Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-12-26

Judge Taney's decision tersely put. They are
to be expelled, exterminatsd or enslaved.
The slavery article in the Constitution is as
follows:
ARTICLE VII Slavery.
Sec. /. The right Of property is before and high.
er than any constitutional sanction, and the right
vi tho owner Of a slave to such slave and its IN
crcase IS the same and as inevitable as the right OF
the owner OF any property whatever.
Sec. z. The Legislature shall have no power to
pass laws Tor the eInanci patton o! slaves without
the consent OF the )wners. OF without paying their
owners previous to their emancipation a full equiv.
alent in money 70. the slaves 30 emancipated,-
They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to
the State from bringing with them such persons rs
are deemed slaves by the laws Of any one ut the
United States or Territories, SO long as any person
of tue same age or description shalt be continued
IN slavery by the laws of this State provided
that such person or slave be The bona fde property
OF such emigrant; and provided, also, that laws
may be passed to prohibit the introduction into this
State OF slaves who have committed high crimes in
other States Or Territories. They shall have pow
er ~ pass laws to permit the owner Of slaves to
emancipate them saving the rights of creditors.
and preventing them from becoming a public
charge. They shall have power to oblige the own
ers OF slaves to treat them with humanity, to pro-
vide for them the necessary food and clothing, to
abstain fl ON all injuries TO them extending to lite
or limb, and in case Of their neglect or refusal to
comply with the directions of such laws, to have
such slave or slaves sold for tho benefit Of the
owner or owners.
Sec. 3. In the prosecution of slaves for crimes
of a higher grade than petit larceny, the Legislat-
ure snail he"e no power to d deprive them Of an i'm.
partial trial by a petit jury.
Sec, 4. Any person who shall maliciously dis
member, or deprive a slave OF life, shall suffer such
punishment as would be indicted in case the like
offence had been committed on a free white person
and on the like proof, excepti 10 case of insurrection
Of such slave.
The clause Of the constitution to which Mr..
Douglass specially o~bjects-which provides for its
enforcement without being submitted to the people
is as follows:
ILL., Before this constitution shall be sent to
Congress for admission into the Union as q State, it
shall be submitted to all the white male inhabitants
Of this Territory for approval or disappIoval, as
as follows: The President of this Convention shall
by proclamation, declare that on the 2lst day of
December, 1857, ut tbs different election precincts
now established by law. cr which may be established
as herein provided, in the Territory Of Kansas, an
election shall be held, over which shall preside
three judges, or q majority of them, to be appoint
ed as follows: The President Of this Convention
shall appoint three commissioners in each county
of the Territory, whose duty it shall be to appoint
three judges of election in the several precincts OF
their respective counties, and TO establish precincts
for coting, and TO cause polls 10 be opened at such
ptaceS us they may deem proper in their respective
counfieS ut which election the constitution framed
by this Convention shall be submitted to all the
white male inhabitants Of the Territory Of Kansas
in the said Territory upon that day. and over the
age OF twenty ole years, for the ratification or re
lection, in the following manner and form The
voting shall beby ballot. The judges of said cleo.
tion shall cause to he kept two poll-books by TIVE
clerks by them appointed. The ballots cast at said
| election shall u6 endOrsed Reconsideration 1pifL slime
ry' or Constitution without Slarery". One of the
said poll books shall be returned within eight day:
! to the President of this Convention, and the other
shall be retained by the Judges If the election and
kept open for inspection. The President, with twt
OF more members Of ttis Convention. shall exam
inc said psll. books aud if it shall appear upon ex
. animation that a majority of the legal votes cast a.
said election be in favor of the CONSTITUTION with
slavery, be shall Immediately have the sam,
transmitted to the Congress of the United State,
. as hereiubefore provided. But. if upon such exam
ination of said poll books it shall appear that
majority of the legal votes cast at said election bt
in favor of the constitution with no slavery" theT
!" the article providing for slavery shall be stricken
from this constitution by the President OF thi
Convention, aud slavery shall no longer existin tn,
e State Of Kansas, Except that the right of propert,
in slaves now in this Territory shall in no .manne
y be interfered with and shall have transmitted tn,
y Constitution so ratified to the Congress of tn
United States as hereinbefore provided. In cas-
III u u tUt ANU VI IN Icelutub VI WIS SUnNtHllOl
: to perform the duties by reason of death, resieha
=, ton OF otherwise, the same duties shall devolve uI
on the President pro tenn.
In order to understand this clause, in its flu
l. bearing upon slavery,i it must be borne in mind thu
slavery now exists in the Territory, by virtue
the laws of the Bogus Legislature. and that thi
!, constitution afirms those laws to be valid, so thu
those who may cast a ballot COnstitl
~ tion WiM no siauery," do not vote against its Leg
and constitutional existence in the State, now an
~ for all time to come. They only vote against ii
!" four sections above constituting n part of the col
.' stitution, and it is said that SO well satisfied al
~ the Rufians Of the Territory Of the security
" Slavery without this seventh article that eve
- members of the convention who formed this co
q" s~titution and advocated the introduction of this arr
. Gle, are going to vote, constitution with no SLAYER
" at all events. :bey may with entire confidence
the introduction of the slavery into the new Stat
and its perpetuity therein. so far as their Law
and constitution can introduce and perpetuate
This will appear still clearer in view of the ia
that this constitution, in the article providing f
80 its future ''revisal, amendment or change" speci
pr caily declares ,-'But no alter alton shall be made
nc nc affect the rights Of property in the ownership
siares." Thus the constitution fixes slavery up,
'' the State without any possibility OF its constit
tional removal. II the people submit now, the
ou is no hope hereafter but in revolution.
The present phase of the contest, however dc
not so much regard the existence of chattel slave
in the State as the political enslavement of D.,
-. whites by forcing upon them a constitution tn
disapprove and which ~as framed by fraud
- the express purpose of their subjugation. I'll
- has united and aroused the people of Kansas
60 the firm purpose of resistance at all hazards. A
in the eyes of all nations they will be justified
20 resisting such tyranny even unto blood, if ne
be.
~ But the "white" people of Kansas, hopeful
-. avoid a bloody extremity. persuaded Govern
Stanton TO call together the Territorial Legislatul
-. .uhi.L NOW for the frat lima u cananasad af a N