St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-23

publican Senator from Vermont, offer
ed an amendment in the following
words as an additional section to the
bill
And be ii further enacted, That until
the people Of said Territory shall form
a constitution and State government,
and be admitted into the Union under
the provisions of this act, there shall
be neither slavery nor involuntary SER
vitude in said Territory, otherwise
than in punishment of crimes whereof
the party shall have been fully con-
victed Prorided, alrays, That any per-
SON escaping into the same from rhom labor
or service IS laaefuilyclaimed tn any State,
such fugitire may be la,cfully reclaimed
and eomceysd to the person claiming his or
her seruice or labor as aforesaid. .
The yeas and nays were ordered on
this amendment and, being taken,
resulted as follows ..
YEAs-Messrs. Bell of New Hamp-
shire, Collamcr, Fessenden, Foot, Fos-
ter, Hale, Seward, Trumbull, Wade,
and WllSOn-lO.
NAYs-Messrs. Bayard, Bell of
Tennessee, Benjamin, Biggs, Bigler,
Bright, Brodhead, Brown, Cass, Clay,
Clayton, Crittenden, Dodge, Douglas,
Evans, Fitzpatrick, Geyer, Hunter,
Iverson, johnson, Jones Of Iowa, Nal
lory, Mason, Pratt, Pugh, Reid, Sebas-
tian, Slidell, Stuart, Thompson of Ken
lucky, Toombs, Toucey, Weller,
Wright, and Yulee-35.
1t will be seen that all the Republi-
can members of the Senate voted for
the fugitive slave law, which one of
their own members moved as an
amendment to the bill.
1t may be added to this, that in the
House of Representatives, on the goth
of July, when Mr.. Grows bill to an
nul certain acts of the Territorial Leg
islature OF. Kansas was up for consid-
Grafton, Mr. Dunn moved substitute
for it, which contained section al
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eighty-four Republicans voted for it,
and with the aid of four of the friends
of Mr.. Fillmore, passed it.
Here we have the Abolitionistsf fully
committed to the fugitive law about
which they have bawled themselves
hoarse s.
l wish now to present the position
of Mr.. Douglas upon the question of
these Kansas laws. He of all men
may be supposed to be sanguine in
his views relating to Kansas, and he
of all men is hated and regarded as
an inhuman monster by my friend
Humphrey. If it can be shown that
Mr.. Douglas desired to "ameliorate
the condition "of the Kansas settlers,
will not Mr.. II. concede that others
who acted with him may also have
desired to do so?
At the recent extra session of Con-
gress, the army bill being under con-
sideration in the Senate, Mr.. Douglas,
in reply to Seward, Wilson, Wade &
Co., shows his own position and that
of his friends, while at the same time
he utters scathing rebuke to his OPP
ponents for their hypocritical cant
about Kansas. The facts presented
by Mr.. Douglas are incontrovertible.
Mr. Humphrey may deny them, but no
man in the Senate had the audacity to
undertake to refute them They We're
upon record and were matters of his
tory. Iquote from the report of SEN
ate proceedings, August 9th, 1856.
Mr.. Douglas said:
81 Is it really true that you are anx-
ious to get rid of these obnoxious laws?
If it were true, with your organized
majority in the other House, sufficient
~ numerous and well-trained to de-
feat the appropriation bills and stop
the wheels Of Government, could you
not have passed a bill to repeal the
obnoxious laws? You have not dared
to pass bill to repeal them for fear
the Senate would concur, and thus de-
stroy your political capital.
Mr.. WADE. The House of Represen-
tatives did pass a bill, and sent it here,
repeating those very laws, and the
Senate has never touched it.
Mr.. DOUGLAS. What bill ?
Mr.. WADE. 1t is called Dunn's bill.
You commented on it before
Mr.. DOUGLAS. l am much obliged to
the Senator for calling my attention
to it. He will, suppose, be frank
enough to withdraw part OF his state
ment. l say l did touch Dunn's bill,
and not very lightly made report
upon it, and / made speech upon it,
and | showed the character of that
bill. Now, | will tell the Senator from
Ohio that showed that that bill does
not repeal one of those laws, unless it
may be by the general declaration of
rights but, on the contrary, it recog-
nizes the validity of the entire code Of
laws enacted by the Legislature at the
Shawnee Mission 1t provides that II