The daily union., 1854-02-22

servant by stripes when lazy, disorderIy, or guilty Of
misbehayior 10 his master
The 9th section provides for redfessing the grievances
OF ne servant when ll-used by his master
The SIN section imposes penalties upon the " master or
owner tor p9Ing away any lame OF slek servant under
pEetence OF ireedom," &c
| The ylh section Is as follows
| 9 No negro, mulauo Indian shall a any time pur.
chae any servant other than Of their complexion
presume 10 purchase @bs ssysa saoa .sfvsnt shall
im@etiaey become free, and shall be 50 held deemed,
The 10th section imposes penalties upon any person
who shall trade with servant without the consent OF
his master or owner"
| The lllh section is as follows
ln all cases penal laws where free persons are pun
after the rate of twenty ashes every eight dollars So
al 70 servant shh receive more than forty ashes at any
| pay the fine"
| The 18th section is as follows.
| If any slave OF shall be lound at the dis
Or toe person win whom he che lives, without pass
some letter or okon whereby may appear that he she
err o. ssa aa3 may be s~a for any pepn
pPTehsnd and carry him or her before justice Of The
Ing thry-iiye at his discretion"
Section l4th s as follows:
"If any slave shall presume come and be
upon the plantaon The dwelling any person
upon lawful buspess. shall be lawful for the
OF sucn plantation dwelling house give order
slave or servant ten ashes his her bare back"
/ The 18th section provides that any siirs or sapes
servants" who shall be gay OF unia wIui
assemblies, seditous speeches., SIC, shall be punished
with stripes, at the discretion OF justice OF the peace,
not exceeding thirty nine"
The 10th section imposes penalty Of one hundred dol.
lars ior harbonng any servant or staue OF cooy" and
fine OF FIVE hundred dollars for assisting any servant or
SLAVE To ahscond iron bis or her MASTER"
Now sir, # il was not The object and meaning of these
Territories OF Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, will you
have The Kindness 10 inform the public what object the
legislature had In view in passing them Although
these enaclments appear the statute book having
been passed and approved nth OF September 1907
yet may be proper TO remark that OF the provis
ons had been IN force or many years previous aud
colated, arranged, and reenaced as OF that date Sacb
the condition OF the laws respect to slavery in all
thai district OF country which embraces the present
States Of Indiana, illinois, and Wisconsin. When The In
diana Territory divided and the Territory OF Illinois
established in 1909, these laws continued in force
in the Illinois Territory, with perhaps variations not
important 10 the matters controversy, during the
entire period Of her territorial condition and until her
admission into the Union as State The legislature al
s first session after the admission OF Illinois into the
Union, projected 10 revise all the laws then in force
and TO make such changes as bad been rendered
say By The transition from territorial 10 State gov
eminent Among these revised laws win be foand ,Ja
page 354 an ACT respecting free negroes, mulaoes ser
wants. and slaves approved March &c. 1919 This act con-
ssts OF twenty-five sections less than fifteen of which
copied almost word for word from those territorial
acts 10 which have directed your attention By com
pairing The provisions OF this act with those of the terri
oiIa laws, ii will be observed that all the euactuents in
the territorial statutes which intended 10 aDd
Riaatam the rfgts Of s master 70 his apS preserved
and continued IN force whether such slaves held by
the master under contracts and indeniures Otherwise
On the other hand it will be remembered. by the same
comparson that those provisions in the territorial stat,
ucs which Guaortzed the INTRODUCTION SLAVES from
The savehoaIug States and Territories omitted This
omission was not accIdental was not the result Of
mere oversight, bat IL made iysediy with The
view Of having the law conform the FIST section of
the sixth article OF the constitution OF the Stale, which is
Ia the following words;
Nil
AFTER be INTRODUCED into tbs Sate otherwise or the
pun snment ul erae whereof party shall have been
euS convicted nor sha any nas person, arrived the
age ci 3enyoae years, nor female psson arrived The
age OF eighteen, he heid to serve any psoa
nuder any ndeGure msde unless such person
SHAT enter uio such udenture while In Of pprfeet
freedom ard on condition ou bonn ffs consideration
ceiyed be received tor this sha any
udenute OF any negro or meiaro uEkEARrER made anu
the Of service exceeds year. be the least yadi
~ except those given in cases Of apprenticeship"
The Legislature, having conloraed TO the letter and
spirit oil the Constitution by onitng all those provisions
oil The territorial laws which authorized the nlroduc-
ton oil slaves into The Territory, there should be
no legal authority Tor the Introduction u any more slaves
into the State proceeded 10 protect by legal enactment
the rights ol the owners 10 all the slaves in the State
when the constitution adopted, in obedience 10 what
was conceived 10 be clearly implied obligation in the
section OF the constitution which have quoted
In reg ard indentured slave however there was
an express stipulation the constitution protecting the
rights OF the master or owner in the following words
f" Each and every gerson who has been bound to ser.
coutract lbdentuTe Ylttne OF the
Illinois Territory heretofore existing, and In conformity 10
the provisions ci the same, without fraud COLLISION
shall be held specific performance of their conrac or
indeuures and such ncgrasa aud mula0es have been
registered conformity with The aore aid laws shall
serve oar the Iime appointed by such laws"
Thus appears tha, hess territorial laws TO which
have directed Your attention, and under the authority
OF which slaves and slavery were introduced nio the
Territory and maintained aud protected there and even
ade hereditary, FAR compel the children 10 serve
The o their parents tor twenty.e or hrly
years, according TO their sex-lhese very laws aud the
slavery introduced and established BY them To the ey.n
Necessary protect The rights Of the owners 10 all slaves
IN the Territory we're sanctioned and affirmed by the con.
sitution, 10 defiance OF the ordnance Of 1857.
bot must return to the aote-ad OF 1872 and call
your attention OF iis provisions nasmuch as il
oil the laws which yoa deemed il 30 great an
The constitution and yoar oath when governor oil Illinois
Section 18Th. " That aRy such servant being law \
disodefv guilty ui mshehsviJr 10 his master or mas
teT's family, shall be corrected BY stripes" Sc
Section I6,h "And II any master or owner shall nut
away any lame sick servant, under pteence OF free
DOM, sc, such master wner shall osfei and psy
thirty dollars" &c
Section l7tl THAT 10 negro muluiio or Indian shoH
al dny iEs pgretfss any TVAN or their own
csmpisrioa and ii any OF the persons afo esad sha
nevertheless presume 10 purchase ,OhIts aTUart such
seivani shsll immediately become FREE aud shall be 20
held, deemed, and taken"
Section - pruyides hat no person shall trade with
"aay sefvant % slave, &c "and any person offending
shall orie and pay to the master OF such slave
Or servant Tour lines The value" &c
Section loh, That in all cases 81 penal laws where
TRrE persons are punishable By hne iaa be pun
al affg gLzg So