Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-11-02
From the Detroit Advertiser.
WORSE AND WORSE!!

From the Detroit Advertiser.
WORSE AND WORSE!!
T The ball and Chain added to Whip
ping and imprisonment!
Ii 10 with humiliation that we examine our s
old statute books, while Lewis Cass was Gov.
etnor Of Michigan Territory, and find some Of 3
The most God dishonoring. oppressive, iyrani.
cal, aud outrageous laws .hereln recorded, thar
ever disgraced the statutes of a yranical mon.
arch, or blood-lhirs,y Nero. Wilhou, enlatg-
| ing upon the humiIiaiing fact iha, man could
be found on the American continent Who would
give coun,enance to subj inhuman and barbar-
Gus laws, and see them executed upon his fel-
low beings for the sake Of exercising "liuIs
brief authority" we will give The enac,men's by
W hich Lewis Cass used 10 govern The Territory
of Michigan:
!. AN ACT for the punishment of idle and dis.
orderly PERSONS
SeclIon / Be il enacted by the Gevernor
and Judges Of The Territory OF Michigan, thar
any Justice Of the Peace on conviction. may sen-
| ,ence any vagran,, lewdr Idle. or dsosjerly
persons, stubborn SERVANTS, commoa drefrka
common H,gbs-~ sEkers, p,fefers, OF aay pei
sons W aatoH or Ecentsoas IN speech, indecent in
behavior common faFiers or bfawlers, such as
ne gect their calling and employment. misspent
what they earn and do not provide for them
selves and families. TO BE WHIPPED. nor
EXCEEDING 10 STRIFES. or 10 he DE.
ELlVERED OVER TO ANY CONSTABLE,
to be employed IN Bsbor sos exceeding three
months by such con.,ablss to be HIRED
EOUT FOR THE.BES'F WAGES that can be
procured, the proceeds Of which to be applied
TO The use of the poor of The coun'ry.
Made, adopted and published at Desfofr, the
och day of July, 1919 LEWIS CASS.
Governor OF the Territory OF Michigan.
There are highly respee,abfs citizens now
living within the sound Of buge from De'roit,
whose SACRED BACKS, from WOUNDS iu-
hced by the cat-o-nloe.lais, and his Esw Of
Lewis Cass. are hving Witnesses that the law
was most numerically and 6arbarously execu-
ted. We ask the reader 10 look back and read
The law again, where white me8, under The ap-
proval Of Lewis Cass, were actually
Horse Whipped for being Poor.
And even this. no. satisfying the unsaliated
goa.ing for an exercise OF power over the peo-
ple-aGer having his bare back dreadfuy lac.
Grated by The ca,.o-nineiails IN the hands Of
some revengeful or the ariless half bred con-
stable, the unfortunate man was subject TO be
Sold into Slavery !!
10 redeem his liberty by the swea, Of hi. brow:
and in one case, al least, under The operation
Of Gen. Cass's humane white slavery law.
A White Man was sold to Ne
gro +! !!
here on the free soil of Michigan. This strange
and horrible scene was descfbeddo US a day
or two since by old resident, being
of the most hearl-rending and awful that could
be witnessed by human eyes. The ciIcum-
stance is we'll remembered by the old residents.
here. The foregoing fact is fully corroberaed
by the following from Niles Register, pub
lished al the time.
A White Man sold to a Negro.
"THE TABLES TURNED Under This head
We notice case that recently occurred at De-
irOil.. There is law in this Territory that
provides for the selling of idle and dissolu'e
persons at public auction. At one Of these
sales, a negro bought white man and ordered
him TO follow his master, and the order was
obeyed. But the poor black took his servan,
TO the steamboat, and paid his passage and re-
stored him 10 his freedom-saiisfied with send
ing hun ou, of the Territory"
| Every effort was made by the citizens TO
prevent a scene so Disgusting 10 the moral sen.
sibilI,ies Of freemen, bu, The rigor of Gen Cas-
edict forbid it. But thanks TO The better feel
ings Of the NEGRO. who had Just emerged
from bondage and began TO know The value of
libeny--being more humane than The law Civ
ers, set his bondman FREE. by sendin. him
out OF the reach Of the law tina, sold him into
servi,ude. But there are other features n this
law Of Gen. Cass' that need examination. 1t
will be discovered by reading i, again that the
poor victim was
Deprived of Trial by Jury !!
a right sacred to every American citizen...a
righ, GUARANTEED BY THE CONS'rl-
! TION, and sealed with The blood of our reYo-
luionary fathers.
Our readers will think that ,yrannical asur-
patton Of power could go no further: bu, we
are not get through the chapter The law which
we have quoted above was made and adopted by
Lewis Cass, Governor of The Territory Of Mich
igan. in the year 1915 Al as late a date as
down to 1927 we find the same monstrous Law
in operalion--d during which tine. Gen. Ca.
had been receiving some s2l per dsy, in reg.