The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1861-01-16

Ed. SENTINEL: How prsne certain class
Of mankind are to underrate others snd ex
alt their own inf5tio'ity, is truthfully exsm'
plifed BY the correspondent who signed
himself "Repub ublican," to an article In the
Portage County Democrat, OF Jan. I'D. This
anonymous scribbler, who deals in high
sounding phrases and inflated rhetoric, hurls
his pigmy dart at all that is estimable 10 the
social circle and all that Il commendable In
the public circle. What be cannot appreci.
ate, he deneunces; and that which he Is not
capable Of feeling-sn honest heart-he de-
spisee. The patriotic and constitution low
ing people of Suffield he brands with oil the
vituDerntion of which his foul nature is ca.
pable, and the tone OF his malice confirms
nv almost obsolete idea Of the trADsmigrs.
ton Of souls: for, undoubtedly, when "ke
publican" was born, a hyenG mast haze died!
He seems to forget what is due to pu0lIe de-
cency and morals, and delights in sspersing
the preiudces and faults Of his less Gas he
says informed neighbors, which, 1t true, lie
certainly no crime. For those honest hearts
whose first pulsstions were awakened by
the Inspiring tones Of a Schiller and Goethe
have not yet reached that altitude OF blind
partisanship that would destroy all, without
caring for the consequences. II Democracy
(in Sufield in particularly finds its chief sup
porters from such emigration, they are Ger.
tainly entitled to the highest considerations.
Barely escaped from petty sovereigntles, as
piring demagoeues and scribbling fanatics,
they do not desire the home OF their adoption
to fall like victim TO anarchy, confusion
and strife. They do not trouble themselves
about politics their mate purity OF charac.
ter shrinks from its polluted shrine, we'll
knowing that it has plenty Of votaries in
Yankee schoolmasters. They came here
peac e. abidior and UGion loving citizens, and
their highest aim ind desire is to prove loyal
to what they have sworu, not being wi'Ilns
that that priceless and Immortal Charter
which our foretatbera wrested trem 'Orelgn
,yrsnt should be drenched with the frRternal
blood OF our citizens. Their sympathy i5 in
practical charity, not in abolition theory !;
their love ia abundatt for the wants and au'
ferings OF all mankind, and not for a c. rtan
class in particular. And though, perhaps,
some OF them (though not any more so than
their neiehbors) are steeped in ignorance, it
is more to be attributed to the blind preju.
dice and reckless fuEatjcism OF Scribbler
than 10 their own nature. They have no
wish 10 have inscribed on the tablets OF their
oountiy's future monument, that here was o
great nation who gained the liberty of the
negro and lost their own
am sorry to come in contact with this
thing, but since fate and fortune have nrdal0
ed that the eallows should be reared in the
same land where Milton and Shakespeare
we're born uud became immortal so at times
we canno, help answering the insoence OF a
man, whose blindness OF self esteem caused
10 degrade his brother Democrat with his
vile, malicious, and contemplate article.
With respect and esteem.
CITIZEN OF SUFFIELD.
SUTFIELD, Jan. 8, 1861.