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The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-07-03
Prom the Erie Observer.
MIR. Dayton.

In regard to Mr., Dayton, there is more
known. True, his career in the Senate does
not show him brilliant man, yet it shows
him to have been very conservative, re-
spectacle, old fogy Wing, and hence how
the "shrieks for freedom" in PHILADELPHIA
came to exhume him at this late day is be-
yond our comprehension. We have only
had time to examine one year of his Sena-
torial career, lS4S, but in that one year we
find enough of "old fogy" notions advanced,
and votes recorded, to stick in the throat of
most of those who cannot swallow anything
politically unless it tastes OF wool" Here
is Mr.. DIS record for lS4S:
Congressional Globe, page GIG. April
IL, lS4S, in his remarks on California
Claims," Mr., D. said he "disclaimed any al
lance with Aboliiionists, and enlarged lit
tie on the misunderstanding between the
North and the South on the exciting topic
of slavery"
March Sd. lS4S, Mr.. Dayton in presenting
the resolutions passed by the Legislature of
New Jersey in favor of the construction of
railroad from like Michigan to the Pacific
Ocean,took occasion to give that project the
cold shoulder. "Without," said he, "giyng
ing to the subject any careful consideration,
| may be pardoned for saying that, as at pre-
sent advised, my impressions are altogether
against the scheme Of Mr.. Whitney as anwise
and impracticeg!e." See Congressional
Globe, page 23.
April 25, lS4S, Mr.. Dayton defended the
railroad monopoly Of New Jersey against an
attack made upon it by Mr.. Clayton, OF
Delaware. See Congressional Globe, page
GIG.
July &c, lS4s, Mr. D. voted against the
bill establishing government over the ter
ritorics of California, Oregon and New
Mexico.
August s, l84S, Mr.. D. voted against an
appropriation Of $4,000 "for continuing
and completing the surveys and explorations
to be made by JOHN C. FREMONT in
Oregon and California"
August Sth, lS48, Mr.. D. said ''thc qnes
tion of Free Soil and slavery were not the
great questions of the Wing party. THeJ
constituted too narrouo ledge for that part3
10 stand on
Aug. 10, lS48, the Oregon bill being be.
fore the Senate, "the question was taken or
the amendment embracing Missouri Com
promise, and it was decided, yeas 33, nay:
81; ard in the negative is the name of Mr.
Dayton" Congressional Globe, page l,o6l
Verify, is not Mr.. D. a capital candidate
for these "frcedom shriekcrs."
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A Beautiful Thought.

1t wOs night, jerusalem slept as quiet
amid her hills as child upon the breast ol
its mother. The noiseLess sentinel stood
like statue at his post, and the philoso-
piers lamp burned dimly in the recess oil
his chamber.
But dark night was now abroad upon
the EARTH A moral darkness involved the
nations in its benighted shadows. Reason
shedu faint glimmering over the mind oI
men, like the cold inefficient shining of q
distant star The Immortality Of mans spr-
itual nature was unknown, his relations to
Heaven undiscovered, and his future destiny
obscured in cloud of mystery.
1t was at this period, two forms OF ethcre
real mould lowered over the land of God 4
people. They seemed like sister angels
sent to earth on some embassy love.
The one was Of majestic stature, and in
the we'll formed limbs, which her snowy dra.
perry hardly concealed, in her erect bearing
and steady eye, exhibited the highest degree
Of strength and confidence. Her right arm
was in an expressive gesture upwards
where night appeared to have placed its
dark Pavilion, while on her left reposet
her delicate companion in form and coun
teDance the contrast of the other, for she
was dropping like flower when moistenet
by refreshing dews, and her bright but troub
led eye scanned the air with ardent but va
rying glances. .....a
Suddenly light like The sun flashed ou
from the Heavens. and Faith and Hope hail
with cxuting songs the ascending Star o
Bethlehem
Years rolled away, and a stranger was
seen in Jerusalem. He was meek unas
sumng man, whose happiness seemed tt
consist in acts of ofbenevolence to the human
race. There were deep traces of sorrow
on his countenance, though no one knew
why he grieved for he lived in the practice
Of every virtue, and was loved by all thu
good and wise. By and by it was rumoret
that the stranger worked miracles! Tha
the blind saw, the dumb spoke, and the deat
leaped to life, at his touch! That when hi
commanded, the ocean moderated its chofn!
tide, and the very thunders articulated he il
the Son of God. Envy assaled him will
the charge of sorcery, and the voive Of impi
Gus judges condemned him to death. Slow
ly, and thickly guarded he uscended the hill
of Calvary. A heavy cross bent him to thu
earth. But Faith leaned upon his arm ant
Hope dripping her pinions in his blood
mounted to the skies.
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Africans, for a reasonable time after thev
had been landed in Liberia. and that il is
beneath the dignity Of the Government to
devolve this duty upon the Society. The
petition OF the executive Committee of the
Society which the committee incorporated
in their report states that on the 10th Of De.
cember lS45, the United States ship York
town, Commodore Bell, landed at Monrovia,
in Liberia, from the SLAYER Pons, screa hun.
dred Ond fifty recaptured Africans, in ma
ked, and starving condition, all of them,
except 81, being under the age f2I. The
U. s. made no provision for their support
after they were landed.
The services of providing for the desti-
tute negroes, were not required to be per-
formed by the Society under their constitu-
ton, but the alternative was 10 leave these
recaptured Africans to starv6 and die, and
the Society therefore cheerfuHy took charge
of them, relying upon the Government OF
the United States to refund the cost OF
them.
How would an anti-sluvery man be ex-
pected to vote on this appeal to Congress for
Justice. Upon the question of paying these
claims we find Mr.. Fremonts name record
ed as voting in the negative, along with 9th
er distinguished men whose names are free
ly used as "border rufiians"--look at this
pcture! ..... .-.....
The yeas and nays were as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Badger, Baldwin. Bell,
Chase, Clayton, Davis of Mass, DAYTON,
Dodge Of Wis, Dodge of Iowa, Douglas,
Ewing, Felch, Greene, Hale, Hamln, Jones,
Mangum, Pearce, Pratt, Seward, Shields,
Smith, Spruance, Sturgeon, Underwood,
Wales, Walker, Whitcomb, and Winthrop
-29.
NAYs-Messrs. Atchson, Barnwell, Ben
ton, Butler, Dawson, Dickinson, Downs,
FREMONT, Hunter. King, Mason, Rusl,
Sebastian, Soule, Turner, and Yuee-l6.
Look at the company he keeps look al
the names recorded with his, and see if you
find Hale Chase or Seward.
Soon after the above vote was taken, q
bill was introduced into the Senate to pre-.
vent enticing slaves from the District Of
Columbia. Upon the motion of John P
Hale to instruct the Convention so to a.
mend the bill as to abolish slavery in the
District, we find this Free Soil candidate
for the Presidency voting in the negative.
Verify Old Bullion must have appreciated
the character of this candidate. "Sir" says
he, 81 did not think him fit for son-in. law
much less for President"
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From the Plain Dealer.
j. G. Fremont.

We call the attention Of our candid Free
Soil and anti.slavery friends to the record
which we present below, and which consti-
tutes the political history Of this distinguish
ed but recently discovered statesman.
The Black Republican party, whose pc
cular candidate Col. Fremont is, will find
in it food for reflection. Honest minded
men who act with the political organization \
that has brought about his nomination, have
been led to believe that he was selected as
their candidate. on account Of the strong at
tachmcnt to the principles which they pro-
fess; that in his distinguished efforts to aid
the cause Of human freedom they had dis
covered an able advocate Of the ant.slavery
sentiments which constitute the basis of
their political principles.
Surely, he is worthy to be the chosen
leader of such band of sage patriots and
disinterested philanthropists. His anti-sla-
very principles can no longer be questioned;
they cannot fail to enlist for him the cordial
support of the anti-slavery men of the North.
Born in q slave State, reared among slave.
holders, he has really no interests or feel
ings in common with those whose support
the wire workers are aiming to secure. t.
Again we callth attention of ti-sla.
very men to this brief but satisfactory histo.
ry of his distinguis he'd services in their
cause: .t
In SENATE, Sept. IL, 1850.
Mr.. Underwood Of Kentucky, called up
the bill for the relief ofthe American Colo
nizaton Society. The Slaves that were re.
captured on board the barque Pons were
turned over to the Colonization Society, by
the authority of the United States, sent to
Liberia, and there kept at the expense of
the Society for one or two years. Most Of
them were children of twelve, fifteen and
sixteen years Of age. The Society thinks
that the expense of feeding, clothing and
educating these people which was thus de-
volved on them by the action of the Gov
ernment, ought to be repaid them. II was
certainly an expense incurred by the Socie-
| ty, through the action of the Government in
throwing these young negroes upon them
for maintenance, instead of taking them, as
the Government was bound to do by law,
and providing for them. That is the nature
ofthe claim. They simply ask that SO much
shall be paid them as the Society, from its
own experience, pays Gin reference to its
own emigrants. The claim was reported
upon favorably two years ago. A similar
| report has apain been made; and as the me-
cessities of the Society require that they
should have the money, hope said Mr.. u.
the Senate will consent to take up the bill.
The Senate agreed to take up the bill and
proceeded to consider it as in Committee of
i the whole. a ,la 'a
Mr.. Turner asked for the reading of the
report OF the committee. @
The Secretary read the report according
ly.iqIt sets forth that liberal construction
Of the act of Congress, of March Sd 1899
\ wouldrequirethat the Government should
! iiprovideafOr the support Of these recaPtured
8 =
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WhiG View of FrenOns's Nomin.
DtiOE.

The ". Y. Commercial Advertiser, always
the leading wh:g journal of that city, hav.
ing reputation for much political sagacity
announces the nomination of Fremont as
follows
"The bright, cnterprising young man.
has been rewarded for handsomely explo-
ing the Rocky Mountains by nomination
for the Presidency. OF course no one an
ticipates that be will be elected in this 'year
of our Lord to that high Office. The people
Of the United States, or any considerable
proportion Of them, are not likely to pass by
men Of years, and experience, and wisdom
recognized statesmen and leaders-and
place young man, without antecedents as
legislator or statesman, in the high office oI
Chief Magistrate. We do not believe the
republican leaders have any anticipation
that Col. Fremont will be the next Presi
dent of this republic. He will serve, wha
alone could be expected from their candi
date, to keep the 'conglomerate mass (thu:
one of their own speakers designated the
partv)together through the campaign, ant
that is the object for which he is nominated
We will not do the Convention the injus
tice to suppose that if they really believed
their nominee would be successful, they
would have passed by SO many senior ant
more eligible citizens, and put forward 81
young man, and one SO entirely withou
antecedents. x y
at will be apparent to the reader that
deeper and more lasting than all the shout
ing and hurrahing over the nomination o
Col. Fremont, lies a feeling of dissatisfac
ton, which will probably manifest itself er
long. The harmony of the party is NOR
noisy and pretentious than sober and real.
"Altogether, we imagine the republican,
especially with their present candidate, ar
not likely to prove very potent in Novem
Der next, against men known to history an,
experienced in craftsmanship" a'
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ParaOr and Kitchen.

Talking of the parlor with its touch me-
not elegance, we care not for it. Let its
covered magnifcence riot in darkness--its
red velvets lie in shrouds-its pictures gaze
dimly through the crape-its splendid piano
stand dumb in its linen cover-its worsted
roses and pinks, and gilt flowers remain un-
plucked in dark corners-its carpet bloom
unseen. Let the shutters and double curt.
aims exclude every beautiful ray of light;
while we can have the pleasant, airy, yellow
foored and uncarpeted kitchen. This is the
place for real enjoyment--the kitchen, with
its bright shelves, aud its clean, white ia.
bles, white with time. The kitchen, with
its old easy chair, and broad shining hearth,
and with its cracking and blazing fire. We
do not mean the kitchen in the great house
where the lady of the house never sets her
foot within its precincts; but the homely
comfortable kitchen of the we'll to do work.
ing man, where wife and the tea kettle sing
! together, and the little ones prattle round
the mother while her own hands set the Ia
BILE for tea. There may be snow in the
cleaning, or sun arrows lodging in the tops
of trees-there may be city walls about, Of
blue undulating hills; it matters not, in sucf
place every thing smacks of true comfort
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The Testimony OF a Political Op-
E3Mcnt.


The Burlington (Eowa) State Gazette has
long article in relation to Kansas affairs
from which we make the following extract:
"While on this subject, we will say that
we have just had conversation with VIM.
S. Graf, Esq who has recently returned
from Kansas. Mr.. Graf is we'll known US
lawyer and an active opponent of the ad.
ministration. Being the great gum in
Des Moines county on the fusion side; he
certainly cannot be accused of partiality to
the administration; but we believe him to
be Gn honest man, and his testimony is, that
though there are faults on both sides, the
atrocities Of the Free State party are far
greater than those Of the pro-slavery side
! The late murder Of five pro-slavery men by
the aboltionists, on the Ossawatomie, he
says, was a wanton act, done without provo
cation, and attended with sanguinary cruel
ty; the poor creatures were broken in upon
in the night, dragged from their beds, and,
in defiance Of the entreaties of their wives,
murdered and afterwards savagely mutilated.
The emissaries of the easter abolitionists,
he considers, are the prime causes Of all the
disturbances" l...'
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Mar. D:a

The London correspondent of the N. Y.
Jouraalcf Commerce says the general opin-
ion in London is, that Mr.. Champions dis
missal will be followed by the Dismissal Of
Mr.. Dallas. This, however, the writer does
not believe. He says great exertions are
making, and by powerful men, to influence
the Government not to tender Mr.. Dallas
his passports; and these exertionss will not
probably fail The writer adds that Mr.
Dallas has exercised no agency directly or
indirectly, on the subject; but there is such
unbounded confidence, in every intelligent
circle in the METROPOLIS, in the rectitude of
his heart, that his retention is universally
desired. 1885
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Expressing surprise.

The National InteHigencer expresses un-
feigned surprise at the nomination of Col. J.
C. Fremont by the Republicans. and, though
complimenting his success and capacity as
an explorer of the wilderness, expresses
grave doubts as to his fitness to be entrusted
with the chief control OF the affairs of the
Government OF the United States.
A Philadelphia correspondent OF the same
journal, writing in like vein, says:
at is indeed matter of grief to witness
the condition of the country, and to see the
intrignes and motives of political managers,
who, withou. regard D the interest of the
country and of the Union, can in such an
! alarming crisis be governed exclusively by
such petty, personal, and interested motives
as they so evidently are. When talents
patriotism, decision, energy, and national
feeling are such important requisites for the
Chief Magistrate that is to preside over the
destinies of country for the ensuing four
years, which will be period of such Difficult.
ty and danger, to hear the names that are
mentioned and urged as suitable for such a
station under existing circumstances, and
merely because such parties would favor the
personal views of their hackers and advo-
Gates. is really humiliating and discouraging
even to those who are never willing "to de-
spair Of the Republic" Men comparatively
obscure, without taIent, without experience
that would lead any dsinterested person to
dream of them for such an exalted and re-
sponsible station, are brought forward and
recommended in the strongest terms. In the
last twenty four hours | have heard of at
| least dozen such persons mentioned by diff
ferent delegates to the Convention for the
first and second Office OF the country, who
are about as fit for those stations as the most
unfit man in either House Of Congress, and
how unfit some of those are I leave you tc
judge who are OH the spot where the "wis
dom OF the nation" is collected"
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The Whitfield Story smoked ont.


To show the baseness. yickedness aud
falsity of the Kansas repd }, we have only
to- state that Bir. Whitfield. the delegate
from Kansas, instead of leading company
lof Border Ruffipns," and getting into difii-
Guilty with Col. Sumner and the United
States troops, was vending his way to Wash.
ington, and when the lying telegraph reports
got there Of his doings in Kansas, he was
quietly sitting in his seat on the floor Of Con-
gress The Washington Star, in alluding
to this affair, says:
"CoL. WHITrIELD.-Col. Whitfield, the
delegate from Kansas has returned to WASH
ington, and appeared in Ii sent in the House
to-day. While there, heskas electrified By
learning that he, in command of the border
rufflans, had, q day or two since, had great
battle with the troops of the. United States
under Col. Sumner! Such despatch reach
ed Washinton at ii A. M. to-day.
"The reception here OF this important
news on the wings OF lightning, after Col.
w. had returned to Washington on horse
back, per steamboat and rail car from the
frontier, illustrates most forcibly the char.
acter OF free state stories Of current events
in Kenses." .r
What falsehood will next be got up by alb.
oltionsts to keep up public excitement and
cheat blockheads out of their money? It
will be terrible death stroke to Black Re-
publicanism if Col. Sumner should restore
order in Kansas, as the President has in.
structed him to do.
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Beautiful and True.

In late article in fruzier's Magazine this
brief but beautiful passage occurs:
"Education does not commence with al
phabet. 1t begins with mothers look
with fathers smile Of appreciation, or sign
Of reproof-with sisters gentle pressure
of the hand, or brothers. noble act of for
bearance-.with hands full offlowers in green
and daisy meadow-with birds nests admir-
ed, but not touched-with creeping ants,
and almost imperceptible emments-with
humming bee-hives-with pleasant walks in
shady lanes, and with thoughts directed in
sweet and kindly tones, and words, to ma
ture, to acts of benevolence, to deeds of vir-
tue, and to the source of all good, to God
himself. @
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6F The Montreal (Canada) Commercial
Advertiser, in speaking ofthe people of thi
country, holds the following very compli
mentary language:
"The men Of the Revolution are dead
their inferior children of 1912 are in theii
dotage; the present generation, raised or
hot cakes and sweet tixins, and stimulated
with tobacco juice, is all talk and no cider
--as destitute of the stamina on which cour.
ageis foundefas its mothers are of hesh.-
Look at the women: charming at sixteen
faded at twenty. toothless at twenty. y.five, hid.
eous at thirty, dividing their time between
their rocking chairs and their beds, incapa-
BILE of exertion, incompetent to exercise
ever-ailing, listless, lazy, straight up and
down, like an old fa shioned clothes pin, ma
king up the deficiency Of their develop,
ments with whalebone, cotton and bran
are these the things to suckle heroes? The
race has deteriorated, and is dwindling away;
and but for the constant introduction of new
and healthy blood from immigration, would
disappear in century" 4aAes,4
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OF We copy the following from the N.
Y, Herald. FREMnNr manor 5'

o. We copy the following from the N. =
Y. Herald, a Fremont paper
MORE FoLLY.-All round we hear ofrat.G
ifcation meetings of the republicans, and
rejoicings, fireworks, &C., in honor Of Ere.
mont. In the course of the next month it
looks as though hundred thousand dollars
would be spent in gunpowder and flummery.
All this is mere folly and nonsense. As, /,
things look now, Mr.. Buchanan will walk
over the course. If the republicans and A.
mercans can be awakened to sense Of
their forlorn condition and ridiculous chan.
ces, let them unite for grand movement
otherwise the game is lost, and the less pow.
der they burn. and the less noise they make,
the better will it be. ~ .e
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RETURN OF THE KANSAS INvEsTiGATIHs
Communicative learn that the investiga-
ting committee of the House of Repre-
sentatives. consisting of Messrs. Oliver,
Howard and Sherman, came on in the west
ern train yesterday morning as far as the
Relay House, and thence went on to Wash.
ington. They are accompanied by Messrs.
Joel Walker, DR.. Armstrong, and Mr.. John
Barker, a deputation of Wyandotte Indians.
also from Kansas. Gen. Whitfield, the del-
egate in Congress from KANSAS, has also re-
turned to Washington. These gentlemen,
IT is understood, say that the affairs in the
territory are by no means in as bad state
as has been represented, and that such rep-
reservations will be made to the government
at Washington as will soon put stop to all
further difficulties. Sun.
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Noetrp,
A Weary Life il is to have no
Work to do,

Ho ye who at the anvil toll,
And strike the sounding blow,
Wherefrom the burning irons breast
The sparks fy to and fro,
While answering to the hammers ring.
And fires intenser glow -
OF while ye feel 'tis hard to toll
And sweat the long day through,
Remember It isharder still
To have no work TO do.
Hol ye who till the stubborn soil,
Whose hard hands guide the plow,
Who burn beneath the summer sun,
With burning check and brow
Ye deem the curse still clings to earth
From olden time till now
But while ye feel tits hard TO toll
And labora all day through,
Remember tits harder still
To have no work to do.
Ho! ye who plough the seas blue folds
Who ride the restless wave,
Beneath whose gallant vessels keel
There hes yawning grave,
Around whose bark the wintry winds
Like flends of fury rave
o! while ye feel tits hard to toll
And labor long hours through,
Remember iii harder still
To have no work to do.
Hol ye upon whose feyerod cheeks
The hectic glow is bright,
Whose mental toll wears out the day
And half the weary night,
Who labor for the souls of men,
Champions of truth and right
Although ye feel your toll is hard,
Even with this glorious view,
Remember 1t is harder still
To have no work to do.
Ho! all who labor-all who strive
Ye WELD lofty power
owith your might, do with your strength,
Fill every golden horr;
The glorious privilege to do
Is mans most noble DOVER
OF to your birthright and yourselves,
To your own souls be true,
A weary, wretched life is theirs .,
Who have no work do.