Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-10-16

regarded, and the Colonel was excluded from the
Courts of Kansas in violation of all precedent.
and in a manner unheard of by the legal profess
ion.
The Fugitive Slave Law
OF the action of Massachusetts in abrogation of
the Fugitive Slave Law we have no complaint
to make. 1t was from the first miserable illus
ion and worse in fact, for it uas an infringement
upon one oftis most CHERISHED principles of the Con-
situation. which provides that fugtives from Ia
Dor, "upon demand shall be delivered up" but
gives no power to Congress TO act in the affair.
The tenth amendment to the Constitution. pro-
vides that 'lhe powers not delegated 10 The Uni
ted States reserved to the States, or to the
people" The clause above confers no power
bat is the naked declaration of a right and the
power, not being conferred, results to the States a.
one of the incidents of sovereignty too dear to be
trusted to the General Government
Our southern members strove for the passage
OF the law. and strove honestly but it shows the
evils OF our unfortunate condition, that in the
gency OF our contest with an aggressive adversary
we lose the land marks OF principle-to obtain
an Elusive triumph we pressed the government
to assume power not conferred by the instru-
ment of it creation, and to establish a precedent
by which, in all after time, it will be Authorized
to assume whatever right may have no constitu>
tional organ Of enforcement; aud wearied with so
many efforts to confine the government TO its
limits of legitimate powers. are pleased to
have assistance from another quarter and if the
question shall be determined in her favor, we will
sincerely rejoice in such vindcation Of the
Constitution--C Charleston Is C) Mercury.
The Progress Of Despotism.
Under the above head the Independent saws its
emphatic word
Required by writ from Judge Kane to bring
into court the bodies of certain persons, woman
and her two children, whom Col Wheeler had
emancipated by bringing them into the State o
Pennsylvania, where no slave can breathe but
fugitive, and whom Kane and Wheeler were con,
spring to kidnap and seduce into slavery again
Williamson makes return to the writ in due form
that the persons named are not and have not been
at any time detained by him. The answer was
perfectly true the Judge had no reason for doubt.
ing the truth of it;SnI If he had doubted it, he
knew full well that the question of fact was a
question to be determined by jury. But without
ajury, without tIai without the opportunity of
calling witnesses, the Judge pronounces on a mat
ter OF fact, and seeds unofending citizen to prS
on till be shall confess that the truth which be
stated in his answer to the writ was not true y
Bdrstov Roifo-The Convention which
nominated Hon Isaac P. Walker for the State
Senate also passed a seses of resolutions among
which we fad the following Interesting piece of
information 10 Barstow's antecedelt:-
Resolred, That in being called upon to support
the nomination of William A. Barstow, we are
requested TO support man, who in 1916 bolted
the Democratic nomination OF Matthias J Bover
Tor the constitutional conventions who boIted the
Democratic nomination of George Hyer, for
nator; who bolted the Democratic nomination OF
Joseph Turner, for County Treasurer, who boltcd
the Democratic nomination OF Domnick Casey,
Joseph Kaye, and Samuel 81 Wells for the AS.
sembly and who no longer ago than last fall,
advised his friends to bolt the nomination of
Hon. Daniel Wells, Jr.. for Congress, as can be
shown by letters now in possession of Members
of this Convention, written by some of Barstow
most ample tools
Barstotc,s Former Pohtics-We take the fol-
lowing paragraph from she Waukesha County |
Democrat:
"William A. Barstow was born and bred fed
eralist He was guzzlsr of hard cider in 1910, |
and delighted in skins and log cabins. His |
brother Gordus is wing, and thinks the politics
of the old Barstow family about ri ght
Speaking of Barstows brother-naw, Kelsey, |
against whom there is an indictment for gamq-
ling, he says:
-Four or five years ago he was a resident of
this county and blue, old,fashioned wing, curs-
ing democrets up hill and down"
ID The Milwaukee, Sentinel is irving to pet
up new ''scare-crow' to frighen the Democrats
BY saying that "Pierce and Nebraska" are in the
held These gentlemen does not live in IViscon-
SIN, and are only struggled in by political Jug. |
yie-s.-Coluntbus Reporter
They we're struggled in by the Barstow State |
Convention, which endorsed Perce's Admins, |
lrafion. Every vote for Barstow is vote for |
Pierce and Nebraska.-IEa Free Dem
Shareholder Convention fermentation in Kan |
ucky-It has been proposed to US, by several |
gentlemen who own slaves in Kentucky, that |
hey (the slave-holders) hold convention at
trankford, to adopt some plans for the abolition
IF slavery and that we so announce it; and that |
Hon. w. II. Luke, of Pendleton county, slaves |
holder, be appointed by the friends of the Conven
ion, as one IN this part of the State, TO draw up
proposition for its gradual abolition.-Neuport |
.Ky) Nesrs.
Bolting.-The Waukesha Pldindealer Barstow
lem. bolts the nomination OF Ex-U. S. Senator
# one Edward Gornon.
The Prospect up North-The Berlin Co,rdnt of
he 2nd instant brings the following cheering