Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-10-03
The Slave Democracy on
DUNN'S KANSAS BILL.


DUNN'S KANSAS BILL.
How the Messenger howls over Dunn's
Kansas bill, but with all its mock sympathy
for the slave, it says not word about the
great, prominent and designed object Of the
bill alluded to, viz: to restore the Missouri
Compromise Line, so far as it affected Kan
sas, and thus MAKE KANSAS A FREE
STATE FOREVER. Oh, no! This is
all SUPPRESSED, MOI accidentally omitted
So the fact that the Bill contained Pre-
emption Law favorable to its rapid develope-
ment as Free State, is omitted by design.
The extension of the Fugitive Slave
clause was insisted on by MrDUNN and sever
al of his friends, and was submitted to as an
Alternative, because the bill could not receive
the votes of its friends without it. 1t was
idle and superfuous, because, with or with
out the passage of this clause, the Fugitive
Slave Bill would have just as much validity
there, as anywhere else within the jurisdic-
of the Courts of the United States.
As regards the perpetuation of Slavery
there, not one single person could by pos
lsibility, be made slave by it. The clause
in its very language and terms, provides for
REMOVAL. RenaOUal was the object. Any
man of common sense can see that, as soon
as the compromise was restored over Kan
sas, slave-drivers and slaves would 90 out of
the Territory like shot through tunnel
But Mr.. Geo. G. DUNN, and half dozen
friends, wanted time allowed by the Bill
Here is the clause:
Provided, however, That any person law
fully held to service in said Territories shall
not be discharged from such service by such
repeal and revival of said eighth section, i
such person be permanently REMOVED from
such Territory or Territories, prior to the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and
lfifty-eight; and any child or childen born in
either af said Territories, of any female law
fully held to service, if in like manner RE-
MOVED without said Territories before the
expiration of that date, shall not be, by rea-
son of anything in this act emancipated
from any service it might have owed had
this act never passed.
The passage of this bill prevented the
passage of the Douglas bill, the inevitable
result of which would have been to make
Kansas a SLAVE STATE FOREVER
had it been enacted into a law.
The enactment of the DUNN Bill, aUould
hare made Kansas a Free State forever,
and not put the Fuuitive Slave Law in force
over single subject where it did not ex-
tend before. Neither, had it been passed
with or without the removal clause, would
there have been single being made slave
by it.
1t is very singular that while the South
are threatening Revolution and dissolution,
because the Black Republicans are too rad
ical and persisted in their efforts to retard
and repress Slavery, that Northern presses
should presume they would compromise
with it, or succumb to it.
In these remarks we do not mean to be
understood as endorsing this bill; but this
we say, that all its evils are trivial and theo-
retical, while the great blessings of freedom
to future millions, which its passage would
have secured, are practical and immeasura-
bic.
1t is the infexibility of the Republicans
that is feared, not their inconsistency. Let
the House be cleared of its Dunns, Harri-
sons, Havens, Walks and Whitneys, and the
country will have no cause to complain o.
any wavering on their part. The people
and representatives are united in deter
mination to repress entirely the further en-
croachments, and audacity of the Slave Pow
er The Bills vii! be single, clear, decided
and consistent enough when we get rid Of
dozen funkeys elected under the pretenct
of being true to freedom, but who have be
trayed their constituents.-TOledO Blade