The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-11
"Danier, Again.

of the Enquirer, is out again in column and
q half yesterday morning. As literary pro-
duction his communication is worthy Of being
filed away for future reference His immacu
late purity is declared to be beyond the reach
of the Journal. GAS well might frog flom
the turbid waters of our canal with its filth
and slime attempt to besmear the clear blue
sky above ~
We have toe much of the "milk of human
kindness in our composition, to parade before
our readers the ignorance and selEconceit OF
Mr.. Hardin Mr.. Stroud in a communication
to the Journal sets Grampee right, as to the
truth of his statement, and we have no ob]ec-
tons to his rehashing his peculiar" views, in
as ludicrous a style as he may choose. One
paragraph only is worthy of notice:
Were it not painful to law and order man
it would be really amusing to witness the
blind enthusiasm with which Mr. ). pitches
into the laws of Kansas. Did he ever see
those laws Has he them in his lib AIRY p
And why nUunce the whole cOds ecause
few of the laws therein and very few. are
Objectionable? Sir, we need never expect to
hear thieves and murderers and their accom-
plices and hackers speak favorably of the laws
that bring them to condign punishment
Never.
We did not presume that there was man
outside Of the Border Ruffians, who would
have the impudence to publish such para
graph over his own signature. The honor is
reserved to Vanderburg county OF producing
man who in the public prints, would Call
the laws of Kansas Objectionable We haze
seen those laws VIC fVrVs~---s.-. l;
brary from which we quote as follows page
6o6)
"No person. who is conseentiously opposed 10 hold
ing who does admit the right To hold slave
in this rritry, sh IL sit juror on the trial oil an!
prosecution for any violation Of any Of the sections oil
this act'
Truly Objectionable In direct antagonism
with the Constitution Of the United States.-
Trampling under foot the bulwark OF our civil
rights. But we give another section of those
Objectionable laws, promising that there is no
decree of Austrian Despot or Russian Gar,
which is not merciful, compared with its pro-
visions. page 644)
" If any free person by speaking or by writing, as
maintain thar persons haze not the right TO
hold sEaDes in this Territory, or shall Introduce INTO
this Territory pri write circulate or r cause
published, circHated in this Territory any book.
zine, pamphlet or circular, containing aug
De NAL o. The right Of persons hold slaves in this
Terrory such person shall be deemed GUILTY FELo-
NY, ID punished by imprisonment at hard labor for
term Of rot less than two years"
The term imprisonment at hard labor" is
fully explained on (page 147.)
every person who may be sentenced by any court Of
COMPETENT Jurisdiction under any law in force within
this Territory punishment by confinement and hard
labor, sh al be deemcd convict and shall immediate
ly under charge of the keeper of such jail pulc
nris an he o ID
er Of such Jail or public prison may select be rut to
hard labor in the first section of this act specified,
(to-wt the streets, pu lie roads, public buildings,
public works of the TerrtOry.'-Sec. l. page
1861 and such keeper person having charge
such convict snail cause convict, while engaged
such labor. to be securely confHed by chain, st5
feet length of not less hau four sxteenthS more
than inch links, with round ball Of
iron less than four more than six inches liz
diamet alta he'd which chain shall o. securely asen
ed to the ankle Ofsuch convict with srong ock and
key and keeper, other person, having charge
of said convict may If necessary eonnne such convict
while so engaged hard labor, by other chains, or
means, his discretion, to keep such CON
vic secure, and prevent his escape; ana when there
lets under tue charge fsueh keep
other person such eonvicts shall be fastened to-
Reher by strong chains, with strong locks and keys
during the time such all be engaged in hard
labor without the walls of any Jail or prison."
And this penalty, revolving humiliating, de-
grading as it is is to be borne from two to five
years, by the free men of our Great West,
because they dare to deny the right of persons
to hold Slaves In that Territory. The chain
and ball are to be attached to the ankle of
each, and they are to drag out their long pen
atty for exercising their God-given and con-
additionally protected freedom of speech, man
acled together in couples and working, in the
public gaze under task masters, to whom AL
gerine Shareholders would be preferable.
We have not the space to give further ex-
tracts from the Kansas code. The laws of
that Territory were never legally enacted,
were never fit to be made. nor fit to be obeyed
by free people. Never before, since the days
Of Draco, have such laws been enacted. Never
until now in the history of this Republic, has
there been party corrupt and unprincipled
enough to carry out such laws, or man found
with soul so small, and heart SO insensible
to all the finer feeling of manhood, mean enough
TO apologize for them. No man can rise from
candid perusal of the code before us without
being thoroughly convinced that 1t never ema-
mated from legislature chosen by free people,
but that it was dictated and enacted by usurpers
and tyrants, whose leading object was to crush
out some sentiment predominant amongst that
people, but distasteful and offensive to these
usurping legislators. And this is the code Of