Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-02-22

The wool dealer Of the African organ on Main
street is becoming rantnnkerOus and goes into
spasms on account of our position on the Nebras-
Ika Bill He raves, and rures, and bellows like
q calf chained to gate post. But no one need
be frightened at his mad rawlings, for he can do
no harm unless it be to beat out his own added
brains. He charges US. with being an GpOstGte'
Wherein have we npostatized! Stand up, you
contemplate, bair-brained, lying fanatic, and an
swer In lS48 We stood by the position of Gen.
Cass and the Democratic party, that the people
of the territories had the right to manage their
own domestic affairs, and were fully competent to
do so, and that Congress- had no right to deny to
the people the exercise of their sovereignty by
seeking to control their municipal affairs. When
have we ever abandoned this position! When
have We ever denied the sovereignty of the peo-
pie, or their right Of selfgovernment! Never;
and we challenge the fanaticul brawler of the
negro organ to show that we have.
That organ asks il we are the "same Samuel
D. Harris, jr, who participated in an indignation
meeting against those Compromise measures, in
cluding the Fugitive Law, In October, ls5O!"
No, sir; for no such meeting was held here; and
the negro organ seeks to convey falsehood by
implication which he dares not utter in plain
terms. The meeting of October, 1850, was call
I ed and held to express the disapprobat!on Of the
people against the Fugitive Slave law, and not
the Compromise measure generally. We attend
ed that meeting and participated in its proceed
ngs. We disapproved of that law then and do
still. Is that apostacy! We denied then the
right and power of Congress to establish fnalities
and do still. Is that apostacy! If it is, then are
we an apostate. The contemplate brawler of
the negro organ also participated in that meeting,
and what was his position! Did he regard the
Fugitive Law .fnality! Did he acknowledge
the right or power of Congress to enact .fnality9
If not, when did he apostatze, and give in his ad
hesion to the doctrine that one Congress could
surround its acts with such degree of sanctity
that they should be binding upon the people and
their representatives for all coming time! Apos-
tacy, indeed! And who is the apostate!
!. Again, he bids the people to mark that "the
Sentine! has gone into the hearty support of the
most infamous administration measure ever pro-
posed since the adoption of the Federal Consti-
H..
over which this fanatic keeps up his weekly brawl-
ing! Why it is simply nothing more nor less
: than proposition to permit our colonies to do
e that which Great Britain prior to the Revolution
denied her colonies the right to do-to create
$ their own laws and control their own domestic
affairs. If this be an "infamous measure" it is
not without parallel in the history of this coun-
try. It stands upon the same footing and is bas-
Il ed upon the same principle as that in which the
i people of the Old Thirteen declared their right
s to selEgovernment, to control and manage their
own affairs. This principle is as old as Republ-
: canism itself, and coextensive with it. If it is
u "infamous," then do we glory in the infamy, and
bid the negro organ to split itself with brawling!
a THAT CHARGE OF PEcULATIoN.--The committee
. appointed in the Ohio Senate in the early part of
the present session, to investigate the charges of
, pecuation preferred against c. B. FLooD, Clerk
y of the Senate, have made their report, entirely
!. exonerating Mr.. FLOOD from the charges. The
l. committee was an impartial one, being composed
). of one member from each of the political organ-
f. cations. In their report they say, that {" Mr..
c contrary to the rules and laws regulating the
payment for like services" and further, that the
+ "rule adopted by the Secretary of State for the
Il payment of Mr.. Flood, in comparison with the
rules heretofore adopted for the payment of like
J.. services, has in the opinion of the committee,
been saving of at least one third to the State -
6 The committee was unanimous in the report.
J. When the charge was first made the African
II, organ Main street seized upon it with the avid
o ity of starved wolf and bruited it about hoping
d thereby to gain temporary political advantage.
But in this instance, as it too frequently happens
7. with that reckless unprincipled concern, it had
- had not facts and truth to back it.
e REvrvAL.-A revival has been going on for some
o time past in the Free Church under the direction
/. of Pres. Mahan, of Oberlin College. We are
sorry to say that it has not as yet had the effect
W to reform either the morals or the manners the
y hypocritical pretender Of the African organ on
l. Main street. When Pres Mahan shall have sue
it ceeded in accomplishing that great task, he may
is consider his share of the business of redeeming
n the world from sin as fully accomplished, lay
sr down his commission, claim his reward, and ask
~ to be discharged
. GA tremendous indignation meeting was
held in Warren on the / lth inst, to denounce the
:, Nebraska bill. Great efforts were made to get
~ up large meeting; the call was signed by about
. Thousand names procured by running the conn.
!. y night and day; and yet the Trumbull Demo.
- crat says but about two hundren people were in
attendance, majority of whom were towns peo.
- pie. Among the sensible amusements and pow.
'0 erful aguments produced on the occasion, was ar
effigy of Senator Douglas and an image designed
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