The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-10-05

and duly examined. On motion, it was
ResolUed, That the report and conmunica.
tlons should be presented to the PORTAGE
County Democrat, and Sentinel for publica.
ti0n. Eeie .aIE'Ilg'
A motion to adjourn was Carried.
WIN. s. BUTLER, Chairman.
8. LITTLE, Secretary. ..
To the Republican Electors of AurOrG-
FELLOW CITIZENS The undersigned,
your Committee to whom was referred the
subject of interrogating the Republican
nominees touching their soundness on the
great questions of Republicanism, do report
as follows THAT on the I'd inst, your
Committee convened, and adopted series
of interrogatories which, in their opinion,
were sufficiently general to exclude the idea
of technically or impertinence on the part
of your Committee, yet so explicit as to re
quire the nominees to define their position,
or in the absence OF which, there would be
justifabIe grounds for every Republican
electors Withdrawing his suffrage.
Your Committee were delegates, duly cho.
sen to the several Conventions at which
these candidates were put 10 nomination, but
ruled out, and therefore did not participate
in the proceedings, yet witnesses that in the
eagerness of the members of the Conven.
tions to luy before these bodies their fayorite
candidates., the idea Of requiring the candi.
dates to define their position was altogether
overlooked, which rendered the appointment
of committee Of inquiry on your part, no,
only just fable, but Us Intelligent electors,
an imperative duty. On the 9th Sep. inst :,
your Committee addressed the proposed in.
quiries. copy OF which is herewith submit.
ted, to the several candidates, and have re.
ceived replies from all with the exception o f
the candidate for Representative Of the
township OF Muntua. Your candidate for
Treasurer, and Representative from Ran.
dolph have responded to the interrog atories
OF your Committee, with promptitude wor.
thy Of commentator, and in terms that
should induce every Republican to be alike
ready in the discharge Of his duty. Your
candidate for Prosecuting Attorney is recon.
mended to your favorable nsideration, be.
Iieving him to be honest, and that the little
slight" he now enjoys "wiIl grow brighter
and brighter unto the perfect day."
The candidate for Senator your Commit.
tee regret to say has entirely evaded the
questions proposed to him, evincing want
OF consideration for you and your duly con.
stituted agents. amounting, 10 the opinion of
your Committee, to contempt, requiring The
adrctness Of the canal boy and the erudi
tition of the l.. l.. d. to expurgate before
he can expect to receive the suffrage of any
intelligent elector.
tie tells you "he has never pledged him
self to any measures''-"that he will not"
-"that he shall be guided by his own iudg.
nent, aided by the counse!s Of his constitu.
ents'--giving you no precedents where his
Judgment has ever been exercised, leaving
you to form your own conjectures, how little
Or how much, and to whut extent, that iudo
ment would be affected by the "counsels"
'f his constituency, leaving you to Co jec
lure whom he he will regard bis constitu.
snts. He tells you that "Congress has ju.
Iisdiction, &c."-but he is not pledged
Judge Swan wss right or wrong,
he expresses no opinion! He says The de.
cision was in conflict with the Republican
doctrine of State Rights-expressing no
opinion with regard to the doctrines hether
light or wrong. Can you refe. to a Demo.
'rat in the county that would net state the
'ame facts He does not even claim TO be
Republican, neither can he, in the opinion
'f your Committee, be a Republican unless
le is pledged to the cause of freedom and
he rights Of man. Let not bis enviable
position in a literary institution, however
vide it's celebrity, shield him from Just crit.
cism, when it is remembered that this posi-.
ion, and his letter submitted 10 your consid
ration, furnish demonstrable proof tha,
hat position is retained from other consider.
tions than his scientific attainments.
Your committee have shrunk from no re.
possibility, with which you, fellow Repub.
leans, have honored them. And in conclu
ion will call your attention to an article
rom the Syracuse Journal, supposed to be
rom the pen of Hon. w. H. Seward. All
f which is respectfully submitted to you.
SOLOMON LITTLE, q
JOHN w. GouLu, s
H. C. BLAIR,
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