The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-11-10

world.
Tn Ohio the Anti.Nsbraska humbug, with
the aid Of the dark-lantern- humbug, has re7
yolutionzcd almost all the offices, aBd now
il is found to. be all humbug. These Anti.
Nebraskaites succeeded in making many
weak minded men, believe that what they
called the Nebraska Kansss fraud, was
fraud indeed, and designed and intended to
carry slavery into both Nebuska and Kan
sas--and would surely effect ittoo, In. pro.
cess Of time ebrusku was given up by Them,
to freedom but Kansas was condemned to
perpetuate slavery, and the Democrats, and
the Pierce Administration, were responsible
for it ala burning sin we could never atone
fol, this side of the grave. We were denoun1
ced, branded, and still are, us 's!aueocrdLs, the
Siaue democracy, and many weak men and
weak women, believed, and still do, that de-
mocrats are in favor of extending perpetua-
ting slavery, for their editors and stumpers'
have often told them SO, and they would be-
lieve no denial. 1t was of no avail that we
deniel it--that we avowcd our opposition to
slayery-that We said, what proves to be the
fact. that to accord to the people of tho new
territories, the cid Democratic principle Of
right, the principle of popular overeignty,
was to secure them to freedom. But the old
federal wings always distrusted the people,
were always loath to trust power with the
people. They opposed the new Constitu-
ton of Ohio, for it gave to the people the
power to elect all of their officers. even the
Judges Of all the Courts. t
fsaidthat to extend the popular sovereign
ty principle, to the people of the Territories
was to secure freedom to them. And in
proof, refer to Cali ornia, Nebraska, and
to the votes given to the respective candi-
dates for Congress in Kansas; Governor
Reeder, the free State candidate, being a.
head, notwithstanding the importation Of
pro!slavery voters from Missouri, as fully ad.
mitted by the pro'slavery paper at Leaven-
worth and also the great daily accession of
free State voters makes its freedom sure,
while the slaveholders stay backto wait the
progress of events, least slave property
might be insecure there.
Tn Nebraska, California, and it is believed
in New Mexico and Utah also, there has ne
yer been slavery party so sure is it that the
free action of'a free people will never ex-
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party in Kansas, is owing more to the vic.
lence of the Anti. Nebraskites, causing a
Reaction in Missouri, than to the natural
bent of the people of Kansas. So obvious
is it that Kansas is destined to be free
State, by the free action Of the people there.
of, if left to themselves, that even Greely,
of the New York Tribune, the great leader
of the Anti Nebraska humbug, is constrain.
ed to admit the fact, as he has in recent
number of that sheet of humbugs. But this
last admission OF his is no hunibug, but ar
g obvious fact, that we of the Democracy, who
: fear not to trust the sovereign people with
; their own inherent right of self-governnent
have never doubted. We have never for
once doubted that the people would decree
freedom to the new Territories, and have mol
been backward to avow our convictions tc
our opponents, in the face of their insoen
( charges against US, Of designs to extent
, slavery. sH> .--.
J And now, what new humbug will they
find with which to gull their weak brethren,
since Anti-Nebraska has exploded, and the
dark-lantern order is fast being exposed to
light They have tried almost every con.
ceivable humbug, since Jacksons accession
to the Presidency. The first was Anti-Ma-
sonry, then came the Bank humbug or anti
veto, and their various predictions of ruin
ruin of the country, BY the removal of the
deposits from the great humbng bank--next
the anti-specie circular humbug. Next it
was predicted the establishment of United
States Treasury would produce ruin on the
treasury, when it was only the old Biddle
Bank that was to be ruined.
More recently they got up State Bank
agitation in Ohio, when the bankers thro'-
out the State, joined with the panic max
ers, and elected Legislature called Wing,
for the express purpose of establishing a
batch Of banks, on the most advantageous
terms for the bankers, and having their
own tools and adherents for legislators, the
terms were as favorable RS they could ask,
taxing bankers, only on their profits, while
the people might be taxed on their capital
to any amount that would be REQUIRED To
pay the State debt of many millions Of doll
lars, which debt those bankers had aided to
contract, with special view to make the
State debt a fund of stock to bank on
And they have it now to found banks upon
And now, that bank charter, of a batch
of State banks, is held to be above and par
amount to the constitution, the laws made
under it, and the will Of the people. The
banks refused to pay their just taxes, and
1t became necessary to get up new hum.
bug panic, to help. the banks out of all diff.
ficullies and dangers, likely to occur by
reason of Democratic Legislation. And
we shall see it WILDE done--the Legisla.
ture elect, composed of bank adherents K.
Ms, and pretended Republicans will wipe
out the bank taxes, except the small tax on