The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-10-27
Not Kansas only but Missouri
Free States

We call The attention to the following re-
marks of the Kansas Herald Of Freedom, as
being significant
Every day confirms us in the opinion
that who ever lives to see ten years hence,
will see Missouri a free stute The late
movement of Atchison, Stringefellow &
Co., is the suicide of slavery. 1t has set
thousands Of good men to thinking in that
State in different direction from what they
have been accustomed to, and the result is
that many prominent slave-holders have
come to the conclusion that the institution
is prejadical to their best interests. The
early settlers who came into Kansas fromd
Missouri, although not shareholders them
selves,nor desiring to be, yet they sympathis-
ed with their former neighbors who remain
ed behind, and it was but natural when they
engaged in bitter strife against the North
ern pioneers who were charged with being
+" abolitionists." that they should join with
their old friends, in their crusade against
Free soiism; hence we found them at the
ballot. box last fall and many Of them in the
spring, sustaining them and voting for their
candidates; but time has passed, and our
friends have noticed that the slavery
propaganda are the oppressors, and not the
pioneers of the North. The result is, we
have no tirmer, truer friends of right in
Kansas, than those who have been connee-
ted formeiy with the pro-slavery party.
This influence is extending like the " stone
cut out OF the mountain without hands," and
it will sweep on until not Kansas only, but
Missouri will feel the glory which will be
perpetuated for all time
The following from the Chicago Demo-
| cratic Press would indicate that considers
BILE portion of Arkansas also is weary oi
slavery.
A heavy emigration from Arkansas 10 the
southeastern portion of the territory, is re-
ported as now taking place. They are per-
sons who having seen the evils of slavery
and desireing to escape it, have come tc
Kansas to aid in making it free state
| These men report that emssaries came in
to their country asking pro-slavery men te
emigrate TO Kansas, and aid in making it
slave State. They got no volunteers fol
that purpose, the slaveholderes being TOT
we'll posted, to bring their slaves in contact
with the anti-slavery men Of the territory
That our western territories are safe from
the blight Of slavery, under the system Of
non.intervsntion 10 most clear. from factt
like the above. What is the effect of thi'
principle in the slave states? 1t is this
The honest, manly and influential portion
her citizens, see, that their safety as well al
the safety Of the nation, is to be preserves
by each sections acting towards all others
as they would wish all others to act towards
them. Each section claims the right
self government, and for this reason all ar'
bound to protect each other in this right
The reckless portion Of the slave state'
have shown disposition to interfere with
this principle, and by so doing they have
made the more worthy citizens ther oppo'
sers. The principle is the same with states
as with individuals, and we all readily un
derstand how soon friends flock arounc
him whom any man orset of men are open
" seeking to crush. No matter whether
they have pecuniary interest at stake OIL
not, only that there is principle OF right in
vaded, they will come to the rescue.