The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-14
Hear GssRIr snrTH, leading man 10 the
&C Kansas sidp movement

Hear GERRlr Smith. leading man 10 the
g Kansas sldp movement
Political'action is just now our greatest
evil--ouF greatest danger, We are looking
utter ballots, when eyes should be fixed on
bsyonets. We are counting votes, when we
should be mastering armed men. We are
looking after the interests Of civil rulers,
when we should be seeking after military
rulers. only hope, sir, 10 hear that there
has been collision at Topeka. Ionly want
to hear Of collision between the free State
men and the federal troops, and that Nor.
thern meh have fallen; and then will soon
follow the gratifying news that the northern
States have arryed themselves against the
federal government in Kansas, And will
that be the end MOI Missouri will be
the battlefield in her turn, and then slavery
will be driven to the wall! 1fit had remain
ed with me to use the power Of the govern
ment, we should not have waited thus long,
but our oppressers would have been CONVEX
ted into heaps of dead men on the fields of
Missouri. But am willing to wait till to-
morrow, or till two to.morrows, when am
on the trail of an enemy to whom have a
deadly hate,1 would follow him with cat-lke
tread, till could surely strike him dead"
Hear FIrz HENRY WARREN, prominent
Black Republican of Iowa;
"The present difficulties between the
North and the South will be settled by the
cartridge box if not by the ballot box. y y
The constitution ofthe United States lin
certain contingencies1 is not worth rush.
Hear the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, a
prominent Black Republican paper:
"We are in the midst of arevolution, the
origin of which is sectional, and its avowed
object to crafty the grasping ambition of
the slave power; and a civil war, waged in
behalf of freedom and in resistance to slave.
ry extension, is fitting accompaniment o.
an attempt on the part of the South and their
! co;laborers of the North to trample on the
principals and guarantees ofthe constitution
by the extension of slavery into free terri.
tory, through the direct legislation of the
! general government. That such is precise
ly the state of the country, no honest or in
telligent man will deny; and, this admitted
the remedy is simple and the duty of every
patriot perfectly apparent. The remedy il
to go to the ballot box, repudiate the infa
nous platform put forth at Cincinnati, ant
over which the black flag Of slavery waves
with Characteristic impudence; and, failin!
: in this, do as our fathers did be fore us, stant
by our inalienable rights, and drive back witt
arms those who dare to trampe upon our in
heritance. There is no boasting and NJ
threat in this. 1t is the calm language o
: honest, conscientious and determined free
men, waited to us by every breeze from tn
r West; and they are already acting in stric
conformity with their avowed determine
tion."
Hear the Boston 1iIerator, sympathize
. with Black Republicanism:
"Letthe fourth of July be observed wit
sadness and deep solemnity, and for purpose
9 of repentance and restitution; let no can
$ non roar, no bell be rung, no illumination
given; let the flag, beneath which one sev
, enth portion of the people are clankiDg tn
. calling chains of slavery, and which is sal
urated with their blood, he discarded will
V horror, instead of flung to the breeze, an
e let opportunities be found and created t
S sunder this most wicked and oppressive Ur
G ion, even as our revolutionary fathers deCaI
/ ed the old thirteen States to be free and il
t dependent of the mother country"
d Are not these sentiments "disloyal to IL
Union!" And these are not the only sgr
= of disloyalty exhibited by the Black RepuI
licans.
= A Washington correspondent says:
"a hostile demonstration from Enslan
, at this time, would not be met by the ant
v slavery men of the House with any prepar
: tions for defence. They declare that The
would not vote for dollar nor man to q
the government in its foreign dsffcultie
q Until the Kansas question be adjust ed
suit their views"
- The Boston Journal, leading Black R
,. publican print, says:
h "We are decidedly of opinion that moi
5 archy, and hereditary monarchy, is by
So the best form of government that huma
)t wisdom has yet devised for the administr
IT ton of cons iderabe nations, and that it wi
)t always continue to be the most perfe
which human virtue will admit Of"
j. Hear Reu. HENRY WARD BEEcHER:
"Sharpe's Rifles are better than Bibles
! The Black Republicans of Norway, Main
have raised flag bearing upon its front b
= SIXTEEN STARS, to designate the sxtee
free States, thus striking out from the glol
Gus galaxy of the confederacy the f(tet
!, southern States
On the 4th inst. .,the Black Republicans
l. Portland, Maine, fred SIXTEEN guns at SUI
rise. in honor OF one-hay the States of Il
y Republic
IS At recent Black Republican meeting
Connelsville, Indiana, one orthe banners e
hibited to public gaze, bore the following i
D. inscriptions:
"No more comp omise with slavery
is freemen's rights we will sustain. BY t
$. ballot if we can-by the sl0ord if we mustr'
le Let the supporters of Fremont and Ds
- ton read and consider we'll the foregoing c
tracts. 1t is the record Of their party. 1t
IL their political creed. 1t has been Civ
n them by their great leaders. 1t is t
D1sUNIoN CHART drafted by SEWARD, W.
in SON, WADE, GIDDINGs, SPALDING and JAM
WATSON WEBB. Upon it may be traced
he dark lines, the marks of treason to the G.