Portsmouth (OH) Daily Times, "Prentice on Seward," November 2, 1859

           Prentice on Seward

   …Last year, 1858, some of the restless spirits who had kept up the embrolio in Kansas, finding their former occupation gone, began to devise means and ways to carry on offensive operations within the frontier Slave States. FORBES’ plan was nothing more than negro-stealing on a grand scale by “organized stampedes"....