Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-02-14
PREsIDENTs PROCLAMATION-K
SAS TROUBLES.

the President Of the United States in relation
to lawless distur Dances, which are seriously APP
pretended in Kansas.
When the history of this Kansas agitation
comes to be fairly written, an amount of cum
ming, deception, fraud, and trickery, on the
part of the anti-slavery party will appear, that
will astonish the country. In making this de.
claration, we do not mean altogether to exempt
from censure the pro-slavery settlers in that
Territory and their sympathizers residing with
out its limits. Removing into that Territory
under the Constitution Of the United States,
and trusting to the protective efficacy of the
carefully prepared bill under which it was or
ganized, they have, in some instances, carried
with them their slave property and in many
| more instances purchased lands and built
houses with the ultimate purpose of removing
their slaves.
They have been met on the threshold by
hirelings and emissaries of the New England
Emigrant Aid Society, whose appointed mis-
sion it was to exclude slavery from Kansas by
every expedient of cunning, every resource Of
fraud, and every form of outrage. That pro-
slavery men should, under such circumstances,
have sometimes been betrayed into acts Of in
discretion, is not at all to be wondered at. The
wonder, indeed, is, that they should have pur-
sued SO moderate q course. They have had to
struggle not only against the freesoil bands in
the Territory, but against nearly the whole Of
New England, led on by political fanatics and
hypocritical parsons. The intense zeal and
the fierce determination of these men may be
Judged of from the Kansas sermons which have
been preached by their canting parsons. One
of these sons OF thunder, the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, pastor of the Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, is thus reported by the New York
Ecening Post, itself a freesoil paper:
| "He believed that the Sharp rife was q truly
moral agency, and that there was more moral
power in one of those instruments, SO far as the
shareholders of Kansas were concerned, than
in hundred Bibles. You might Just as well,
said he, read the Bible to Buffaloes as to those
fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow ;
but they have supreme respect for the logic
that is embodied in Sharps rifles. The Bible
is addressed TO the conscience, but when
you address it to them, it has no effect-there
is no conscience there. Though be was peace
man, he had the greatest regard for Sharp's
rifles, and for that pluck that induced those
New England men to use them"
We have no comments to make on such
blasphemy 1t is sufficiently shocking of it
SELF
The rumor has for some time prevailed that
large sums have been invested, by subscription,
in Sharpe's rifles, wherewith to arm the anti
slavery men in the new Territory, and we see,
in late newspapers, evidences that systematic
and earnest effort is being made by the sham
authorities to procure help from all the nom
slayeholding States. They have addressed
communications to the governors and legisla.
lures Of these States. One of these commu-
nications, addressed to the governor of Ohio,
was recently transmitted by him to the legisla.
ture Of that State, and which led to the presen.
tation Of highly infammatory abolition resolu.
tons. One Of these resolutions reads as fol-
flows:
Resolved, That our Representatives be re.
quested to vote for the immediate admission Of
A. ii. Reeder to q seat in the House Of Repre-
sentatives in Congress, as a delegate from
Kansas, until such admission OF Kansas as a
State
Without any opportunity to examine into
the facts Of the case, the mover Of the above
resolution gravely requests the Ohio members
Of Congress to vote for the immediate admis.
sion OF Governor Reeder. Whether entitled
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informed or ignorant Of the facts, the Ohio
members are requested to give il to him. This
is legislation with a vengeance.
One feature, however, in the proceedings Of
the Ohio Legislature pleased us. 1t was the
brief speech Of Mr.. Sawyer, made after the
reading Of Governor Chases communication.
1t is as follows:
Mr.. Sawyer rose to express his astonish-
ment and regret that the Governor Of Ohio
should, TO the neglect Of other great and all
important questions concerning the domestic
interests Of our own State, thrust into our faces
such inhammatory abolition doctrines and re-
concentrations as are contained in his mes
sage. He claimed that the Governor was BY
this very act, interfering with the rights Of the
people Of Kansas, who ought to be able, and
we're able, to manage their own business, and
encouraging the very state Of things which be
pretends to deplore. He had heard the, Gov
ernor, in public speech, on another occasion,
recommend the use Of Sharp's rifles to prevent
slavery in Kansas, and offered TO give fifty dol
lars TO aid abolitionists to go to Kansas and
shoot down the slaveholding citizens; and
now, as Governor Of Ohio, be is melting the
very difficulties which we all so much depre-
cate. Why, sir, where was bis voice when our
own citizens we're shot down in the streets of
our own cities by mob and in a neighborine
Slater
"Not word was heard from him then. He
belonged to party which respected the white
citizen more than the negro, but the Governor
would embroil the country in civil war, in
order 10 befriend the negrol Heregretted the
introduction Of this subject into this body, TO
distract our attention from our own important
| business
The Abolitionists are taking much pains to
circulate the rumor that Kansas is soon to be
invaded by bands Of armed men from the
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