The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-01-08
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deep interest in the result Of the Presiden-
tisl contest. They hoped and almost pray
ed for the election Of Fremont snd the con-
srquent defeat OF Buchanan. Everything
I that could be done, by inaammaiory articles
and speeches ,ras done to divide and distract
our counsels in the vain hope that asectionai
candidate would be chosen, q sectional poll
ey adopted in the end, causing civil war aud
total overthrow OF our Constitution aud form
OF government. ..t',.
1t is equally certain that the hopes and
sympa illies Of Great Britain were cordially
reciprocated by the feeders (not the rank and
ile) Of the present Republican party. They
were united in she suue treasoDsble design
and nctuated BY the su me common desire,
that OF public PiuBder. -f1 s. f..'
England, ever since our fatheFs threw off
the British yoke, has cherished and nourished
bitter and nnVclenting hate towards Amer
lea and her Institutions. Hence the desire
on her part to cast into our midst the apple
OF discord--to engcnder strife, 10 creute Sec
tiOnal feeling and prejudice among The peo-
pie. Wellhnowing that the bonds which
unite the States together are those of affec-
ton and love, and rot Of force, she strives
10 raise up hatred snd Jealousy between them
until the chain is at length broken. et
A few days ego was published the fact
that the last member ofthe notorious Hart
ford Convention WAS dead. 1t is mistake.
The Hartford Convention men are not oil
dead. Those who were among the immedi-
ate plotters Of that ,raitorous meeting, and
who took part in its deliberations, may have
gone to their graves; but they have left be-
| hind them thousands and tens of thousands
of followers, entertaining like sentime pts,
governed by like motives, and working out
/ the same plans. . .'..s
The genealogy Of family cannot be more
distinctly traced from ihther to son, through
successive generations, than can be traced
the genealosy ofthe present Republican par
! ty. The landmarks are standing all along
the highwoy of the nstion. In the dark
hours Of the Revolution they were tories
seeking to betruy the patriot fathers into the
hands of the enemy, and desoIate the hopes
and hearth stones oi brave hearted and bleed
ing colonisis. They were the opposers OF
Thomus Jefferson during his whole admins.
tralion. In 1912, they stationed blue lights
along the New England coast, to uid the
British in landing that they might destroy
the towns, villages, cities, and the inhabi.
tants of the land They cursed Jefferson as
on ln6del Democrat. They denounced Mad
ison as a murderer. They slondcred Jack.
son as on ungovernable tyrant. They call
ed Polk usurper, aud hoped that American
soldiers in Mexico might be "welcomed will
bloody lrands to hosPi,abe graves"
In 1854, they organized dark lantern coun
ellis all over the lard. In 1856, they he'll
, correspondence with the British Government
hoping to secure triumph by British gold
They committed murder in Kansas, and ther
shouted aloud for "freedo M" hoping by hri
berry and blood to secure TO themselves til,
reins Of government. They have oppose,
every war from the Revolution downward
Their sympathies and hopes have been oil
the side of our country's enemies. Every
movement of theirsS as now, as the people
have had opportunity to weigh it, has been
condemned. To ayeid the odium attaching
to. such condemnation, they bave thanget
their name almost annually. But no change
of name, no change of professions, no change
but charge Of principle can ever max.
them pure. The mark Of the beast is upol
them. The tory spirit is 10 the county,
So long as it exists there will be q tory par
ty-a British party. aa ,..a.f. a..
Republicans contend that the interest 70
Fremont in Great Britain was Oh account o
the love of the British for freedom. This i.
: but u miserable Gbsurdiy. Great Britain
l who planted African slavery in America
. who has to-day hundreds OF vessels engaged
in the slave trade, who has millions of poCr
cmaciated, starving white slaves in the den,
and cellars Of her own towns and cities, lv
; ing lives in comparison with which Africar
slavery is Paradse-Great Britain, whc
first imposed the yoke Of bondage upon tht
} necks of our cwn pilgrim fathers, can ncve
teach Americans anything in regard TO th
subject of human freedom or human rights
: The duchess OF Sutherland. the intimat
. friend of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who ha
' shed torrents OF tears over the wrongs Of IT,
, slaves il thg South, only few months cgo
tsrned over thousand men, women an,
children out OF doors 10 stdrre, and convert
. cd their dwelling. iuto sheep pens.
: When such persons interfere with or do
mestic concerns under the plea of Liberty,
T honest men will be made suspicious by thei
interference, und none but party Of traitor
D will j3in with them or receive aid from then
9 to secure political triumph. m
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