Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-09-16

the exclusion of slavery from the Territories
Are the politicians of the present day more
wise than the trainers and expounders of the
Constitution?
BARKING EMPTY HoLE.-The Slavery
loving Democracy about these diggings," are
wonderfully exercised in their minds, be-
cause as they say, Mr.. Washburn voted for Mr..
Dunn's Kansas bill, which they assert was vo-
ting for slavery in Kansas till 1885, and to
eisslaye every child of slave mother, born in
Kansas before that time" These men remind
of the drowning man who, in attempting to
catch at straw, caught his feet III the brush
which held him fast. while the current carried
the straw beyond his reach and left him tc sink.
The objectioual portion of this bill appears to
be that it restores the Missouri Compromise
and provides 81 that any person LAWFULLY
held to service in said Territory shall not be DIS
charged from such serpicc BY REASON OF
SUCH REPEAL AND REVIVAL of said
eighth section, IF such person shaN be permanent
iy removed from such Territory prior to the first
day Of .January 1858 and any child or children
born in said Territory, of any female LAW
FULLY held to service, if in like manner re-
moved without said Territory before the expira-
ton of said 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 pass
ed" Now those persons who are shrieking y
SO loudly against Mr.. WasLburn for voting for
this bill, because il gives to airy person Larfaly
holding slapes in Kansas until 1853 to remove
them ;;;at the time tell US that slavcs arc
n IL /
remains a territory. This we know to be the
sentiment endorsed by Judge Craw ford, and vet
told that he alleges that Mr.. Washburn
voted for this bin q legalizing slavery in Kan
sas." If no person is lawfully held to service
in Kansas Will some of these wise gentleman
who have recently become such ranting abo-
litionists as to declare themselves more strongly
opposed 10 slavery extension than even the
:" black Republicans" tell us in what way this
bill makes them slaves.
The language of this bill, it will be seen
dces not admit that there are or can be slaves
lawfully held in Kansas. The Republicans in
aud out of Congress; deny that there is single
human being who is lauJuliy held to service "
slave In that Territory If not, then we
ask in all candor. how could this proviso in Mr.
Dunns bill act upon them ? But even if he
Republicans were mistaken, and slaves are law :
fully held there, the bill provides that they
shall be free unless removed prior to the ye.r
lS5S-but little over one year, and that forever
thereafter Kansas be free
This bin was voted for bv the friends of Free
dom such men Seward, Giddings, Hale
Fessenden, Wade. Colfax, and the Washburns
and opposed by the pro-slavery nen--Such as
Douglas Orr, Tombs, Brooks Keitt, Aiken, the
owner of 1900 slaves,) Hnrbnrt the murderer,
and others of similar stripe. With which
class of these men would the Freemcn of Iowa
County wish to have their Representative in
Congress act Which man will they prefer as
their Representative, Mr.. Washburn, who Will
continue to act with tn, sc frien Is of Freedom
or Judge Crawford, who endorses the platform
OF, and if elected is pledged to vote and with
the PIo-Slavery party of Douglas. Quitman,
Brooks and Hurburt?
But do not these bleating followers of the ex-
piring Old Buck" in thus accusing Mr. Wash
burn of voting to fasten Slavery upon Kansas
till 1855, give the lie TO their assertions that
they do not believe Slavery exist in Kansas =
Surely, Beecher's dog Noble evinced far more
sagacity in barking at a hole where there had
been squirrel, than do these men in thus
bowling over Mr.. WasLburn's vote on Dunn's
hill