The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-09-08
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AC AhAShS SYIEIts
A mob is always great coward. Sue
wastheLouisviile mob, which disgraced eve
ry one connected with it. Under the fac O
"Americans must rule America" it parade
with cannon to defend itself againat wo
men and children. Nothing inspired it witt
ruthlessness so much as the feeble opposi
ton and resistance it met with. The citi
zens who were debarred from the exercis,
OF their privileges had been counseled for
bearance and Don.resstance, and were driy
en- into the tolls like sheep to the slaugh
ter-pen. Had the assassins and bullie,
who assailed them, and gratifed their thirs
for blood with the lives of women and chill
dren, known that they would meet a deter
mined adversary, and that blood should be
made to answer for blood, they would have
hesitated in their march of rapine and ar.
son and murder.
We like the sentiments of the following
paragraphs we take from the IEdianapolis
Sentinel. while we deprecate everything
that could possibly lead to a popular out.
break, we are firmly convinced that a
knowledge that determined resistance
would be made to the bitter end is one of the
surest modes of avoiding the consequences
of riotous mob:
"Our neighbor of the Ledger should turn
his appeals in another direction. Instead
of deploring the anticipated re-enactment of
the scenes of last October, he should coun.
sci his Democratic friends to maintain their
rights at the polls at all hazards. The Dem
ocrats of New Albany have the same riqhts
Of franchise as their Know.Nothinp enc
mics. They pay their money US taxes e.
qually with them for the support of the Gov
ernment; their patriotism and love of coun-
try are surely not less than that of their op-
ponents. Why, therefore, should the De-
mocracy of New Albany be deferred or pre-
vented from voting their sentiments! There
is no excuse sufficient non to justify them
in positively yielding up their dearest rights
to mob party, led on by such inccndiarics
as head of the Know Nothing party of that
city.
"We believe that there is settled deter
mnation on the part of this Know-Nothino
faction at New Albany to preUcnt the adop-
ted citizens of that town from voting They
have already begun to circulate their threats
to throw them out in such way as will
deter the foreign born citizens from the
polls. And wherefore! Because they know
well that a fair vote Of the city would re-
suit in their certain overthrow by a large
majority. What is the duty of the Democ
racy of New Albany, then, in this matter!--
1t is simply this: If Know.Nothing bullies
and vagabonds oppose, in an illegal manner,
their right to vote, they should meet force
wjh torre. They should stand by each 9TH
er in the exercise of those rights guaranteed
to them by the constitution and laws of our
State and country--stand by each other ev.
en- at the hazard of bloodshed and death
We counsel no aggreSs,0e violence, but we
do counsel opposition. and that to the death,
if necessary, to any organized gang of bull
lies who may be set upon Democratic vo-
ters in order to deter and prevent them from
casting their ballots as all freemen may OF
right do. .......
"Let the Democracy Of New Albany say
to their Know-Nothing opponents Gentle
men, we are for peace, and will maintain
order so long as our rights are respected;
but attempt torciLly or illegally to wrest from
us those rights, and you get them only at the
price of blood and the peril Of life!" An
nounce this as your intention and then live
up, most scfupulously, to your declarations.
Always be careful to act upon the defensive,
and respect the rights Of your opponents. The
result will be chargeable upon Know-Noth-
ingism." ... ......#
When men hitherto deemed penceable
and respectable, and looked upon as law-a-
biding, countenance this effort to shut down
upon the free and unrestricted right of suf-
frage, and defend, screen and applaud the
the hired assassins, the lertalioniS should
reach them, their domiciles and !amilies.-
When they "let slip the dogs of war;" they,
too, should feel the bite.