The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-28
RevOIutIon-The Government TO
he DestrOycd-TraitO at Work.


Never before, in our political history, has
the national government been threatened by
so many and imminent dangers as those
which environ it at the present time-never
has there been period when the true friends
of the URion were aroused TO such deep and
painful anxiety as nOw-never was there
time when the friends of the Constitution
were called upon to u more energetic and
earnest effort for its preservation. 1t seems
as if the advocates of sectionalism were de-
terminod at every hazard to seize upon the
reins Of power even though tn ey sacrifice
the noblest institutions Of the country, and
peril the very existence of that government
which was framed by the wisdom, and ce-
mented by the blood our fathers.
The affairs of Kansas are in fearful
state. On one side, are the Border Rufiians
of the South, led on by Atchison and String
fellow; and on the other Ore the Border
Ruffians of the North, under the notorious
Lane. Between these two Ruffian forces,
the people Of Kansas must fail victims to
violence and outrage, unless some stronger
| power than either, stops in 10 protect them
Their hope, and their only hope, lies in the
protection afforded by the U. S. Army
The Republican party in Congress desiring
to continue aud urge on civil war. have re-
fused to make any appropriation for the sup
port of the Army. They would thus make
Kansas the battle ground between these in.
vading hordcs of ruffians from the North and
South, and leave the people there, without
any protection from violence and insult.
The result Of such movement is obvious.
Civil war will not stop with the battle
grounds of Kansas. The angry passions Of
men, North and South becoming ihfamed
to pitch OF madness, the theatre of conflict
will be widcned until it extends along the
whole line of the free and slave holding
States. The country will be convulset
with the strife Of factions, and rent by inter
nal fueds. Our towns and cities will bt
pllaged and sacked. Our very homes viii
be desolated, and our hearth stones drenchet
with blood
What madness, what insanity has seize
upon the Republicans that they must driv
the nation to the gulf of ruin! They can
not fail to see the fearful consequence
which they are bringing upon the countr
and yet they persist in this treasonabl
movement. They know that without a
: appropriation of money the Army cannot
sustained. They know that without the pre-
lection of the Army, the people of Orego
and Washington Territories are left to tn
scalping knives of the Indians, and that tn
people Of Kansas are placed at the mercy {
invading and brutal hordes, whose object
. plunder, and whose errand is murder.
u 1t cannot be disguised The Republ
. cans have resolved upon dissolution of th
government. With the cold calculation
e an Arnold, they have planned their wor
l. and are now carrying out their programn
!, great nation allow them to continue! Al
the geople ready to sacrifice the institution
f. which we're established oy our fathers! A
the people willing to throw away the bles
~ ings which our noble Constitution confer
for the terrible consequences of anarchy al
. boodshed which must follow! We cam
believe they are.
Let then these traitors now plottii
against the government be brought to Il
IN bar of public justice and condemned. The
st is in Heaven, just God who rules over Il
s destines of men and nations!
NJ " Remember them-the Williams
Righteous Heaven, IN the great day of vengeance.
Blast the traitors and Interpretations counsrls,
II Who, for wealth for power, the pride ofgreatness
revenge,
| Would plunge th2ir native land in civil wars"