrays the great anxiety that is
felt by the abolition faction, to convince the
wings of Portage, that they are all Free sOers,
and that the bargain which transferred the tripod
Of the whg editor to the corrupt hands of an ab-
clifton demugogue, transferred the entire party to
the abolition faction!
Ii the avowal be true, that "there is no whig
party" then, to whom will the wings of Portage
county give their sufrages! II it be true that the
old issues between the two great parties have be-
come extinct what is there now TO seperate them!
Does the faction of incendiary, Iawless abolition
iss, who have neither party identity nor principles
Of a years growth; possess allurments, that are
capable OF healing all old sores, and aIlaying old
resentments for time honored treachery, sufficient
to command your respect and support! Are you
to be indnccd bJ the argument of the abolition
DemocrGt(D to form coalition with the abolitio-
lists when it alleges that the principles Of the whg
and Free. .soilers are identical, and has so recent
ly assured you that there was no whig party, and
Of course would be no whig principles!
How long has it been since the same abolition
editor, who, now solicits your pecuniary and po-
litical support, declared to the world, that the
"whig party was immensely below the democratic
party in the scale of honesty, on the slavery
question! Dare he dispute it! The files of his
paper are record that will not permit him.
Every thinking man who has observed the course
of this incendary faction for the last few years,
will observe that they have no settled purpose,
no fixed principle, but mere bread and butter po-
sition that fuctuates, as the market changes
In some of the counties on the Reserve they
throw their strength with the Democrats, to 9TH
ers with the wings, in order to increase their NUM-
bers, they embrace every creed, and adopt as
cardinal virtue, the verest humbug that disgraces
the community. Their leaders comprise men who
have belonged to all parties, and deserted them
when they could no longer make capital by re-
naming.
Their organ, when it could procure the pat
'onage of the county officers, was loud in their
praises, and denounced the "Whiq" and its party
n proportion. When the patronage was re-
moved and given to the Wig, the fawning was
hanged to personal abuse, and wholesale SLAM /,
erous fabrications. Changeful as the wind SELL
ng their principles and their party for u petty
'thce, they would to-day, turn round and endorse
he Administration, and like their great file leader
John Van Buien, throw up their hats, and give
three cheers for the Fugitive Slave law, hurrah
Lr the Nebraska bill and denounce the Missouri
compromise, as much as they formerly did, as
oudly as Smith, Garrison, and Wright, their
Wheel horses, now do, if they thought it would
secure the election Of their ticket. {
In the Ohio legislature they were never par
ocular which way they threw their strength, if
'read and butter could be had, they would 90 ,
With the party which would give the most; and Z
low, after all their villains have been scrutinized
With all their contradictory acts and professions,
Pread out upon the record, they solicit your sup :
ort to enable them to carry the election. !;