The Kanzas news., 1858-01-02
Slavery in the Free States---A Fear
full Gag.

In an article which we print below, the
Washington Union administers horrible
gag TO the Chicago Times, on the subject
of slavery and its prospective introduction
into the Free States. Our readers will re-
member that the Union lately advanced the
doctrine that s'all State laws, whether or
ganic or otherwise, which prohibit a citi-
zen of one State from settling in another,
and bringing has slave property arith him,
and most especially declaring it forfeited,
are direct violations of the original inten-
ton of the Government" The Times re-
piled in a forcible article rejecting all that
kind of Democracy. The Union now comes
back, taking an imperceptible retrograde
movement. 1t splits hairs on the words
temporary" and permanent, declaring
| that shareholders may drive gangs of their
chattels into the Free States for temporary
settlement, without having their right of
property in said chattels impaired. Tenn
porary settlement may indeed mean settle
ment for one year or half dozen. If the
definition could be accurately fixed by any
sort of Legislation or Jurisprudence, it
would not prevent the conversion of the
whole Free State border from New Jersey
to KaBzas, into thriving plantations md
mulatto factories. Thus much the Union
forces upon the Northern Democracy at
the point OF the Dred Scott decision,
(which" says the central organ, ''deter-
mined that the owner of slave does not
lose the title to his property by carrying
him into State whose laws prohibit the
existence of slavery The Union is per-
fectly logical, and we are curious to know
1,rx- fla
in its new phase. If the Times endorses
the Dred Scott decision it cannot contro-
vert it at all i; and practically it makes no
difference whether Illinois is turned over
to the slave drivers temporarily or perma-
nently. These terms are the language of
Juggling fiends,'' as the Times knows,
and the Union knows, and Judge Taney
knows. Heads I win; tails you lose''
Perhaps the most heartless part of this
gag is the cool conceit with which the Union
thrusts Its dogma into the throat of the
Times. 1t pretends TO be discussing one
of the heresies of Free Soilism' The
Union article is as follows:
''The Chicago Times, and one or two
other papers of like proneuess to find fault
with the Union, are grievously exercised
over one of our late editorials, because, as
they interpret it, We advance novel and
alarming doctrine as to the extension OF
| slavery into the Free States. In discuss
ing one of the heresies of Free Soilism, we
re-stated the constitutional principle recog-
nized in the Dred Scott case, which deter
mined that the owner of slave does not
lose the title to his property by carrying
him into State whose laws prohibit the
existence of slavery. In stating this prin-
ciple, our language may have been less
guarded than it should have been, consid-
ering the readiness of such journals as
those before referred to, to cayil with the
Union but we had no other purpose than
to confront Free-Soilers with great funda-
mental principle solemnly settled by the
highest tribunal known to our Government
1t was not meant by US that the owner oi
slave could carry him into Free State
and there settle permanently, and by that
means establish slavery In such Free State
contrary to its laws. Whatever power the
State might have to impair the contract by
which the owner in such case would hold
his title TO his property, the fact of his set
ting permanently in a State whose laws
prohibited slavery would be deemed con-
elusive of his purpose to abide by its laws
The result, however, is entirely different
when the settlement in Free State is on
" temporary. In such case it is well set