The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-10-16

Kansass
We perceive in the Gazette Of yesterday,
couple of Gree SUE Letters" in which
the asonS is piled up considerable" that
we have reason to believewe written by
"Bsbb," the Gazette reporter, who figured
| in Corington on certain occasion. Being :
inspired BY the love of adventure and the
desire of renown, he has trasferred his use.
fulness to Kansas, whera constant excite
ment better accords with bis, yar,like pro,
pensiiieli His letters are yUpriroe shrieks
for freedom snd.he may be set down lersa. >.
most accomplished shrisker, as, we'll as pro-
selyte OF the notorious and infa nous Lane,
twho, he writes, Is a terror to the "Pro-
slavery men,"
}, As an antidote to .Babb's, fiummery, (Ed.
nund's) we make some extracts from Clay
Pate's last communication to the ST. Louis
Republican. 1t will be seen that he does
not attempt to disparage Governor Geary.
and is not doubtful Of Lanes. exceeding re-
semblance to Bob Acres. He says, writing
from Westport on the 4th insl:, ,..,s.I-..
\ Governor Geary is becoming exceedingly
popular, and his great activity is gaining him
hundreds Of friends daily. A few days Since
he sent off Col. Cook, Of Fort Riley, after
] General,Jl H. Lane, with orders To take
him. You know Col. Cook too we'll to
have me say that be will take Lane If he is
10 be found in the Territory. Doubtless he
is in lows, or some other out Of the way
Iplace--though it is said he is at the head of
'eight hundred new recruits, who are to come
in on the day ofelection and vote for him
for Delegate to Congress. do not give
} this on my own authority, and therefore will
not endorse its truthfulness. A few days
q will decide. ,s., lga, ...,5.lf I. ,i sr.; .;
wrote you not long ago that Governor
Geary was in pursuit Of Lane in person
He only went 10 Topeka, where he heard
Lane was expected. He took the ordnance
six-pounder, captured at franklin by the
rebels, and returned. Colonel Titus, in
! command of the new militia battalion, has
charge ofthe prisoners at Lecompton. while
, Cook has with him six companies of dra.
. goons and cavalry, one company of infantry,
and one battery of light artillery. While
: Lane is proceeding to elect himself with his
, army, where will Colonel st. George Cook
! be in the mean time!
t The interest in the election to come off
G next Monday is growing high. The case is
: this: member of Congress and Represen-
tatives of the counties are to be elected
d General Whitfield is the law.and. order can.
e ddate for Congress, and the fact that he
1 was ousted from the seat to which he was
g SO Clearly entitled, makes his friends donbly
vin fn fpPn IL =,
}, ant that the law-and-order party should ef.
y feet majority of members to the House of
!, Representatives; but should they fail, and
Y the Abolitionist succeed, they will not be
Q able to repeal any of the existing laws, for
IF the members Of the Senate, or Council, as
i it is termed in the organic act, were elected
e. for two years, and hold over; they will be
'' able to check the Abolitionists should they
n unfortunately, in our disorganized state,
If elt ct majority Of the House.
n All this is upon the supposition that thu
't Free 'soiers will vote at the regular elec-
,. ton. Some reports say they will vote, and
'f some say they will not vote. If they do,
ID you observe that in doing so, they jerk the
e platform from under Fremont, and rob the
freedom shriekers Of nearly all therstock in
trade. What would the Fremonters do
without the Topeka Constitutions! What
" would become Of their newspapers without
!; the Bogus Missouri Kansas Laws"t 10 abuse!
l. They would then have nothing to "shriek'
IS over but "robbed, subdued, conquered, in.
te vaded Kansas" generally. Ii Rabbinsor
ST and Lane acknowlege the laws of Kansas
:. Wilson and Seward will have to acknow-
u ledge them too. The truth is, that the bet
IS ter class OF Freesolers are tired ofTebellion
ic and anxious for peace. They see that they
r are the tools of Northern wire pullers, win
y. work the wires at distance from the strife
:, while they suffer the consequence Of it,
~ They are sick OF it. They are sick of i
j. and are coming to their senses. Il matter.
IL not with them who is elected SO that the is
h. sue brings peace with it, blessings, which
being SO long deprived Of, they have learn
ed to appreciate, and are now prepared no
e only to enjoy but to retain by observing tn
ce laws under which they live.