The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-09-15
Fusion Decency.

Below we give extfaets from the Portage
Democrat in regard to the speeches Of Gov.
MEDLL and Hon. DAVID Tom. The false
hood and msannsss of the Democrat are up-
parent in every lines, ~ @
"T The Sag Nicht Governors harangue
proved him TO be an unScrupuous falsifier,
low and vulgar blackguard, corrupt shut
fling demagogue, disgrace to the high po-
sition which he occupies.
In regard TO Slavery, he showed himself
TO be heartless and insensibIe in regard to
the enormity Of the evil, or the turpitude Of
the outrages perpetrated by the Slave pow
er. He had no word of favor for Prohibit
tory liquor law, though the sinking breaths
of whisky guzzlers loaded the atmosphere
all about him with impurities. ~. .-..
He lied about Chase, blackguarded (at the
instance Of the 'Ravenna Sag Nicht Coun-
ciD the editor Of the Portage County Dem
ocfat, lampooned the Know Nothmgs, sneer-
at "niggers," and extolled and eulogized the
Catholics Medill is a weak, as well as vul.
gar Slave Democrat, and all we wish is
that he might exhibit himself in every town.
ship in Portage County. For very shame
and disgust the better portion of his party
would be driven al once into the ranks of the
"fusionists" by such a miserable driveler
Dave Tod next'took the stand. He said
he had not before spoken to his "fellow-
democrats" in Portage County since his re-
turn from Brazil. He had forgotten that
some three years ago he spoke at the Fair
Ground, in this village, and he commenced
the same old speech that he rehearsed then.
He told, as he did then, how the Emperor of
Brazil presented his "black paw" for him 10
kiss, and he didn't do ii! Dawes broad red
face shown like bottle, and this "after-din-
ner speech being to us thrice told tale,
we left in the midst of the nsipid twaddle Of
a very egotistc and much over-rated man.
AS a servile, unscrupulous, SlaveD Democrat
ic grounding, he has not been over-rated.
In reference to the evening meeting it
says:
The Sag NIGHTS held a meeting at the
Town Hall on the evening of Thursday
last, professedly to demolish the K. Ms
]. w. TAYLOR, of Columbus led off in a
dull prosy two hours speech, during which
Sag Ncht Gov. MEDILL went to sleep, and
the faithful were awfully weariea. They
regarded the speech as a sort of point-no-
point affair, and finally one of them ventur-
ed to pull Mr.. TAYLoR's coat tail, and hint
to him, that most speeches are improved by
close, as welias beginning.
After the conclusion of Mr.. TAYLOR s
address M'SwEENEY. drunken blackguard
from Wooster, under the inspiration Of bad
whiskey concluded the exercises of the eve-
ming. II the Say NIGHTS are satisfied with
the disappearance, speaking and results OF
their Thursdays operations, both by day and
by night, we certainly feel that the Repub-
licans have no complaint to make"
by writing the foregoing abusive article
editor HALL has placed the brand of false
hood upon his own forehead. Many oI
HALLS political friends were present and
heard Gov. MEDILL. They know what he
said They know and will testify that the
Cows peech was courteous towards his po
litical opponents, dignifed and patriotic in
sentiment, and that his argument was one
of the most candid and powerful they ever
heard
DAVID TODD is too we'll known in this re-
gion of country, to be injuriously affected
by the lying ISLANDERS of the Democrat. He
stands superior to, and above the hypocriti-
cal hrelings who control the organ of the
fusion party, aud who out of pure envy, seek
to blacken the character of every man who
iu point of intellect and merit stards above
them.
The remarks Of the Democrat in regard to
the evening speeches are equally false aad
ridiculous.