Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-10-03

States and Territories, as recognized by the
legislation of 1850, commonly called the
compromise measures, is hereby declared
imperative and void, it being the true in
tent and meaning of this act not to legis-
late slavery into any territory or State, nor
to exclude it therefrom, but 10 leave the
people thereof perfectly free to form and
regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way, subject only to tie
Constitution Of the United States: provid-
ed that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to revive or put in force any law
or regulation which may have existed prior
to the act of the 9th Of March, 1894 Ell
ther protecting, establishing, prohibiting
or abolishing slavery" BE, AND THE
SAME is. HEREBY REPEALED; AND
THE SAID EIGHTH SECTION of said
act of 9th March, 1920, is HEREBY
REVIVED, and declared to be in FULL
FORCE and effect within tie said Terri
tories of Kansas and Nebraska: Provided,
however, That any person LAWFULLY
held to service in either of said Territories
shall not be discharged from such service
by reason of such repeal and revival of said
eighth section, if such person shall be per-
manently removed from such Territory or
Territories prior to the lst day of January,
1858; and any child or children, born in
either of said Territories, of any female
LAWFULLY HELD TO SERVICE, if
in like manner removed without said ter
ritories before the expiration of that date,
shall not be, by reason of any thing in this
act, emancipated from any service it might
have owed had this act never been passed:
And provided further, That any person
lawfully held to service in any other State
or Territory of the United States, and es-
Gaping either into the Territory of Kansas
or Nebraska, may be reclaimed and rcmov-
ed to the person or place where such SER
vice is due, under any law of the United
States which shall be in force upon the
subject.
Sec. 25. And be IL further enacted, Thai
all other parts of the aforesaid Kansas-Ne'
braska act which relate to the said Terri
tory of Kansas, and every other law Oh
usage, having, or which is pretended tc
have any force or effect in said Territory
in conflict with the provisions or the spiri
of this act, except such laws and treaty
stipulations as relate to the Indians, arr
hereby repealed and declared void.
There, reader, you have the precise Ian
guage of every portion of the Bill which il
any manner relates to Slavery. And now
can any man put his finger upon on'
single sentence, which, by any fair con
struction of language, can be used to en-
slave any body on Gods footstool, who il
not now, to all intents and purposes, LAW
FULLY a slave? If such a sentence il
there, we cannot find it. Joshua r. Gid
dings, whose whole life has been spent il
battling for human rights, and who woul'
sever his right arm from his body rathe
than vote to enslave his fellow man coulC
not find such sentence, for he said: 81 an
prouder Of my vote in favor of Dunn's bill
than of any vote l ever cast in my life.
Of all the Republican delegation in Con
gress, but one, we believe, Letter. foun,
any thing Objectionable in the bill, and thi
was probably owing to some prirate cause
And yet such men as Medill (who, whel
in Congress never gave vote for freedom
and who now uphold the infamous des
potism in Kansas) tell us that that thi
"wicked bill extends slavery into Kansas
and makes slaves of free babies"
Let us examine the bill moment.
repeals the Kansas-Nebraska act, and re
stores the 9th section, commonly Gale
the Missouri Compromise, which reads q
follows:
Sec. 8. That in all that territory cede
by France to the United States, under tn
, name of Louisiana, which lies north {
thirty six degrees and thirty minutes mort
latitude, not included within the limits c
the state contemplated by this act, SLAYER
. and involuntary servitude, otherwise tha
: in the punishment of crimes, whereof til
> parties shall have been duly convicted
: shall be, and is hereby, FOR EVER PRO
. HIBITED. Provided always, that an
person escaping into the same, from whcl
labor or service is lawfully claimed, in an
i state or territory of the United States, sue
= fugitive may te lawfully reclaimed an
r conveyed to the p, ,rSon claiming his or he
. labor or service as aforesaid.
This does not look much like ertendin
! slavery, or enslaving free children. 20
9 the contrary, quite the reverse"
Next it provides that if any person
LAWFULLY held as slave in either (
these territories, his case remains precisel
the same as though this act had never bee
6 passed, until January, 1853. Until thi
J time, this bill does not have ANY Ell
Feet upon any person lawfully held
service. What then? Why, EVER
h PERSON remaining in tie territories
declared FREE, and there is to be no moi
Slavery there FOREVER.
! All this is plainly set forth in tie 94t
J. section, in language which cannot be mi
, understood. It's as plain as that two an
, two make four. Is that what you call e,
tending Slavery over the Territories?
), But, again: the Republican party in Il
North hold the doctrine that Slavery is IL