The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-11-09
Kansas and H0rpel's Ferry.

The Leavenworth Herald of Freedom, we'll
known ms q leading Free State paper Of
Kansas, has the following urticle in refer
ence to the emsute at Ha-per's Ferry
The business men of Leavenworth will re.
member the insane movements of JameS Fl.
! Lane and these anti. peace men, who project.
ed the idea Of numbering the delegates to the
Lecompton Constitutional Convention, while
on their way to resume their labors in Octo.
Der, and the ordering OF the whole country
TO assemble at Lecompton with arms and
four days provisions, to take that town and
hang the members of the Convention. They
will call to mind the meeting in Duncan's
building, followed by the one in front of the
Morrow House in Lawrence, when he was
headed off in thlt demon work, and the con.
templated sanguin1ry visit to Lacompton
was ch1nged into a peaceful one to protest
against the Constitution then being framed.
The Lecompton Constitution itself was
next made the pretext fo- brin !ing on war.
Whoever is able to call up the incidents of
the 22d and 23d of December Convention,
held in Lawrence, will be able to compre-
hend that to which we allude. browns
Cellar Kitchen Convention" us TEACHER
and his associates branded the affair, f1ied
them in their plans but then came on the
difficulties OF Fort Scott inaugu-ated by the
leaders in q II these revolutionary movements,
and backed up BY Jim Lane, o ID John Brown,
Redpath, Phillips, aud all that class of per.
sons. Then was orglnizad the secret olth.
bound league, the object of which was to
murder, in cold blood, every officer elected
under the Lecompton Constitution, be he
Free State man or otherwise. The pass-
word to that secret organization was LANE.
The Whole plan of assassination, Of relays of
| horses for the executions, &c, ore in the
possession of good men in Lawrence, aud
have been for long period.
| But there was peaceful adjustment of all
these matters, because Congress did not give
legal sanction to the Lecompton Swindle.
The southeastern border, however, was
made the pretext for keeping alive this war
movement. There gathered the "buzzlrds"
ogniD, and into active service was called all
their machinery for again involving the coun.
try in strife. "Randolph," alias VIM. Hutch.
inson, Phillips, Kagi, Hinton, and all that
class OF men, were active in trying to keep
Eastern public opinion with them. While
at home, their organ, the L1wrence Republi.
can. and several lesser sheets, were doing
all in their power to influence the public
mind FlIsehoods, as in the former case,
were their principal stock in trade, and all
who did not join them in their revolutionary
schemes were branded as renegad,s from the
Free State party.
Old John Brown, with his mino1s, who
opened the bloody issue in Kansas by mur.
dering the five heads of families on Pottawat.
tamie Creek, at midnight, on the 25th OF
May, 1856, nppe red and took charge of the
msrrauding forces. They attempted to make
the whole population Of Missouri responsible
for the horrid murder near Chattaue's Trad
ing Post. Brown was in constant intercourse
with men in the East, who declared on the
stump, and in all their publish corresp ond
ence, that their "only hope of abolishihg
slavery in the United States lay through
revolution !" and from them he received funds
from time to time in prosecution Of his war
schemes. When Montgomery discovered
Brown & Co.'s plans of revolution, to his
credit be it said, he protested, and in conse
quence OF their quarrel, probably, more than
anything else, the utter made q brilliant
coup d'etat into Missouri, killed Crew, took
his slaves and made forced march to Can.
ada, receiving any amount of "aid and COM
fort" from his cohorts along the route.
At this time Doy was arrested in violation
OF law, and removed outside of Kansas
Then the excited lightnngs fl 'shed again.
Lane harangued crowds nightly in Law.
renee. He was ready to march into Nilsson.
| ri, and release him by violence, and a II the
indorsers of "bloody issue" cried, amen
But their schemes all failed, and the princi.
pal public actor, who had courage and des.
peration sufficient to carry into execution his
plan without regard to cost and who, in the
interim had returned to Kansas, took his
leave, and determined upon Immediately
consummatng plans long since laid for op.
eration elsewhere, should he fail in again
embroiling the people OF the Kansas border.
We allude to Old John Brown.
THE HARPER's FERRY pLoT.
The whole plan Of the organization, mode
OF operation, &C., it seems, has been known
in Kansas for long time. We are told by
parties who were in the secret, that the plan
OF Old Brown g. Co. was to strike such a
bold and vigorous blow as to intimdate the
entire population of Virginia and the South,
who are known to be exceedingly timorous
over their slave population. With his few
immediate supporters, he was to take pos.
session OF the armory, while others, with
teams, were to carry the arms and military
supplies to the mountains. In those fast
nesses he was to erect his Independent stand
ard, around which the negroes were to as
sembe. A secret organization, permeating
all sections of the North, with powerful
backing in Kansas, was to furnish recruits
Thus strengthened they would be able to bio
defiance to State and Federal authority, ant
though q seven years. war would follow, Of
though it should be protracted through half Q
century, they would keep alive their move
ments, acting mostly upon the defensive a,
first, till the negroes of the Canadas and
: the South could give them sufficient strength
to justify aggressive movements.
: The Republican party, if true to itself ant
its own best interests, will everywhere de-
) nounce the reasonable enterprise, ond al
4 it's aiders and Gbettors. II they do this, some
distinguished sspirants for Office, now in Kan
. sas, will find themselves minus position
few months hence. We have Eacis aDd fo.
. ures in our possession, whenever they sh al