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THE TRUE ISsuE

The course pursued by the administration
and by the last Congress in repeating the
Missouri Compromise and removing all Oh.
structions to the extension and consequen.
nationalizing Of SLAYER, justly aroused the in
dignation of tho country. 1t is rot sur.
prising that those whose feelings were out
ragged by those wanton and reckless proceed
ings, determined to restort to extreme meas
ures for redress. Smarting under this great
and uDprovokcd wrong and the bad faith ex.
hibited, demand Immediately went forth for
q restoration Of the Compromise act, and
there are some who yet perhaps press that
restoration as the measure and means of re-
dress. But constituted as the Senate is, with
many protesting great Difference to the prin.
ciple of popular sovereignty, yet VIGOROUSLY
setting popular opinion in their states at de-
fance, restoration Of the Compromise, how
ever desirable, hardly can be hoped for until
that body has undergone considerable man.
ipulation by the people.
A more comprehensive and many think a
better issue is presented in the question of
limiting slavery to the states, and prohibiting
it in all the territories beyond the jurisdiction
Of the states. This is the true theory of the
government. The constitution went into op-
GRAFTON, with no slavery in any portion of the
territory owned by the United States, nor
was any authority or power delegated to the
government to establish the institution. Nor
did the government ever establish it, or au.
thorize it to be established in the territories
in the early years of the republic. So far as
it existed in the Southwest territory, it was
by the laws Of the States having jurisdiction
before they executed deeds OF cession, and
was continued by virtue of express conditions
in those deeds. In the territory Of Orleans,
now the State Of louisiana, it has existed uu.
der the laws of both Spain and France. But
when Upper Louisiana, or the territry north
OF the thirty-third parallel of latitude was
annexed and placed under the Jurisdiction OF
Indiana, it was with restriction. Indi.
rectly and insidiously, however, it was intro.
duced in portions Of that country, until a
stand was made against its further extension,
first in organizing the territory of Arkanzas,
and next on the admission of Missouri as a
State, with demand on the part of the men,
earnest and resolute in the first instance, that
it should DO driven back below the latitude oil
thirty-three, where it had been limited in
1904. The result was the compromise estab-
lishcd in 1920, by which three and hall
degrees were surrendered by the free states,
and to which many were never fully recon.
ciled. But the abrogation of that compro-
mise brings up the original question of linn
itlng entirely to the states; practical ques-
ton, and one that must become on element
in our politics, until fually and eflectually
disposed Of, Tor on that decision depends the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-12-06

TIE CASE OF Mocha IN KANsAs.-This case
illustrates the mode in which Presiden, Pierce's
judiciary administers criminal justice. ], will be
remembered, that at the September term, the
Grand Jury was unable to find bi against Nc.
Crea. Judge Leconpete was not satisfied with
this action, and secretly, without the knowledge
of McCrea or his counsel added some seven more
to the Grand Jury, al Of them against the pr-.
oner, and on The l4th inst. this new jury brought
in bill for murder in the first degree. At the
first attempt, there were FIVE for bill, and eleven
against The seven which were added, were
just enough o make majority. Several of the
seven new ones were empanneIed before on the
Peti, Jury, so it will be seen tina. Judge Lecom
pete has system of promoting the Petit Juror
specially. if he finds them right on the goose. >
which is phrase applied to Slave State men
McCrea has been confined ever since his frs
arrest.
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The Governor Of South Carolina, in his mes
sage 10 the Legislature, just assembled, tukcs up
the Personal Liberty bill of Massachusetts, the
course of that State relating to their Fugitive
Slave law, &C., and all but declares war against
her, and the North generally, for their action on
the slavery question. In short, he talks rather
more like fool tban any of the Southern gov
ernors who have spoken on the subject.
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BDon't fail to read Mr.. McKeen's excellent
anti slavery argument entitled " Noah's Curse ~
in this paper. 1t will richly pay for the peru
sal. Such articles are and will continue to be,
welcome to the columns of the Freeman.
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ne towers of the new suspension bridge now
IN process Of ccnstruetien shont ,,, 49, Se,ou
n " over the Genesee River. fell Tuesday
s.'e,noon, with a tremendous crash, and nov lie
on the bank. total wreck. Ne nsr sD wa, in.
cured. ~" F"son was W.
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SENATOR FROM Texas. Hon. Thomas 7
Rusk, has been unanimously reelected hv III,
Legislature Of Texas, United State. Sen,,o,
from that State. '''
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W Aic6fhHunicatiohs to the FREEMAN, whether nbas
ness Of the paper or for publication should be Addressed
post pafd,t o the Editor.
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nationality Of slavery. II it extends into
the territory, it must be by the authority or
permission of the central government, and it
is no longer an institution OF the States ex-
cuslvely, but becomes national. Hitherto
the free States have not been responsible for
the existence and continuance of slavery-it
was justly considered local institution, be-
longing to the States which sanctioned it,
But tho legislature of 1854, and the policy
OF The administration, changes the character
and course OF the government For the acts
of commission or omission of the federal
government, we of the free states, as we'll as
those OF the slave states, are accountable and
it that government establishes or permits 9th.
ers to establish slavery where it has juris-
dlctlon and can prevent it, We are responsible
therefor, and must be justly so considered in
the estimation Of the world, and of impartial
and memorable history.
The prohibition Of slavery in all the terri
tory is sound and enduring principle, and
those faithless senators, disappearing their
states who oppose it, righteous public opin-
ion will soon furnish remedy. Let freedom
be the national law and slavery an exclusive
ly state institution-apply the Jeffersonian
ordinance to all the territories now, as was
done at the adoption of the constitution-and
the country will be relieved of this disturbing
element. 1t will then be question for the
states, in their sovereign capacity, respective
ly to decide whether they will establish the
institution. If slavery is excluded from the
territories while in their depended condition,
he,peo flseaSt will not be likely to introduce il
when theIrn." self-goverirheit and be-
come Y. Eucn., Posi-. ~
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GUS people yet anboEl IoS account Of a.
misdemeanor Of remote ancestor whilo in e.
other case, the people had knowingly and pre-
sumptuously, provoked against themselves Je-
hovah's displeasure by trampling on his lava
Then in executing the supposed senten Of sla-
very the agents are considered perfectly justifa-
BILE, whereas in executing judgements on the
Jews, they confessedIy acted wickedly and
brought down upon themselves the wrath of
God.
Take for illustration the case Of Sennacherib,
king of Assyria, who carried away the rulers
and people of Israel into captivity. God pro-
nounced woe especially upon the rulers for
their unrigh,eous DEGREES, and proclaimed that
dcsolation should come upon them from afar.
They were thus devoted people. He, more
over, expressly declared his purpose to send
against them the king of Assyria to plumber
them, and tread them down like mire in the
streets. This mighty monarch, of his own &C.
cord, withoutthe least regard to Jehovah's pur
poses or glory, came and executed on them
the judgments Of which they had been fore
warned. But, acting from selfish motives, he
brought down upon himself, and his followers,
the wrath Of God. 1.-THE Lord of hosts sent
among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory
he kindled burning as the burning of fire."
And 30. provided the race of Ham ,oere des-
tined to slavery. which we do not admit, those
who, from selfish motives, enslave them, might
bring upon themselves the curse of God for 50
doing. Pontius PLATE and the people of the
Jews we're assembled against Christ to do what
ever Gods hand and his counsel had before
determined to be done and yet they crueifed
him with wicked hands, and drew down upon
themselves his terrible displeasure. Whoeysr
will undertake to be an executoncr of Gods
sentence of condemnation, on any of his fellow
men, must be sure that he has been personally
and expressly appointed to that solemn and
deeply responsible Office and that he executes
his commission in the fear of God. But this
warrant from the Almighty the dealers in the
bodies and souls Of their fellow men surely can
not exhibit. They act presumptuously and
wickedly, and whoever encourages them to be-
lieve that Godapproves of their conduct involves
himself deeply in their enormous guilt
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his under the spirit of inspiration, or other
wise than rashly and profanely. In the next
place, it was uttered with exclusive reference to
Canaan, having no more respect to the other
branches Of Hams family than to the families
of Shem and Japhet. And, in the third place, it
appears that even the posterity of Canaan, never
have been any more subject to slavery than the
rest of mankind. Thus vague, fruitless and
extremely absurd, is the attempt to prove, from
Noah's curse, that slavery, particularly in the
line of the posterity of Ham, is an ordinance
of revealed religion That the final destruction
of the Canaanites had any connection with this
curse, we have no evidence.
But it is said that Christians. in all periods,
have justified the curse and stigma of guilty
Ham. This assertion stands without proof. l.
it means strictly all Christians, in all ages it j,
decidedly erroneous. If it means, and it could
be proved, that, sons Christians in all ages, have
thus held, it will only be another evidence of
the fact that some Christians, in all ages, have
fallen into great errors. What evidence is it
that the bread and wine used in the sacrament
supper are converted, in the act of conservation,
into the very body and blood of the Saviour,
that multitudes of his professed people have,
through many ages, believed it! Some have
believed that Ham, by the curse, was converted
into black man, and that his posterity have
been, universally, of the negro race which is
perfectly chimerical.
1t is maintained that there is no more ohjec-
ton to Gods condemning the rosterity of Ham
to be enslaved by the postcrity of his brothers,
thu = vine in af,zs "a nv ted "a the
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CENSUS OF 1850.

This was the proportion in 1850, but how much
has this evil increased since that time, owing 10
the wars aud the distress Of the people in Europe?
And what Is the future prospect That this coun.
try should be the refuge Of the distressed Of ell ma
tuns we do not object 10. We do object that Il
shall be the Botany Bay Of Europe, and we will
resist the idea that such population shall immcd.
atcly be made citizens, become our masters, and
rule NJ. They DO not understand Republication,
and we do
II Is now u wcll-ascertancd fact that this has
been a subject Of deliberate consideration among
the crowned heads and the enemies Of civil liberty
in Europe to whom We are an cycsorc. II Is 10y
them considered the most efcctial mode OF destroy
ing the last and only hope Of liberty in the world
"by Systematically throwing upon US their refuse
population Of the lowest class to become citizens
here, with various feelings languages, and senti.
incnts Of oxcitabIc character, accustomed to scr
Witty, aud suddenly freed from restraint with the
idea that here any lccntiousness may be indulgcd
ia; thereby TO produce discord, anarchy, confu-
sion, and civil war, 80 that popular individual
shall assume the government, az usually happens
in such cases, and restore order with absolutc
power to himself; to do which, the soyeregns Of
Europe, the emigrants, and many oi the native,
would assist him.
These were the views az disclosed by the Duke
Of Richmond, who declared that this government
would be destroyed that il ought not, and would
not, be permitted to exist, because Of the many
great evils which had originated fom its existence
to the Powers Of Europe.
II is in political point Of view that this evil Is
most felt la five years this foreign population
become citizens, and vote, often before. At the
rate Of half million OF immigrants annually, It does
not take long to feel the effect The right to
vote" saws Mr. Clayton, :" is Hc right 10 gore,n,"
and so il surely is. These men, for the greater
| part have no American feelings they arc mere
instruments in The hands Of dcmagogucs easily di.
rected in masses by one man to accomplish his own
objects Who doubts that Bishop Hughcscan sway
the Irish, or Kossuth the Gennahsg What do the
| greater part know or care who they vote for
They are naturally the object Of courtship or bar
gain. See when an election is about to take place
In the cities, how they are conducted by crowds TO
court, to be made citizens headed by the pollti.
cal agents Of party, who pay the expense, and
obtsin their votes Many of them are 80 ignorant,
that they cannot properly answer the necessary
questions although drilled for the purpose Is
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Marriage,

reflect that sound mind and body arc the most nc
ccssary requisites 10 promote connubia happiness
Indeed without these, the journey through life be-
comes weary pilgrimage; the prospect hourly
darkens TO the view; the mind becomes shadowcd
with despair and filled with The melancholy rcHec.
ton, that the happiness Of another becomes bghtcd
with our own.