The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-02-14

that she ives ID strongly Oatk- -beuad 10 The
order to stir lhsad or foal His nilsson .
Northern 0hlo was TO 'Pqll the wool over the
eyes Of the FfeesoiIers, = a moipenllreHee-
ton will shoN. Cdntrall to gtperal exhec-
tation, he refused to divutge tfe proceedings
OF the National Council held last fall at
Cincinnati What shall be thought Of an
order whose members are not permitted to
know what their representatives have done !!
The conduct Of the order toward the Repub-
I fican purity Of Ohio 10 thai Of the viper in the
fable, which stung the breast that warmed it
into activity Last hay there was not cab
load Of Know othings in this State. Those
Wko imported II assured the people that the
order was based on, .anti-slayery principles,
and prescribed only Catholics. Tens Of
thousands sought adm ission and were initia-
ted; but finding nothing but sterile Nstivism
they inquired what was the matter Where
were the ahti,N Nebraska planks1 Why were
the adopted Protestant citizens prescribed
They were told TO keep quiet and make no
noise that would scare new comers, or those
seeking admission; thatthe reason the plat
form was so contemplate and aati-republi-
can was, that the order was q new .cOntri-
vance; that the leading men in it had no op-
portupity TO remodel il; but that when the
State Council met after the Octobbr elec.
ton, its platform would be enlarged and lib
eralized, aud made similar to the republican
platform adopted at the State Conve ntion at
Columbus, on the 18th day of July, or the
New York Saratoga Convention platform
The people were assured everywhere that
ndtioism would be stricken out Of the creed.
and anti-slayery put in to fill Its place.
Well, the Grand State Council met at Gin
cinnati last November. 1t numbered Sc
veral hundred members, and was in session
the same length of time that Jonah was in
the whales belly---three days and three
nights. The mileage, per, diem, and tavern
bills cost the order Sl8, 900. After all the
big promises, big speeches, big gatherings,
and big cost, what was done to liberGlise the
creed, as promised Let the truth be told
nothing. But, on the other hand, it was de.
liberately resolved that anti-Nebraska, anti.
Fugitive Slave Law or ant-slavery should
not be permitted to disturb its nationality OF
impair its harmony,ID y and that naked nativ-
ism must continue to be its Alpha and One
ga. A resolution offered to admit liberal
Germans as members was promptly rejected
A proposition to except adopted Protestant
citizens from the prescription imposed on
Catholics, went likewise under the table
"a National Council convened in the same
city few days after the Ohio State Coun.
Gil adjourned. The result of its action was
yet more illiberal, narrow, and pro-slavery
The eyes Of anti.slavery men after that be
gan to open. tn y found they were sold tc
the Philistines. An active and general cor
respondence was at once opened among them
throughout the State, and it was resolved to
abandon the Know.Nothing qudgmire, and
fall back on solid republican ground. And
for the purpose of regaining the honest men
who had been inveigled into the Know-No.
thing trap, the order of"Know- Something's
was founded, as described in previous com.
munication. The object Of the order is to
save the great Republican party from being
undermined and destroyed" ,. .,.-...,