Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-12-18

unanimously against Slavery, still, every
Slave IN Kansas shall yemain a sldUe Jos
life (and, by Slave Laws, bis desccndasss
inherit bis servitude y As John W. Ran
dolph boosted in the Leconpton Convsn.
ton, ,"IT is SLAVERY AT ANY RATE,
vote either FOR or AGAINST particular
section" And this is called voting to make
Kansas Free State What mockery Of
truth what an insult to common sense !! !!
A man (by the same proof may be very
temperate, only he gets drunk every day
very honest, only convicted Of robbery at
every Session! Kansas will be free, only
all her slaves and their children shall be
and remain slaves, and all the brutal Slave
Laws shall be kept in full force! What
more does Slavery want? Several of the
worst Slave States in the Union forbid
bringing in any more Slaves, and are just
as much Free as Kansas would be under
this blind Schedule, which is not the Con.
stitution. The State of Delaware has but
a handful of Slaves, yet it is used BY Sla'
very to all intents and purposes. The
Pro-Siavery Oligarchy want t'oo Z. y.
Senator'S from Kansas, to keep up their
political power especially in the U. S. Sen
ate, and they intend to get them under
this Lecompton movement. Vote "con-
stitution wiM slavery" or "constitution
with no slavery"-vote either way, or not
vote at all, yet by this Constitution and
by this Schedule, Kansas is and remains
Slave State. The South so understand
1t, and that is why the 1O-Slave power
sustains this cunningly devised scheme to
"palter in double sense" "-@a
All "above the age Of 81" may vote
not single days residence required and
5000 or 10000 Missourians may take
winters frolic that day, and vote in Kan
sas, under this "Schedule !" each bring
ing him as many slaves as he can, and Sc
curing their scrvitude for all time to GOMEZ.
Should the constitution without sla.
very be adopted by the votes Of the ma
jority, tho rights of property slaves now in
the Territory, are reserred. The number
of these is very small; but j 1t were 9rea-
ter the provision ~omld be equally just and
reasonable. These slaves we're brought
into the territory under Ae constitution Of
tie United States and are now the proper.
ty of their masters. This point has at
length been finally decided by the highest
judicial tribunal of the country-and
this upon the plain principle that when
confederacy Of sovereign State acquire
new territory at their joint expense, both
equality and justice demand that the citi-
zens Of one and all Of them shall have the
right to take into it whatsoever is recog.
nized as property by the common Consti-
tuition. To have summarily confscated
the property in slaves already in the Ter.
ritory, would have been an act of gross
injustice, and contrary to the practice of
the older States of the Union which have
abolished slavery"
30 but" says the President, as if con-
scious that all this subterfuge must be too
thin, "there are not many slaves" Yet
sir, there seems to be enough to make you
turn traitor to your professions in order to
retain them. In principle it is as wrong
10 break up ten families upon the auc-
ion block, as to separate twenty families
by sale. You may as we'll hold ten thou.
sand men in bitter bondage, as one thou
'aud. Whether ten or twenty hundred
slaves, it still casts the blight and the dis
grace of Human Oppression upon the
State.
Your volunteering to aid, prospectively,
he slaveholding fraternity in running
heir hands into the exhausted National
Treasury for pay for slaves, shows the
plunder principle active to the last. If l
purchase stolen horse, no matter how in
,ocently, and have never had dollars
service from him, l must give him up to
his rightful owner: how much more
should MAN be entitled to HIS OWN
BODY AND HIS OWN WIFE AND CHILDREN,
specially when be has paid for himself
,ver and over again 1t is no, unjnst to
give men their rights. For shame, sir
low can you, a man conversant with the
worlds his:ory-who in college halls and
n legal studies have often informed your
elf of the progress of our race from bar
,arism to civilization-who know that in
be ages past thousands and millions of
'ur fellow beings have been discuthrallcd
rom bad laws, have been emancipated
rom oppressive customs, have thrown off
erfdom and been released from slavery
Vithout compensation to their former
ords and masters. how can you, with the
'iblc before you, protesting democratic
in the light Of this day and
eneration, stand up to plead for the life.
ong power Of domestic tyrants, ,and against
he rights of your brother man to ''lifc,
berty and the pursuit of happiness 2"
Again, sir, what colder States" have