The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-22
YoL. VI--No. is WHOLE. nv sos.

feeling may subside. and one of the giants of
the American confsderacy receive shock
that will cause him to reel, aud, produce IN
comfortable feeling generally. By all means,
let Us have an adjourned session. Visiting
has materially interfered with legitimate buis.
ness of the present. p - IA : 4 -
Rather than interfere with prospective Wis.
iting, when so much is at stake, We will trust
to the meagre reports of the local press, for q
description of the big froIic' Some of them
are already interested in it More will be If
you deny Il en- the privilege of furnishing their
patrons the proofs of your wisdom in the laws
of Jour enacting. We are pretty sure of get
ting the facts in some way. II yen are in a
dilemma, choose your own horn Gentlemen.
if this were Ct subject for facetiousness ;yoa
have certainly furnished broad ! argin. ~
The difficulty seems 10 be tand we cannot
account for nj that men are not governed
when acting for Il e masses, by the same prina
ciples that govern them in their private rela
tions. So far from thinking the present Leg
islature, composed Of spendthrifis and reckless
men, we have no doubt they are as honest and
just as men in general in their ordinary bus
ness transactions. Some of them mad be re
'markabie for their stiict adherence to justice
and fair dealing. Yet they voted Eve thou
sand dollars in way that every body knows
was wanton outrage. Permit US to present
a case by way Of illustration. -, :
a parent puts one hundred dollars into the
hands of the principal of seminary. and at
the same time gives him in charge his SOD, re-
questing him TO expend the money in his sons
education. In few weeks time the teacher
informs him that he Las given a teachers
banquet, the cost of which was fifty dollars,
paid for out Of the hundred advanced By him.
How would he estimate the teachers hon.
esty ? Would he be satisfied on being told
that good and kindly feeling did not exist
there were strifes and jealousies amo ng pupils
and teachers IN the seminaries in adjoining
towns and counties That the banquet was
given to promote fraternal feeling That all
that was necessary to unite the educational in
terest, would be for teachers to see each other
oftener, and know each other better Z s
i If not downright fool. he would know
that champaign, oysters roast beef and other
appliances to the stomach would not remove
a difficulty that was not seated there Thai
after the glittering pageant had passed by
the big frolic over, each would return to, hi
own school, not less determined than befor.
to make it the most popular and best paying
if possible. The teacher would find he. hat
gained no additional pupils, and had lost hi
reputation for honesty. There is not one
among them that would entertain such ar
idea for moment, if it we're to come blum
dering into his head. -,--..r. ..-.s.,l, g
Ohio counts among its tax payers not a few
Temperance men ). in some school districts
they constitute majority. Temperance mel
from principle abstain themselves, and dis
courage the use of it in others. men wht
contract no liquor bills of their own, ant
would not volanlnrily foot them for Others
Have their conscientious scruples any claim t
consideration Let those answ er who tax
q
But more than all this, with. the thorough
Anti-Slavery man, is the degradation his Rep
resentative has submitted to-nay, coveted
in base bewing to the slave-power. We ad
dress ourselves now. more particularly to th,
Representatives from our own county. 'Th'
gentlemen who received our votes. You gen
tlemen ought to know that the ba re suspicion
of entertaining such sentiments as you pub
licly proclaimed last fall, or were known O
supposed to entertain, and without which yol
could not have been elected, would subjec
yoa to indignities. and perhaps ma ltreatmen
in either of the States whose Legislatures yo'
have just been feting, Section second il
article fourth. of the Constitution of the Q
S,would have been no protection, as it has no
been in scores of cases in the last two months
Your recent course may save you from tht
merciless mob. when this visit is returned :
All that the slave power asks, is, that yot
bow sufficiently low. y
Governor Magofin. in message to thu
Legislature of Kentucky, On which the inl
was scarcely dry when this invitation was Civ
en-, says, 4 had not intended to have alluded
in this paper to the slavery question, but ir
view of the recent occurrences and extraordi
nary doctrines avowed b y the Black Republi
can party, which L think are directly hostile
to the longer continuance of the Union,
have thought proper to refer to the subject
do not believe slavery to be wrong; dc
not believe it to be moral, social, OF peltiea
evil. Many distinguished patriots ofthe South
committed, in my Judgment, a great error when
they made this admission. in the earlier days Of
the Republic ,,.s &, s.4s4s-af sssf 5a S.
The Black Republican Legislature OF Ohio
seemingly pleased with this fiattering notice oi
their party, and his exalted humanitarian sen
timents, invite him to their capital. Wonder
if the three or four score of Kentnckey's ex.
lied citizens, driven from their homes in mid
winter to freeze or starve, formed part oi
the magnificent pageant his honor witnessed
They landed in Uineinnati-not received with
the roar of peaceful canon, and the shouts oi
welcoming hostsp But theYlanded. Exiles!
Exled for what Simply because they tho,
slavery sinful, and had the courage to say SO,
Their offence had this extent. no more. Aud
the Governor was he appealed to I Yes
and said he could not protect them. Oi
course not he does not believe Slavery to be
s wrong. He thinks such men as Washington,
Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and John Randolph,
| ;,,, 1, ha Is,tc