The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-03-22

long coasccratcd to freedom, with a fei-
| on's doom and the pasishmea Of death,
for an interference with slavery, though
It exists without constitutional sanction
there.
Men in whose veins course the blood
Of revolutionary sires, would no, degrade
| themselves by submission and vassalase
| to nonresident lawmakers and oppres-
sors. With the emergencies in which
other and like communities have been
placed, they quietly chose their represen-
tatives in cons,i' ut,onal convention
which met and formed code OF laws,
that has bsen voted on and approved by
the people. This ac. OF self governmen,
has been attended with the destruction Of
free press. mob5ing. house burning pill
lags, and assasslnations, and nothing
less than the Spartan courage Of the peo-
pie Of Lawrence. mo mean CITY,, saved
il from the destruction Of the armed in.
vaders from the state Of Missouri. And
the end IS not yet, secret societies are
forming, and troops are drilliag on the
state border, while appeals are made for
the sinews Of war, to aid in ,ha, COM
mon cause of the oIigarchy. to which j,
10 believed the Preslden, is subservisnt,
to secure re- re-election; and in this cr,sls
Of the citizens OF Kansas, still trusting in
thsis arms, their cause, and their God,
keeping the invaders q, bay, who will
no, promise his suffrage In overthrowing
the present oppressive power, restoring
peace and the primitive policy Of our
government
Having only glanced At the stovs en-.
act.nen. aud i.s practical operations, the
circumstances Of its passage, with she
Arguments therefor, demand few
words.
!. The rupture Of the Missouri Com
promise was uuealled for By the people,
ito repeal never having been agitated. 30
far as is known, in any considerable po.
li.ical gathering; Or the principle incor.
porated into any state or national
creed.
2. twas has,y l.gisla.io., -an,i.dem.
ocratlc, because known to be opposed TO
the wishes Of a majority Of the Ameri-
can people, whose emphatic conde,nna-
lion caused the pro TO BE- iinpasien,
Of discussion, ead!nS i, with iiIdecen,
haste.
3. Southern Legislators a, tho intro.
duction OF this bill, asked, will you have
us rsluss the profier ot the .NJrthl A
few honorable slave owners answered,
yes, yes. Benedict Arnold was from
the north, q fact tha. did not save the
traitor. nor sanctiy his Treason. The
last legislature Of the state OF Illinois re-
baksd the seerean. Douglas, and proclai-
med 10 the country tia. her NAME was
dMhonored, aud her principles bctray-
Cd.
4. The uaconsti,utionali,y Of the N s.
souri, C,mpromisc was an argument Tor
the act We deprecate. 1t is not 30 pro-
ven by decision Of the Supreme Court,
nor by the public opinion Of those iii
power. who for a third OF century up
held this provision for Freedom aud It
was for the embodiment Of this principle
in the Wilmot provise, that every north
ern state save one, instructed its repre-
senta,ion in Congress TO vote for.
5. Il was assorted that the restrictive
line vas olisas aud unjust to the South
The answer is, Slavery is a local and
peculiar institution, in the language OF
the great Mansfield. so odleus that 9TH
ing can be suffered to support it, but pos.
tive law, aud this Kansas had not, nor
could it have without in njustice 10 white
!aborels; thousands OF whom are annual.
" by the assoc iatlons, and degradations
, incidcn, 10 the ehattlesh,p of man, driven
from the homes of their brothers. 10 fal
for their children, though in a more rig-
orous climate, the morals and enterprise
Of Freedam.'
Slavery already opropriates more
than one half OF our national domo IN, on
which are found less than one half Of our
free population; and is the every wish oi
small minority, little more than one in
, a hundred, in comparison with our whole
popula,lon. - be heed-d, to the political
social and moral detriment Of poor noa-
slave holding white men!
This 10 the question Of our day. are
, you for the enslavers Of nan, on whose
side there is power, or for the !andless
+ poor! Will you by your ballo, bless, o,
blich, Kansasi Which shal! bo nation.
a. Freedom or Slavery'
6. The more specious plea was maIs
that the Territory should frame its owu
, institutions without restriction. The an
swcr is, Congress has ever Zen deemed
, the guardian Of the new communities moi
having attained to the position which en-
titles them to State Sovereignty, it being
conceded by the Constitution, thu. Con
gress may for them. make all needtu
rules and regulations, anl the early
/ democratic policy was .ha, OF poli,icaI
!. care, positive Intervention 10 in.erd.c
r human seIvltude.
. Have the Territories deemed this op
. prcssive or asked for the removal OF any
restl ic,ion to give slavery legal sans
: ton in them. Never. Every bias if
J. favor Of Freedom has rather been resar
ded as wise and patriotic, the state BEN,
, lei, TO choos. its own domestic institution
. after having attained tho position Of
. sovereign in the Federal family.
: From these considerations, /, Is per
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