The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-11-05


Houses destroyed, IS
Horses at. zen, abs
Cattle stoi.,r 5iS
Property of 'ro-slavery men, $77,lss
Property Of Ere, state men. 335,113
Destroyed by Pr, Slavery men. 3ls.1ls
Destroyed by Free tate men, ei,259
Over and above thu, large aggregate,
the Commissioners cxpr,'ss the belief
that the entire loss during the vars
amounted to s. 100000. To WIN oh NUT
be added, at the lowest calculation, $50
lives, 300 barbarous wounds. 400 la,~
suits, and 300 to 500 negro slaves whose
faculties were Illuminated by the strife
going Oh around them, aud who took ad-
vantage Of the confusion tn strike bee
line for Canada. Aud as the last ripcn-
I'd fruit ot the ifrepressiblo conflict in
auguiated by Dougl AZ in lS5l, we have
tue Harper's Ferry affair, which no sane
nan believes would ever have come to
pass II the Missouri Compromise had not
been repealed.
The tootings Of thi. table make UP a
heavy responsibility for Stephen A.
Douglas That We do not err in placing
1t at his door, We adduco thee incontro
vertiblc facts, Prior to the year ls54
the policy of the country in the govern
ment Of the Territories looked to the
exclusion Of slavery therefrom by law
Though Mr.. Douglas has seen fit to deny
this In his late copyright essay, We have
The evidence Of his own lips to the fact.
A. late as March -. 1888. (Appe.d;;r
to TIE Congressional Giobe; l., Session,
AAhNth Congress, p. 1914
$ hen | entered Congress | found
upon the statute books the evidence of a
r.3.liev to adjust the slavery question and
avoid sectional agitation BY reograph-
zeal line, etc. That poiiicy had is ori.
gin OF The beginaiag ef The government
and had preutzea up 70 that time
We apprehend that no one will hold |
that the reversal Of this policy would have
been eonsu;nmated but for the prodi- |
2ious Efforts put forth by Douglas in Is !.
81 to repeal the Missouri Compromise, |
Before the passage Of the Nebraska bill !
the voice Of the country, to the eastward !
10" OIL the population, spoke thus: You /
may remove TO Kansas and Nebraska but i
you cannot take slaves thither They /
are not property outside Of State limits
and the jurisdiction of local law. You
may settle on the public domain with the
distinct understanding that you do no,
curse posterity with slavery" When
the Nebraska bill became law the inyi. /
tatioa Of Congress to the same class Of
persons was changed SO rs to read "a fol
lows you roslsyery men, 20 to Kan
sas and fasten your institution on the
Territory If you can. You free sellers
. to Kansas and keep slavery on. il you
are strong enough and let tnc hardest
end of Fight it 4at Bura, stab,
'hoot, rob, raFa,ea till ono or the other i
'uDaned - esterminatcl Such was
he plain language Of the Nebraska b.si.
aggravated fourfold by the taunts
nd threats Of the pro slavery party in
congress, Of whom Douglas was chief
Then vas the real '.irrrpressihle conflict
The country, North and {
'onth, read tie language and OWNED it.
neaalng as clearly as though it were ,
Trlften on the sky, and boil, fastened to
Mist in the invited strife. How faith
al'y they responded to Mr.. Douglas i
roposition let the official record Of the j
,ansas Legislature tcll-Press and ri.
une. J.