Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-08-25
Laws In Kansas.

,f Kansas" Read them, and then boast
IF "our liberal institutions
An ACT TO FCNIsH oFFESsEs AGAIssTs SLAVE
PROPERTY.
SEC. l. Ever person, bond or free, con-
victed of raising a rebellion Of slaves, free
negroes or mulattoes-shall suffer deats.
SEC. >. Every free person who shall
aid in any rebellion of slaves, DC, or do
any overt act in furtherance thereo.-shall
suffer death.
SEC. 3. If any free person shall by
speaking, writing. or printing. advise, IN
dure, de-, any slaves tO rebel, consplfe
against or murder any citizens of Kansas,
or shall import or aid in importing such
documents, he shall suffer death.
SEC. 1. lfany person shall entice, de-
coy or carry out of Kansas any slave be-
longing to another, with intent to deprive
tie owner thereof of the services of such
slave, he shall suffer death or be imprison-
ell at hard labor for not less than zen
years.
SIC. 5. If any person shall assist in
enticing, &C., (as above )--shsllsuilerdeath
or be imprisoned at hard labor for not less
than ten years.
SEC. G. Ii any person shall enticc or
carry away out Of any State or Territory
of the U. S. any slave = = = and
shall bring such slave into this Territory,
dc, 4 :: he shall suffer death, or
he imnrisoncd at hard labor for not less
than ten years.
Sec. l.. If any free pc son, BY speak
ing or by writing, assert or maintain, hat
persons hare not tie riyM tOhold Staoes IN
.Me territory, or shall introduce into Kansas,
print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to
be introduced into the territory, written,
printed, published, or cit culated in this ter
Iritory, any book, paper, magazine, pamph-
let, or circular containing any denial OF
the rights Of persons to hold slaves in this
territory, such person shall be deemed gull
ty of felony, and punished by imprison-
ment at hard labor for a term not less than
two yoars
Death is the penalty for expressing ar
opinion that happens to conflict with those
of Stringlellow and Atchison. If at
ter the passage of such laws the eyes o
the people of the North are not opened t'
the real designs of the Slavery propagan
lists, Free Soilism may as well be giyol
up.
AS another sample Of the way thing
are managed in Kansas and Missouri, W
publish the following circumstance -
Northern man, merchant, was arrested
by a mob, at Weston, Missouri, on sus
picon of being an Abo!itionist. Hi
trunk was broken open, his letters read
and his books examined. They coul
find nothing against him, but acting Q,
the supposition that every northern ma
was an abolitionist, they sentenced him t
leave the State within six days, and furth
ermore that he must not so into the ad
Joining territory of Kansas, under penalt
Of death ! Squatter sovereignty
IEMAG1c.-From some cause or 9th
or there has remarkable dearth Of amuse
ments in Plymouth this summer. Gees
sionally, the rowdy boys, in spasms {
innoce jocularity, break landlord
hcad-now and then the amiable youth
who congregate on the Square tic tir
kettle to a dogs tail, and sometimes hay
been known to soak said tail in turpentir
and apply fire to it, for the purpose of as
certainins the exact speed a dog ca
make, with fire behind and a clear field b
fore it. One very warm day, Cuykendal
the Druggist, offered a dime premium
any person over twenty-oDe years Of aG
= who should, blind folded, wheel barro
: from the sidewalk and strike the liberty
pole in the square, the first time. The II
. al was made and the dime won. But
these affairs are neither refined nor elovatiI
d our opinion, merely, supported howev
l. by the dogs, landlords and those who COZ
tested for, but didn't win Cuykendall
dimc) we r.poat there has been . dearth
) proper amUSements.
= Last week we thought tho existing sta
Of things would be broken. We obscrv
a variety Of flaming posters stuck up
, divers places, announcing that the renow
} cd and justly-celebrated Magician, the +
d llir of silva would exhibit his feats of le
lie crdemain, under q spacious "Cirque
s. Marquee" We will not be positive tn
the bills stated that q procession wou
y enter town at 10 precisely, but we got II
e. Impression somewhere, and accor1ingI
I'd wo looked cut for the procession. At !;
q it came. The order in which it pass
- our office, was as follows
aS One horse wagon, containing fc
at unwashed, uncombel, shock headed,
ol- whiskered Dutchmen, blowing dolort
,o- sounds through the same number of br
instruments,
''S a score Of dirty boys, generally W
yes the under garment floating from an az
r. ture in the pautaloons behind.
,bt A farmers wagon containing fruit.
,, Boys as aforesaid, stealing fruit from
o' wagon.
Gle. We didn't attend the performance.
ace Fakir in distributing free tickets foi
o,r the second story Of Odd Fellows Bic
WI therefore, We think it must be huml
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