The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-09-29
From the New York Tribute.
M1sSouri-Kansas Law. o'-

| O"USoO3 t'AO ShAOO OVuheJ
Commissioners for each of the eighteen Coun
ties into which they have seen fit to divide
the Territory, and three District Attorneys
for their three Judicial Districts every mar
] Pro-Slaverya man up to the hub-did one
very consistent act in adopting the laws gen
orally of Missouri as laws for Kansas The
Legislature being Missourians, elected by
armed gangs of Missourians, who seized up
on the polls and voted as much as they pleas
ed, and the Territory being thus temporarily
a subjugated colony of Missouri should be
formally extended over Kansas as ours were
over California after its conquest from Mexi-
co. This code, adopted from Missouri, of
course includes the Slave Laws geIierally.-
But, in addition to these, the Missourians
legislating for Kansas saw fit to bind their
conquests by sundry special laws, including
the following, under which (Sec. 81 any en-
igrant to Kansas who ventures to take with
him Jefferson's Works or any book of like
purport MAY thereon be convicted Of felony
and put to death
- We have already published the sub
stance of this atrocious enactment; but we
desire every reader to preserve copy in due
form for reference, so we print it with all it's
formalities from an official copy published
by authority: NJ. L. S., John L. Brady, Pub
lie Printer" Here is the beautiful document;
let John Van Buren and other recreant Free
soilers of 1S4S see their faces in it:
AN ACT TO PUNISH OFFENCES aaA1NsT SLAVE
PROPERTY.
SECTION l.: Be 1t enacted By tile Gouermor
and Legislature assembly Of the Territory of
Kansas: That every, person, bond or free.
who shall be convicted of actually raising a
rebellion or insurrection of slaves, free ne
groes or mulattoes in this Territory, shall
suffer death. r. ... . .s .-
SEC. 2. Every free person who shall aid
or assist In any rebellion or irisurrection of
slaves, free negroes or mulattoes, or shall
furnish arms, or do any overt act in further
ance of such rebellion or imsurrection, shall
suffer death. t. -....t .,...,, ..'.....,+.
Sec: 3. If any free person shall by speak
ing, writing or printing, advise, persuade or
induce any slaves to rebel, conspire against
or murder any citizen of this Territory, or
shall bring into, print, write, publish or cir
culate, or cause to be brought into, printed,
written, published or circulated, or shall
knowingly aid or assist in the bringing into,
printing, writing, publishing or circulating
in this Territory any book, paper, magazine,
pamphlet OF circular for the purpose of excl
ting insurrection, rebellion, revolt OF conspir-
acy on the part of slaves, free negroes or mu-
attoes against the citizens of the Territory
or any part of them, such person shall lie
guilty of felony and suffer death.
SEC. 4. If any person shall enticc, decoy,
or carry away out of this Territory, any slave
belonging to another, with intent to deprive
the owner thereof of the services of such
slave, or with intent to effect or procure the
freedom of such slave, he shall be adjudsed
guilty of Grand Larceny, and on conviction
thereof shall suffer death, or be imprisoned
at hard labor for not less than ten years.
SEC. 5. II any person sid or assist in en-
ticing, decoying, or persuading, or carrying
away or sending out of this Territory, any
slave belonging to another, with intent to
procure or effect the freedom of such slave,
or with intent to deprive the owner thereof
of the service of such slave, he shall be adj
judged guilty of Grand Larceny, and on con-
viction thereof, shall suffer death, or be i'm
prisoned at hard labor for not less than ten
years.
Sec. Z. If any person shall entice, decoy,
or carry away out of any State or other Ter
ritory of the United States any slave be-
longing to another, with intent to procure or
effect the freedom of such slave, or to de-
prive the owner thereof of the services of
such slave, and shall bring such slave into
this Territory, he shall be adjudged guilty of
Grand Larceny, in the same manner as if
such slave had been enticed, decoyed or car
ried away out of tlfis, Territory and in such
case the larceny may be charged to have
been committed in any County of this Ter
ritory, into or through which such slave
shall have been brought by such person and
on conviction thereof the person offending
shall suffer death, or be imprisoned at hard
labor for not less than ten years.
Sec. 7. If any person shall entice, per
suade, or induce any slave to escape from the
service of his m&ster or owner in this Terri
tory, or shall aid or assist any slave in es-
Gaping from the service of his master or
owner, or shall assist, harbor, or conceal any
slave who may have escaped from the service
of his master or owner, shall be deemed gull
ty of felony, and punished by imprisonment
at hard labor for term of not less than five
years.
| Sec. 8. IF any person in this Territory
shall aid or assist, harbori or conceal any
slave who has escaped from the service of his
master or owner in another State or Terri
tory, such person shall be punished in like
manner as il. such slave had escaped from
the service of his master or owner in this
Territory. r .-ta yraL a.
Sec. 9. If any person shall resist any
officer while attempting to arrest any slave
that may have escaped from the service Of
his master or owner, or shall rescue such
slave when in custody of any officer or other
person, or shall entice, persuade, aid or assist
tsuch slave to escape from the custody of any
officer or other person who may have such
slave, in custody, whether such slave have. es-
capped from the service of his master or own
er in this Territory or in any other State or
Territory; the person so offending shall be
guilty of felony and punished by imprison-
ment at hard labor for term of not less
than two years.
Sec, 10. If any Marshal, Sheriff or Con-
stable, or the deputy of any such officer shall
when required by any person, refuse to aid
or assist in the arrest and capture of any
slave that may have escaped from the service
of his master or owner, whether such slave
shall have escaped from his master or owner
in this Territory, or any State or other Ter
ritory, such officer shall be fined in sum, O