The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-10-08
RAVENNA, THURSDAY, OCT. s, 1857.

! istratiOn of your affairs, have already att
tracted your attention. The insane and au
daCious suggestion Of Governor Chase, to
devote an enormous sum o. your money to-
the stirring up and carrying on of civil war
| in one Of the territories OF the United States |
and to raise and equip q military force for
the express purpose of hostiIfties against the
United States troops, must be unsporingly
denounced. 1t will not be forgotten at the
polls. His gross negligeEte of the duties
imposed upon him, in regard to Thorough
scrutiny of the treasury, has been one of the
| causes of immense loss to the State. His1
recent unparalleled attempt to interfere with
and arrest the due course of Justice, will
receive the unqualified condemnation of
I every wise and impartial man. The set:
ting up, by him, of his unsupported declur.
| atIon' in opposition to the indings of the
Grand Jury, and the sworn statements Of
the Attorney General, while the criminal
cases and the cival causes are yet pend
ing against Gibson, is an act of treachery to
! the State, whose Governor he is, and a guar
an,ee of impunityto wrong doer, ,with
whom he has had intimate, personal and busi
ness relations.
The portioniDg out of the peoples mo
ney's by Gibson, between his colleagues in
office, to set up brokers' shops, and certain
faithless and insoIvent BANKS. in, which
some of them were interested, reveals the
coveted object of the mercenary Republican
leaders, and their utter disregard for deccn,
:, cy in grasping it. Nearly forty tn housand
dollars of your money was advanced by the
Republican Treasurer to the Attorney Gen.
eral, to set him up in business as discount
! er'ef kiting. bills; and large deposits were
made in banks, in which the Treasurer ard
one Of the Supreme judges are believed to
have been largely interested. ......
The vast infefiority of the Republican
t Legislature, to any other that ever assem-.
) bled in Ohio,; bcca me manifest before it fin.
ully adjourned, That it would be unable to
perfect and pass a!singIe measure of gen
eral utility, might have been predicted from
the nature CT its composition. 1t was con.
J glomeration of the most discordant elements
thrown together by the waves of furious
| but evanescent agitation, and unable to agree
t upon any subject but one with which it hat
Y no power to interfere. Had it been elected
D to govern Kansas, the majority might, per
r haps, have acted with figor and unanimity,
e had it been empowered to nullif7 the laws
e of the United States, 1t would have effectual
i ly over,brown one of the last acts originated
e by the lamcnied Clay; but as its Legitimate
v province was to devise measures for the ben
l. eft Of Ohio, it speedily divided into rancor
e Gus factions, whose ViruIent animosity con
Of tiuues, and refuses to be alIayed even in tn
& desperate exigency in which their Governo
b. ends himself.
lie In conclusion, the Committee, after inst
" tuting the fullest inquiry, and using all tn
9. means at its; command to obtain reliable in
c. formation, gives you the strongest assurance
10 that decisive and complete victory avail
the Democracy. To insure consdmmatlo
ct so deyoutly to be wished, every Democr'
re of Ohio, and every man who loves her an
g. the Union better than a fanatcal and mel
Oh ccnary cabal, should use his active exertion
n Devote yourself, for few days, to the be-
lid interests Of your State; deliver her out of Il
or unholy hands into which she has falle
ed whose rule, of only two years duration b
er made her bankrupt in money, in charactt
re and in influence; and when by your patriot
it efforts, you have reinstated her in the pro-
les position among her sister Commonwea lth
le to which she is of right entitled, you wi
u each and every one, in his own proper pt
no son, reap manifold harvest from the sc
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