The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-10-16
THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. Co. OCTOBER Is, 1856

Territory? The free States of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, attest the
wisdom and efficiency of the policy.
The act of 1920 prohibited Slavery in al
the territory acquired from Louisiana above
go 30>. That act accomplished its purpose
until, in 1854, ruthless hands repealed it
Had it stood, all the States formed out of the
Territory would have been free, incontestably
"Just as the twig is bent, the trees inclined
Keep Slavery out of a Territory, and tinatu
rally becomes free State. Tolerate it in q
Territory, and it naturally bscomes slave
State.
AS to the question whether State, just
formed from free Territory, and entering the
Union as free, may not then open its doors tc
Slavery, it is not of the slightest practical i'm
portance. No such State ever did so absurd
and wicked thing, or ever will. Our answer
prohibiting Slavery in Territories, because
they cannot extend to its prohibition in States
formed out of them, would be: Your son
when he shall have attained twenty-one, may
become thief, or a drunkard, and you viii
not be able then to prevent it, but does thai
prove that early moral training is of no avail
that there is no use in bringing up your boys
to speak the truth, deal honesty, and live tenn
perately? The boy contains the man. Make
your boy honest, and you will never have to
blush for his manhood. The Territory con
tains the State. Stamp Freedom on the Terri
tory, and the State will always be free.
MR.. DUNNs BILL AND THE REPUBLICANS
A friend in New York asks US to reprint the
bill of Mr. Dunn in relation to the organization
of Kansas, passed in the House of Representa-
tives, July 29th. 1t gould occupy nearly page
of the Era, land the larger portion of it is of nc
interest now to anybody. We hope to satisfy
our friend by giving a brief synopsis of the
formal part merely, and printing in detail the
sections on which the Fillmore and Buchanan
men build their charge of inconsistency against
the Republicans.
The bill is entitled, "a Bill to reorganize the
Territory of Kansas"
tory.
SECS 2, 3, 4. Provide for the organization OF
the Executive and Legislative departments
define their spheres prescribe the mode of ap.
pointment or election, &c.
SEC. s. Every white male inhabitant, citi.
zen of the United States, and twenty-one, resi-
dent at the time of the passage of the act, shall
be entitled to vote at the first election-there-
after, none shall vote, not an actual resident
for twelve months.
Sec. 6. All the laws passed by the Legisla-
tive Assembly and Governor to be submitted
to Congress - if disapproved, to be null and
void.
Sec. 7. The appointment of subordinate Off
GERS provided for.
SEC. 8. Restrictions on the appointment of
officers. And then, numerous wholesome re-
strictons on the Legislative power, intended to
guard personal rights and secure liberty.
SECS 9, 10. Organize the Judiciary, and
provide for ministerial officers.
Sec. ii. Compensation of the different de-
partments of the Government determined.
SEC. IL. Constitution and laws of the United
States extended over the Territory, so far as
they are applicable.
SEC. ID. Regulations about the time and
place of the meeting of the Legislature.
Sec. IA. Provision for the election of Dele
gate to Congress.
Sec. Is. To be printed in full
Sec. l6. Justices of the peace, .constables.
judicial and ministerial off GERS, now ia the
Territory to continue as such till others be duly
appointed or chosen.
SECS II, Is. Provisions for library and for
common schools.
Sec 10. Temporary provision for defining
he judicial districts.
Sec 20. Officers appointed by the President
% give security for moneys intrusted to them,
Is may be directed by the Secretary of the
Treasury.
SEC. 81. All treaties and engagements with
he Indian tribes to be rigidly observed.
Sec. %. Provision for universities and aeri.
cultural and mechanical schools.
SEC. %. Provision for pre- emption and home.
stead rights.
The remaining sections, "a and %, we shall
now print as they stand in the bill, together
with section Is. They are all which can have
The slightest bearing upon the charges to which
Dur friend alludes. We give them, emitting
nothing, adding nothing, just as they stand in
the bill before us, printed by order of the
House.
"SEC. Is. And be ii further enacted, That
all suits, process, and proceedings, civil and
at law and in chsncery, and all indct.
ments and informstions which shall be pending
and undetermined in the courts of the Terri.
tory of Kansas, or of New Mexico. when this
act shall take effect, shall remain in said courts
where pending, to be heard, tried, prosecuted.
and determined, in such courts as though this
act had not been passed: Prorided, nererthe.
less, That all the criminal prosecutions now
pending in any of the courts of the Territory of
Kansas, imputing to any person or persons the
crime of treason against the United States.
and all criminal prosecutions, by information
or Indictment, against any person or persons
for any alleged violation or disregard, whatever.
of what are usually known as the laws of the
Legislature of Kansas, shall be forthwith dis.
missed by the courts where such prosecutions
may be pending; and every person who NAV
be restrained of his liberty, by reason of any Of
said prosecutions, shall be released therefrom
without delay. Nor shall there hereafter be
instituted any criminal prosecution in any of
the courts of the United States, or of said Ter.
ritory, against any person or persons, for any
such charge of treason in said Territory prior
to the passage of this act, or any violation or
disregard of said legislative enactments at any
time.
"SEo. "a. And be it further enacted, That so
much OF the fourteenth section, and also 80
much of the thirty-second section, of the act
passed at the first session of the Thirty.third