The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-08-27

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clples of non-intervention by Congress with
slavery in the States and Territories, as recogni-
zed by the legislation of 1850, commonly called
the compromise measures, is hereby declared
imperative and void it being the true intent
and meaning of this act not to lcgislate slavery
into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it
therefrom, but to leave the people thereof per-
iectly free to form and regulate their domestic
institutions in their own way, subject only to
the Constitution Of the United States Plovlet
That nothing herein contained shall be so CON
strued to revive or put in force any law or reg
ulation which may have existed prior to the act
OF March 6, 1920, either protecting, establish
ing, prohibiting or abolishing slayery,"-bc and
the same is hereby repealed and the said eighth
section ofsaid act of March 6, 1920 is hereby
revived and declared to be in full force and ef-
feet within the said Territory of Kansas and
Nebraska: Provided ho,geUer, That any person
lawfully held to service in either of said Terri
tories shall not be discharged from such service
by reason of such repeal and revival of said
eight section, if such person shall be permanent
y removed from such Territory or Territories
prior to the 1st day of January 1858; and any
child or children born in either of said Terri
tories, Of any female lawfully held to service, if
in like manner removed without said Terrific
ries before the expiration of that date, shall not
be, by reason Of anything in this act, emancipa-
ted from carN-ino 1
this act never passed: -4na pro0jdea further, That
any person lawfully held to service in any other
State or Territory of the United States, and es-
Gaping into either the Territory of Kansas Or
Nebraska, may be reclaimed and removed to
the person or place where such service is due,
undor any law of the United States which shall
bein force upon the subject
In the opinion of your committee there arc
various grave and serious objections to this sec
ton OF the bill In the first place, it expressly
rcpudtates and condemns the great fundamcn-
tai principles of selfgovernmont and State C.
quality which it was the paramount object Of
the Kansas Nebraska act to maintain and per-
petuate, as affirmed in the following provision:
at being the true intent and meaning of this
act not to lcsslato slavery into any Territory
OF State, nor to exclude it therefrom but to
leave the people thereof perfectly free to form
and regulate their domestic institutions in their
own way, subject only to the Constitution of
the United States"
Notcontent with repeating this wise and just
provision, and condemning the sound constitu-
honal principles asserted in it, the bill proceeds
to legaize and establish for limited time, he
reditary slavery, not only in the Territory Of
Kansas (where there is no other local or a1ir-
native law protecting it than the enactment of
yhe Kansas Territorial Legislature, which have
been alleged to be illegal anl void, and which
yhe House Of Representatives, by amendments
TO the appropriation bills have instructed he
President not to entorce) but also in all that part
9f New Mexico which it is proposed to incor
Dorate in the Territory of Kansas, and where
u IS not pretended that there is any local law or
Territorial enactment recognizing or establish
nS slavery. Having thus assorted and exorci-
sing the power of introducing and establishing
slavery in the Territories by act of Congress,
md declaring children hereafter born therein to
be slaves for life and their posterity after them,
provided they shall be removed thcrefrom with
IN specified period, tbs bill proceeds to affirm
and exercise the power of prohibiting slavery in
The same Territories forever, from and after Jan.
], 1898, by enacting and putting in force the fol-
lowing provision, being the 8th section Of the
act passed March g. 1920, to wit:
"Sec. 8. 4nd be it further enacted, That in all
that Territory cedcd by France to the United
States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies
north of 36 deg. 80 min. north latitude, not in
cluded within the limits of the State contempla-
ted by this act, slavery and involuntary seryi-
tude, otherwise than in the punishment ofcrime
parties shall have been duly con-
ylcted shall be, and hereby is, forever prohibi-
ted: Pro0ided a',0as that any person escaping
INTO the same, from whom labor or service is
lawfully claimed in any State or Territory Of
tho United States, such fugitive may be lawful
y reclaimed and conveyed to the person claim
ing his or her labor OF. service as aforesaid. ),
twill be observed that this 8th section Of
the Missouri act Commonly called the Missouri
Compromise) by its terms only applied to the
territory acquired from France known as tbe
Louisiana purchase, the western boundary Of
which was defined by the treaty with Spain in
1919, and subsequently by treaties with Mexico
and Texas, to be abe Tooth meridian of lonoi-
tudc, while the bill under consideration, under
the gusc of reviving and restoring that proyis-
ion, extends it more than seven degrees Of Ion.
gltude further westward, and applies it to that
large extent Of territory to which it had no an
pcllation in its original enactment. Nor can Il
be said with fairness or truth that this provision
was applied to any portion of the Territory in
question by the 'Joint resolution for anncxinn
Texas to the United Statcso for the reason that
the whole territory embraced within the limits
Of the republic Of Texas was admitted into the
Union as one State, with The privilege Of form,
lng not exceeding three other States ont of Tex
as, "by the cohsentof said State, : with the con.
stltntiop that lin such State or States as should
oe 'ormea out Of said territory, north of said
Missouri compromise line, slavery or nyolbn.
tary seryltpde Except for crine) shall be pro-
hbted." E0
u was Issl LETT discretionary with Texas to re-
mlin forever one State, and to retain the wbole,
territory IS slave territory, Or to consent 10 4
division, in which case the prohibition would
take effect, by virtue Of the compact, from the
date of the formation Of anew State within the