Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1857-02-27

that it sent q man 10 Imprisonment at hard
labor for two years il he should be guilty Of
the heinous felony Of denying that citizen
of Kansas had right to hold fellow cit
izen in bondage, perpetual and unrequitted,
and which also consigned to the penitentiary
any person who should receive, or have In
his possession, any newspaper containing
any denial of 'the right to hold slaves in
the territory Of Kansas" This Twelfth
section has, VIC believe been repealed. The
wonder is not that il has been abrogated,
but that it was ever enacted-not that men
in the recurring intervals of reason should
undo the most unreasonable thing done in
the nineteenth century, but rather that the
people of Kansas have been goaded 10y such
a claw into something great deal nearer
treason than that alleged in the Border Ruff
fan newspapers. This section of the law
has been, we believe, repealed. 1t is a most
gracious concession, and the people of Kan
sas ought to be duly grateful to the Border
Rufians for this unscaling of the lips of
Freemen, and for this permission 10 receive
the newspapers of the day. Has Mr.. Green
private information that other sections of
same statute have been repealed? Are
those beautiful sections which doom to death
any free person assisting in slave nsurrec-
ton, or any person bringing an Anti-Slave-
ry newspaper into the Territory, or those
which imprison for ten years such as have
enticed slave to attempt the achievement
of his freedom, or those which fine anv Off
Ger who may decline to assist in the execu-
tion of the Fugitive Slave bill, or those
which prohibit the printing of Anti-Slavery
opinions in Kansas-in short, are those sec
tons which are, all things considered, the
glst and the knob of the most Internal law
ever passed in civilized State repealed p
Mr.. Green was not specific in his information
to the Senate. We should have known. if
he knew, that the whole series of so-called
'acts," intended to bolster Slavery in Kan
sas, have been repealed, and that the wretch
ed humbug of "test oaths" has been abol-
ished.
1t can certainly be no objection to the dis
cussion of the House bill that the Border
Rufiians have begun to sing smaller and
have concluded to waive one base point in
order to save hundred. The bill propo
ses to take the power so fcloniously usurped
and so ferociously abused out of the hands
of pack of madmen, and to restore it to
apeople to which it originally and of right
belonged. The devil of Kansas may be
sick and of a mind to turn monk. We want
to put it out of his power to play the devil
again. These so-termed laws are a mass
of stupid penalties, consistent only in their
stupidity. If we are to give Kansas a
Christian and civilized code, we must be-
gin at the beginning and sweep the whole
wretched rubbish now dominant into Oblivion.
The distinguished Senator Weller renew
cd the motion to lay the bill on the table.
He too objected to it because it might "cre-
ate discussion. In the name of mileage
and per diem, what do we pay Senators for
except to "discuss?' Suppose that this
Weller is so foolish and besotted that he
cannot "discuss," yet are no other Senators
capable of talking about bill which upon
its face appears to be fair one? It appears
not The burly branch of the Congress
ional body laid the bill on the table. Soon
er or later we hope to have n Senate which
will be willing to "dscuss" bills of an i'm
portant character, mauger the Wcllers and
the Greens of the period.