The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-11-13
The walls OF the Dying.


The Portage County Democrat has joined
the doleful chorus ehsnted by defeated Black
Republicanism. There is agony in every
line OF the following. Read it:
"To say that this result does not surprise,
disappoint and grieve Us, would be to affect
a composure and assurance TO which we can
lay no just claim.
Barbl lrism in a chris'isn land has tri
umphed over Christian Civil zaunn; why
should we not be surprised! Expectations
! based upon the justice OF our righteous cause
have been blasted; why should we not be
disappointed! Vast Territories have been
delivered up to whips and chains, to unre-
Quilted toll, and TO the signing of the captive;
why should we not grieve! In these unto.
ward events, why should not the trust OF
faith be staggered, and "the pious almost be-
gin to doubt the favor OF god"
The election of Buchansn surrenders an
empire 10 slavery. Kansas is doomed, and
its fate i'll be The fate of all the other exist
ing Territories.
Desperation has made car opponents reck'
less. The plain language of our neighb OF
! is, that all Democrats are barbarians, and
! all Republicans are christians. Poor, Tooli1 h
man! Disappointment and chagrin have
made you insane. When you go home to
night, take down your Bible and read the &c
count of the Pharisee who went up into tht
temple TO pray, and "thanked God that he
was not ss other men," You will finC
there, an exuct portrait Of yourself. The
Pharisees are net all gone yet In assuming
to yourself all the Christianity, and charging
barburism to your opponents, you exhibit al
egotism and impudence disreputoble to you
paper and disgusting to men Of candor. Fo
the brief period of time that we have beer
engaged in political life, We have been ire
sistubly led to conclude that no ONE part,
can lay claim to all the intelligence and de
cency. There are good and bad men in al
political organizations. To assume, then
that the triumph of Buchanan is a trump
Of barbGrjsm over christian civilization, is a
assumption which should render its author
despicabe in the esteem Of every intelligeI
community.
Again, you assert, that an empire has bee
surrendered to slavery. This you kno,o
be falsehood. Not one foot of ground ha
been given up to slavery by the triumph {
the Democracy; on the contrary, in6ntel
more has been done for freedom than coul
; have been achieved by the triumph Of OF
opponents. The principle Of the right &
self government, which your party denied
the people, is now firmly established. Th
people are capable of self government, all
: now that they caD be permitted to mnnnG
their own affairs, they will establish Tree il
stitutions in the West, and build up an en-
: prc there, which shall be the glory and hor
or Of cur Republic.
: You intimate that you have almost los
$ your confidence in Providence. 1t is matt
raj that men like you should lose their tru
in on over-ruling Providence who govern
n the destinies of men and nations accordin
y to his own good pleasure. You have di
j. honored the Christian religion, and insnlte
s' your Maker. You have advocated the des
: Grafton OF Church altars. You have persu
G ded ministers to transform themselves I'M
: political partizans, and now when wi:
I Providence has inspired the hearts of II
II people to defeat your purposes, with cha
scter blackened, garments soiled, and nam
disgraced, you throw insult in the face
-. Jehovah, by saying that you have almo
lost your confidence in God.
1t is not the triumph and spread of fre'
dom which you seek; it is supremacy in tn
government. For this you would sacrifc
every principle, no matter how dear or 81
cred. You have been led on by an ungo'
eynnble thirst for power. But the bubble
-, broken and nothing is left you bet to ca:
,, your aching heart, by denouncing your o.
ponon,s as barbarians and proclaiming yo'
loss of confidence in the ways Of Providenc