Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-10-03
Sanatter SOYereigntT.

On the 9Th day Of March, 1890, Con-
gress admitted Missouri as a Sovereign
State, but provided that no State there
after should be admitted with a recogni-
ton of slavery, north of SO deg. Som.
This was in the usual form of territorial
bills, except section o, which reads as
follows
Sec. s. That in all that territory
coded by France TO the United States, I'M
der the name of Louisiana, which lies
north of t~hirty-six degrees and thirty
minutes north latitude, not included
within the limits of the State contempla.
ted by this acl, slavery AMI involuntary
servitude, otherwise than in the punish
ment Of crimes, whereof the parties shall
have been duly convicted, shall be, and
is hereby fore ser prohibited. Provided
always, that any person escaping into
the same, from whom labor and service
is lawfully claimed, in any State or Ter
ritory of the United States, such fugitive
may be lawfully reclaimed and convey
ed to the person claiming his or her labor
or service as aforesaid"
On the 29Ih day of May, 1854, the act
passed the U. S. Senate, which formed
the territorial government of kansas and
Nebraska, (the same having passed the
House four days %previously,) the four
teenth section of which provides, among
other things" That tie constitution and
all the lars Of tie United Stqtes, Ohich are
not locally inaPpGoa6te, shall hare the saae
force and effect wthin tile said territory Of
Nebraska as elSe0here scahin tie United
States, ercept the eighth section Of the act
preparatory to the admission IF Missouri
into the Union, approved March 9Th, 1890,
-Which IS hereby declared inoperatiVe Ga&
UOid." The passage of the Kansas and
Nebraska act was deemed ard treated by
the North as a violation of public faith.
The South regarded it with favor, and
the author Of the act itself undertook to
show argumentatively that the effect CT
the above repeal was not to admit Slave
~ into the Territory of Kansas and Ne
braska. Before its passage, no man pre-
tends that Slavery could go into Kansas;
the act of organization declares that it
cannot 60 there by virtue Of that doc
ument, but somehow or another it is
found there, and the first Territorial Leg
~islature are now considering, and doubt
less will pass, if the have not already,
a bill which provides, other things,
as follows:
"Sec. 19. If any person by speak
ing or by writing, assert or maintain, that
persons hare not The right 10 hold SLaues IN
tie Territory, or shall introduce into Kan
sas, or print, publish, write, circulate, or
cause to be introduced into the territory,
written, printed, publish or circulate in
this territory, any book, paper, magazine,
pamphlet or circular containing any de-
NAL of the right of persons to hold slaves
in this territory, such person shall be
deemed guilty of felony, and punished
by Imprisonment at hard labor for a term
not less than two years"
Thus it will be seen, in short, that the
fruits of the great doctrine of Squat
Ter Sovereignty, promulgated by Gen.
Cass, and based upon section fourteen of
the Kansas and Nebraska act, are heavy
penal Legislation, making it a felony, pun
by hard labor for a term not less
two years, to declare or write in the
territory of K nsas, the truth of the very
words of the act of Congress which or
.anizes the Territorial government, and
gives life to her Legislation, declaring that
it is the true intent and meaning of
the act, not to legislate Slavery into the
territories or States" 1t is very clear
that slavery did not and could not exist
Kansas, after March 8, 1920. and pre-
vious to May 96th, 1854. 1t is quite as
clear that it does exist there now, and
and has done eve since. The act de-
,lares that it did not go there by virtue
Of its provisions, and if it did not, how
did it go there legally? Yet a Teritori-
bill makes it a felony to state that it
does not lawfully exist there.-DetrOa
Advertiser.