Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-07-26
.Thc Cha noes In Kansas.

= MIR. AIKEN, correspondent OF the new ork
Evening Post, has just made tour to that much
talked OF territory, Kansas.
On his return he called upon the editors OF the
Der,srratic Press at Chicago, to whom he COM
nuucated some very interesting facts
He said that the resolutions adopted at Weston
and Independence, about which so much noise
has been made, misrepresent the feelings OF
majority Of those who are about to settle in Kan
sas. Slave property is sufficiently unsafe in Mis-
souri,, aud there ia very little disposition among
the planters IN that State to emigrate with their
.'property''tp the new territory.
Tho meeting which passed the resolutions was
composed OF broken.do political hacks. who
wished to obtain some little notorlety by buster-
terng and braggadocio. The respectable people
in the town had nothing to 60 with the meeting
Speaking of the people of Missouri, Mr.. AKIN
said that he heard but one opinion among them as
to the pernicious tendencies of the "peculiar in
stitution."
They feel aud deeply deplore its blighting sf-
fects upon their prosperity, and very many OF them
expressed themselves very freely in favor OF its
early and eutire abolition. Many also are decd-
edfv in favor of Kansas and Nebraska becoming
free States. 81
Although representing q paper universally
known t0 be pledged to the principle OF the Mis-
souri Cun,pteuise, and frm in resisting the ad'
mission or the making Of any more slave terrific
ry. he was everywhere most cordially received
and his position and principles were treated with
the greatest respect
Mr.. AKIN advises men from the free States
who design making their home in that beautiful
country to be Cup and doing"
The office Of the Elnigrant Aid Company in
Boston has been over, run with applicants. The
office in New York is but just now opened. The
.,r;rr,pts will sbpUiu UCur westward IN I'M
rnense bodies before long.
A small company left <or Kansas on the 18th
The party consisted mostly OF mechancs--NeW
Euganders Of the beat stamP--Whose services
wiii Be needed Ia Kansas in making preparations
for those who come after them. They will NEE
an agent OF the Company a, ST. Louis ard go vi
10 Kansas together in a steamboat.
SAYS the Tribune:
.The Con.pany's letters from Kansas ind th
hest p,iyate information it has, shows that Will
On the Missouri frontier there ia undoubtedly
divided feeling as to lurge northern emigration
9here need be very little fcsr Of any violent op
position uade by hot headed Young Kansas I
any-body's arrival. On the western line Nilsson
ri there are in the neighborhood of the Mssoul
river some large farms and plantations wit
slaves; but with this exception there are bat FEY
slaves held in the counties contigious to kansa'
In the northwestern section OF the StAte--'h
section which. by one Of the early invasions
tAs Compromise, was added to Missouri in 1888
there are very few slaves. This is directly OF
posite to the river shore OF Kansas. Indeed, a
through the early spring this country wus crow
I'd with emigrants from the northwestern State
Intending 10 pass into Kansas as soon as tn
cnuntry WIS open We need not fellow our hat
20 keep the tide of northern emigration stron
enongh to wash the channels clear"