The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-02-19
The President and the Bloody Code Of Kan
SOS.

| cutivc, toenforce obedience TO the laws en-
acted by Missouri rufians who assembled in
Kansas Territory few months since, it may
be we'll to call the attention Of our readers
again to the character Of some OF those laws
especially that in relation 10 the subject of
only writtIijksa IS the l,gs laws Of DEAco, it's not
code of the Athenian law-g;ver, itinhicts the
penalty of death 8 q punishment for opin
ions rather than crimes. The laws of DRA-
co only demanded blood for thefts as well as
murder The ATonrsoN code, on the other
hand, inficts the punishment of death only
for an expression of opinion.
The following arc the provisions of the in
famous law which the President declares shall
be enforced, even at the expense of a civil
AN ACT TO PUNISH OFFENCE AGAINST SLAVE
| t PROPERTY.
5 /. Every person, bond or free, convict
ed of raising rebellion Of slaves, negroes or
mulattocs-shall suffer DEATH.
2. Every free person who shall aid in
any rebellion Of slaves, &c, or do any overt
act in furtherance thcreof-shall suffer
DEATH.
S 8. If any person shall by speaking, writ.
ing, or printing, advise, induce, DC, any
slave to rebel, conspire against or murder any
citizen Of Kansas, or shall import or aid in
importing such documents, he shall suffer
DEATH.
S 4. If any person shall entice, decoy or
carry out Of Kansas, any slave belonging to
another, with the intent to deprive the owner
thereof of such slave, he shall suffer Death
or be imprisoned at hard labor for not less
than TEN years.
S 5. If any person shall ASSIST in enticing
de-, las above )--shall suffer DEATH or be
imprisoned at hard labor for not less than TEN
years. "a
S @. If any person shall entice or carry
away out of any State or territory Of the U. S.
lrng such slave into this territory, etc.,
q = he shall suffer DEATH or be
imprisoned at hard labor for not less than TEN
years.
81. If any person shall entice any
slave to escape from the service of his master
or owner 4 or
shall aid any slave in escaping, q
he shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not
less than FIVE years.
s s. If eny person in this territory shall
aid or halbor any escaped slave from another
State. 4 such person
ehnll La rnn.ehol i. lI,n ,,,nr-~. ;f such
slave had escaped from his master in the ter
ritory.
5 8. If any person shall resist any officer
while attempting to arrest any slave that may
have escaped or shall rescue
such slave or aid such slave to escape from
the officer-the person so offending shall be
imprisoned at hard labor for net less than TWO
years.
s 10. If any marshall sheriff, or consta-
bic, or the deputy of any such officer, shall,
arrest or capture Of slaves that may have es-
capped, such officers fllall be fined not less
than 800, nor more than $500.
S IL. If any person priut, write, intro
duce into, publish or circnlatc, or cause to be
brought into, printed, written, published or
circulated, or knowingly aid Of assist III bring
ing into, printing, publishing or circulating
within this territory, any book, paper, DC,
containing any statements, doctrines, DC,
calculated to produce disafcction among
the slaves of this territory-he shall be pun
ished by imprisonment at hard labor for not
less than fee years.
8 l2. If any free person by speaking or
writing assert or maintain, that persons haze
not the right TO hold slopes in the territory,
or shall introd CO into Kansas, print, write.
circulate, or cause to be introduced into the
territory, written, printed, published or cir
culated in this territory, any book, paper,
magazine, pamphlet or circular, containing
any denial Of the rights of persons to hold
slaves in this territory, SUCH PERSON
SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF FELL
ONY, ANDPUNISHEDBY BY IMPRISON-
MENT AT HARD LABOR FOR A TERM
NOT LESS THAN TWO YEARS.
S 49, No person who is conscicntiously op-
posed TO holding slaves
shall sit as juror, on the trial Of any prose
cution of any violation of any of the sections
of this act.
Act to be in fo' ce after Sept. I3, 1855.
To understand the full extent of the Prcsi-
dents nfamy in sanc.ionng such law as
this, and in declaring that the whole power
of the government shall be exerted to enforce
submission TO it ON the part of the people of
Kansas, it must be borne in mind that it was
enacted by body of men called in mockery |
a Lcgislature--not elected by, nor composed
Of, people Of that Territory. They belonged
in Missouri, and had no more right to inter
ferc in its affairs than the people Of Canada.
They did not even pretend TO be citizens, or
that they ever designed to become citizens of
Kansas. They have boasted since that they
went there for no other purpose than to make
it slave State. Yet tho President sanctions |
their acts, declares them 10 be binding upon |
the real settlers of the Territory, and threat
ems the vengeance of tire Executive upon all |
who have encouraged emigration to it, Of
those who designed to make it their perma
nent homcsl IL the laws enacted by such
body had been ever so unexceptionablc in
their chara ter it would have been dsgrace
in the President to attempt TO force them
down the throais Of an unwilling people
But TO compel them TO submit to srch laws
as the above, is an act Of infamous tyranny to
which no people on the face Of the earth,
not deserving to be slaves, would or ought TO