The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-07-24
NEW SERIES.---VOL. 2, NO. so

which he enjoys ana remove MS slaves lnto
Kansas, which is yet unsurveyed, with the
certainty that he can obtain in Kansas, un-
der the prescriptions act, only single quar-
ter section of land, and that at dollar and
and quarter an acre, and with the pos
sibillty, when the survey is made, that other
settlers may be found on the same quarter
section, who will be entitled to the portion
OF it on which they are located. A slave.
holder in Missouri is safe in the tenure by
which he holds his negroes, which he would
not be in Kansas. There is, therefore, no
probability that Kansas will become Slave
State. Indeed, it would be utterly impossi-
BILE in the present new condition Of the
State, to sustain slaves in large bodies, ex-
cept at a irightful expense. Able-bodied
white men leave the Territory daily because
they find there no easy means of SUPPORT
The only class of persons who at present
find it easy to remain residents of the Terri.
tory are those who keep always in advance
OF the movements of civilized men, killing
bears, ,panthers and Indians, and relying on
their skill in obtaining good locations, to
pay for their daring and sacrifices. Such
men keep always few hundred miles ahead
of the great body of settlers, and prepare
the way for the latter.
They are hardy, enterprising, unscrupu-
lous and brave. and generally obtain the best
locations, which they sell at small advance.
Much of the difficulty experienced in Kan.
sas, arose from the fact that the voca.
tion OF these meVDa disturbed by the ac-
tion Of Massachusetts, in sending out emf
grants under special n Act Of her legSla-
ture, or that they might secure the locations
to which the Borderers thought themselves
entitled by virtue Of their sacrifices. The
"Border Ruffians," for their own interests,
determined to give these contestants for
town sites and good locations, brush, and
in too many instances. as the result nus prov
ed, adopted the mode of warfare to which
they had been accustomed in contending
with bears, panthers and Indians. They
subsist in great part on the products Of the
chase, and are equal to the Indian in powers
OF endurance, and his superior in most other
respects. The settlers in Kansas, sent out
by Emgrant Societies, had no means o fsup
port and many of them quickly returned to
civilized regions. A Commissary General,
with subsistence enough to last for a year,
would be necessary with each squad OF ex.
perienced settlers, who with this advantage
would scarcely be tempted to remain in Kan
sas after the supplies thus furnished had be-
come exhausted. Ii, instead of Sharpe's rifles,
provisions had been procured and sent up
the Missouri, something substantial might
have been accomplished. The BordererS
would have sold out, and gone still further in
10 the wilderness, ready for other purchasers.
The idea of carrying many slaves into this
wild region, is utterly prcposterous. SAARa-
holders love quiet and ease, and could not
stand the rough life to which they are expos
ed in Kansas.
We have always looked upon it, there
fore, as certain that Kansas would be free.
Missouri itself, which possesses only $1,000
slaves, was an offshot from slavery in the
wrong direction. 1t would be greatly to her
advantage to abolish slavery;-for her lands
would then rise high in value, and her pop
uation be greatly augmented. In the course
OF ten or twenty years the result will be ac-
unless anti slavery agitation
should prevent it, as it has already prevent
ed like change in some other States. The
South, therefore gained nothing, by the re-
peal Of the Missouri Compromise, except to
remove restriction from Them which they
considered unconstitutional and unjust. Even
the State of Missouri does not sustain the
Border Rutfians. On the contrary, in all
quarters OF the Union except in the extreme
West, the conduct of those who went from
Missouri to fight and vote, had been sternly
reprobated. The bill which has passed the
Senate on this subject, also reprobates this
misc onduct in the fullest manner. Its pas.
sage by the House of Representatives could
not be doubtful if Presidential canvass
were not pending, with an interest on
the part of the Black Republicans, to keep
up agitation, warfare and excitement unit
the day Of lection. 1t will be for the peo-
pie then to decide, whether those who seek
to alay excitement shall be rewarded, or
those who kept it up for the worse purposes
OF party. With Buchanan in the Presiden.
tial char-which we regard as settled and
certain--sectional agitation will be exter
minated. and the country put in a condition
Of complete safety and prosperity.
What Constitutes Il Creole.
We copy from the Louisville Courier the
following definition of the word Creole: