The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-03-03

Though petitions are in circulation throughout
this section Of the State for the Normal School
enterprise circulation is effected through
interested sources. And, we hope members OF
the Legislature from this County and District,
as well as elsewhere, will give the project, their
united opposition. With bankruptcy staring
the people in the iace-and increased burthens
Of taxation upon their Jack they are beginning
to be walked up' to these mpoSitiOnS--these
much boaStoa reforms! these swind eS. these
Normal Schools" TO gDaw out
the substance of the people under the garb Of
education. It's high time the people were be-
gining to have little common sense upon this
subject. For Heaven knows they have been
hunbugged long enough!
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0TWe commend the following article from
the Herald Of Freedom" the leading free State
paper in Kansas, to careful reading, We are
now beginning to learn some wholesome truths
in regard to the desperadoes who have been and
are now niesting that territory. Even those
who have been guilty Of non-vOting, now az
knowledge their error in q manner that should
cool the ardor OF those who seem to be deeply
exercised on account Of the 'oppyess'on' this
people have brought upon themselves But
read the ar;icle.--St. CInrsvAle Gazet!e.
From the Kansas "ucrad Of freedom.
ROETEEES.
Those who took action in favor Of the voting
policy, and who put in nomination State tick
ct at Lawrence, on the 23l Of December are
called "BolterS," by their "Do nothing" party
friends. lit is the desire to apply the term to
US, we shall wear it gracefully, as we presume
all others will who bolted the fraudulent do
nothing policy Of our nejghbors. For two and
a half lfyears, we had rested from political ac:on,
all the time telling the country that we were
deprived Of our egal rights by flaud and vio-
lcnce" at the same time that we were telling
that we claimed that we were from ten to t1eatY
times more numerous than our opponents
From our distant friends has come a constant
cenSure. "lryou are as strong as YOU represent
yourselves, why do you rot rise Ike the strong
man, and shake off this incubus? By your CON
slant ropnings without action, we are getting
ashamed ofyou. Can't is not proper word in
an American lexicon, and genuine Americans
will not use"
BY hard exertion the people were induced to
engage in the October election, in spite Of the
engaged in the election with might and main,
and just as all sensible men contemplated, they
trnmphcd.
The prestige Of that victory was sufficient to
have carried us triamphantly through any cleo
which followed. But 8lotR again whispered in
the ears of our people Don't engage in the
election: if youdo, you will be defeated 'IIow
defeated" was the enquiry. 'Why by fraud,
1t was replied-If we 10 not engage in the elcc-
tions-if we stand aloof froom the polls, we
shall be defeated without fraud and without
foreign interference.
But our party determined they would not
vote, while the others resolved they would not
give up all as lost, without an effort They
remembered the advice of Gen. Harrison to the
Col. Croghan, at Fort Stephenson to Retreat ii
possible, but if not to capiulate on the best
terms possible" When the dispatch reached
the Colonel all opportunities of retrcating were
cut off; and to capitulate with the enemy, wa,
to be murdered by mercess savages who sur
rounded them. They determined to sell their
lives as dearly as possible; and engaged in the
fight with the desperation Of men who had ev
erything to gain by victory, and nothing to
lose by a defeat. They fought and conquered,
and drove the enemy, though nearly ten times
more numerous than they before them. All
over the nation were heard shouts of satisfaction
at Col. CTodhan's position and success; but Gen.
iarrison's advice was often rung in his ears af-
terwards, because he even suggested different
line Of action.
We, in Kansas, instead Of being numerically
weaker, greatly erceele} our opponents. Said one
man in our hearing, Il would not return to my
home and look my children in the face, and
tciI them we had laid down our arms, and re-
solved not to vote at this election, for five hun
dred dollars"
Here were the brave pioneers who had left
homes ofcom!ort, and many OF them oiatfluence,
in the East three years ago, for the purpose Oi
building up new homes for themselves in the
western wilderness, designing TO do their share
in building up new institutions which would be
in harmony with their convictions OF right
| Here were Robinson, and Ponioroy, and Wake
| field, and Smith, and Roberts, and Goodin, and
Schuyler, and Davis; and here in council were
nearly all the prominent names which had
| figured in our early history, as well known
throughout the Territory as household words
| They all wished 10 engage in the election, and
all felt that this was their last hnpe; that 10 sur
render the field at this time was to give the
whole thing over to the enemy, and to abandon
Kansas, and all the great West, to the demons
of the Slave Power
Rising above the surroundings, when they
found they [the voting partyl were voted down
by fraudulent means, and defeated in the Conyen-
ton by few political trickSters who had par.
tally succeeded in packing the Contention, and
by false representations, they quietly withdrew
for consultation. For two days and two nights,
they had listened to arguments pro and con,
and their minds were made up. 1t was when
they had met in the Masonic Hail. and were in
the midst of their deliberations; the same out.
side pressure which bad managed to control the
action of Delegate Convention, came in upon
them like rolling avalanche, and sought b
break them Up and succeeded SO far as to COMPEL
/! them to adjourn to the Odd Esllewg Hall to