Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-06-17

force from beyond her borders, led on BY ianati-
cal spirit, tramping under foot the Principles Of
the Kansas bill and the right Of suffrage"
10. And in similar harmony Is the complaint
Of the people Of Kansas, in a public meeting at
Big Springs, on the 9th Of September, 1900, en-
bodied in these words:
"REsoLvED, That the body Of men for the last
Two months have been passing laws for the peo- |
pie of our Territory, moved, counselled, and die
tated to by the demagogues Of Missouri, are to us
a foreign body, representing only the lawless in
vaders who elected them, and not the people of
the Territory--that atwe repudiate their action as
the nonstrous c0nsummation Of an act Of vio-
lence, usurpation, and fraud, unparalleledin in the
history of the Union and worthy only Of men
untitled for the duties andfegaTdless Of the re-
responsibilities VI Republicans
H. And finally, by the official minutes, which
have been laid on our table by the President, the
invasion, which ended in the Usupation, is clear
ly established; but the effect Of this testimony
has been so amply exposed by the Senator from
Vermont, [Mr. Collamer,l in his able and inde-
fatigable argument that content myself with
simply referring to is
On this cumulative, irresistible evidence, in
concurrence,with the antecedent history, rest.
And yet Senators here have argued that this can
not 70 oo-PieViseiy ac tnS Puh1Ptaoy VI Oaei-
line was doubted in the Roman Senate. Non
nulli sunt in hoe ordine-4u a.t ca, quo iInmi-
nent, non yideant; aut ca, quea yident, dissmu-
lent; qui spem Catilinae mollibus sententiis alu.
erunt, conjurationemque nascentem non credens
do corroborayerunt. AS listened to the Senator
from Illinois, while he painfully strove to show
that there was no UsHrpati0M was reminded of
the effort by distinguished |oeician, in much
admired argument, to prcys hat Napo leon Bona
parte never existed. ana peimit me 10 say that
the Iactol MS existence 81 net placed more COM
pieteiy ABOVE ooupt than ths iact o. inns usurpa-
uoh. Ihlsl assert on tne pools alreaay plesen-
ted. But. connrmalion comes almost while
SPEAK: Inc columns q snS puDnS press are now
ually niiep WIN aheh DeIole
lne Oommlt.ee oI vonsiess y Aansas, whicn
SHOWS, IN awiu5 ilgns' me VIOLENCE ending IN the
usuipation; oit1is may SPEAK on some other
OCCASION Meanwniie' iPioceeu wilh tne deVei-
opment OF tne Crlme..
The usurping Legislature assembled at the
appointed pace IN tne interior, ana tnenaf once
IN opposilon 10 .he yelo o. lne Governor' py
5naIorlty OF two-lhiIus, removed to tne shawnee
MlsSion, pace IN mos, convenient proSimily
10 me missouri DolueIels, " wnom u naa oeen
&c, GUhstituleu, anu WHOSE .y.ahIicai ageh' II was
Ing ssatu'es Vi M,ssosi,; - az tnelr te4t, wti
.nei, uiSls,ohs anu svoa,visons, s. were aooptet
Douily, anu wi.n s9Yh h,sle locai aoaptation ina
'le wo,u ,r S.a.e IN .le onginal Is not ever
csangeu en- 10 riellitorN put zen 10 be correct
eu Dy an eHplshatoiy act But az TINS genera
issa.op ;s,e5 was e5',.siy suooIuinate 70 tae spe
against Slave Property" in which the One Idea
j that provoked this whole conspiracy, is at las
! embodied in legislative form, and Human Slave
t ny openly recognized en- Free Soil, under tn,
sanction Of pretended law. This act Of thirteei
sections is in itself DANCE OF DEATH. But it
complex completeness Of wickedness, without
l parallel, may be partially conceived, when it i
understood that in three sections only of 1t i
, the penalty of death denounced no less thai
forty eight different times, by as many changes o
Y language, against the heinous offence, describes
, in forty-eight different ways Of interfering witt
what does not exist in that Tenitory-and unde
the Constitution cannot exist tnere---I mea
property in human flesh. Thus is Liberty sacri
2 feed to Slavery, and Death summoned to sit O
T the gates as guardian of the Wrong.
But the work of Usurpation was not perfecte
even yet. Ithad already cost too. much to b
. left at any hazard
|, ---"To be thus was nothing;
But to be safely thusr'
;, Such was the object. And this could not bt
except by the entire prostration of all the safe
guards of Human Rights. The liberty of speecl
: which is the very breath of Republic; the pres
: which is the terror Of wrong doers; the ba
i through which the oppressed boards the ARC
fgance of law the iafEf Coy which right is Wind
z Gated; all these rg1gl struck down, while off
n GERS are pIovidgu, n ~ places ready TO be tn
4 tools OF TINS tyIanngitnu then, 70 obtain hni
assurance tnat Their crime was secure, the Whol
9 Usurpauon, stretching over the Territory, muI
o be fastened and riveted by legislative bolt
a spikes ana screws SO as 70 DEFY all effort
change through the ordinary forms OF law. 1
TINS work, IN lts various paris were bent the sui
N TEST energiesj ana never' from Tn6al Cam
: this hour, was any tabIlc forged Tlth more del
:, = peIate skill and completeness
= MARX SIT, three dinerent legislative enactment
- which constitute part OF inns WORK. FIRST, az
- - corolng TO one act all whodeny, by spoken
" written WORD, "tne night OF persons to hold slave
! IN TINS ieiritory'" are denounced as felons to
u !, punlshea by imprisonment at hard labor, for
y Term not less than two years. 1t may be tor lif
~ ana TO show the exuayagance oil thus inluStic
Z 1t mas been well put by the Senator from We
mont MI Coilamer,I tnat Should the Senate
:. irom Michigan' Mr: Vass'J who believes th
slavery cannot exist IN q Ierrltory, unless intrt
% ouced by express legislative acts, venture thel
- ~ win MS moderate opinions, his doom must
~ mat Of feion 10 this extent are the great lii
= erties oil speech and OF the press subverted. SEt
u oNDLY, oy ahotner act entitled IAN Act concerI
~ ~ ing Attorneys- LAW no person can pIactiC
40 as an attorney, unless ne shall obtain liceni
y, ho rom the Territoriai courts which OF course