Portage Sentinel

"STRAWS SHOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS."

-Besides the fact that must be noticed by even the most casual observer of the political movements of the day, that nearly the whole of the disunionists of the Abby Kelley school sympathise with the "free soil" movement, and advocate the election of Martin Van Buren as the most certain way of furthering their fiendish designs, we find the following paragraph in the Trumbull Democrat in relation to the organ of the disunion faction in Columbia county:

"A Sign.-The Anti-Slavery Bugle goes for Van Buren and a dissolution of the Union. The Bugle does not support Van Buren on account of the man, but because it believes that the creation of a northern sectional party is the surest means of bringing about its cherished object, a disunion."

There can be no doubt that the Bugle is correct that the disunion of these States will be more easily and surely effected by means of sectional divisions than in any other way. The immortal Washington, looking into the future, and seeing the danger which threatened the government which the patriot fathers of the Revolution had periled their lives to rear, pointed to this as the rock upon which there was danger that we would split, and in his farewell words to his countrymen, bade them to frown down the first dawning of an attempt to create these sectional jealousies and prejudices. Those words of caution and admonition have been frequently repeated by those who have succeeded him, and they should be deeply impressed upon the heart of every true American. Who supposes that Washington, Jefferson and Jackson cared not as much for the welfare and prosperity of this country, and the happiness and welfare of the people, as these sectional partisans, who, to gratify their mad ambition would rend asunder the bonds which bind together the 30 sister States of this Union in one happy family? And what man so base as to wish the destruction of that glorious government which is the Asylum of the oppressed of all nations and the last hope of the friends of liberal principles throughout the world?

The Nominations
It has ever been deemed of importance in selections for the office of County Commissioner in this county, that the three Commissioners should be distributed in different sections of the county for the advantage of local information so necessary to fulfil the duties of that office. But the late Whig convention has discovered that such distribution is entirely unnecessary, and accordingly Mason, who is selected as the whig candidate for Commissioner, resides in the same neighborhood as Drake, one of the present board of Commissioners, and the one who has yet two years to serve. If the whigs succeed in electing their candidate, who resides near the south line of Hiram, it will be in total disregard of the rule ever scrupulously observed since the first organization of Portage county. Indeed, it is believed that no party has ever before disregarded that rule in any nomination for that office. On the contrary, the Democratic nomination was in strict accordance with that rule. The present incumbents who hold over, reside, one in the south west, (at the center of Brimfield,) the other in the north-east, near the center of Freedom, and Frederick Daniels, Esq., the Democratic nominee, who is an old and much esteemed citizen of the county, is located in the south-east-the north-west part of Deerfield.

George Sheldon, the Democratic nominee for Representative, also an ever firm, intelligent, and unwavering Democrat, long a resident of the county, a mechanic and farmer of Mantua, resides in the north west quarter, and with the other nominees, some of whom must necessarily reside at the county seat, we have, on the whole, a well balanced ticket of good men and true, 'honest and capable,' all good patriots who sustain their own country in peace or war. No mere fair weather politicians, ready to join the Mexicans to war on their own country, like some of the candidates of the Tom Corwin parties in hotch potch.

The guerrilla chief, Tom Corwin, addressed a large crowd at this place on Thursday last, in favor of Taylor for the Presidency. Tom must have been satisfied that all the whigs up this way are not in favor of "Old Zack," for when the vote came to be taken on the resolutions reported by the committee, it required a fine ear to decide whether the ayes or nays were the loudest or most numerous; and notwithstanding Corwin labored in a speech of over three hours to bring them up to the support of old Zack, he made few or no converts.

Can't Do it. oh?
At the Van Buren meeting a few evenings since, at the Court House, the Hon. John P. Converse took occasion to berate Gen. Cass to the full extent of his ability, and finally said that there was no use in saying more about Cass; he was politically dead and buried so deep that if he was buried in the yard of a medical college he could not be resurrected; his friends so considered him, so much so, that it was impossible to raise a 'hurrah' for Cass. Can you do it?" said he: when some one in the crowd said, "Let's try it;" and such another hurrah has not been heard in a whig meeting in these 'diggins' for many a day. Three cheers for Cass were given so loud and enthusiastic, that the Hon. speaker looked as if the ghosts of all the dead from the medical burying grounds throughout the country stood before him summoning him to judgment.