Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-03-19

otl OF March, the supreme Court dsmisso
the negro suitor, Drcd Scott, to return to IL
bondage; and having thus disposed of tina
private action for an alleged private wrong
on the ground OF want ot jurisdiction in tn
case, they proceeded with amusing -olcmnit
to pronounce the opinion that, if they had ha
such jurisdiction, still the unfortunate no,i'
would have had to remain in bondage, unrc
licved, because the Missouri prohibition ,io
idt's the rights oi general property involvc
IN slavery, paramount to the authority q
Congress y few days later, copies Of thi
opinion were multiplied by the senate
press, and scattered in the name of the Scnat
| broadcast over the land, and their publica
tion has not yet been disowncI by the Senate
simultaneously, Drcd Scott, who had plavc,
the hand Of dn0HmY in this interesting pollti
cal game, unwittingly yet to the culnplct,
satisfaction of bis adversary, was voluntarily
emanclpatcd; and thus received from hi
master, as "A reward, the freedom which th,
! Court had denied him as right
ne new President of the nitcd States,
having organized this formidable judicial bat.
| terry at the Capitol. was now ready to hn.n
! hi' artH i munnDrtll ,u, NJ mJ'trutI .u I'M
| tie l"rri rN. Here occurred NOT It nr,,
want, but AN old ono rr,i,rl--a Governor
Tor Kansas. Robert j. Walker born and
relre in Pcunsy l,dnid. q lr.n State, bat
long a citizen and resilient ,f ,li.si.y;,',,i
slave State. eminent far t,I.n, and niiIi',
devoted to the President and his party.
plausible and pcrsevcring untiring and
efficient seemed Just the man to conduct the
fraudulent incho9to nrocooJin,,s or ,Lo , ,'
icctod Iocomnton Cdn,o,,ti'',, ., i'Y-
by dividing the friends of free labor in the
Territory, or by casting upon them the res.
possibility of defeating their own Glyoritc
policy by mpracticablitv and contumacv.
lie wanted for this purpose only an army
and full command of the Executive cxchcounr
of promises of favor and of threats of runish-
mnnt Frederick p. stanton, of r,,n,...oc.
honorable and ramblr. Of p,r-,n,,. AL Irc,..
but honest ambition, wa. appointed his
Secretary. The new agents som found tney
had assumed a task that would tax all thnir
energies and require all their adroi nrs>. ON
the one side. the Slave Labor party w.re de-
tcrmincd to circumvcnt the people, and secure
through the Lecompton Convention. a slave
State. On the other, the people were watch
full and determined not to be circumvont.d
and in no case to submit. Elections for dol,
cgates to that BODY were at hand The Lnr-
slaturc had required census and registry IF
voters to be made by authorities dosirnatod
by itself and tins duty had been oniy mr..
TALLY performed in fifteen of the thirty four
counties and altogether omitted in tho ntler
nineteen The party of Slave Labor insisted
on payment of taxes AS a condition of sufr,,,,o
Tho Free Labor party deemed the whole rro.
ceeding void bv reason of the us,,rnot tion
practised, and Of the dcfortivo orrnn,n,nonts
for the election. They discovered :, d..i,n
to surprise in sthe refusal of anv ru,r,,I,y
that the Constitution. when framed sbnnlJ
be submitted to the people, for their accent.
ance or rejection. nrnno rotorv to tbn;r ,,,iiI;-
cation under it for the admission Of Kansas
into the t'nion The Governor dr,,vin,, From,
the ample treasury Of the Executive at his
command, made due exhibitions of the army,
and threatened the people with AN accept
ance a the locon"tur ID uidy should re-
ever ohFotc. With these menaccs, he judi
clousIy mingled promises of fabulous guam
titles of land for the endowment Of roads