Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-05-28

record. These are glimpses at Aus
trian rule in Italy. Is it any won
der that Italians hate Austria with
inappeasable intensity2 Would not
the dissipation Of ber gloomy and
remorseless despotism over the fair.
provinces of Italy be hailed with
transports Of delight wherever the
blessed sun Of liberty dispenses its
genial raysg
The FUGIT1vnSI SIAvE LAw.-The
fugitive slave law now in force, tho
amended IN 1850, was passed in
1898 by the men who frmed the
Constitution Of the United States.
The history Of its passage is thus
given by a New York paper:
In December, 1892, the Senate
appointed a committee, consisting
Of Mr.. Cabot, OF Mass 5. chairman,
Mr.. Reid, ofsDel., and Mr.. John
son, Of N. c., "to draft fugitive
slave BILL" as they styled it. Soon
atterward, Mr.. Cabot reported such
a bill to the Senate, and on the 18th
of } January, 1898, it passed that
body unanimously, it is fair to pre-
sumo, as the yeas and nays were
not ordered. On the goth of the
same month it was sent to the
House of Representatives, where
it was referred to committee con-
sisting of Mr.. Sedgstick, chairman,
and Bourne, of Mass, and Mr..
White, Of Va, who, on the 4th day
OF February, reported it to the
House, where it was passed the
next day, by 26 Northern and %
Southern votes. On the 10Th of
the same month, it received the
approval Of the President, and
thus became the law of the land
sixty-six years ago last month.
The President who signed that
law, says the Lancaster Pa.) Intel
ligencer, was George Washington,
and among the members of Con-
gress who voted for it, were some
OF the very members of the Con-
vention that framed the Constitu-
ton, viz: Nicholas Gilman; Roger
Sherman, Jonathan Dayton, Thorn
as Fitzsimmons and Robert Morris
all Northern men. The Black
Republican leaders now declare
this law to be in direct violation Of
the Constitu+ion-thus virtually de-
claring that the men who framed
the Constitution did not know what
it meant. =
Pat Doolan at Inkerman, bowed
his head to a cannon bali which
whizzed past six inches above his
deer skin, "Faith," says Pat, "one
never loses anything by politenes.''
Ike Partington took a notion
lately to become a limb of the law.
3" Never, lke," said his mother,
"l'd soon see you graspinllgg like 4
corpse on the mountains brow than
have any body say to me that my.
son was a Common Councilman.'''
For disappointed love; try plain
whisky. II that fails, the style is
to write letters "~to the press" and
take poison. Don't try to blow out
your brains-that can't be did,
A Western editor apologies to his
readers somewhat after this fashion :
We intended to have death and
to publish this week, but vio-
lent storm prevented the marriage, and
the doctor being taken sick himself, the
patient recovered, and we are according
|y cheated out of both. So.
"What are they talking about?'' ask
ed member during the debate on the
money question. j. , .. ~s s~<e
!. g TheoIogy,ns was the reply. -. ....;=,
Theology! why Thought it was the
money question:, - y. ,,i, !. -
!" Well, money is their; deity. and they
arse discour.ing about" :. <.>~
PRENuo1AN.-The Atlantic Mon
thly says that woman is a link be-.
tween earth and heaven Soisa
tossed into the air.
The editor Of the Washington
Constitution says he is Sin the
DARK That's where blind men
usually are.
The Madison Times, speaking Of