Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-05
The ldeS 1f Anril.

We commend to the spkcial notice of the an
cient Pistols of the late Wing partywh are to as
semble in Mass Convention April 10Th, the recent
Proclamation of Mr.. President Pierce, and also
the instructions of his war Secretary Mr.. Jeffer-
son Davis to Col. Sumner, that they may lack no
material from which to frame resolution OF
| of sympathy and coincidence for our meek-mind-
ed brethren of the ebony stripe, we will give
! them couple of extracts from the code Atchi-
son which Col Sumner and his eigh, hundred U.
S. Troops are to enforce by the tender persua-
sions of the bayonet and the bullet:
IF any free person, by speaking or writing,
| assert or maintain that persons have not the
right to hold slaves in this Territory, shall in
troduce into this Territory, print, publish, writer
circulate, or cause to be introduced into this
Territory, written, printed, published or circula-
ted in this Territory, any book, paper, magazine,
pamphlet or circular, containing any denial ofthe
right of personsto hold slaves in this Territory,
such person shall be deemed guilty of felony,
and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for
a term of not less than two years
Ifany person print, write, introduce into, or
publish, or circulate, or cause to be brought
iuto, printed, written, published or circulated,
or shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing in
to, printing, publishing or circulating within
this Territory, any book, paper, pamphlet mag
azine, handbill circular, containing any state
ments, arguments, opinion, sentiment, doctrine,
advice or inuendo, calculated to produce dlsor-
derly, dangerous or rebellious disaffection among
the slaves in this Territory, or to induce such
slaves to escape from the service of their mas
ters or to resist their authority, he shall be gull
ty of felony, and be punished by imprisonment
at hard labor for a term not less than five years.
These are by no means. the choicest gems of
Plantation literature that have come under
our attention; but as they have the guar
antee of legislative revision and have passed
through the several stages to hnal enactment,
they are supposed to have had something of
calmness and deliberaton in their engrosment
and passage. Our admiration of the benignant
spirit which breathes through each line of those
model Statutes, is mingled with gratitude for
the mercy which tempers the penalty for those
heinons crimes against our fellow citizens who
hold and buy this property" In no instance
can the criminal be imprisoned for over
five or less than two years! We are lost in
amazement that an ''inuendo" ON the subject OF
slavery, only entities one to good quarters in a
Kansas Penitentiary for five years, with the
amusement of hammering lime stone thown in
gratis-while ''the denial of the right Of persons
to hold slaves in the Territory" is in like man
ner rewarded by free commons in the same pub.
lc building for the before space oftwo years.
We beg to remind our Silver Gray Patriot:
that this, is something past the middle ofthe nine
teenth century and that we live undera govern
ment which is called by figure of rhetoric, Q
Republic; and that our treasure and troops are te
be employed to shoot down men who print ol
have in their possession the original draft o.
the Declaration of independence! By all mean:
let US have full convention, the Union is mos
positively in peril. The free men of Des Moine
county can have till April 18th, an opportunit,
to prepare their somachs for eating Southern dirt
Let them endure this pennance by way of per
fection, with the progress of this benihoent insti
tuition of slavery. They may by and by tak'
our able bodied children for plantation drivers
and give us handsome equivalent for them il
cash. Again We say let US have resurrection o
the National Wings.