Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-12-04
Law and Cannon.

Law and Cannon.
The probability is, that all who were
engaged in the late RUNAWAY nigger affair
at Milwaukee, or, who are suspected to
have been so engaged, will be apprehended
tried aal coavicse /, an thai they viii suf
fer the extreme penalty of the law. One
has already been convicted and sentenced
another would be but for Jehovah's inter-
ferance. IT'S well-the law should be o.
beyed,-we question the right Of any man
to disobey the laws of his country--for
conscience sake! Let us see however how
the same laws Of the United are conscrew-
ed when there is migger on the other
side of the fence: Captain Walker fitted
out an armed expedition against Baja Cal
iSornia few months ago, in defiance OF
the laws of neutrality. Baja California,
as the natives call it, is distant section of
country belonging to Il Nation with which
ours is at peace-but we wautedi it to make
a new Slave State, to work niggers. Well,
the same papers bringing the news of con-
viction in the first named case, also report
:ne trial and total failure to convict this
Walker, who led the fllibustering gang,
in the last named case. Verify how are
we to understand and apply these bundles
of contraries, known as laws of the United
States? shall they never mean liberty, but
always defense of niger hantings Our
government, with all its tributaries, from
cabinet officer down to federal Judge
and its inquisition tool-the marshal, sees
a migger in everything, from an island be-
onging to a neighhoring nation down to a
lump of sugar or three-penny nail! A
white man can only be seen through mi
croscrope, and then he is only viewed as a
maggot; while nigger, is visible to the
naked eye, and appears as big as an ele-
plant or king Slavery and liberty
seem to be at war. Government and fed
eral courts seem to be allied in the provo
eative case to carry it on for Slavery. We
see the conflict approaching and have enlis-
ted for the war,--a constitutional war for
the rights of free white labor.
Wanting in sympathy for abolitionism.
we have yet less sympathy for this eternal
Slave hunting war, in which one nigger e.
licits more interest from our courts and
government officers than fifty of the best
white men in America. The government
spent over $4,000 to catch miserably
decrepid old Niger at Boston last
spring, yet refusing less sum to
remove lake and river snags in order
to save hundreds of white persons
from passing into eternity every year,
Ten millions at lick can 60 for purchasing
a barren strip Of country for the better Sc
curity of negro Institutions, while the gov
eminent fists are fast elenched upon the
public lands to prevent the spread of white
labor and freedom! Admit that home
stead law would be robbery of the U. s.
Treasury, is it not equally a robbery to APP
propriate millions for catching runaway
niggers and for the purchase Of territory
whereon to plant slavery with its everlas-
ting troubles
1t is true, our courts becoming alarmed
Mt their one-sidedness, have convicted late
~, a gentleman } for being engaged in
the external slave trade, but it is the only
instance in the history of the times, in
which any punishment has been awarded
to the workers forSlavery- Would toiod tie
tine same could be said of the workers for
hberty,-that only one had been punish
ed! The exception may be taken as a
sign that Goods justice cannot sleep for
ever" as the INN ortal Jefferson said.