The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-07-11

"snc.--. And Be Il further endoted
That ID was the true intent and meaning
OF the act 10 organize the Territories of
Nebraska and Kansas, not 70 iegislato
slavery into Kansas, nor 70 exclude IL
therefrom, but 90 leave the people thereof
perfectly free through their territorial
Legislature to regulate the institution Of
slavery in their own way, subject only to
tho CONSTITUTION OF the United States !;
and that, until the territorial Legislature
acts upon the subject, the owner Of a
slave N one Of the States has no right or
authority to take such slave into the terri
tory and there hold him as slave but
every slave taken into the territory by his
owner for to purpose Of settlement is
hereby declared 10 be free, unless there
is some valid act Of duly constituted
Legislative Assembly Of said Territory,
under and by virtue of which he may be
held as a slave"
The amendment was not agreed to-
yeas 0, nays 81.
In Other words, the doctrine Of the
Buohanos platform, slavery can neither
ba prohibited in the territories by Con.
gress nor by the people Of fthotcrrilories. .
Thus every territory Of the, y. St. is
made slave territory.
That is not all.
EFBy this bill the STATE CoSsrlrv-
rroS Of Kansas is to DO framed and press
ed under the control Of Commissioners
Gg-to be appointed by FRASKLrS Pirnor.
On that subject the readers thoughts
notd no prompting
Like the great "INTAMY" upon which
all this monstroas oppression is founded.
the bill in single clause makes a show Of
fiirness, The clause was not in the ori-
ginal, but was produced rs follows:
"Mr. Geyer moved to amend the bin
by adding the following:
No law shah bo made or have force or
effect in said territory, which shall re-
quiro test oath or oaths TO support any
act Of Congress or any Legislative act as
qualification for any civil Office or public
trust, or for any employment or profess
sion, or to serve as juror, or TO vote at
an election, or which shall impose any tax \
upon, or condition to the exercise Of the
right Of suffrage by any qualified voter,
or which shall restrain or prohibit the
free discussion Of any law or subject of
legislation in the said territory, or the FREQ
expression Of opinion thereon by tie peo-
pie Of the said territory,
This was admitted, only three voting
against il. II will be remarked that il
rePeals part Of The original "INFAMY"
which requires an oath to maintain the
"lniamy" and the Fugitive Law Of 1860.
This amendment however promises no
more than did the original repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, but il amounts to
nothing, for IL leaves the indictments for
treason standing, and ON that charge the
reader is aware, nearly all the arrests Of
Free State men we're made, and on that
charge they are driven from the territory,
their presses all destroyed, their towns
bombarded, sacked and burnt, and many
Of themselves shot and hung.
In this connection we copy the follow
ing remarks from the New York Herald.
paper that has very little sympathy
with the anti-slavery extensionists
Kansas is to be slave State. That
was, we presume, on the part of Mr.. A,
Douglass, the intent Of the division of
the Nebraska Territory, and the object of
the Kansas. Nebraska bill, and If passed
by tho House Of Representatives il will
accomplish the work. AS balance Of
power in the Senate. the South are en-
titled to Kansas-they have fought for it
through god and evil report and now |
all that they require to secure the prize
is the concurrence of the House of Re- |
presentatiyes. The time is .uspicious
for this movement; the bill is exactly |
adapted to the time, the means and the |
agencies TO make Il goodi and all that is
now wanted TO secure Kansas to the South |
is the vote Of the House in behalf of the
measure.
Assuming that with the aid Of the Fill. |
more men in the House this bin will soon
become law Of the land, we have no
hesitation in declaring it equivalent to the
admission of Kansas as slave State. The |
President is to appoint the Commission
ers TO carry out this law, and to superin
tend its execution; and after all the pre-
scrbed preliminAries shall have been full. |
filled, the settlers Of Kansas, under the |
limitations set down, are to vote upou the |
question Of new oustitution-sayery
or no slavery, The cream of the bill is !
IN the executive Authority Of Mr.. Pierce.
ana IL The limitations defined. The 'bor-
der rufiians, by aud with the consent aud |
advice OF the administration, havs expel- |
led the bulk Of the abolition aud Free
State settlers by Gre and sword; the ter
ritory is in the occupation Of the pro
slavery qtRtters, including, doubtless,
many valuable land claims. town sites
etc, conquered from the Northern emil
grant colonies, and held BY the ancient
feudal tenure, that
lie shall gct who ha, the power,
And he shah beep who can
The Northern abolition aud free soil