attached to the ankle of ~n eh, and they are to
,Irag out their long Felinity ro• exel eking iheir
fle3,7iven and constitutionally•proteet,l free.
Into of speech, tonna,led to r ;o:lipr H.
and Nyd:lcing in the poblie g,,,,,addvrtask.man•
Lout Algorine slaveholdeis would be
this is one of thn laws which the De
party, by it:, p!,Il rtti, huA rosolvu , d to
Ind wlll,ll tbr of the ITnited
:dates ;weeds to(,rectite it 1,, With th,
force of du:United Slat. ,
.s, 1 hest
?rot:tired a specimon of thd size of the iron hall
.rhiolv is to be 11,1 in that Territory um], this
enactment, and only regret that I cannot exhi
bit also the iron chain, six feet in length, which
I
is to be dragged with it, through the hot sum•
veer months, and the cold wintry snows, by the
Free State "convicts" in Kansas. [Here Mr.
C. exhibited a large and heavy iron ball, six
inches in diameter, and eighteen inches in eh ,
cuinference.]
r. Chairman, if the great men who have
passed away to the spirit-land could stir them. '
in their graves, and, coming back to life
and n.v!i on, should utter on the prairies of Kau• i
ono the sentiments declared by them in the past,
how would they be amazed at the penalties that I
would await them on every side, for the utter
once of their honest convictions on Slavery.—
Said Washington to John F. Mercer, in 1781 :
"I never mean, unless some particular eircum•
stance should compel me to it, to possess anoth
er slave by purchase, it being among my first
wishes to see some plan adopted by which Sla
very in this country may be abolished by law,"
Said Jefferson, in his Notes on Virginia :
"The whole commerce between master and
slave is a continual exercise of the most eare.
mitting despotism on the one part, and degrad- '
ing submission on the other." 4 . 41 "With
what execration should the statesman be loaded
who, permitting. one-half of the citizens thus to
trample on the rights of the other, transforms
those into despots, and these into enemies, de•
stroys the morals of the one part, and the amor
patrite of the other ! Can the liberties of a on
tian be thought secure, when wehave removed
their only firm basis—a conviction in the minds
of the people that these liberties ore the gift of
Hod ? That they are not violated but by his
wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when
I rlllect that God is just, and his just ices cannot
steep forever."
Surely such language, in the eyes of a Pro-
Slavery jury, would be considered as "calculat
ed" to render slaves "disorderly." And surely,
in the langnage of the President and his party,
"the law must be enforced." Como, the„, "She
riff Jones,” Ali your chain and ball for each of
these founders of the Republic, and, manacled
together, let them, as they pursue their daily
work, chant praises to "the great principle for
which our revolutionary fathers fought,"and of
which the defenders of the Nebraska bill told
as that law was the great embodiment.
Said Mr. Webster, in his Marshfield speech
1849:
The 'Constitution speaks of the value and the
necessity in well regulated militia." And the
bogus Legislature have taken pains to keep the
military force of the Territory in their own
hands by some remarkable provisions, found on
page 416, chapter one hundred nnal ten, and very
truthfully entitled. "Act to organize, discipline
and govern the militia of this Territory." Not
one solitary jot or little of power is given to the
people of the Territory to elect even a-fourth
corporal of the militia. The govcreor, sir, by.
this law, appoints the generals and the colonels.
The colonels appoint tic captains the sergents,
the musicians and the corporal's. And nll the I
people ham to do is to say Amon! and train
when ordered. Precisely such au experiment t
as this was tsied in Indiana some years ago,
and all went o ff happily and smoothly until it
came to the 'people's turn to train) to train which
all over the State they very unanimously declin
ed to do. There Wes no Lecompte in Indiana
to indict the whole matter passed off as an ex
cellent joke that offended no one, officers or peo
ple. But a Lecompte sits on the Kansas bench
and to refuse to obey this law is treason in his
eyes.
And again, in 18501 But there is more in this cer!ter than moots
the eye at first place, (see page 4200 that the
.. .Sir, wherever there is a particular good to 'Territory shall he divided into military divisions
be dere - - vherever there is a foot of land to be and that each brigade shill! consist of not less
Stall back hem becoming slave territory—l am than two nor more thins five regiments. It is
ready to assert the principles of the exclusion nut supposible, of course that in the early set
of Slavery." dements of the Territory, them will be inure
Said the noble old statesman of Kentucky, • than two regiments in each brigade, especially
Henry Clay, in 1850: I es there arc two divisions of militia in the Ter
i,/ have said that I never could vote for it ritory, and not less than two brigades in each
myself; and I repeat, that I never can and 1 division. And now, Fir, if yon will turn to w
eever w in ~e th, an d no ent .ll t l y power ever will
intake me vote, to spread Slavery over territory I
singly Clovis e o
be
, tion9, one half of the ftenple
rf Aansas m•c to be under training orders of dictr
where it does not exist." superior officers, bound to go wherever those officers
Surely this, too, conflicts with the law of ce „,„,„„d t h,„•,..,, T . a v.., OF
TOE E
liar ;us. Harry them, Judge Leeumpte, to the LECTIONS t iro Territory! That clause reads:
chain gang; and an they commence their years "Smite. That on the last Saturday in the
of disgraceful and degrading punishment, for- month of August, in every year, the colonel or
get not to read them from the Nebreska bill commanding officer of each regiment and separate
that "its true intent and meaning" is "te I bettalion shall, by written or printed advertise
leave the people thereof pee oily free (not on. meet, put up or distributed fifteen days before
ly free, but PERFECTLY free) to form and rep,
"" I t an ell . c t ta
e or y e a n t ( l l Y ez n=s a tni oine fil eou l .
late their domestic institutions in their own
venient place ?tilled in company order by the
tray, subject only to the Constitution of the I commandant, and at said rendezvous the coin-
United States." - modem shall give to the officers public notice of
There is another portion of this net to which the place where the regiment or battalion shall
I wish to call special attention. It is the sue- meet, which place shall be within his district and
ceeding section to the above, (sec. it, p 147 )1 the time as follows, viz; first regiment or one
"Whenever env convict shall he employed lowest in number in each brigade shall meet at
at labor for any incorporate town, or city, or I tett o'clock in Mfo
c renoon, Oil the first Monday in
tiny county, such town city, Dr county shallpay October." J-c.
into the Territorrial treasury the stun of fifty ' It adds that the next regiment in each bra
cents for each convict, for every day ouch con- gale is to meet the ensuing day.
vict shall be engaged at such labor ; and when- In order that there may be no misunderstan•
ever such convict shall be employed upon pei. ding or denial that this is the regular election
vale hiring, at labor it shall be nt such price day, I quote from chapter 66 of the Code, page
each, per day, as may be agreed upon with' age ;
such keeper, or other person, having charge of nSee. 1. On the first Monday in October, in
such: and the proceeds of said labor shall be the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty
collected by such keeper, and put into theTer- five, and on the first Monday in October, every
ritorial treasury." • I two years thereafter, an election for delegates
Not content with the degradation of the to the House of Representatives of the United
chaingang, a system of white slavery is to be States shall he held, at the respective places of
introduced by "private hiring;' and the "ton- I holding elections, in the Territory of Kansas.
victs," sentenced from the exercises of speech "Sec. 2. On the Scot Monday in October, in
and of the press, are to bo hired out during the year one thousand eighth hundred stud fifty
their aervittide, if their "keeper" sees fit, to the six, arid on the first Monday in October every
heartless men who this day are fronting, them l year thereafter, an election for the Representa
from their homes, and burning their dwellings I lives of the Legislative Assembly, and for all
over their heads. But "the laws are to be ex- I other elective offices and not otherwise provided
ocuted ;" and though they arc the offspring of for by law, shall be held at the respective pine
the most gigantic fraud ever perpetrated upon cm; of holding elections in this Territory.
a free people, if there is no change in thin poll- "Sec. 3. On the first Monday in October, in
cy of the Government, and if the party which • the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty
controls its action is not hurled from power, seven, and on the first Monday in October ev
we shall doubtless next year see II overnor cry two years thereafter, an election shall be
Robison (if not previously executed for tree: I held at the respective places of holdingolestions
son) with the iron chain rand ball to his ankle, for members of the council."
hired from the convict-keeper by Governor On the very day of the election, therefore—
Shannon to do his menial service; or to be I which in every other State of the Union is
punished, it' he disobeys his master's orders, something like a Sabbath, so far ae ordinary
like a Southern slave. Anti Judge Lecompte business in concerned, and men are permitted
would have the privilege, too, and would doubt- to choose their own officers and legislators as
less exercise it, of having Judge Wakefield as th e y see fit, untrammelled by any power upon
bin hired serf, dragging, for two or five years I ear th, and when men, in many States, aro ex
to come, his chain and ball after him, as he erupt (coin arrest or all offences but felony, to
enteredihis master's presence, or obeyed his aid to the furthest extent in leaving the people
master's commend. And Marshal Donaldson perfectly free in the exorcise of the freeman's
with "Sheriff Jones," and Stringfellow would m ost, priceless right, the elective franchise--
not certainly be behind their superiors in the these citizens of Kansas are to be summoned
retinue of Free State slaves whom they could forth by their superior officers, wherever they
satisfy their revenge upon by hiring as their may choose to march thous, subject to the pen
menials from the keeper of the Kansas con. allies of au instant court martial, if they do not
vies. I obey. For section 13 says, page 423
There ore many things in this code of whit-it "if a nee-commissioned officer, musician, or
I will not have time to allude, my hour is rap- private, shall be guilty of disobedience of orders
idly passing away and I must hasten on. ft 'or disrespect to en officer, during the time lie
is worthy of notice, in passing, that in no place shall lie on duty, he shall he tried by a court
in this code is slavery expressly established in martial, and fined, not less than five dollars,
the Territory. Instead of leaving the people • nor more than Lindy dollars."
of the Territory "perfectly free to form their I
There's no provision in this chapter by which
own institutions." Slavery is falcon to be , these officers, appointed by the Governor are to
an institution already established by the supply the privates with tickets of nn orthodox
Cougress of the United States, In this initial character, to be voted under their "orders
legielation of the Territory, it is treated ns a but the selection of election-day for training-day
heretofore recognizod and permanent "institu- I is a coincidence thst is obviously not necklet,
tion." Thus, by page 60 slaves are to be up- tall. The authority given by the French gene
prised like other property of a decendent ; by rids to the army to vote as they please, but if
page 298, slaves are to be taken in execution they vo t t e e: i t i ln=re n te n r
en Z , : e i n aa i Ve s r l i i ll e t f ts ec to rn h en e
for debt: by page 932, mortgagee of slaves me °
r 0 1 .714613110, under training orders as they are,
tai be recorded by page 556, slaves are to he
in .,. should vote as they please, despite the reign of
o tt d re b i l re th t e . I=g i ll e ' te b b Y l e P t r,,gZ,4 3 p (i a ' s l - 1 ' ) ; terror existing thine, and the angry denuncia
„ Lions of their officers, they can he kept 1 y those
their alum' But nowhere in the nixie he - officers, us doubtless intended they 811.10 be,
found - a single line, or section, declaring that under such orders as will prevent them from
"Slavery is hereby established." I have no protecting their ballot-boxes against the invasion
Idea that, even if the Legislature of Kansas I which is, doubtless, this fall—as so oft. before
tess to be concedcd a legal body, Slavery this I —to crowd them with fraudulent votes.
I feel that there is nothing unjust, nothing
of which any honest man can complain, if he
is intelligent, and I feel that there is nothing
of which the civilized world, if they take notice
~ t ,a humble an individual as myself, will re
proach me, when I say, as I said the other day
that 1 have made up my mind, for one, that
under no circumstances will I consent to the
,v.tension of the area of Slavery in the TJni
-I,d States, or to the further increase of slave
representation in the House of Representa•
slay has a legalexistence in the Territory. But
to expect smelt a decision fs,nst its courts, would
ho to look for mores from a Negro.
As I was examining this Sahara of legislation
to fin l, if possible olio oasis, my eye fell upon
chapter 74 page 923 heeded with the attractive
title of FREEDOM ;" and I rejoiced at the cer
tainty rf finding something worthy approval in
its provisions. Bat it appears that a person
held In slavery" cannot sue for Id freedom till ho
tirstl , olitions Court for loose to establish
right to freedom. If that leave is denied
whether Ito is legally ur illegally held in slavery
ns, matter how clearly he mild prove Isis free
dom yet, ifthe court withholds its permission,
he has no altetnative but to continue in sla
very till death frees him from his unjust servi
tude. But if the court consent, he eon only go
on by giving security for the costs, when it is a
conceded fact that as a slave. ho has not a dol
lar or a copper of his own in the world, and
cannot even mortgage his own labor from in
demnification of his security. On page 325,
section 12, of this same law, there is a singular
provision:
If theplaintiff be it ?legro or mulatto, 110 is
required to prove his right to freedom.
There can be only ono fair , legitimate infer
ence front this—and that it is considered quite
Possible that persons not negroes or ranlvt ;es—
t in other words, white parsons—may happen to
be held in slavery In Kansas; bat the requirement
of the consent of the court and security for costs
applies to them also, and, of course, section 54
adds , "in actions prosecuted under this act the
plaintiff shall not recover any damages" from the
person who has been thus proven to have held
him illegally, and perhaps for years in slavery.
The rode also, to be complete, provides for
slave flogging by law. By the one hundred and
twenty second chapter, on page 454, patrols are
to be appointed by the county corders, who are
to visit negro quarters, and to watch unlawful
assemblages of slaves. If slaves are found et
the latter, if strolling from one plantation to en
other without a pass, they are to surfer ten or
twenty lashes. There is ono exception, and, Iv;
' I desire to do impartial justice to this code, I
wish to say, to be placed to the credit of the
men who enacted it, that that whipping disuse
is not to be construed to prevent slaves from go
ing directly to or returning from divine worship
on the Sabbath. They beelieve, it seems in the
"stated preaching of else Gospel," and therefore
that is excepted. But sir, when visiting, on nn
adjoining plantation, a woman whom her master
allows him to call Isis wife, till ho ehoo•es to sell
her and her children to some distant a lave-holder
the lash is the penalty, unless he is provided
with a ;sass.
. . . . .
Section thirteen of this same low brings all
tho Sharpe's rifles on the ground, where the
"superior officers" can take posse,siot of them
under color of law, without fear of their con
tents t
"That it shall be the duty of every non-com
missioned ollicer end private who owns a rifle
musket, or lire-lock, to appear with it in good
order at every parade."
The whole country has heard, sir, of the se,
Lion of the election law which allows "inhald-
toots" to vote at the emeriti election, without
requiring them to have resided in the Territory
a single day ; and of the test oaths to sustain
the Fugitive Slave Law and the Nebraska bill,
which, flee intended to shut out all men opposed ,
to both from the ballot-box. And I will quote
it from page 202, 11CCIll1S0 I desire to contrast its
provisions with another:
"'Sec. 11. Every free white male citizen of !
the United States, and every free turtle Indian
who is made a citizen by treaty or otherwise, !
and over the ago of twenty-one years, who shall !
be an toluthitunt of this Territory, and of tine I
county and district in which he oilers to vote,
end shall have paid a Territorial tax, shall be a
qualified elector for all elective officers; and all
Indians who are inhabitants of this Territory,
and who may have adopted -the customs of the
white man, and who are Babel to nay tuxes,
shall be doented citizens; Provided, That no
soldier, seaman, or marine, in the regular Army
or Navy of the United States shall be entitled to
vote, by reason of being on service therein :
And provided further, That no person who shall
have been convicted of any violation of nay
provision of an act of Congress ' entitled 'An act
respecting fugitives from just ice, and persons
escaping from the service of their masters,' tilt
proved February 12, 1793, or aim net to a
mend and supplementary to said act, approved
18th September, 1850 ; whether such conviction
were by criminal proceeding or by civil action
for the recovery of any penalty prescribed by
either of said net s, in any courts of the 'United
States, or ofany State or Territory, of any of
fence deemed infatnons, shall be entitled to vote
at any election, or to hold any ounce in this Ter
ritory t And providedfurther, That if any person
offering to vote Anil be challenged and required
to take en oath or affirmation, to '4e administer
ed by ono of the election, tit it he will sustain
the provisions of the above recited acts of Coll
green, and of the set entitled 'An net to organize
the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas,' appro
ved May 30, 1854, and shall refuse to take suck
oath or affirmation, the vote of such person shall
be rejected."
Moiety being an "inhabitant," if the person is
in favor of the Nebraska bill, nail of the Fugi
tive blare Law, qualifies him as n voter in all
the elections of the Territory agerting Notional
or Territorial politics. The widest possible door
is opened for the invaders to come over and cur
ry cool suceessivo election as "inhabitants" for
the time being of the Territory. But, turn to
page 7.50, cud notice the following provision
(section 9) defining the qualifications of voters
nt the petty corporation elections of Lecompton:
"Ali free of male citizens who have arri
ved to the fall ago of twenty-one years and who
shall be entitled to vote for Territorial oflleors
and who shell have res;da/ within the city limits
at least six months next preceding any election,
and, moreover, who shall pay a city tax many
city license according to ordinance, shall bo eli
gible to vote at any .. and or city election for of:11-
(yr . s of the city.'
. -
Being an' inhabitant a day clothes a person
with the right to vole ll.fr Delegates in Congress
and Representatives in the Legislature ; but to
vote at au insignificant election. in comparison,
six months' residence is requited I Ain I wrong
in judging that this inverting the usual rule,
shows that Missourians are wanted at ono elec
tion, but not tho other 7 If any ono deems this
opinion unjust, let him study the following sec
tions of the General Election Law, page 283
"Section 19. Whenever any per;Onlhall oiler
to vote, ho shall ne era:swam) to be entitled to
vote."
'Sc.n 20. Whenever any person &Tors to vote
his NUM May ho challenged by one of thu judges,
or by nay voter, and the judges of the election
may examine bins touching hie right to vote, and
ifs° crumbled, NO LVIDENCE TO CONTRADICT
SHALL DI ...VIM." . . . .
Certainly these provisions explain themselves,
without comment.
I will now invite your attention to a contrast
in the Tonal code of this Territory, singular in its
character, to say the very Nast. Section five of
the act punishing offences against slave property,
page 604, enacts as follows
"If any person shall aid or assist in enticing,
decoying, or persuading, orharrying away, or sen
ding out of this Territory, any Slave belonging
to nuother, with intent to procure or effect the
freedom of such slave, or with intent to deprive
the owner thereof of the services of such slave,
he shall be adjudged guilty of grind larceny, and
on conviction thereof shall snip r death, or be im
prisoned ut hard labor• for not less than tea
years.
A person, who, by a pro-slavery packed jury,
is convicted of aiding in persuading out of die
Territory a slave belonging ea another, fs to setter
at Nast twins ns racers a penalty as be who is
convicted at committing the vilest outrage that
the mind of man can conceive of on the person
of your• with, sister or daughter ! Nay, the con
trast is still stronger. The jury, in the first in•
stance, are authorized oven to inflict the punish
ment or death—in the latter, see page 208, the
penrilty Is "not less than five years." Such is
the contrast in Hansa, between elm protection of
a wife's or ilnughter's honor and happiness, and
that which is thrown as a protecting wgis over
the property of tire slave-holder!
Again, on page 208, you will find that the ruf
fian who commits malicious mayhem, that is,
without provocation, knocks you down in the
street, cuts off your nose and ears, and plucks
out your eyes, Is punished "not loss than live
nor more than ten years ;" the same degree of
punishment that is meted out in section seven of
the above act, page GO, on a person who should
aid, o r assist, or Oren "harbor," an escaped
slave! _ _
Th s 'n . p ng a 209, you will find that the man who
sits at your bedside, when you me prostrated by
disease, and taking advantage of your confidence
and helplessness, administers poison to you, but
wherel y death does nut happen to ensue, is to
bo punished nut loss than Live nor more than ten
years," though it is minder in the heart, if not
the deed. And this is precisely the same penal
ty as that prescribed by the eleventh section
(quoted in any remarks above, on the five viola
tions of the Constitution) against ono who but
brings into the Territory any book, paper, or
,
handbill, containing any 'sentiment" "calcula
ted" iu the eyes of a Pro-Slavery jury, to make
slaves '-disorderly." The man who takes into
the Territory Jefferson's Notes on Virginia can
be, under this law, hurried away to the chain
gant, and manacled, arm to arm, with the mar
dens poisoner.
I had hoped to find limo to cite and comment
upon other sections in this code, but I will quota
but one more, showing diet, while a white man
is compelled to serve out the penalty of his
crime, at hard labor, these slaveholding logisla
lators have, iu their great regard for the value
of the slave's labor to his master, enacted that a
slave, lor the same edjimee, shall tie whipped, and
then returned to him. INN Is the section, which
I commend to the consideration of those who,
while defending these laws, nickname the Re
publicans "nigger worshippers." It is found on
page 252:
, •Stfc. 27. Ifkny slave shall commit petit lar
ceny or Abell steal nny neat cattle, sheep, or hog,
or be guilty of any misdemeanor, or other *Annce
punishable under the provisions of this net only
by Gun or imprisonment in a county jail, or by
both each line and imprisonment, he shall, in
stead of such punishment, be punished, if a male,
by stripes on his bare back, not exceeding thir
ty-nine, or if a female, by imprisonment in a
county jail not exceeding twenty-ono days, at
the discretion of the justice."
Such, sir, is an impartial analysis of the code
of Kansas, every allusion to which has been
proven by extracts from the official copy now in
my hand, rind in quoting from which I have re
ferred in every instance, to the page, the number
of the section, and its exact words; and I think
that the strong language at the outset of my re
marks, in which I denounce( this disgraceful and
tyrannical code, has been fully juatitled by the
proofs I have late below you from its pages.—
Let it not be forgotten, Mr. Chairman, that it is
because the people of Kaneas—an overwhelming
majority of the actual settlers there—refused to
obey those enactments passed by a body of men
elected by armed mobs of invaders—that they
have been delivered over to persecutions without
parallel, and to all the horrors of civil tear.
Bad I time, I would desire to refer to the his
tory of events in that Territory ' • to the reckless
and ruthless violation of plighted faith in the re•
peal of the Hissouri Compromise, which opened
the door for legislation like this ;to the ontiro
absence of any protection by the President to the
settlers against personal outrage; to the repeoed
invasions by which the whole machinery of legis
lation was usurped, hut the fruits of which the
President upholds by cannon and bayonet, with
proclamation and penalties ; to the causes which
led to the civil war that lons existed in that
Territory; to that most aggravating of all insults
by which the very Jones who headed an invading
patty of Missourians at one of the polls, and
with his revolver at the breast of an election
jitdge, gave him five minutes to resign or die,
was - commissioned as a Sherill; to ride, booted
and spurred over the people whose right he had
thus assisted in striking down ; and many other
things that make the blood of the great tones of
the freemen nt the North course as it never be
fore conreed, thrmigh their veins. But I must
allude before concludingto the mockery of relief
held out to the people by the President and his
coadjutors.
In his special message to Congress, on the
27th of January last, the :resident spoke thus
Ou page 210, the kidnapping and cwginenant
of a free white person, for any person, crop if
a man, to sell him into slavery, or if a woman,
for a still baser purpose, is to ho punished "not
exceeding ten years." Decoying and enticing
away ft child,under twelve years of age, from its
parents, "not less than six months, find not ex
caeding five years." lint fleroging and enticing
away (mark the similarity of language !) a slave
from his master, is punished by death, or confine
ment not less than ten years. Here is the sec
tion, page 604 : .
‘•lijetion 4. if any person shall entice, decoy,
tarry away ont of this Territory, any ulave
beltatging to another, with intent to deprive the
owner thereof of the services of such slave, or
with intent to effect or procure the freedom of
such sluve,be shall he adjudged guilty of grand
larceny, and, on conviction thereof, shall siurer
DEATII, or be imprisoned at hard labor for not less
than 011 years.”
"Our system affords no justification of revolu
tionary acts ; for the constitutional means of re
lieving the people of unjust administrations and
laws, by a change of public agents and by repeal
ARE AMPLE."
Anil in his speech. Ro reported in the Union,
of Juno 10, made to the Buchanan ratification
meeting, n•ho marched to the White Muse, he
c,ielly told them :
"There wit4on your part, no appeal to un
worthy passio o inflammatory calls for a sec
ond roolution, die those which are occasional
ly reported as coming from men who have recei
ved nothing at the !tunas of their Government
bat protection and political blessings no dedfirt.
tion of resistance to the laws of the land."
But 1 will not stop to allude to the "protection
and political blessings," which the people of
Kansas have received from the "hands of their
Government." It was bitter irony indeed.
Judge Douglas, too, at the same scooting,
speaking of the Kansas laws, declared as follows:
"Or if they desire to have any of the laws re
pealed, let them try to carry their point at the
polls, and let tho majority decode the question."
Never, sir, was there a more signal instance
of "holding the word of promise to the cur, and
break it to the hope." Where are the,,f ample"
means of obtaining relief from the unedurable
tyranny that grinds down the Free State men of
Kansas into the dust 1 How can they carry their
"point at the pulls 1" Let facts answer :
1. The Council, which passed these laws, has
extended its term of service till 1858; so that, if
the entire representative branch was unanimous
for their repeal, the higher Lranch has the power
to present the slightest change is them for two
long years I
2. The Frie State men in Kansas are abso
lutely shut out from the polls by test oaths,
which no one with the soul of a freeman, who
traces all the outrages there directly to the en
, actment of the Nebraska bill can conscien
tiously swear to it.
it. Even if they do.go there, and swear to
sustain the Nebraska bill and the Fugitive
Slave Law, the election law is purposely tram.
ea, as I have shown, to invite invasions of 3lis
sourians, to control the. elections in favor of
Slavery.
4. They are driven from the jury box, as
well as disfranchised, and prohibited from act
ing as attorneys in the courts, unless they take
the test oath prescribed by their conquerors.
5. Free speech is not tolerated. They are
left "perfectly free to form and regulate their
own way," except, if they speak a word against
Slavery, they are convicted of felony and hur
-1 tied to the chats gang.
I G. The presses in the Tt3rritory, at Leaven-.
worth and Lawrence in favor of freedom, have
been destroyed, and the two last by the author.
ity of Judge Lecoinpte, thus 'crushing out' the
freedom of the press.
7. Indictments are found by packed juries
against every prominent Free State citizen;
and who are not forced to flee from the Terri
tory, are arrested and imprisoned, while those
who have stolen from Free State men, tarred
and feathered them, burned their houses, or
murdered them, go nt large, unpunished.
In such astute of allairs as this, to talk of
going to the polls and having qe laws repeal
ed, is worse than the mockery. It is an insult.
It is like binding a man hand and foot, throw
ing bins into the river, and then telling him to
swim to shore, nod he will be saved. It is like
loadening a mass with irons, and then telling
bins to run for his life. The only relief possi
ble, if Kansas is net promptly admitted as a
State, which I hope may tie effected, is in a
change of the Administration and of the party
that so recklessly misrules the land; and that
will furnish ass Mfeetual relief.
As I look, sir, to the smiling valleys and fer
tile plains of Kansas, and witness there the
sorrowful scenes of civil war, in which .whoa
forbearance at last ceased to he a virtue, tl,o
Free State mess of the territoryfelt it necessa
ry, deserted as they were by their Government, '
to defend their lives, their hearthstones, the
language of one of the noblest statesmen of
the age, uttered six years ago at the other end '
of this Capitol, rises before me mind I allude
to the great statesman of kentucky, 'teary
Clay. And while the party which, when he
lived, lit the torch of slander at every avenue
of Isis private life, and libelled hint before the
Ainerivan people, by every epithet that renders
mass infamous, no a . gambler, debauches), trai
tor and enemy of h i s country, aro now cage
god in shedding fictitious tears over his grave,
and appealing to his old supporters to aid by
their voters in shielding them front the indig•
nation of an uprisen people. I ask thorn to •
read this language of his, which comes to us i
as from his tomb to-day. With the change ofl
but a single geographical word in the place of
"Mexico," hose prophetically does it apply to
the very scenes and issues of this year. And
who can doubt with what party he would
stand in the corning campaign, if Ise was rest°.
red to us from the damps of else grave, when
they read the following, which fell from his
i
lips n 1850, and with which thanking the
llouse for its attention I conclude my remarks:
"But if unhappily, wo should be involved
in war, in civil war, betwoon the two parties of
this side should he to restrain the introduction
01 Slavery into the new Territories, and upon
the other side to force its introduction there,
what a spectacle should wo present to the as
tonishment of mankind, in an effort, not to
propagate rights but—l must say it, though I
trust it will be understood to Ire said with no
design to excite feeling—a- war to propagate
wrongs in the Territories tus acquired from
Mexico I It would be a %Will whirl, we should
have no sympathies, no good wishes—i t which'
all mankind leoutd be against ; for, hum
the commencement of the Revolution down to
the present time, wo have constantly reproach
ed our British ancestors for the uttroduction,
of Slavery into this country."
puthnon 4,ournal.
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WILLIAM EWSTER,
SAM. G. WHITTAKER. EDITORS.
Wednesday Morning, August 6, 1856.
Forever float that standard sheet,
Where breathes the foe but fallsbefore us,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er usl"
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. FREMONT,
OF CALIFOUNIA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WAI. L. DAYTON,
FOR C.l .V.IL CO.V.IfT,S'SMNE/1.
TI-101VIAS E. COCER.PIN,
OF YORE COUNTY.
FOR A UDITOR G EYER
DARWIN PHELPS,
OF MOISTILONG COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENEIia 1,.
BARTHOLOMEW LAP ORTE
FREMONT AMERICAN REPUBLICAN
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
.oun, Chatrinan.
Rothrack,
Jams Morrow,
Peter Swoopo,
E. B. \YHA.,
Ralph C'rots ley,
Robert Baird,
Charles Mickley, •
Levi Evans,
John Grains,
Jot tm McCaw.
Isaac New,
J. A. Hall,
John import,
Wm. 13re wster,
David Stever,
Joseph Curfsnan,
Henry Hudson,
Isaac Taylor,
Jonathan McWilliams
Samuel Thompson,
John A. Doyle,
S. L. Glasgow,
Henry Robinson,
Win. Wigton,
Abraham Renner,
Win. M. Lloyl,
Peter Shaver, Jr.
Robert R. Andrews,
Benjamin F. Glasgow,
Daniel Neff, Son.,
norenzo Tate.
Rally ! Rally ! !
FREMONT & FREEDOM
ass Meeting !
A Tll ceti g of the freemen of Huntingdon
County, opposed to the present National Ad.
ministration, nod in favor of Free Speech, Free
Territory l'resn, Free andF EDIO N T,
will be held in the Court House in the Borough
of Huntingdon, on Tuesday the
12th of dugust,
beginning at 7 o'clock, P. M. This meeting
will be addressed by
GOT. TOM FORD, of Ohio,
Hon. ANSON BURLINGAME of Massa.,
and other eloquent speakers.
The friends of Constitutional Liberty gener
ally, are invited to attend.
Precm6a Rally.
Circulate the Documents.
Friends, after you have read the speech in
to•day'a par r, hand your Journal over to your
Democrat or Know Nothing neighbor. Keep
the truth before the people.
The Difference,
4 .G ale, junior—night—West Hunlingdon—
prnetising—Fremont speeches ; look out.— Globc.
Lowis, jesuit—night—West Philadelphia—
practising—skeleton keys. Look out
Another Catholic Lie.
"Spurned—The overtures made by a few of
the Black Republicans for a fusion with the 1)e•
mocracy I They were at once indignantly
spurn ed."— Globe.
We take the above from the last Globe, to
show the utterly reckless character of Locefo.
coism. Jesuit Lewis knew that was a lie, pab.
Fished it as a lie, and has given another proof
of his honcsty. If he can, dare ho give one
man ' in the party he names black Republicans
who has mode such overtures ?
Just Like Rim.
The Globe asserts that "Dr. Wycoff, request.
ed it [the Journal] to furnish us wills a copy
of his advertisement," and that we "refused."
Now if Dr. Wycoff did furnish us with an
advertisement, how is postmaster Lewis awaro
that 1)r. Wycoff "requested" it published in his
sheet, unless he tools the liberty of opening Dr.
lrgeoirs letter to es f his a plain case, and
"us pause for a reply."
A Concession,
"Nionerous—Dosertions from the Black Re
publican rauks."— Globe.
It will be remembered the Globe sonic three
weeks ago, declared the Republican party did
not number a dozen votes I Now, the deser•
linn., are numerous I
The American, which has also declared the
Republican party weak, without knowing or de
siring it, eats its own words, in its last issue, in
the following style t "That Fremont is break.
ing up the Democratic party in the North and
Northwest is apparent."
New Subscriiieri for July 1856.
A. Long, Mill Creek. M. Collins, Shirlcyeb'g.
~
Dr. A. Smith, Calvin, W. Shugard, Phil.
J. Cornelius, Stovers' lace.
S. Stewart, do.
G. Darters, do.
E. Ebbs, do.
J. Oliver, do.
A. G. Ewing, do.
D. Shinkle, do.
G. Travis, do.
W. McWilliam. do.
11. Bathurst, do.
J. Edwards, Rough & Ready Furnace.
J. Brumbaugh, James Crook.
A. N. Corbin, Salina, lowa.
We are indebted to 11. H. Fuller
for a copy of Patent Office Report for 1855.
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UNION ELECTORAL TICKET.
We see that a number of papers in the State
—Fillmore and Fremont—are agitating the
question of a Union Electoral Ticket, for the
purpose of defeating Buchanan and the Border
Ruffian Democracy. The plans proposed arc
all good, and we Would heartily endorse any of
them. We have not the time nor space to
speak further on this subject at present, but
must notice one plan which we think would
render satisfaction to all parties. It is the
idea of the Hollidaysburg Register, American,
and proposes to let the State Central Commit.
tees of the two parties meet and turange an
Electoral ticket, taking the written pledge of
the Electors that if chosen, they will cast the
entire vote of the State for Mr. Fillmore, if ho
shall have carried n larger number of Electors
in other States than Mr. Fremont shall have
carried, and vice verso, that if Mr. Fremont
shall have carried a larger number of Electors
in other States than Mr. Fillmore shall have
carried, then the entire Electoral vote of the
State shall be cast for Um Fremont.
Billy Bowlegs' Banter•
In regard to the statement we made that the
publisher of the Huntingdon Globe "owned his
hresent freedom to executive clemency," no
ave a word to say. Lewis has land a notice
in his paper for several weeks, denying the as
sertion, and offerin g to wager $lOO we cannot
prove it. We cannot "bet" for several reasons
—we are morally opposed to gambling; we
could not take money made in the matinee the
above named individual has his ; we will not
stake money on a blackguard. We assert that
our statements are entirely correct, and shall
substantiate them by publishing a briefhistory
of this immaculate Wm. Lewis—commencing
in our next; from the pen of "one who knows."
We shall prove every word wehave spoken, and
then Lewis may hand over that $lOO, to Johnt
to say mass for the delivery of his soil (if he
has one) from purgatory. Wait for the wagon.
Gen. S. Miles Green.
When intellectual eunuchs assume control of
a party organ, we make allow.co for mistakes.
But we nre astonished that such farseeing men
as the editors of the Huntingdon American,
could be on ignorant of public opinion. as to
treat the claims of a man like Gen. Green, in
the manner they have, He is a mon, and wo
know he would he a good officer.
It must certainly be flattering lo Gen. Green
and the other old Whigs of the county, who
once battled under the banner ofthe Whig par.
ty, to be in the hands of individuals who, four
years ago, were brawling Locofocos. Unless
a man will shape his ends to meet their views
and their tasters in Huntingdon Borough, they
cannot be announced in the columns of that
paper, as candidates I
Suicide.
"A failure—the attempted fusion between
the Black Republicans and the Americans on
Friday night Inst. It was "no go." Might as
well try to mix oil and water. It can't be done."
We clip the above extraordinary language,
from the lest Huntingdon American. It shows
clearly that that sheet has either the blind stag•
gers, or is bent on cutting the ham strings of
the American party. We Republicans sincere•
ly desire n union, to defeat the Border Ruffian
Democracy ; but if we cannot have an honors•
ble fusion, we must and will enter the lists and
fight Locofecoism,single•lianded upon the issue
of freedom or slavery. We hope, sincerely
hope, the A mcrican Convention will nut endorse
the suicidal policy of the American.
Ambrotype Gallery.
- -
We have the pleasure of announcing to our
readers, that Mr. G. H. Auxcr has fitted up a
gallery in the Court House, and is prepared to
satisfy all who may call on him. We have ex.
amined some•specimens of Mr. A.'s work, and
they certainly excel anything of the kind we
have ever seen, much resembling wax figures.
We have no hesitancy in pronouncing Mr. Aux.
or the best ambrotypist ever in this place. Call
and see.
OUR BOOK TABLE.
Peterson's Magazine, published by T. 11. Pc.
Meson, Phil., at $3 per year, is already on our
table, for August. This periodical is an excel•
lout one—indeed our favorite magazine. It is
the ladies' favorite also, and wo recommend it.
The Kennedy Bro.'s' Bank Note Review for
August, has been received. We recommend it
as the best counterfeit Detector extant. Pub.
lished in Pittsburg, at 10 cts. a copy.
The School Journal for August has been re
noised. It is very interesting. Address T. H.
Burrows, Lancaster, Pa. $1 per year.
Friends, waft a little longer.
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We have received n circular from a number
of the most influential men of Dublin township
including prominent Americans, asking for n
renewal of our call for n Republican County
Convention, on the 12th inst. It is too late now
friends, such a notice would not reach allpatts
of the county by the 121 b. Let us wait the fic
tion of the American Convention, and then if
it does not give entire satisfaction, we will hold
a separate Convention.
Celebration.
Onr "eullud" population had a celebration
on the lot inat., at "Beechen Glen." Speeches
were made by Prof. Levi Murrels and other
prominent Dunmyerats. They clay was fine,
the provisions plenty and so forth.
In the evening, the "darks" had a grand hoe
down, at Mr. U. Murphy's elegant mansion, on
Washington street.
The Blair County Court.
Davis, who killed Johnston some weeks ago
in Hollidaysburg, had his trial last week, and
was found guilty of—manslaughter
The negro who cut another with a knife, was
sent fourycars to the penitentiary.
Tho Williamsburg murderers aro now on tei.
al, and the trial of Neff, has been postponed.
We recommend the appointing of a Vigi.
hence Committee in Blair county.
Letter from Philadelphia.
Dear Sir :—Brick walls are great retainers
of heat. I send you a comical slave of poetry
I picked up a day or so ago, illustrative of the
weather and the town people :
"Besides the weather what can poets do
With the thermometer at rumtytwo.
Grandeur in shirt sleeves, Grace with no cravat,
Sublimity beneath a ahu•lcaf hat,
Love with no dickey, Beauty in a sweat,
Truth at a pump with hands and forehead wet,
Fame drinking soda, Glory with a fan,
Passion asleep upon a cool divan,
And Faith and Hops iu slippers throwing dice,
To close a quarrel o'er a chunk of ice."
Since the late railroad disaster, nothing has
taken plaCe in Philadelphia worthy of particu
lar note, and yet the charitable aro yet busy in
collecting funds for the relief of the sufferers.
The following shows the receipts and expendi
tures of the Committee up to this time.
Received $10,297 13
Paid 2887 50
. .
A largo situ has bc;l7eolleeted, I hear, in
Now York and other cities which will soon, I
suppose, ho sect on and acknowledged.
Yours, &c„ J. T. B.
For the Journal.
Henry Brewster, Bag
MESSIt9. EDITOILS:
Allow inn the privilege through the columns
of your paper to recommend the above named
gentleman of Shirleysburg, to the oponente of
the present national administration, as a very
suitable person to receive the nomination for
one of the Associate Judges of Huntingdon
County.
There is no question ns to his qalifications
and fitness for the position. All who know
hits will concede this. Henry Brewster is a
mall of unimpeachable integrity and of stet ,
ling moral worth—just such n man ns the in.
Wrests of the people require.
In addition, I for on think, that Mr. Brews•
ter was rather unfairly dealt with whets he was
a candidate for one of the Associate Judger)
five years ago. And I feel confident that 'on
reflection, any candid man must so admit.—
This should be another consideration why he
should have the nomination this time. I trust
both the American and Republican County
Conventions, which are soon to meet, will du
ly consider the above gentleman's claims nod
qualifications and place him on their tickets.
AN AMERICAN.
I'm. the Jt n •t x tl.
MEMRS. BREWSTER & WHITTAKER :—Your
paper of July 30th contains a communication.
which, from your application of it to myself
and your comment on it, invites and demands
n reply from me. Evidently your correspondent
is mistaken in his premises or you are in your
conclusion,- as no such interrogatory as lie re•
fern to was ever addressed to me, and no such
answer ever was or ever will be made by me
to that question. Upon that question—'iree
dom in linnsas'—l have long since made up
my mind very decidedly and expressed it very
freely and emphatically. In asconversation nt
Mr. Miles' office on the 25th of July, where this
was introduced in presence of Dr. Brewster
Jno. G. Miles, Theo. II Cretner and others, I
took occasion to state, that if nominated and
elected to Congress (a post I "neither seek nor
decline) every impulse of my heart and every
effort of my life should be in favor of freedom
and against the extension ofslavery—that no
possible contingency could urine in which I
should not vote against the admission of Kan
sas ns a Slave State;thatl considered every
foot of land north of the Missouri Compromise
-line of 31° 30 5 as consecrated to freedom, and
never, with my consent, to lie piloted with the
curse of Southern slavery. 'These, I be;; to re
peat to you, and to your correspondent, and to
all others whom it may cancers, are my semi.
meet. I claim for them no oriKitiality or merit.
—they aro but the common sentiment of us all.
Yours, truly,
DAVID 81..h11i.
V.iir A pair of twin bovs, born Juno 7, in
La Salle county, Indiana, bare boon named
Vremont and Dayton.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LEAP PIPE.' fin sale at the Hardwroe Store of
JAMES A. BROWN & CO.
ATTENTION.
The commissioned officers of the 4th Brigade
1•1 th Division, I'. M., are ordered to Meet in
citizens' dress at Spruce Creel( on Wednesday,
August 13th, at 6 o'clock, I'. M.
GEORGE DARE, Major.
AGRICULTURAL lIIERTING.
A meeting of the Huntingdon County Agri
cultural Society will he held at the Conrt
House in the borough of Huntingdon, on Wed.
nesday evening the 13th of August. The mem
bers of the Society, and farmers and mechanics
generally are invited to attend as business of
great importance will be transacted.
The members of the Executive Committee
will meet at 3 o'clock, P. H., to muke arrange
ments for the holding of a County Fair.
J. S. BARR, See'y,
Aug. 6, 1856.
CONFECT/OICARY d• FR VIT STORE
'WILLIAM
SUCCESSOR TO
THOMAS FRY,
WHOLESALE CONFECTIONER • FRUITERER,
No, 191 North Third St., above Wood, nil.
UANUFACTURER OF CONFECTION.
ary, Jujube Paste, Guns Drops, Chocolate
Drops, Brandy Drops, Liquor Bottles, Jelly
Cakes, Clem Chocolate, trench Tcys, White
Sugar Toys. &e., &e.
AND DEALER IN
Oranges, Lemons, Raisins, Currants, Citron,
Figs, Dates, Prunes, Almonds, Walnuts, Fit.
beds, Cream Nuts, Ground Nuts, Fire Crack
ers, Syrups, Tamarinds, Liquorice, Rock Can
dy, &e.,
The attention of Dealers is reqested to an
examination of my stock, which will be found
equal to any in Philadelphia.
N. B.—Orders by mail or otherwise prompt
ly attended to.
A Rare Chance for Speculation.
THE undersignea will scll at Public Sale, in
Cassville, Pa., on
Over ONE TfIOCSAND ACRES of valua
ble FARM and TIMBER LAND, situate in
the valley of Trough Crook,
and adjoining the
Broad Top Coal Field. The property is in
three tracts, but will ho sold separately or to.
gether.
NO. 1
Contains 170 Acres, mostly good farm land,
100 acres under fence and in cultivation ; ba
lance well timbered. A good log house, log
barn, orchard and other improvements.
NO, 2
_ . _
Contains 200 Acres,Jl . gOod meadow land, 50
acres cleared, balance heavily timbered with
white pine and white oak. Large stone house,
saw mill and other improvements, This is ono
of the best lumbering and grazing properties
in the county, being but 8 miles from the pre.
sent Broad Top Railroad, and immediately on
the line of the Last Broad Top Road.
NO. 3
. . .
Contains 700 Acres, and adjoins the above—
mostly timber land. Good Iw' house, barn and
orchard ; 50 acres cleared, balance white oak
and rock oak timber. An excellent water po.
woe suitable for a tannery surrounded by seer.
ral thousand acres of Bock Oak Bark. This
tract also contains fine atone coal.
The above property will be sold at a great
bargains and on easy terms, viz: Rom• oqual
annual payments on interest. Examine the
property before the day of sale.
Ju1y23;56,
G. W. SPIER,
Maina 111 LIEVIrEITOVA
At Spruce Creek, Hunt. Co., Pa.
tT is designed to open this School on Monday,
the 28th inst., and to continue it eight weeks.
he Union Church at Spruce Creek has been
procured for the use of the Institute, and ar•
rangements made with private families for
hoarding the student teachers.
Teams—Boarding, $2 per week, Tuition, $3
per term. ALBERT OWEN,
Ju1y23,'56. Co. Superintendent.
JOSEPH DOUGLASS, in McConnellstown
has constantly on hand , ready made rides, and:is
prepared to make and repair Guns ofnll k inds at
the shortest folic, rAprii 22, 1855.