Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-09-04
Another Mares Nest Discovered.

The Farmer and Dcmocrdt of the 2Sth, cuts a
the vote of the Republican members of the pres
ent Congress, upon Dunn's amendment to the
Bill of the Territorial Committee.
Fortunately the falsehood, Misrepresentation,
and misinterpretaton of the article. is corrected
by the portion of the Section of the Bill quoted
to sustain them. We copy the entire section,
by which it will be seen, that it does not estab-
lish Slavery in the Territories, that it does not
provide that all children born of slave mothers
shall be held in bondage, &c. But that it pro-
poses to repeal the section of the "Kansas Ne
braska Bill repeating the Missouri Compromise,
10 restore that Compromise, and thus make that
Territory free forever.
And it further provides that any person law
fully held to service in either of those Terrific
ries, and any child or children born of any fe-
male lawfully held to service in said territories,
shall not be discharged or emaneipated from
said service if removed before the first of jan
uary 1858, or in other words, that if such per-
sons be lawfully slaves in the Territories, that
said bill does not emancipate them, and does
not prevent the slave owner from removing
them if he does it by the first of January 1858.
1t does not even provide that they shall not be
discharged or emHncipated by reascI of their
being taken there Voluntarily by their masters.
as the orators for the Democracy and the Farm
er claimed last fall would be the ease-but
simply, if the law as it is does not emancipate
them, that the provisions of that Bill shall not
if removed within that time.
But if not removed by the first of January
1858, then that, though lawfully slaves, they
shall be emaneipated. Thus going even further
than the Republicans ever have proposed to go,
for they do not desire to emancipate slavery
where it exists, but to prevent the extention of
Slave Territory.
For this Bill, making those Territories for
ever free. and compelling slave owners to e.
move their human chat:els or give them their
freedom within short time, every Republican
save one. voted, and every slave propagandist
voted against it. This fact, should be sufficient
of itself.
Every vote of Major SApP has been for free
dom and agains! slavery. He has voted with
the champions of freedom through all the fight,
and against slavery extension, every time the
question came up. He has been at his post,
more regularly, probably than any other mem
Der of Congress, and the weapons thrust at him
by his opponents, will again, IS heretofore, fall
harmless at his feet:
SEC. 24. Amd be 1t further eraected. That so
much of ,ne fourteenth section, and also SO
much of the thirtv-seeond section, of the act
passed at the first session of the Tbiriy-Third
Congress, commonly known as the Kansas N G.
brasEa act. as reads follows, to wit: Except
the eight sec!icn of the act preparatory TO the
admission of Missouri into the Union-af,,.rc-cd
March s, 1929, which. being Inconsistent with
| the principle of nOn-iRterventi0n by Congress
with slavery in the States and Territories. as
recognized by the Legislation of 1850. common
| lv called the compromise measures is hereby
declared imperative and void; it being the true
intent and meaning of this act not TO legislate
slavery into any Territory or State, nor to ex-
clude it therefrom, but leave the people thereof
Derfectlv free TO form and regulate their domes-
tic institutions in their own way. subject only
TO the Constitution of the United States: Pro
piclgd, That nothing herein CONTAINED shall be
construed TO revive or put III force any law ol
regulaiinn which may have existed prior TO the
net of 9Th March. 1920. either protecting. es.ab'
and the same is hereby repealed; and the SAID
eighth section of said act of the 9th of March
1920 is hereby revived. and declared TO be il
fill force and effect within tie Territories o
Kansas and Nebraska. Propihd, homeuer, Tha
any person lawfully held to service in either o
said Territories shall not be discharged from
such service by reason Of such repeal or reviya
of said eighth section. if such person shall b
permanently removed from such Territory o
Territories prior to The first day of Jannar,
1858; and any child or children born. in ciihe
of said Territories. of any female lawfully hcl'
TO service, if in like manner removed wiihou
saId Territories before the expiration of tina
date, shall not be, by reason ofanything in thi
act, emaneipa.ed from any service it might hav
owed had this net never been passed: And pro
yioicd further. That any person lawfully held +
service in any other State or Territory of III
United States, and escaping into either tb
Territory of Kansas or Nebraska, may be re
claimed and removed TO the pcrson or rlac
where such service is due. under any law Of tn
United States which shall be in force upon th
SUBJECT.