Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-09-11
A Scott Gun Spiked,

The Scott press have paraded vote cast by Gen.
Pierce against bill allowing one Edmund Brooke, of
Georgetown, in the District of Columbia bring into
the District two slaves from the State of Virginia.
In opinion, Pierce gave vote more worthy
of Southern praise than this If Congress has the e
gal right admit slaves within the District by law will
it not follow that has the right to send them out of
the District by law 1t occurs to u.s. that this is the
very argument employed by the Scott wings in regard
to the Territories But let that pass for what it is
worth Georgetown is in that part of the District of
Columbia ceded by Maryland. In 1896 the State of
Maryland passed law in these words
''That it shall not be lawful, from and after the
passage of this act, to import or bring into this
State, by land or water, any negro, mulatto, or
other slave, for sale, OR TO RESIDE WITHIN
THIS STATE; and any person brought to this
State as slave, contrary to this act, if slave
before, shall thereupon Immediately cease to be
the property of the person or persons so import
ing or bringing such slave within this State and
shall be free.''
Onthe 9th of Feb, 1901, Congress passed law,
the first section ofwhich is as follows
''That the laws of the State of Virginia, as
they now exist, shall be and continue in force in
that part of the District of Columbia, which was
coded by the said State to the United States, and
by them accepted for the permanent seat of gov
eminent; and that the ldaOs of the State of Mary
land as they now erist, shall be and continue IN
force IN that part Of the said District sicA aOas
ceded By that State to the United States, and By
them accepted as Gforesaid.''
This law can be found in the u S. Statutes at large
VOL 2, page lO3-a copy of which can be seen by our
proof demanding Scott men, at the Office of almost
any lawyer in our city. ia
which the bill for the suppression of the slave trade
the District of Columbia defended in this State
last summer First, it to prevent the increase Of
slaves within the District and in the second place. il
but simply the re-enactment of the Maryland law
twill be perceived by the bill for the relief of Brooke
whichwe give below, that no application was made tc
repeal the Maryland law it was demand for "spe
cial privilege in favor of Brooke to permit him t.
do that which denied by law, for any other
to do. Gen. Pierce disincIned to grant right tt
Brooke that denied to other citizens of the Dis
trict that not all he was not disposed to Sc
aside by law of Congress, law enacted by the PEG
pie of the State of Maryland for their own protection
. Here is what Mr. Brooke asked-[See U. s. statutes
at large, vol. 6, p 600.
s'That Edmund Brooke, of Georgetown, in tn
district of Columbia, be authorized, and permits
sion is hereby granted him, TO BRING FROM TIL
STATE OF VIRGINIA, into the said District of Co
5 lumbia, two negro slaves namely, John an,
I Alfred, the property of the said Brooke; and Il
= have and to exercise the same rights Of property
and of ownership, over the said slaves as if the
9 had been brought by the said Brooke into sal
9 District at the time of his removal to the sal
: District of Columbia, any law, usage or custom
J to the contrary Notwithstanding.
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g 9Will our neighbor Of the Argus, loan US the pa
b. Per containing cabelPs letter. of which he speaks
We will publish the letter if can get copy of it
make the amende to Cabell for saying that be wouI