The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1856-07-04

ess0 . ssees asicle In PusaaM's Month.
y Tor Jaiy, We ex,rac, the following para
graph relative to The bogus legislature,
eAich, elected BY . Missouri mob. Psessd
~ inlunous suactnsaes which The ire
aen = Ksasas have rigtually darcd 70 ~
seey. ~ d~isobsdisace % sAicA has been
p-renouaoed By he Pierce adaiqissrasion to
~ usassa agsinss the United States
That this pretended legislature knew il.
self not 10 he legally constituted, is cvidsn-
ceA ~ the whole course OF ios Procsed.ags'
Thew we're the proceedings OF conspirators,
and not Of = dsliberative assembly. More
~tyraanical, atrocious, and malignant acts,
wsse scarcely ever ascrssd BY an eastern
satrap against = subject province, than were
passed by these men. ID The name Of Law,
against their own assumed constituents.
From the earliest sges. smong every people
making the sliGheSs pf~stensions to freedom,
the right Of ~iSe-spsecA, the purity Of sui.
fraee, the in1epen1ence ii the press, the
exempton Of tAe citixen from arbitrary ar
reses. iron vindictiye penaldes, and from
unusual eashs have hesa the cardinal and
sacred cAlects Il political secisty. IN those
darker days y nsnerchical ~dsspotisa, when
oar fossfslhsrs Il EaelAnd Laid the tounda-
ton Of that e~lerioos polity Which sheds =
lustre up0A tke Anelo-Saxcn name, These
were the euidine stars Of al their struggles.
Al THE Aay, on the continent OF Europe,
the heaviest grievance Of the oppressed mul-
| titudes,fo the renewal Of which they have
| ohsn updsrtaken desperate and ~sanguinary
I--.l1~. 4. skAsr Aan.svsi,nn AT fha rirhta
| OF free opinion and u~tterance in regard to
the action Of government, and the institu.
uena Of society. Yet. these legislators Of
Kansss-in view Of these holy and impre-
scripffhls ~rieAts-siNhts which are the very
ssseoss u . free commonwsalth-in the
hot hsste Of piratess eager Tor the Life o.
| their victimeekruek them out Of exis'
tsnee. Those precious defcnses Of the cit
tea-speech. he pres, TIE bar, the jury
were alike Invaded with inquisitorial seal
Il wa enscsea, LIST, that any person who
| should priat, writs, Or speak anything
aagainst the right to bold slave in the ter
ritory," Should Be desmsa guilty ofFfeagsyl
81, that no person should exercise ne e1ec'
i've haaehise, or BE- allowed 10 practice y
| The courts, without ffss swearing to sap
BORT the fugitive slave law: I'd. that any per
| con spsakine sr writing anything calculated
stc prom te . disorderly, dangerous, 81
| rsbeIious disable ction among slaves" should
Be punishabls with imprisonment at hard
hber Tor I've pears: 9Th, that any persos
aiiirx ! slave 70 escape, or assisting q -
i~ueurTec6on, should suffer death: and otAs
that no person opposed 20 slavery could 81
On q Jury IN which odenses against these
acts wsrs brought in question. and, fnaiiy.
Is If these prsvisions themselves we're moi
enough, the future elections OF the Territory
were % arranged, that Persons opposed %
slavery were disfnlachis4d, and everybody
| elee, whether an actual citizen or moi, on
! re payment Of . nominal tax, YVES suiered
TO vote. The entire scheme, il will be
seen. had nothing in it Of legislation for .
community Of mingled opinions, but was
throughout q prescription and = persecution
of . particular class. Everything wssto Be
p~rostituisd to slavery, a in the DARKER ages
Of the world everything wan prostitused 70
some form Of religion. Slavery was the
state, the church, the all-the one thing 70
BE- sustained at ell hazarda. No man can
rel ID me clauses of these enactnsnts, q
| they stand on the statute-book, without de-
irving the profoundsst conviction that The
authors of thsm were playing . desperate
Rame, in which no consideration OF pm.
ciple Or honor entered, but the y hos was
fraud.