The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-06-19
Ravemna Democratic Club.

Pursuant to call made in the Sentinelthe
Democracy of Ravenna and vicinity, met aG
the Town Hall, last Tuesday evening, for
the purpose of organizing Democratic
Club. There was a large attendance. The
meeting was called to order by appointing
JOHN HARMON, Esq, Presidentan ANDREW
JACKSON, Esq, Secretary.
On motion, Committee of four, consist
ing Of s. D. HARRIS Jr., A. HART, J. G.
WILLIS and v. L. JEFFRIEs were appointed
to draft aConstitution and plan of organi-
zation.
1t was further moved that Committee of
three be chosen to select and secure a room
for the meeting of the Club during the Cam.
paign. Messrs. N. D. CLARK, E. B. TYLER
and s. d. HARRIS, Jr., were appointed said
committee.
Hon. LUTHER Day having been called
for, took the stand, and addressed the
meeting. The call upon the Judge was en-
tirely unexpected to him, other persons hav.
ing been announced as speakers, and he
spoke without any previous preparation or
arrangement Of his thoughts; yet notwith.
standing this, his address was a masterly ar
gument in defence Of the Democratic cause.
1t was clear, candid, and full of weigty con-
sideratons upon which men of all parties
would DO we'll to ponder. He spoke of the
trials, dangers and patriotic efforts of our
fathers in the war of the revolution and in
the formation OF our government-of the
difficulties and dangers that surround US now
-of the necessity of tried and able men to
guide and govern our people, and he con.
graduated the Democracy upon the harmo-
NOUS action Of the Cincinnati Convention,
and in its choise of those able and emine mt
men, BUCHANAN and BREcKENRIDGE as the
standard bearers of the National Democrat.
ic party. In their hands the institutions of
the country would be safe-the national flag
would never be dishonored. He alluded to
the question Of slavery, and contrasted the
Democratic doctrine of popular sovereignty
in the territories with the more despotic and
monarchical one, advocated by the Black
Republicans, that the people are incapable
Of sell. government, and that Congress has
the right to control the domestic institutions
ofthe territories. He spoke ofthe iEestima-
bic value of the Union, OF the inculculable
blessings it had conferred upon US, the ne
cessity of its preservation, and warned his
fellow citizens against the dangers of cult
waiting sectional feelings and organizing
sectional parties calculated to array one por-
OF the confederacy against the other.
N. L. JEFFRIEs Esq, was called out
His remarks were bref and to the point
He spoke of the Importance of the ques-
tions involved in the present contest-oi the
sacredness Of the principles we are called
upon to defend, of the necessity Of energet-
ic action on the part of every true lover OF his
country, and of the certainty Of a glorious De-
mocratic triumph in November. He paid an
eloquent tribute to those gray headed veter-
ans around him who had battled for the sue
cess Of Democratic principles before he was
born and who are still true to their faith. So
long as we have their aid and appreciation,
the"Young Democracy" need never falter in
the patriotic duty of defending and sustaining
the Constitution and the Union.
The meeting then adjourned to convene
again at the call of the committee on organ
ization.