The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-11-30
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To tie Editor of tie Portage Sentinel -
As a portion of the readers of fhe Senti.
mel are supposed to not read the papers Of
the Opposition par,y,-commonly called
Black Republicans-so named from their
supposed greater regard for the black race
than for the white-I propose to say some-
thing Of "the drift" Of the papers OF that
party, and more especially OF the one print
ed in your own place, and falsely called
"Democrat."
That paper, from its first start, and its
present editor for many years before that
bogus shet started, has been constantly aud
weekly engaged in slandering and belieing
the people Of the Southern States, publish.
ing ell sorts of foul charges against them,
and reitersting the ISLANDERS weekly for
years, until their followers, those who we're
foolish enough to believe the stuff they found
in their party pOpers, became mad-mono.
] manisc "on the niger question:" ss John
Brown is, are ready to perpetrate murder or
treason, or any other crime to forward the
great object to which they have been SO in.
cessantly instigated by years of false preach
ing of "the higher law" l.. w. Hall, ].
R. Giddings, Chase and others, preached,
and Brown, Ksgi, Cook, Coppic, and their
coadjutors prscticed what their instigstors
preached. And now the question is, not
whether Brown deserves to be hung-for he
| L.. Iol hoC no
Ferry foray-but whether his instigators do
not deserve death more than their followers
and victims, now under sentence of death.
But the (bogus) Democrat of last week is
peculiarly spicy. Its editor gets more than
ever excited, snd like the running thief cries
"stop thie"-compIaining, that the Demo-
Gratis papers Of the North charge .",hat the
entire Republican party is based upon treP.
sonabIe designs, and is treacherous to every
principle Of honor, integrity and upright
ness" to which he pleads "not guilty" He
says that "the Democratic papers of the
North, represent the purest, the most patri,
o,ic and loyal men OF the north, as murder.
GUS conspirators against the peace and safety
of the South" If the published cores
pondence found on the traitors, does not i'm
pcatc several of the Black Republican
leaders, as Giddings, Seward, Gerritt Smith
and others, then we will not impl'cat them.
Who, we would ask the very innocent edit
or, who furnished the funds and tho material
Of war for the traitors for we all know that
John Brown was bankrupt and depended on
Black Republican aid to carry the war into
K4nsrs; and came bankrupt from KaEaas,
except tho horses he bonsted in Cleveland
OF having stolen from Kansas and Missouri
and brought TO Ohio, for which Black Re.
publican editors snd leaders upplaul him.
And TINT notorious falsfer further charges
the. NortherA Democratic press that *i,s en-.
tie warfare, bitter, relentless, vindictiye,
and untir ing, is founded on the monstrous
perversions Of t;uh, until this portion Of the
press, hqs justly acquired the name of 'Sa.
tanic.' Satanic indeed is the word; but
whpt can be more satanic than that press
that ncites to civil war on the South or the
or the persons that arm the traitors Sharp's
rifles, Colts revoIvers, and with spears and
knives with which to arm the negroes TO in
surrec,on, and this Hall g. Co. fl their pa.
per with matter to excite sympathy for the
traitors but none for those they murdered, or
for their friends and families.
No, the falsehood they charge on the De-
mocrntic press Of the North, is falsehood it.
self, aud 10 done 10 hide its own editors from
the ahOme of being abettors Of treuSon and
fnlsehocd, now made so obvious by the Har.
per's Ferry insurrecton But it won't hide
tho rascply cuIprits. We see them plainly,
ard the more they struggle, the more con.
spicuous they appear.
] But the negroes would not join the tTa:-
tors. And that appears to induce change
of programme with those traitors who have
kept back, out Of the battles range, while
they furnished the 'Sharpe's riff ,s,' as Beech.
er did for John Blown & Co.
The evidence Of change Of programme
find on the first page OF the last Portage
County (bogus) Democrat, in Henry Ward
Beecher's sermon. on "the Old Brown busi'
ness" as he calls it. In that sermon, pub
iished with much apparent favor, Beecher
along with groat deal Of verbiaGe, finally
fully declares against insurrecton or servile
war. He even says "t would be the most
cruel, hopeless and desperate of all conceiv
able folIies, to seek emancipation by tha
sword and by blood."" He seem to have
! found this out lately, for he preached no
such doctrine before that insurrectiun, and
msyhsp he fears to be implicated, os he was
fully in the Kansas forays Of John Blown,
; He comes fully to the conclusion that it ls
better to preach as Paul did, servants obey
your masters than. to exhort, as many here
tofore have, to induce them to desert theil
! masters.
Democrats have long told Black RepubI.
cans that the best way to umeliorate the
, evils of slavery, is to exhort the slave tc
, obedience, and the master TO kindness; snt
I now that Beecher breaches the same thing
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