Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-10-31

was in 1852
Free States 3,G44,34l
Slave States, l,452 973
Difference, 2.l9l ,s65
And when we look at the rights guaran-
teed to all the the citizens of the Constitu-
ton, how much greater still is the practical
inequality
The citizens of each State shall be ent-
tied to all privileges and immunities Of citi-
zens of the several States
Congress shall make no law abridging the
freedom of speech or Of the press
The right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear
arms shall not be infrlnged.
The right of the people to be secure In
their persons. houses, papers, and effects
against unreasonable searches and seizures
shall not be violated wide the Constitu-
tion passim.)
The booksellers and publishers, and prin-
ters and editors, numerous, valuable, and
peaceable class of our citizens-what sort of
privileges and immunities would they enjoy
if they should remove to the Slave States
with their stock of books, their printing
presses, and their newspapers, and their
freedom of speech and the press And so of
clergymen, and lecturers, and professors and
teachers nothing could save them from tar
and feathers, and ignominious assassination,
but hurried flight by night. The right free
ly to discuss the conduct and purposes of our
rulers, and TO vote for those we prefer-what
an inestimable right of the American people !,
but what friend of Freedom dare to do it
now, unarmed and unguarded, in the land of
Slavery Congress is the supreme power in
the Territores-all legislation in the Terri
tories is mediately or Immediately from Con-
gress. Kansas is still under the legislative
powers of the Union. How many citizens
seeking new homes there have been murdered
and scalped even by Pro-Slavery rufTians I!
How many burning dwellings have lighted up
the few clearings in the wilderness How
many printing Offices and presses have been
| destroyed How many stands OF arms have
| been wrested from citizens in a new country,
infested by wild beasts and bloody men
What bloody laws have been enacted to
subject the citizen TO fine, imprisonment, and
ignominious death, for having a book, circu-
lating newspaper, expressing an opinion
unfriendly TO the extension of Slavery to
Kansas, and even for not taking oaths to sus-
tain such atrocous legislation and when
the people have peaceably assembled with a
view to redress their grievances, in the same
manner in which organic legislation is always
performed in this country, these friends OF
the People have been arrested and kept in
! PRISON, 10 De tlleu IOr tne pTttenucu
of treason-and the Army of the United
by orders of ProSlavery President, has
marched to the Legislative Hall, and dis
persed by force the representatives of the
People, whose only alleged offence was that
they sought to establish free institutions.
Is this the Union in which we entered in 1888
to establish justice, and to secure the bless,
ings Of Liberty to ourselves and our posteri-
tyi Is this Just and equal partnership
Are we of the North free in such a state oi
things Col, Fremont, the pride and the
honor of his country and the world is he
free, when he is deprived of the right Of be-
ing voted for, in many of the States
But some OF our Southern fellow-citizens
insist that, by prohibiting the extension o
Slavery to the Free Territories, it would pre-
vent their going there, and deny them their
share in those Territories 1t is not possible
that there should be more transparent fal
lacy. We do not prevent their going ther,
we do not object to their going there
They are all welcome there-they can buy
land there, and reside there. In every par
tcular they are equal there to the citizens o
the North. There is no distinction in law
or in fact, there, between the North and tn,
South. If Slavery shall be prohibited there
then neither Northern nor Southern men car
keep slaves there, The laws Of the UniteC
States have for years provided that no persol
shall take ardent spirits into the Indian coun
try, and that it shall he lawful for any per
son to take and destroy any ardent spirits o
wine found in the Indian country,--C
Stat 1872, Sec. 20.) and that no person shal
set up or continue any distlIery in the In
dian country, under penalty o.: s 900, an
that it shall be the duty of the Superinten
| dent of Ind an AITlirs fort hwith IN dastrn
and break up the same Ind. SO 2l)
By another law the importation of all in
decent and obscene prints, Autographs
paintings, engrayings, &c, is prohibited
If imported they shall be seized and forfeited
and the said articles shall be forthwit
! destroyed (5 do, 500, ! 2S) What no,