The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-03-03
For tie Portage SenGinsl.

cts, was held, it is stated by their organ, on
Friday evening Of the first week Of Court,
(the lSth,) and was so thinly attended that
their editor dOss not boast much Of numbers
in attendance. But he speaks their dOings
broad on paper,
1t appears that Bloody Kansas has failed
them, and they feor the rank and file Of their
followers will falter, and drop as naturally
as ever into the Democratic ranks, If nd plain
marked line OF road is kept open for them
to follow their leaders. They indeed lead,
In many and diverss ways, by tortuous wind.
ing paths but least some Of the deceived
and humbugged followers behind, may lose
the track, they keep up most tedious howl.
ling, more Of "sOuRd and fury" indeed, than
OF sense.
Well, the conference was held in the Rn.
VIENNA Town Hall. and was called to order
by J. 8. Herrck, Ravenna Township Com.
mitteeman. Judge Lyman, was nude Chair.
man, and DR.. speIlmun, Secretary. H. R.
w. Hall, L. D. Woodwork, H. H. Willard,
G. B. Whittlesey and J. D. Horton were
appointed Committee on Resolutions.
Hon. o. P. Brown, said ",hat as this
meeting might be regarded as in some sort
opening the campaign for 1859. whose i'm.
portance in its bearings on the campaign or
1860, could hardly be estimated, it was pro.
per that we go take our bearings as to com.
msnd united cooperative effort on the part
Of Republicans" He therefore "moved the
appointment of committee OF seven to pre-.
pare and publish within one or two weeks,
an uddress 10 the Republicans of Portage
County" The motion prevailed, and Hon.
y. P. Brown, E. B. Taylor. Cyrus Prenties,
DR.. DeWolf, w. Wadsworth and w. Will.
Hanson, were appointed said committee.
The committee on resolutions reported a
string of eight resolutions, which were all
adopted unanimously, except the 9th. DR..
Coles, and one or two others, objected to q
clause in the 9th resolution, which declares
that "some Objectionable features" in the
Oregon Constitution "were alone sufficient
to warrant its rejection" especially that
which excludes negroes, mulattoes, China.
men and banks, from that State.
So il seems that Republicans (so called
nre almost unanimously in favor Of Congres
sional interference in the formation Of State
constitutions, notwithstanding their late
bowing for popular sovereignty in Kansas
That was all CANNON, as these republican:
in conference met, almost unanimously sd.
, mit But we knew that before. That bank
business too, is too bad for their ssncti i)n.-
They are great sticklers for the interests o
: Banks. The resolution against the udmis
, sion Of Oregon was TO rebuke Letter for vo
, ting to admit the tree state. Gentlemen
: can't you get up an cmigra,i,n oid society
and send on to Oregon, to induce sltcrntio
' in tina, constitution yel Or il it too late
r The either Resolutions Of the "Conference, ,
were all nbcut the homestead bill, and cheoI
postage, except the usual denunciotions o
! The "gigantic fraud, iniquity and corruptio,
suppose they will all, indeed, ndvocat
. che.p postage, and giving away of tb,
. public lands, now thut the late stsgnation il
business, has so reduced the receipts into tn
: Treasury that, as they say, government i
!. bankrupt. The same p,rty as peac
4 parly in the time of cur Mexican War, an
!, in the war of 1912. When not in power
they have always been in favor of an eco
nomical Administrator but in the shor
. periods of their power, their acts have belle
their professions. And always, in Congress
+. their friends have voted the largest appropr
atoms, as has been generally observed.
d Drs. DeWolf ard Coles, and LAWYER
d Taylor urd Brown, were the speakers
t though their editor scarcely notes the speect
es of the Doctors. But il appears there wa
some clushing among them, though it wa
= mighty good naured.- Taylor fully endort
n ed the epirit of Senator Stewards Rocheste
n Speech, declaring that war exists betwee
,r the slave and free States. and must be ca
rled on till "one or the other must yield"-
= beaten. Thus Es. succumbs to "the Ion
'. heels"
Or Brown and Tay in behalf OF ,hemselvt
and friends, in their speeches, labor to he;
~ all past differences for the good of the caus
r and the negroes butespecially for the spoil
Ill And why not If they had cordially coo
nd perated together last fall, one Of them coul
e. no doubt, have been elected 10 Congress-
ny But which OF them should yield All, "the
er was the rub," and may be again.
This meeting was called, SIS a townsh
d. conference OF the Republicans OF Ravenn
he inviting also from other towns OF the count
'g to embue them with due portion of &
right spirit but by the published proceedin
g. we see no note Of any attendance from al
H. other towns except Ravenna and PalmyI
The proceedings being now spread befo
.u them, other towns are expected to take th'
" cue from them, and hold their meetings all
These are the plonks Of their platform-t
platform they are to follow, implicitly. T
resolutions ore there, and Browns Spec
=. is there, in which he warns Republica
q against "affiliuting with political ehemie
-. who were in the minority in the county,
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