The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-09-22
Behol, the SANDER Exposcsd

Freesoil and K. N. papers throughout the
North have been busy for long time in
charging upon Gen. Pierce and his admins.
tration, design to aid and encourage the es-
tablishment Of slavery in Kansas. 1t was a
groundless charge, and the refutatien and re-
buke are now coming out with startling ell
feet. 1t is now proved beyond a doubt that
Atchison, Stringfellow, Whitfield & Co.,
whose gang the new Governor has Joined,
are opposed to the national administration,
and bid it defiance. A writer in Kansas,
who is a correspondent OF the st. Louis Dem
ocrdt, gives as the following account Of affairs
in that territory. 1.i3'.
From all that have been able to learn
or observe here, Gen. StringGellow has been
abused far beyond his deserts, while Atchis-
ton has not been denounced enough. He
it is, and not Stringfel!ow, who was the au-
thor and soul of the election outrages. But
General StringfelIow endorses all the acts
OF the Kansas Legislature and always speaks
OF Atchison in the warmest terms of friend.
ship. OF Reeder he never speaks, except
in the most contemptuous phrases, Atchis.
on and Stringfellow both endorse fully the
celebrated Kansas laws in regard to slavery,
which the Democrat has made torever men,or.
able as the Black Laws. Those laws are
now understood to be the platform upon
which the Atchison Know Nothngs stand,
and upon which they mean to resist the ad-
ministration. and all other parties. They
ignore the Democratic party, Benton, Presi-
dent Pierce, the Cabinet and every one else,
and intend to carry the territory and General
Whitfeld with them, for he has recently
caved into their Know Nothing dodge } upon
purely Atchison and Stringtellow program.
me, and by means ofthe secret workings OF
the machinery of the Order. So you NAV
expect to see the Democratic party, as well
as the administration, ignored by Kansas in
the next election"
From this extract it will be seen how to-
tally unfounded is the charge that has been
SO industriously circulated against the ad-
1t is the opponents Of the ad.
who are thus forcing slavery
upon Kansas. 1t is the Know-Nothings
that are engaged in the work Of extending
the area Of slavery. If Kansas becomes a
ylave State u aciR be tie ghnoso aoAtiags III a
haze made IL so. Let that fact be remember
ed. And that it is a fact and the truth is
now abundantly proven. In the Cincinnati
Enquirer we find the following. which came
as telegraphic despatch from Chicago:
"In the Kansas Legislature, on the 2lst
inst, the concurrent resolutions denuncia-
tory Of President Pierce for removing Judge
Elmore, were debated. Mr.. McMeekIn
thought the President should be taught 10
know his place. Mr.. STRINGFELLoW DID
NOT OBJECT TO THE VOTE OF cEEsURE, BUT
THOUGHT THEY WERE MAKING THEMSELVES
RlDIcUIoUs. Mr.. Blair said that Reeder was
only TO prepare the way for Ell
Mr.. Whitlock thought the |
President should have sent BATTALION OIL
soldiers to slaughter the whole crowd of
Freesollerss An amendment was finally
adopted, leaving the resolution about the
same as the original" sf.I
1t is well known that every member of
the Legislature of Kansas was of the At
chison stripe. The vote unanimous in re-
gard to slavery, and the same Leg islature
passeda strong resolution censuring the
President. How now will the Freesoil and
X. N. papers excuse their fraud in having
charged upon Ga neral Pierce completely
with Atchison and hisgfriendsl n
The writer, from whom we last above
quoted, addss sas~, 4. III
II indicatesa an unusual degree of hardi-
hood for the Know Nothing Fusionists Of the
North, to seek to make capital out Of the
acts Of their allies Ia Missouri. The LATE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE KANSAS LEoIsL AZURE,
THE ATTEMPT OF THE Know NoTHrsG gaoBo.
cHATs TO DEFY THE PREsfDEaT IN HTS REMov.
Al OF JuDcE ELMoRE, AND THEIR ABUSE or
HIS ADMINISTRATION, ExPosEs THE FRAUD
AND PUTS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE AcTs
" THE STRINGFFLLow PARTY Tn Kansas
WHERE THEY BELosc--sUPoN THE ENEMiss
Of THE DEdocRxfs. p Pists Posk ~ aaa
I'D s.z. rs 8t,s3
o. A yellow rose was lately exhibited in |
Pennsylvania, which was the finest Of the
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