The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-09-01
PaPers-The Campaign
Democrat-HlckOry Fail.


The Portage DsmOerGs charges US Of hav-
ing the control Of, and writing the editorial
articles which appear in the "HICKORY
FLAIL." We wish to state here that we
have never written an article or line for
the FLAIL; we have no control of its col
umns nd do not intend 10 have. When we
wish to say anything, it shall be through the
columns of the Portage Sentinel. The Fad
is to Us, as any other exchange paper, we
shall select articles from it Il we see fit, but
never write for Il. We make this statement
in Justice to ourselves, as we'll as to those
who do have charge of the FIaH aud are
willing and able to bear the responsibility
of its publication.
And now a word in regard to another pa
per. Several weeks since, HALL, HERRlcK,
g. wADswoRrH, after long previous notice,
issued the Campaign Democrat. 1t is sheet
each number of which is filled to the brin
with the vilest personal abuse and the low
est black. gardism. Many of the articles in
it (and generally those the most filthy) are
written by LYMAN w. HALL. The plinci-
pal object is to abuse and ridicule us. The
: following is an extract from its columns
which we give as a sample Of its articles:
"The Loco's Of Ohio had better take Me-
: DILL off the stump and do him up nicely in a
rag and lay him away carefully, for when
their very name is forgotten, it will be pleas
ant to have preserved specime TO con-
=, vince posterity that their party ever had any
~ existence"
Il Again:
"The long agony is over. The mewing
: kitten has appeared. The old Sentinel Ca
os seems wonderfully pleased at the caterwau!
. ing produced. But, unuckily. the old Cat /:
% not destined to enjoy a monopoly of the "bie
81 cat hole" for it is noticed that the kitten
y goes through ''iust as easy!" 1t is also no
1s ticed, for a wonder, that the old Cat, foget
10 ting its dignity, goes through the "lttle ca
B. hole" by which it is inferred, by some, that
81 4
- ~ GA certain SkunR'got his living by suckin!
" eggs, and eating small chickens, and If any
he one detected and disturbed him in his depre
re dations, he gave out "such scent that nobod!!
re could smell them!'
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. And vet the t penny Scntinel's PoT, i
'e calling his neighbours KETTLE bIack''
=, The above we give as specimens. w
- might select others still more silly and OBJ
20 scene, but we will not poIute our column
- with them. Now what a transcendant in
20 tellect. what profound requirements, what
ht chaste pure mind Lyman w. Hall must hav'
~ to write such articiesr How ennobling!-
= He calls these articles Of his sarcastic an
=. laughs and "chuckes" with delight o
- thought of his brilliant genius and his witt
\ sayings. Any gambling "blackleg" on tn
~, river, any frequenter of Houses of"ill fame
Il. (if sufficiently degraded) could say just a
"sharp" things as Mr.. Hall has published.
: does not require much intellect to use filth
!, and obscene language, or to write silly al
:. ticles. We have never before even noticed til
-. Campaign Democrat and shall not in futuI
81 reply to its articles. We pity its editors ft
their want of sense and despise them 70
No them for their want of principle.
- OF the Flaa we have nothing to say, nor
than that the war now carried on betwee
mr. the two Campaign sheets was hes.n, by tt
;n publhsers of the Democra! and 'people WI
on live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
49, From what we have seen of its articles W
~ infer that it was intended to "thresh;' un
y. and that some leading fusionists whose ir
-, consistencies aud falsehoods leave them ver
10 much exposed, stand fair chance. to fee
.s the weight of the 'swingel"