The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-09-25

and equipped a set of lawless marauders to
invade the Territory of Kansas with FIRE
and sword, to burn, piIlage, and murder, ]
need be, and all for the mere purpose oi
raising disturbance sufficient 10 procure
the election Of John C. Fremont:
On Saturday we published the following
telegraphic despatch, dated st. Louis, Sep.
tember 5:
"Private advices from Kansas state that
on Tuesday last every free-State man was
driven from Leavenworth at the point of the
bayonet, and all their property destroyed ol
confiscated. Mr.. Phillips, the correspon'
dent of the New York Tribune, and his
brother were killed. The house of the for
mer and the store of the latter were burned
II is said Mr.. Phillips fred from his house
and killed two pro.slavery men. Forty sui
ferers arrived here to-day entirely destitute
Fuller particulars to morrow"
The same despatch appeared in the New
York Tribune of Saturday, which paper oil
that day says in its editorial columns:
"Our correspondent at st. Louis appears
to be under the impression that the Mr..
Phillips who, with his brother, has been
shot, is the special Kansas correspondent oil
the Tribune, whose death has long been en-
avowed object among the Missouri ruffians.
This, however, is a mistake. Our MIR.
Phillips recently left the Territory for a
brief visit to the States, and on the day af-
ter the battle he was in this city. He is
now returning, AMI will soon be at his post
again in Kansas"
He was in this city on Friday, and came
into our Office, mistaking it for cne of the
Black Republican newspaper Offices. He
introduced himself as the Kansas correspon.
dent OF the New York Tribune, on his re-
turn to the territory. Without dispelling his
illusion, we asked him " if it was possible
such row could be got up in KANSAS as
would subserve the Republican cause and
aid the election of Fremont" He said
eyes, that is the intention and think ,0e shall
succeed; our plans are we'll laid, and can
scarcely fail, we are determined that The SoGr
shall last until November, at Whateuer roSt.-
shall be in Kansas in ten days, and | have
Instructions in my pocket for Col. Lane."-
We asked him some other questions, which
he answered with singular frankness, dis.
closing conspiracy of the Black Republi.
can leaders regarding Kansas more henious
and villainous, we verify believe, than any
conspiracy ever before hatched. When we
informed him that he had entered the wrong
pew-that he was in the office ofa Demo.
cratic and not of Black Republican paper
that he had been addressing Buchanan
and not a Fremont man-he was STRUCK
dumb with amozement, from which he dic
not instantly recover. When he did recov
er, he muttered something inaudibe, and in
contnently fed.
The information thus obtained assures u;
positively of things we have not at any time
doubted. 1t assures US that there have beer
but few difficulties in Kansas that wer'
not the result of plans deliberately laid b,
Black Republican confederotes, and deliber
ateIy executed by the agents of these con
federates; and it assures US that provision ha
been made of men and money by whcl
Kansas, if it be possible, be kept in tn,
most terrible State of turmoil during th
month and the next, for the sole purpose o
exasperating the Northern mind and affect
ing the Presidential election.
We have no language to express the ab
horrence of the plot revealed. Is it no
abominable, atrocious, hellish! Coul
pirates be guilty of anything worse! Coul
devils concoct a more damnable scheme!
Civil war is instgated, innocent blood
shed-all in pursuance of caucus arrange
ment--to influence the pending politics
contest! and such creatures as this Phillip
are employed by the New York Tribune t
chronicle the deeds of death actually com
mitted, and to manufacture "outrages" hav
ing no foundation in point of fact!
When will the people see this Kansa
business in its true light!