The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-09-13

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there can be no doubt, or they would
never have selected it, for with all their
spurious notions of political tactics, to
gether with the disreputable and iniquit-
Gus character of their mission, there are
none, we think, who deny them the char
acter of true and original Yankee saga
city. Some good old man or woman has
told US to give a certain old sinner his
due, and as we consider that advice
healthful, we will not injure the feelings
of his majesty by Withholding anything
from his subjects. They are Shre1cd-
and it as probable to Mier virtue alonc
they ar indebted for the high position
Aey n01o hold as staff officers an the
6rig0de, qclth q 6reUet commission. IN the
dragon SerUice of "higher haGOn opera
ticnS. This town, or city, will be the
first on the river after passing the Re-
serve. 1t is the intention of it's agents
to Immediately commence the building
of the city," Mills, warehouses, resi-
dences, churches and school houses are
to go up simultaneously. Machinery,
and seven hundred strong of the rank
and file will be here in a few days
Ought not somebody's lamps be trimmed
and burning? IqciSh somebody on the
frontier acho has not forgotten tie fate
Of the foolish rlrgins, aconM consider
that question.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.l
FoRr LEAvENwoRTH, Kansas, Aug.
Is, Is54.-We who are In the disputed
Territory and are eagerly watching the
changing phases of the battle for free
dom, see constantly incidents which
arouse alternately hope and fear. For
the last fortnight, the indications have
been of rather a cheering character
First among them 1 may name the arri-
val of the pioneer party of thirty men
sent out by the Massachusetts Emigrant
Aid Company. Their appearance and
bearing as they passed through Missouri
did much to conciliate favor and sympa-
thy. They were seen to be men of a
quite different character from what had
been unreasonably enough anticipated,
neither q paupers, thieves, nor incendia-
%ries," as the western Missouri papers
had given out. This company passed
Immediately up the Kansas river through
the Shawnee reservation and have loca-
ted themselves near the Wakarusa river.
This section of country had already been
previously known as a free soil district,
SO much so that at least one STAKEHOLDER,
after locating himself with his property
there, becoming acquainted with the
sentiments of his neighbors, preeipitate-
ly returned to Missouri. The valley of
the Kansas with its recent infusion of
New England emigration and the moral
influence of the prospective accessions of
the same sort, may now be said to be en-
tirely Anti-Slavery. a recent journey
through the settlements of hat region
convinces me that the Free Soil senti-
ment is now at least twice as strong as
the opposite. If one may judge by the
tone of the hotel and bar room talk, in
the neighboring frontier towns of Kan
sas, Independence, and Westport, dis
enlargement has taken hold of the pro-
Slavery party, and the opinion is freely
expressed hat Kansas will be free.
But while the southern half of the
Territory will be the New England por-
tion; and will contain a very large ma
jority of northern settlers, the part north
of the Kansas river presents less favora-
Bile indications. The country around
Fort L~eavenworth lying contiguous to
the comparatively well peopled Platte,
Clay, and Buchanan counties, of Mis-
souri,, which contain the pugnacious
towns of Weston and st. Joseph, has
received swarms of Missouri settlers,
who two months back passed at Salt
Creek some flaming resolutions, threat
ening non protection to Abolitionists, F"
&c. Lately some Indiana and Illinois
have established themselves in
the vicinity, and at a meeting of the
,auatters held on the 29th of July, Il.
Andrews, ESQ.,, recently of the Bos-
ION bar, who has fixed himself at Fort
Leavenworth, and who had been threat
,ned with a." routing ont" from thence,
on account of his Northern ex-
traction, came forward, and in an elo-
,uent speech avowed himself warmly in
avor of freedom in Kansas, from rea-
Ions drawn from interest and prudence,
IS well as humanity. His speech was
listened to with attention, and received
much applause, although in truth the
majority of the meeting was composed
# pro-slavery men. One thing is sure,
hat the slavery pr~opagandists no longer
AVE it their own way, in and around
FORT Leavenworth. Northerners will
eceive as effectual " protection if the
hing is at all needed, as the men Of the
south.
Mr.. Osborn, the editor of the Gov
organ, The Kansas Herald, has
and will commence. publication
the lst of September. He declares
.-o.oIf n N1-EIo-p p.oD -v1kh No-Eho-.
'rinciples, but will not at present at all
gitate the slavery question. Such
fas the sentiment of a conversation
Thich he held with members of the
Massachusetts, party at st. Louis. The
Chronicle, however, claims him
s a ~pro-slavery man.
A new city, three miles from the fort,
nd to be called Leavenworth, has been
by the Missourians of Platte
ounty, and the work of clearing the
round is rapidly going forward. Sales
f lots take place in October. E. d.
Col. Sawyer of Auglaize county, O., ]
as lately returned from a tour through
ne Territories of Kansas and Nebraska; I
ON a letter to the Dayton Journal we /
ztract the following: !
"Fort Leavenworth is in Kansas Ter :
tory and is L believe, the present seat $
{ Government. 1t is situated on a Z
Ugh, rocky bluff, and is one of the i
locations / have ever seen. I
est of Fort Leavenwerth the country r
almost an unbroken prairie of the 5
chest soil. The timber becomes more i
and Of ha-tnr n~naIifu n "a rnr, m