The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-30
epeset 1p Nuspapsr poeo man l autress Of osas

ing him to produce the body of the per-
son. with the day and cause of his cap
ture and detention. and to do and submit
to. and receive whatsoever the Judge of
Court awarding the writ shall consider
IN that behalf.'' According to this au-t
thor this writ was designed TO carry out
more perfectly, the provisions of the
great English Magas Charta, that no
man should be deprived of liberty "un-
less it be by legal enactment, or the pro-
cess of common law" which includes
trial by jury.
The time is rapidly approaching when
a Lord Mansfield will preside as Chief
Justice over the Courts of the United
States. The times are propitious for
such an event. The Judiciary of the
North hayeshown more of that spirit dur
ing the last year which immortalized the
name of Mansfield, and shed a lustre of
unfading glory on the jurisprudence of
England, than at any former period. A
few bright names are already enrolled in
the galaxy of freedom, aud others win be
added to it from day to day. "The re-
cent occurrences along the Kansas from
tier" in the languageof friend recently
writing us from the East, "have done
more for the cause of freedom in America
than alithe anti-slavery speeches, address
es and publications of the last twenty
fse years"
Ii we were garrisonian Abolitionist,
which we are happy to say we are not,
we should love to have Missouri contin-
uc the agitation, and destroy few more
presses, tar and feather, and ride upon
rail aud expel from the Territory of Kan
sas and from Missouri few more per-
sons. All, we would pray that fire and
sword might be employed by them to
the full extent Of their ambition.
1t is reported that Gen. MARION said
when the British were overrunning the
Colonies, laying waste their fields, driving
off their cattle, burning their houses, and
hanging the citizens, that it was just
what was desired to secure freedom to
America. That the only danger was
thatthey would not protract theiroutrages,
or make them sufficiently numerous to
arouse the people to a proper apprecia-
ton of their situation.
1t may well be feared by anti-slavery
men that the outrages along the border
viii not be repeated. If the excitement
shall be continued the days of slavery are
numbered in Missouri. It may eventu-
ate in a dissolution of the Union, but that
dissolution win be the end of American
slavery. Eminent southern statesmen
are aware of this fact, and some of their
leading spirits have so expressed them
selves. In Congress they are rampant
in favor of a dissolution whenever they
have any fayorite measure to carry, but if
northern statesmen viii take those same
men at their word, they will find differ
ent sentiment existing in the South.
If the time shall ever come when the
federal Union shall be dissolved, and
when those States shall be pelligerent,
then adieu forever to the gross wrongs
which are now practiced upon one-sixth
of the entire population of our country.
The law of might will no longer make
right, but the oppressed slave willassume
an equality with the master. Ii slave
holders wish to precipitate such a condi-
ton upon the country, let them continue
their outrages upon freedom. From the
inception of our government, that institu-
Ftion has been continued serieso Of aggres-
sions upon the rights of the North. One
demand after another has been gratifed,
until, like the child, which knows no re-
straint, it is determined it will not be kept
within parental influence.
The sages of the revolution lent all
their influence to extend the area of free
dom. The advocates of slavery. in the
present day, are laboring with equal en-
ergy to oppress. and destroy what was
erected with so much loss of treasure,
and SO much blood. 1t viii not always
be so. and the disciples of Blackstone viii
not always be found framing arguments
for the oppressor. The time will come
when they viii enter the temple ofjustice
and aid in erecting the altar which is
nearly in ruins around the goddess OF
liberty.
Slavery. we are well aware, exists in
Kansas. but the most devoted votary OF
the institution is conscious that the time
is not Ear distant when it will be outlaw
ed. Il is already interdicted BY the pop
ular voice. Three-fourths of our popu-
iation arc ready to declare thatit shall not
exist among us- Missouri has expended
thousands of dollars, her citizens have
expended their best energies. and have
absolutely oyerrun US. and in violation
of all law and all precedent. and to their
eternal disgrace. elected a Legislature,
some ofwhose members are this day &C
tual residents of Missouri. to enact laws
for our government. Those laws will be
disregardad. and the authority to enforce
them de6ed. And. further. thetime has
arrived when the hand of oppression
must be stayed in the Territory.
The fact that slavery now exists in
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