The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-10-08
ADDRESS
OF THE
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
To The People Of Ohio:

their duty to return to practice for some
time fallen into disuse, and briefly address
their fellow citizens upon the issues involved
in the present political canvass. Compre-
bending, as they think they do, the impor.
tunce of the questions now to be resoIYedby
the people, and fully impressed with the
conviction, that the popular will is about to
recall the Democratic party to administer
4 the affairs of the State, the Committee be.
lieve that they ought not to neglect to con.
fer with their fellow citizens in this man.
ner.
The perpetuity OF the Union is now, as
heretofore, an object upon which the Democ.
racy is inflexiby resolved. The party in
! this State, one of the largest integers in
tile National Democracy, have made it
cardinal principle Of their faith. The pres
ervation of the liberties Of the people is the
chief end of the Democracy, and the main
tenance Of the Union is indispensable to its
attainment. The bulk Of our opponents do
not intend to destroy that inestmable lega.
cy of our wise and patriotic foref1thers; but,
co considering the blind fanaticism Of many
OF their leaders, the reckless and unscrupu.
lous Oh bi:ion which animates another large
portion of them, and the success which has
hitherto attended their efforts in lighting up
the baneful fires of sectional animosity and
dstrust, we are compelled to regret that SO
many of our fellow citizens should have suf-
fered themselves to be drawn into their per-
nicious and dangerous organization. Sup
port given TO that party creates seemingly
we'll founded suspicion in the minds of our
brethren of the South that large portion OF
people are preparing to rencunce the Com
prom ises Of the Constitution and to inter-
several States. The inevitable result of the
established success of the Republican party
must be the destruction OF lraternal conf.
dence among the people Of the States, and
the final disruption Of the confederncy. The
country, So grand and majestic in the eyes
} Of the word, not less from tae simplicity
and wisdom of its political system, than from
the splendor of its achievements, the vast
+ extent of its domains, aud the miraculous
e raPdity of its moral and physical progress
! ! is threatened with danger where, alone, it is
: not impregnable. Imbervious 10 all attacks
from without and able to corteI with the
world in arms in defence of our homes ant
liberties, internal. disscnsion mcnaces the
safety of the Republic. The fortress which
cannot be carried by assault succumbs at las
,, to the sap and the mine; and this Empire o
ct the West, which defes with impunity the
10 combined efforts of all the despots in tht
o world to overcome or restrain it, may fall BY
1l the persevering wickedness of n few treach
t. erous agitators. The Goth, are not at tn,
rs gates, but in the heart of the Capitol.
a When the great body oI,the people Nortl
e and Sou.h shall have become es,raNged, an
!, hostile to each other, it will not require
Is. question OF real magnitude to hasten the de
velUpment of the frightul conse querce. l
an exacerbated state OF the public mind, ste
as must follow the success Of our opponent;
of some matter of trifing import, like the RI
ts is ported suet on the cartridges OF the Stpoy
nTa may be sufficient to prec:pitlte the destru
nd ton of the august fab ic cur fathers raise
on and to sever the Confederacy they constfu
w VI. ted, into numerous petty and hostile commit
nd mites. When such feeling prevails, Il
for peace and well being of the body polite al
in no longer within the control of the just al
om S prudent, of any party; but at the mercy of Il
lu- first knave or mailman who may be foul
to rush upon destruction for the sake of q
arcbv. The fires Of hate, so insdious
. kindled by the enemies of the Union, bu
low at first; but if moi extinguished by yo
'o%J efforts in due season, they will sometir
: is burst forth in general conAagration. I.
val Committee earnestly call upon you to st
iit@ ita. that in the green tree, which may not
,tsts ,ts.s stayed in the dry.
iod, The Committee believe that upon the 81
riall cess of the Democratic party, the preser'
ent s"t' ton of onr race pure and intact, in Oh
,st, l;t, mainly depends. They proclaim, once Q
pre-. for all, their unalterable conviction, in
'iihl fIel graduaton ofraces. The white race Of p
arc. arc. pie in the United States, like the anci
ANY Romans and the English, the offspring
tlon the most intellectual, energetici persev
'iod, ~, - A. C..
each ing and WdrllKe VarieteS oi tHe Cuucuss
ns.e m people, is believed to be the highest typ
man yet developed on the globe.
opu. crafty and savage tribe of this eontin
,,1" por withered at its near approach, by reasol
now some mysterious agency never explain
oun- but never long wihstood. 1t supplanted
pfo- French in all their vast possessions be
more are the Great Lakes. 1t elected the for
ID In ooc,nanta Df the Northern and Wes
nnal o1S"P""&' "
neral shores of the Gulf Of Mexico. 1t approx
a one ted the coast of the Pacific, from the tt
Pet, Eato second to the forty ninth degree of. N
d; A latitude. 1t has reduced to its dominion
oners the intermediate territory between the
s.. early settlements at Plymouth, and on
E' E''' banks of the James River, and the dis
ate. regions where the waters Of the Oregon
gle with the sea; and beating back all
r. n. the continent, the mongrel descendant
from the degenerate Spaniard, the Indian an
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