The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-03-10

-tE
Mr.. EDIToR:-I hinted to your readers
last week, that there was some sign .bf ,
spark Of democracy still left in DR.. Co!ss,
as cvinced by his Offering a resolution to the
late Black Republican conference, at Ra
VIENNA, in the Town Hall, which could get
no second, no response in uHy of that lot OF
Black Republican leaders. Dr. Coles since
comes out in the "Bogus D:mocrat," with
the resolution he offered at that meeting,
beginning with, "Resolved, That we r,joice
al the admission of Oregon"
1t seems the Doctor holds, or held in that
meeting, all alone, to The Democratic doc.
trine of popular Sovereignty" for he says,
"I have always held, that Congress should
not dictate 10 the new States their internal
police regulations. have always held, that
il the Constitution suited the people who
were to live under it, and il it Was Republi-
can in form, Congress- was under obligation,
under the provision of the Constitution of
the United States, TO admit the State ON an
equal footing with the rest, into the confed.
tracy. Oregon. nor any other State, should
hot be for moment kept out of the Union
because it is Democratic State"
Such Democratic doctrine, and more too,
thc Doctor processes in his article in the last
"Democru" ~ He farther applauds Letter,
the Representative in Congress from this
District, for his vote in Congress to admit
Oregon. Letter too, was once Democrat,
and may still be hopeful, as he alone, Of the
Black Republicans in Congress, refused to
vote for tho Montgomery Amendment in the
Kansas bill of the last session of Congress.
But Coles heed never hope to convert his
Republican leaders to such Democratic doc
trnes as he processes there. And if he per.
sists in them he will BE ma4ked, and can
never get nominated for the Legislature
next fall. He muy take Warming by the fate
of Letter for his vote on the Montgomery
bill.
DR.. C. as much os charges that the Black
Republicans in Congress voted against the
admission Of Oregon. "because it is Demo-
cratic State," though they profess it was be-
cause OF it's excluding negroes from the
State.
That was evidently false pretencc, os
that party is noted for its false pretences
and Inconsistencies. II was a false pre-
tencc or an Inconsistency, for the same
Black Republicans in Congress, to vote per
sistently to receive Kansas with the Topek;
constitution, excluding negroes from th'
State, and TO reject Oregon for the sam
exclusion. They have ever since ruRg tn
Topeka Constitution Of Kansas a US, whcl
was made by but one party and voted on b!
but one party, and under no law Of the terri
tory, and il excluded negroes from the State
And now they say IN solemn conference
convened at the Town Hall in Ruvenna
that "some Objectionable features" in th
constitution Of Oregon, "are alone sufficien
to warrant it's rejection" by Congress, thu
assuming the right in Congress to dictate
State constitutions. They will next, nj
doubt, assume the right to make laws for tn
States and regulate all the domestic affair
Of the States. And when that assumption
10 a law Of Congress, this Union-so lonl
and so successfully held together, until VI
are one Of the most powerful, and quite th'
most prosperous and happy nations on eartI
will dissolve into its original ele mentS--
no, but into thirty-three separate sovereign
ties. And then who can say what vii
follow?
1--WE shall see what We shall see."--
swatch and pray"
POPULOUs.