The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-07-18
RAVENNA, WEDNESDAY, JULY is,

and Western State can be named that
Douglas has not the best chance of success.
Those politicians who are calculating upon
the vote of 1856 and 1858 in the free States
are stupid. indeed. AS we'll might you fig
In 1856 and 1868 the Democracy OF the
free States were loaded down with the enor-
nous dead weight of Southern Sectional
ism, and had to carry an Administration
whose unpopularity was extensive and gen.
eral. The Kansas question was then in full
vigor, and upon it we loct, temporarily, hun
dreds of thousands of votes. Now we have
cut loose from the. Disunonists of the South,
and are fighting them as we'll as their col
leagues of the North.
We have cut loose from a condemned Ad
administration, whose sympathies in NE
Presidential contest are with the Opposition,
not with Democrats. No more can the OPP
position rally the North on the charge that
were subservent to the Disunion party OF
the South. No more can they raise the
Kansas question against our noble standard.
bear, Stephen A. Dougns. All their sec.
tional ammunition has been spoiled-their
guns spiked by the turn events took at B IL
timore. They have got to shift and change
their tactics entirely.
Again, popular sovereignty, as understood
by our glorious standard bearer, has increas
ed wonderfully in popularity within the las
four years. Probably more than four.fifth9
Of the American people are in favor of it
as the only proper solution of the slavery
question. The Democrats have an immense
advantage in the personal of their candidate.
The names of Lincoln, Bell and Breck-
inrdge inspire no enthusiasm in the popular
hart. Their nominations fell coldy upon
the public ear. Only those will vote for
them who are attached to the principles they
represent.
! On the other hand, Mr.. Douglas has hun
| dreds OF thousands OF personal admirers
who consider him the greatest hero, states
man and patriot living, and they will work
all the harder for the cause on his account
The persecution which ne has endured from
the Administration and from the Dsunion-
lists OF the South, on account of his tdelit!
to the principle, and the heroic manner il
which he has met and and defended it, ha
appealed to the generosity and magn1nimity
OF the American people, and he is today, be-
yond dispute the most popular man in tat
nation. His strength betore the people wa
shown in the Illinois campaign OF 1858
when he beat both the Opposition, that ha,
10000 majority in the State at the precedin!
election, and the Administration, then in th
3 beginning of its career, formidable from tn
immense patronage ut its disposal. 1t WI
the most wonderful personal triumph eve
, achieved in this country-a miniature o
what is going to transpIre on large seal
2 this fall in the country at large. With
s two days alter his nominnton, more meet
ings were held and more en,hu ,lasm dis
, played than the friends of Lincoln had bee
able TO excite in month. Ii Is commo
remark that the only live party in the coun
try is the friends of Mr.. Douglas. W.T.
3 such candidate and with such issues, hoy
ridiculous to make comparisons of the elec
. ton with that year 1t is much more ser
. sible to look to 1852, except that Lincoln
a weaker candidate than Scott, and Dougla
0 far stronger than Pierce.
All the Western States and New Yort
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connection
: Rhcde Island, California, Oregon and Ne
: Hampshire Gre naturally Democratic, an
will 90 that wsy when we do nor carry tt
= heavy o4d of s u,hcrn Disunionlsts. W
u lost many OF those States by thousands
I, % Democrats desertng US on that ground
II They are coming back to US faster thu
9 they went from US, In New ampshi
= tor instance, the majority against US is b.
four thousand on the last vote. Does ar
l. reasonable man believe that there are n
/. more than two thousand men in that Stat
,. old Democrats who will now return to
in view of the events at Baltimore! s.
New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania v
shall receive, from similar Cause, tens
II thousands of accessions. 1t is known
It those who have travelled in the North we
that but little is said of any other candida
except Douglas and there is every indcati;
}. that he will sweep this section OF count
e like tornado. In New York, Pennsy
t, vania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Ne
n Hampshire our friends are sanguine. A
i. pearances indicate that the following Sat
st will certainly 60 for Douglas and Johnso
y StateS. Electoral Vol