The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-08-14


A Base AttCmpt OF the Black Re-
publicnns TO Make Kansas N
Slave state.
d. +. LETTER, the Republican Represen-
tative in Congress from this District, says
that the bill lately passed by the Republi-
cans in the House Of Representatives at
Washington "PERPErUATEs SLAVERY IN KAN
sAs UNTIL 1858, AND MAKES EVERY CHILD
BORN OF SLAVE MOTHER, SLAVE ! He of
all his party, voted against it solitary and
alone. We have never had the least conf
dence in the anti-slavery sentiments of the
Republican leaders; we have always beliey-
ed that the lessening of the evils of slavery
was not their object; we never dreamed
however, that they would dare to pass an
act which would erIsnd slavery over Terri
tory now free. But they have done it.
Let every voter 10 Ohio look at this mat
ter candidIy and impartially. Here is a
House of Representatives in Congress CON-
posed of men who were elected upon an ex.
press pledge that they would vote against
slavery in every form it might assume
There should be no more Slave States and
no more Slave Territory. These same men
have voted to make Kansas a Slave Terri.
tory for two years, and to make every child
born of a slave mother, slave forever =
They have further voted to extend the fugi.
tive slave law over Kansas!
In less than two years, Kansas will in all
probability, be admitted as State. Slavery
being established there for that period ol
time, the institution will become so engraft
ed upon the social policy of the people, tina
it will ineyitably be made slave State
No surer plan could possibly be adopted to
secure the establishment of slavery in Kan
sas. It looks more like the measure of al
ultra Southern Convention to secure an ex
tension Of the area of human bondage thar
the deliberate act of Republican Con
gress.
Let til g members o. the Fremont partl
nevertalk Of befriendng the cause Of freedom
again, They are its most bitter foes. Th'
vote of fusion leaders in the House of Repre-
sentatives in Congress, to increase and ex
tend the the Institution of slavery, stare
them in the face. Look at it, you professe
friends of humanity, you who are foreve
/ charging the Democracy with corruption an
: fraud, you who are continually pratiug abou
your own purity and constantly "thankn
c God, that you are not as other men," lool
see what you have done. You were nc
: content to let the people of Kansas settl
+, their own domestic institutions in their ow
: way You knew that if permitted to do 81
!, they would establish freedom there's an
therefore you made a positive enactmer
!, establishing and extending slavery over so
: which would otherwise be dedicated to free
dom. We repeat it, let the Fremont part
never talk about befriending the cause ofh
: manity again. One thing is fortunate; tn
bill above referred to has only passed tn
e House, il can never pass the Senate, and W
speak of it simply to show the motives {
the Black Republicans.
1t is an admitted fact, that the majority {
the citizens of Kansas, desire to see SLAYER
} prohibited and if permitted to vote upon th
: question, would settle ii according to the
l wishes. Let then, all persons who ar
| anxious to see Kansas free State, and q
/ persons who believe that the people shoul
govern themselves and control their ow
domestic affairs, vote for the Democrat
> doctrine of popular sovereignty and for tn
. candidates who stand upon that platform.