The Kanzas news., 1858-10-16
A Federal slave Code for the Terri
tories.

tories.
Last week we promised to give our read
ers this week a few choice extracts from.
leading Democratic papers North and South
demanding that the next step in the cor
spiracy against freedom shall be now taken.
The Louisiana and Florida purchases
was the first step taken; the annexation of
Texas and the passage of the Fugitive Slave
law followed. Next came the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise line-close followed
by the Dred Scott decision These acts
have been SUCCESSFULLY swallowed and en-
dorsed by the Democracy, until their ston-
achs have lost the power of nausea. The
next one is more Infamous and bitter than
all combined of those that have succeeded
it; but they will undoubtedly swallow it.
without squirming.
The demand now is for FEDERAL SLAVE
CODE FOR THE TERRITORIES. The Dred
Scott decision is well enough in the absract,
but for fear that the local Legislatures viii
not pass laws protecting slave property they
demand that Congress shall enact gene
raj provision applicable to all the Terrific
ries NORTH AND SoUTH, compelling the local
Legislatures to extend the arm of protee-
ton over property in man.
We well know what this protection for
slave property means; and We shall have
further evidence of it in the passage of laws
providing for patrols TO prevent the .'un-
lawful assemblage of slaves and establish
a general system of espionage to be paid
for out of the public treasury. We shall
see it in the enactment of laws with such
clauses as the following, which our readers
will recognize as sections form one of the
enactments of the Usurping Legislature of
1855:
If any person print, write, introduce into, pub
lish or circulate, or cause to be brought into
printed, written, published or circulated, or shall
knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, print
ing publishing or circulating within this Terrific
~, any book, paper, pamphlet, magazine, hand
bill or circular, containing any statements, ar
guments, opinions. sentiment. doctrine, advice or
inuendo, calculated to prodnee disorderiy, dan
gerous or rebellious disafection among the slaves
of this Territory, or to induce such slaves TO
cape from the service of their masters to resist
their authority, he shall be guilty of felony. and
be punished by imprisonment and hard labor for
a term not less than five years.
If any free person, by speaking or by writing,
assert maintain that persons have not the right
to hold slaves in this Territory, or shal introduce
into this Territory, print, publish, write, crcu-
late or cause TO be introduced into hs Territory,
written, printed, published or circulated in this
Territory, any book. paper. magazine, pamphlet
circular, containing any denial of the right of
persons to hold slaves in this Territory, such per-
shall be deemed guilty cf felony, and punish
ed by imprisonment at hard labor for term of
not less than two years.
This will be the legitimate work of Fed
eral Slave Code. Il could do nothing less
it might do more. Under such an en-
actment the publication of such paragraphs
as those contained i'll THE News of last
week from Jefferson's and Wasbington's
writings would subject US to at least two
years imprisonment.
We confess to our astonishment at the
proposal of such a measure. True, it is a
legitimate offspring of the Dred Scott de-
cision. But We had hoped that the De-
moeraoy were ready to pause in their career
that their Southern masters would see
the impolicy of pushing matters TO such
extremes, in the face of the aroused Anti
Slavery sentiment of the North. But we
were disappointed. The issue for the Pres
idential campaign of 1860 is made up al
ready. A President viii be elected on the
issue of a FEDERAL SLAVE CODE FOR THE
TERRITORIES.
One step more and the structure is COM
plete. A decision of the Supreme Court
declaring that the Constitution of the Uni
ted States carries slavery into all the States
and Territories of the Union-and Keeps a
here-beyond the power of the people to
abolish it at all This will complete the
series of measures of which the Nebraska
bill was the first in course. Another Dred
Scott decision only is wanted. Who doubts
that the present Supreme Court will make
it when it shall become necessary?
The following are the extracts alluded to-:
From the Charleston tS C) NeOs. -.e
If the Constitution eonfers upon slavery the
right to go to the Territories as according to the
Kansas Nebraska bill and the Dred Scott decision
it does, then it also imposes the duty of protect
ing that right, and this cannot be done acitout posi-
tioe Pro-SLacery legislation and FEDERAL SLAVE
CODE FOB THE TERRITORIES.
From the Nes0 York Day Book
OF course, the people of a Territory. when they
frame their State Constitution, may adopt or ex
elude slavery 6ut sOhle they are Territory if they
fail to protect property invested in the person or
industrial capacity of the Negro, they grossly vi
olate equal rights, and therefore not authorized
TO consider tkeslseLoes Democrats. The whole ques-
ton is resolved into this simple right or no right
TO protection to slape property IN the Federal Terri
tories. and, as the Charleston Netcs suggests, q
must constitute the issue Of 1860.
Frca the Richmond (Va) Enquirer.