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The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
The Army Bill Pnssed-GlOrious
Triumph Oi NatIOnaIisln over
SectiOnaIisIn.

It is with unfeigned pleasure that we al.
uOunce the passage Of the Army ApprOpria-
ton bill in Congress. The vote in the
House stood, yeas, lOl; nays, 9S. We in :
tend next week to publish the names of
those who voted against the bill, that our
readers may see who these Republicans are,
who openly proclaim their purpose to de.
stroy the government. When we look at
the question simply in view Of party sue
cess, we could have desired that no army
bill should be passed. lis defeat would have
convinced the people beyond a question as
to The real aims and purposes of the RePub.
licon party, But when we view it in the
light of the real interests of the American
people, whose rights are secured and main
tained by its passage, we can but regard 1t
as a most happy event. Notwithstanding
its passage, we have an opportunity to know
from what has already occurred, who are
the real enemies OF the government The
Republican members of the House, by vo-
ting against the bill. have made a record up.
on every page of which, treachery and trea-
son are written. They have attempte d,
though gh,unsuccessfuIly, to stop the wheels
of government. They have attempted TO
introduce civil war and dis order into the
land. They have attempted to array one
portion Of the country against the other in
a bloody worfare and then deprive the gov
ernment Of the means o. putting an end TO
the discord. They hare melted insure :
ton and have labored to tie the hands of the
Prcsident lest he should put stop to it
7 hey have done AL this for no other pur-
pose than that of destroying the government
aud building up Northern Confederacy up.
on its ruins, Let thsse traitors be marked
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
County Nominating Convention

The Democratic County Nominating Con-
venton will be held on Saturday. We
hope there may be full delegation from
each township. Let prudent counsels gov
ern the deliberations of the Convention
Let strong ticket be nominated By this
we mean ticket composed of men of un-
swerving integrity, and Of experience and
ability. The people of Portage county
should look, and win look to mans compe-
tency to discharge well the duties of his Of
flee, 90 much as to his political sentiments.
Each public officer whether for township.
county, State or Nation, should be chosen
with especial reference to the duties which
will devolye upon him in the position he is
to occupy. There are men in every town.
ship who are abundantIy capable, and when
the delegates get together, let them select
such men as will be an honor to the Demo-
cratic party and an honor to the Offices for
which they are chosen. If this course is
pursued, all will be we'll at the election.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
The Riach Republicans Alarmed
oven for Massachusetts.

So great has been the reaction in public
opinion within the last few weeks, even in
Massachusetts, which has been conceded by
the Democrats to the i" Woody Horse" by
general consent, that the Boston Atlas, the
leading Fremont paper in the State, thus
loudly gives the alarm in it's issue of last
Saturday. 1t says:
Alf,rs have assumed such an appear.
ance in Massachusetts, that unless we have
at once union of all Fremont men, ii is
gerry possible that tie STATE may give her electo
raj uote for James BHchanan. = * We
spy plainly, that up to this time there has
been no union Of the Fremont forces in
/ Massachusetts |; that there has been only
folly, wrangling and dissension; that We
have lost all power Of exercising any infiu
ence upon our sister States"
II, as the Atlas admits, Massachusetts i:
not entirely safe for Fremont, what Stutt
can he begin to carry !
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

The laborers and mechanics at the Ar
senal at Lawrenceville, we are told, were
all discharged yesterday. Some hundred
laboring men urc thus thrown out of EN-.
ployment because the "Black Republican
rascas" in Congress refuse to pass the
army appropriation bill. The Government
is compelled to discharge them for want o
money to pay them their wages.
More than thousand people in thiE
county are directly and indirectly interested
in the large sums of money disbursed here
by the government for work, materials ant
stores. And be it remembered that the
very same Congressman who have thus com
PEELED the discharge of laboring men with
out their pay, have just passed bill tt
GIVE THEMSELVES $4,000 EACH FOR TWELVE
MONTHS SERVICES, and get mileage besides.
The working men will punish the rogues
Pittsburgh Post.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
Frcc-LOyc in New Jersey.

A correspondent of New work paper,
writing from Philadelphia, says:
1t is true beyond a peradventure, that,
in Ocean county, New Jersey. there is
aOurlshing society of MJrmons, s,who, though
they dare not practice polygamy at present,
justify it by their precept, ana lead lives OF
gross licentiousness and immortality. A
party of us who had seen such fact hinted
at in the Philadelphia EDeains Journal,
went out last week to, see fthe statements
were founded in fact. 1t was even worse
than we expected, for ION 1'ucSlay evening"
there were public services in a large schuo,-
house, in which preacher said .'he hopei
this henthcnish country might soon be con.
vcrtcd to MormOnism and Savation!"
a miracle had recently been performed
in the neighborhood, by this preacher,which
carried conviction to many minds. wo>
man, beiongiag 10 their (aith, aciose husband
had 5cen three gears IN The lUediierrdneqn.
has just 9iUta birth 10 a babe! So satisfied
is the Church of this young woman's puri.
ty, that the resident elder says, utter her do
cease, she will be canonize1 as a saint
This miracle has canscd the conversion Of
many others, male and femaIe-especialIy
the litter, who relish miracles as exquisite
ly as they do murders. Who will ever for
get the old lady who told her physician that
she must be sick 'bccause SHE did not re-.
liah murder or a good seduction case az
she was accustomed top '.t
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

GOVERNOR POLLOCK OF PENNSYLVANIA
FOR FILLMoRE.-The Pittsburg Chronicle
announces that Governor Pollock, of Penn
sylvania, who was elected to that Office by
the Fusiousts, in 1854, is soon to take the
stump for Fillmore and Donelson. ....
This is the same JAMES POLLOCK whom
the Portage County Democrat, in an extra
issued on the 10Th of June last, at O'Clock
P. M. announced with grand flourish, a:
the Republican candidate for Vice Presi.
dent, asserting that ga truer and more reli
able Anti-Slavery man does not live."-
What has the Democrat to say now abou
the antislavery character of Governor
POLLOCK!
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Braaburn aud the Democracy.

Mr. BRApBURN, of Cleveland, one Of the
leading Fremont stumpers in Ohio, says
thot ''crery in!eiTgcnt Democrat is dishonest
and that ercry inteAigent man uho rOtes for
Buchanan is ,E faror Of attending the inStitu-
tion Of SlGccry." Democrats of Portage
county, how do you like such compliment!
Are you dishonest! Are you in favor Of
extending slavery! These Fusionists seem
to think that they are the only pure, iDtel'i-
gent men in The world and that all the Demo
Gratis ere either fools or knaves. We be.
lieve the Democracy Of Portage county are
as intelligent as their Republican neighbors
We believe they are honest, and we have
yet to learn that there is a single member
of cur party in the county who is in favor o
slavery. When Mr. Bradburn made the in
famous and insulting charge above quoted
he stated that which he knew to be false.
| hood.
The Democracy are in favor of the doc
trine Of popular sovercignty-thc inaliana
lie right Of self fgOrrnment, They believe a:
every honest aud candid man must, that this
principle carried out will make the terrific.
ries free.
Mr.. Bradburn further says that she would
as soon send mun to He'll as to send him
10 Congress" II Congress is as bad place
as he represents it to be, it is certainly very
unsafe to trust the settlement of SO impor.
tant question as the freedom Of a territory
in such tribunal. And yet this same Brad
burn, in concert with the whole Republican
party, is declaring that the question of free
dom or slavery shall be settled by Congress
! 1t will hardly answer for such a party tt
charge the Democracy with Inconsistency ol
desire to extend slavery. Let the RePub
licans look at their own black record
They will find abundant food for reflection
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
s. RCtrcncEAIncnt."

During our last State Canvass, every one
will remember how earnestly the Fusioni,ts
talked in favor OF retrcnchment; how deep
was their sympathy with the tax payers, un
der the burthens imposed by Democratic
management; and how disinterestcdIy
anxious they were to get control of the
State Treasury, simply to prevent the peo.
pies money from being squandered. Well,
they obtained the control; and it would not
be Improbable to examine the records and
see how their acts correspond with their
promises.
In 1854 the amount appropriated for the
payment of members ofthe General Assem-.
bly,, clerks, &c, was $36,5OO. The Fusion
Legislature of last winter, appropriated for
the same purpose, the sum of 500 5O0!-
Here Is difference in this item Of 1913 ,0OC
in favor of the Democratic rule The other
expenses of the Legsluture are not added
i'll: Put them and the cost of the extra ses
sion together, and the difference in favor o
Democratic rule is l11-$l0O0OO!
There is another item The Democratic
Legislature OF "a appropriated for the con
tingent fund Of the officers named, the fol
lowing suui=:
Governors contingent fund So OU(
Sec oi State " l,50t
Treas. ~" l,50t
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
Dursin Ward Nominated,

This eloquent and influential Old Line
Wing, who now supports Buchanan and
Brecknridge, has been nominated for Con.
gress by the Democracy Of the Warren Coun.
ty District. The Union men ar e gathering an.
der the National Democratic STANDARD. LIE,
themcome. The times demundit. Party lines
between Wing and Democrat are being bro.
ken down. and forgotten in view of the i'm
pending danger. The Union platform upor
which the Democracy have planted them
selves, is broad enough for all the friends o
the Union to stand upon. They wiA stan,
upon it. They VM triumph.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

THE BLOODY ISSUE. Under this head the
Kansas correspondent of the New York Iri.
bune has the following letter, which shows
pretty clearly the character OF the men who
went to Kansas with Jim Lane: .5i. s's
"About one hundred Of Lanes party, in
cluding Dr. Cutters, were on hand, and
seemed to glory in an opportunity to fight
SO soon for principle. They are fine look
ing set of men, and ure Of the right stamp
to make Kansas free; that is, they have The
nerve and the wtH TO he,o out their own fortunes
freely and boldly Tomorrow our camp
moves into town to await further orders
The campaipg seems begyn. The third
last-monster invasion Of KANSAS is at hand,
! and The cry Is, SPARE NOT" 'Ha'"''}a'
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

0FThe Paris Moniteur-official organ of
the imperia usurper. whom Fremont is said
by his admirers to resemble in some of the
traits Of his character - makes this an
nouncement:
Our sympnthies are entirely with Colo
mel Fremont. WE HOPE TO SEE NO
EXTENSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PRINCIPLE IN THE U. STATES
IT IS DANGEROUS TO EUROPEAN
GOVERN MENTS."
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
Point iG Out !

1t is common charge made against the
Democracy that they stand upon pro-sIave-
ry platform-that they are in favor of ex
tending slavery over territory now free. A
baser libel could not be written or baser
slander uttered. There is not q section, q
sentence or a clause in the Democratic plat
form adopted at Cincinnati, which favors the
extension Of slavery. We challenge any
man to prove to the contrary Ii there is
single person in Portage county or the
State Of Ohio, who can point out any feature
therein which favorS slavery extension, we
hope he will come forward and make it
known.
The charge is made agains! the Democra-
cy; we defy cur opponents to sustain it.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

The gist and substance Of the Democratic
platform on the subject of slavery is concise
ly suited in the following resolution:
"Rssolred, That we recognize the right o
the people of ull the Territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
legally and fairly oppressed wW Of the majori
ty of actua! residents. and whenever the nun
Der Of their inhabitants justifies it, to form
u constitution, with or without domestic sla
very, and be admitted into the Union upor
terms of perfect equality with the other
States" t
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
Two Beautiful Extracts to he
Kept Before The People.


The following extracts cannot be kept
too prominently before the people. Wen
dell Philips, a distinguished Abolitio orist,
who is avowcdly in favor of dissolution
of the Union, in late speech in Massachu.
setts, said
There is merit in the Republican party.
1t is this-it is the first sectional party ever
organized in this country. II is not
national, it is sectional. 1t is the North ar.
rayed against the South. y
The first crack in the iceberg is visible;
you will yet hear it 60 with crack through
the centre.
While our American disunionist thus sees
merit in the Black Republican party, the
London Morning Chronicle, one of Queen
Victora's organs deplores the election O.
Mr.. Buchanan for this reason. II said:
We should be sorry to see Mr.. Buchanar
| elected, because he is in favor of preserving
the obnoxious Institutions as they exist
AND THE UNITY OF THE STATES
There is no safety for European monarchi
cal governments if the progressive spirit o
the Democracy of the United States is oil
lowed to succeed, ELECT FREMONT
AND THE FIRST BLOW TO .THE
SEPARATION OF THE UNITED
STATES is EFFECTED.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
Garrison and Mrs. Foster ClaiSsl-
ing to be Daddy and n aIRNsy OF
the Black Iscpu5Ilcmn Party.


At the Abolition Convention at Boston,
on the 29ih Of last May, Garrison said that
to quarrel with the Black Republican party
would be to quarrel with cause and effect
"to quarrel ,eith he acork Of your ora hands. y
Sister Foster thought the woody headed brat
should not be treated too tendcrly; that spa
ring the rod might spoil the little darkey.-
So he spoke as follows:
Il admit that the party Is our own proge-
ny: but as every child needs a great deal Of
rpproof and constant effort to bring it up in
the way it should 90, this party, uhich is
TIE accessory cf$pring Of oar Efforts, needs
constant admunltion and rebukc, and, God
giving me strength, will not spare it an
hour until it is fully educated, reformed and
brought up to the high position of truth and
duty. [Applause.] ...
So, the hopeful progeny of this origino
disunion party is to be trained and treated
in such u manner as best to develop its
trcacherous qualities. Garrison and Eos.
ter are right. 1t is the legitimate o ffspring
of their reasonable efforts. 1t is bone OF
their bone and flesh of their flesh. Treason
TO the government is the life blood of its be
ing, and it draws its vitality from the breast
of its mother, the first, the original Disunion
party Of the lard.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

MAEuFAc TURED IN New YoRK,-Ely
Moore, q United States ofic jul in Leaven.
Worth, Kansas Territory, says that the New
York Tribune and Times have no cores.
pondents residing there, as they pretend
and that the Kansas letters published in
those sheets purporling to be from Leaven-
worth, are sheer torgeries, manufactured in
New York. This is just as we supposed
Such delectable stuff as those journals pub.
lish about Kansas could DO gotten up no
where else. '23i'lfst GA 1913 tl 70"
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

ANOTHER INSTANCE AS Col. G.. l..
Valandighnm, the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Sd district, was making a
Buchanan speech few days since, Re-
publican crowd threw a large stone at him
which grazed his temples. Had the stone
hit him fDirIy, the injury would probably
have been fatal. II is by such arguments
as these, that the Republicans expect to
triumph.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

The Garfield Republican says that on the
evening of the eth inst. as the Democratic
procession was returning from Salem, the
fusionists OF New Albany, exhibited their
spite by hrowi1g stones at individuals COM
posing the procession. One Of these stones
struck Mr.. GEO. WHITE of Youngston,
knocking him down and severely injurng
his skull.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
Hon. LutfleT Day Nominated for
JMagc.

The Democracy of the Judicial District
composed of the counties Of Portage, Trum-
bull, and Mahoning, held their convention
at Newton Falls on Saturday the 30th, ult
Judge DAY was unanimously reEominated
No more satisfactory choice could have been
made. OF the qualifications Of our candi'
date for the Office to which lie was nomina,
ted, we need not say word. For term oI
five years he has occupied seat on the
Bench, and during that period of time, he
has discharged his duties with ability and
impartiaity. There is not stain upon his
official conduct. He has made record tc
which he may look with pride and pleasure
AS public: servant and as private citizen
he has secured to himself the confidence ant
respect of the people of this District.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

Fremont AND THE Know NoTHTNGs.-If
Fremont is elected, the country will owe
the American partya debt of gratitude; for
it .is,no doing injustice to other noble adyo-
Gates oflree soil to say that the American
organization in the East and West is the
backbone of the Republican party -Albdny
State Register Fremont paper.)}oi II"
Again: ,.a "a 3gmniG sins
"Everywhere," says the Register, 'except
New York, these two.titIes. (Know Nothing
ism and Black epublicanism)a )are lndissolu.
bly, joined together in q holy wedock."'t
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

a eSF One Of the Abolition Know-N Nothing
Republican writer's from Lawrence, Kan.
sas, to the New York Times, says to theedi-
tors
/" You mast keep up tais Kansas escitcment.
II IS The ONLY element Of success for the Re-
publican party IN the coming Presidential
election" "7''A"' " ~ '@t sa} Tif'a wy
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

OFIt is now understood that Gerritt
Smith is desirous to secure the election OF
Fremont, and wW cate for him. This has
been our opinion Of the matter all the while.
1t will not be two weeks before Brother
Pryne and his immediate political associ.
ates, will be found under the Black Republi-
can Standard. -
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
"A Minister WHO is Mot - Politician

A Minister WHO IS Not - Politician
p Some of the students in Dartmouth Col
ege, lately formed Fremont Club and In.
vited President Lord to attend one OF their
meetings. He declined, and Professor Par
ker, of Cambridge, communicates TO the
Boston Atlas the reasons given by him for
doing SO. We make the following extract
from his letter. 1a '@ia9a1 ,s"ol
II told them had been a minister of the
Gospel for forty years, aud had never yet
desecrated my office by joining a political
club of any kind, or medIling with politics
in any shape, and should not now be temp
ed to violate the honor of my profession.---
My talk had a very good effect, and wss
thought BY the faculty and students to have
been far more useful than if J. had mounted
cockade or shouldered rifle" ''' ''''-
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

GT Some negro minstrels gave an exhi-
blion lately at Sheffield, Illinois, to raise
funds to purchase relatives now in slavery
The entertainment was not successful; the
minstreIs had no money, end were denied
shelter in a public house because they could
not pay. This was among Abolitionists.
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Total.
$1,000

These are fair specimens Of their entire
management, and indicate with certainty
what might be expected if they could get
their hands into the National Treasury
We shall tuke this subject up next week
aud dshow in detnil the profligacy and exlrava-
goncc Of the Black Republican Reform %
oarty. Ohio Patriot.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
wcssrcr's Opinion of Buchanan


For the last twenty-five years MIR. Buch-
anan has ranked among the ablcst states.
men in the United States. This position
has been awarded to him even by his polti.
ca! opponents. In lS4S Daniel Webster
made speech at Fanenil Hall, Boston, in
favor Of the election of General Taylor. In
commencing it he said: .....--....- .....
" Gentlemen. I saw this morning speech
delivered Inteiy in Washirgton By the pres.
ont Secretary of State, Mr.. Buchanan, a
gcnteman who is among the first, II not the
rerV first, Of his party, in point Of character
and stomIing, IN tie country Differing from
most of the sentiments in this speech, / still
do It's aHtior He credit and justice 10 say that
ii is a manly SPEECH"
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

The FREMoNTERs AND OUR NATURALIZED
CITIZENS. The sudden bypocritical regard
Of the Fremonters for our naturalized citi-
zens is numerically exposed in the subjoin-
ed extract from the New Haven Register:
"The Hartford Times says that Gov. Dut.
ton, on taking the Chair Of the Know Moth
ing Convention, made a few remarks in
which he said that the more he reflected
the more he became convinced that unless
the foreigners among us-the agents and
ouxiliarles. of despotsm in Europe--were
met and put down, we are no longer. safe.-
Applause The speaker continued, saying
that the foreign element in our population
was brutal, uhenlightened, ignorant cgen.
cy." This must have been gratifying to tho
Fremont German Club which the Cour-
rant claims exists in Hartford. Where ia
Ole Bull! where is Hoffman? where ia
Hecker?" y" F" i'. ~ 4,@"'
Governor Dutton is one OF the most promi.
nent and Influential supporters OF Fremont
in New England.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04

6T Mr.. Kimball, Attorney General of
Ohio, died OF his residence in Medina, last
week. The Democratic, State Central
Committee will meet ut Columbus on the
Sd of September to nominate a condidate to
fill the vacancy. ,ft awE.#.
The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-04
Democratic Nomination for Con
"a Eress.

The Richland Shield and Bonner of the
26th inst, states that the Democratic Con.
gressional Convention have nominated II
c. Brumback, Esq.,, Of Morrow, for Con
gress, # eefi soss .a! s1sd eg'j2 1f