Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-02-23
FROM WASHINGTON,
KAYsAs-TnE PRESIDENTS PRooLAMA.
TON.

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WEI have transmitted far ahead of this letter. Let
me second the indignant comments it must have
already evoked in New York by a fuller exposure
ct the hypocrisy aud cruelty Of this manifesto:
There are this day located in Kansas some three
Thousand heads Of families and nearly as many
single men, Of whom at least two.thirds demand
Freedom tor All and are determined that Kansas
shall be Il Free State. According to every princi-
pie, profession, prctense, ON which the passage Of
the Nebraska.kansas bill was advocated and car.
rled, the will of this majority oughtstJ be decisive.
That Il as majority, even ia the apprehension OF
its enemies. is proved by the fact that they have
never dared to let one election be held in the Ter
ritory since it WAS organized without rushing in
hundreds it not thousands of Missourians to over
awe, broTbcot and outyotc the actual residents Of
Kansas.
There arc the Constitution and laws Of the Uni.
ted States-tho latter Including the act organizing
this Territory-which the People of Kansas are
unanimous In obeying. There are United States
functiOnaries TO whUm they likewise yield that
obeditncs which the laws require. But, in addt
ton to these, there are acts passed and officers an
pointel by a body which assembled last Summer
under the style and title of a Territorial Legisla.
ttro for Kansas, which they know to have been u
gigantic and concerted fraud-a Legislature cleo
TED by an armed Eruption Of several thousand
Missourilns, who took possession of their polls,
o%yerawed Of superseded tho election judges, pour
cd in illegal votes by h~at-frlls, and thus tempora-
.rily suljugated the Territory. The Legislature
thus fraudnlently elected proceeded to appoint
SheriFs, Judges, &c, (some of them still residents
OF Misseuri,) for sGr years ensuing: to extend the
Slave Laws Of Missouri over Kansas, and to en-
act for Kansas, III addition to those, the follow
ing:
A Acr to Punish Ofenses against Slave Prop
erty.
''SEcTIoN /. BE il enacted by tic Gorcruor and
Legislature Assembly Of the Territory Of Kansas,
That every person. bond or free, who shall be con-
victed of actually raising a rebellion or insurrec-
ton of slaves, free negroes or mulattoes, in this
Territory, shall suffer death.
X X y
"Sec. II. If any person pint, write, introduce
into, or publish or circulate, or cause to be brought
into, printed, written, published or circulated, or
shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, prin-
ting, publishing or circulating within this Terrific
~, any book, paper, pamphlet, imagining, hand
bill or circular, containing any statements, argu-
ments, opinion, sentiment, doctrine. advice or in
uenJo, calculated to produce Il disorderly, danger
Gus or r%ebeDious dlsaiectiou among the slaves in
this Territory, or to induce such slaves to escape
from the service of their masters, or to resist their
authority, shall be guilty Of a felony, and be pun
lshed 10y imprisonment ut hard labor for q term
not less than five years.
Sec. II. If any free person, by speaking or
writing, assert or maintain that persons have not
the right to hold slaves in this Territory, or shall
introduce into this Territory, print, publish, write,
circulate, or cause to be introduced into this Ter
ritory, written, printed, published or circulated in
thls Territory, any book, paper, magazine, pam
pblet, or circular, containing any denial of the
Tight,of persons to hold slaves in this Territory,
such person shall be deemed guilty OF felony, and
punished by imprisonment ct hard labor for q
term Of not less than two yeurs.
HSec. l3. No person who is conscientiously OPP
posed to holding slaves, or who does not admit the
right to hold slaves in this Territory, shall sit as a
Juror on the trial Of any prosecution for any vio-
latlon of any of the sections of this act.
This act to take effect and be in force from and
after the 9th day Of September A. D, 1865.
j. II. STRlNGFELLOW, Speaker of the
House.
'.Attest, j. NJ. LYLE, Clerk.
THOMAS JOHNSON, Pres. of the Council.
ATTEST, j. A. Iialderman, Clerk"
"An Act to punish persons Decoying Slaves from
their masters.
B ii enacted by the Governor and Legislative
Assembly oil Kansas Territory:
"Sec. l. If any person shall entice, decoy, or
carry away out OF this Territory, any slave belong
ing 20; another, with intent to deprive the owner
thereof Of the services of such slave, or with in.
tent to effect OF. procure the freedom of such slaves
he shall be a~djudged guilty Of grand larceny, and
on conviction thereof shall suffer death.
Sec. 2. 1t any person shall aid or assist in en-
ticing, %docoying, or Persuading, or carrying away
or sending out of this Territory, any slave belong
ing TO another. with intent to procure or effect the
freedom OF such slave, or with intent 70 deprive
the owner thereof of the services of such slave,
he shall be ~adiudged guilty Of grand larceny, and
on conviction thereof shall suffer death.
See. 8. If any person shall entice, decoy, or car
~ away ont OF any State or other territory Of the
United States, any slave belonging to another, with
intent to procure or effect the freedom of such |
slave, or to deprive the owner thereof of the SER
vices Of such slave, and shall bring such slave in
TO this Territory, he shall be a~djudged guilty of
grand larceny, in The same manner as if such Q
slave had been enticed, decOyed, or carried away t
out of this Territory; in such case the larceny may {
be charged to have been committed in any county S
of this Territory into or through which such slave b
shall have been brought by such person, and, on I
thereof, the person offending shall suf- b
er DEATH" p
AN act instituting o Poll-tax. /
"Be it enacted, &c. Sec. l. That every free e
white male above the age of q years, who shall !
to the proper officer in Kansas Territory the I
sum of 81 as a p~olltax. and shall produce to the '
of any election within and for the Terrific !
~ of Kansas q receipt showing the payment Of l,
said %polltax. shall lie deemed Il legal voter, and a
be entitled to vote at any election in said Ter n
:itory during the year for which the same shall II
have been paid: PcoDjded. That the right of suff y
shall Dc exercised only by citizens of the -
United States and those who have declared on oath !.
lhoir Intention to become such, and shall have Ia 8
ken an oath to support the Constitution of the q
United States. and the provisions Of the act Or D
the Territory Of Kansas" e.
Such are 'the Territorial laws" which the Presi- !,
accuses the Free-State men Of Kansas of en- "a
leayoring to subyert, such are the laws which, in :;
defiance Of that People on whom they were most u
nfsmously imposed, the President declares that a.
re wiz employ the Military force of the Federal o'
to enforce and maintain. Punish '"
nents of death for any sort of forcible resistance a
Slavery in KaEsas-punishments of Eve years al
Imprisonment for Anti. Slavery speaking or print
ng in Kansas-punishment Of two years impris-
nment for having an Anti-Slayery book, tract or
ewspaper in the Territory-no earnest Anti-Sla-
man to sit on a iury-and, to crown all, the
light of Suffrage given to every man who paws,
r in whose behalf is paid, a ~poll-tax of one dol
ar, although he may not have slept one night in a
be Territory-such are the means by which the
Itchison conspirators in Missouri are striving to
the Free-State majority in Kansas-and
5 these the President gives the saction Of his name be
nd authority, and threatens to back them up with CT