The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-11-24
HORTHERy yCLLIRti ATi0y. THE
Uyi0y A0T WORTH A STRAW:

Don't be startled, genslsn.n, while We IN
form ysa, on the shes: authority" tia. ssif
Black Repablirasisu does not take can
ssYyasiys turn before the 4;h CT March next,
The Onion will be dissolved - No mistake
this time, gers!sncn, for = well known, pop
a!ar, ana isssen,iai politician has eords-
seended TO venture the above oracu,ar pre-
aicsion. Just think Of is. The onion is
gradually disso!sing Ike snow under .
scoscaiag sun "a few days Only are allow
cd fer . CONSERVATIVES turn" of Black Re-
yablicaaism, II this "surn" does Dot stand
cut In bold relief ere the 4sh Of March next,
there 10 .. once an end TO all tha, i. poli,i-
caIly beautiful. Ia other words, IL Mr.
SrcxoLLs, or soma other citizen Of Srbras-
Ia, 10 NJ. allowed 20 peaesabiy seizs free
persons, in the streets of large City, in a
Ssse State, aud convey said free persons to
slass State, and there hold or sell them a.
property, the 'Union shall, and ough, Of
right TO be-" "knoeked into cooked ha;.''
Great commonsr. Poor Uaionl Foreible
les. Potent reasoning!
The "y,rthsrn Nalilaeatien," which i.
declared . sufhsisn, Justification for Southern
Secession, hath this eItent, no more: NJ.
s. +. NUcxotLs, Of Nebraska City, Ne
braska Territory, undertook to capture a
colorsd person 10 Chicago, for the purpose
Of reducing said eol3rcd person 10 slavery
IA other words, NJ. SEcxsLLs claimed the
negro CIR! arrested 10 Chicago, as bis prop
sriy, and that she should be peaeeably de-
liverei to him, In aeeortaaee with this pro-
vision Of the Constitution Of the United
SiAies--to-tcit
no person bald e. serves o. Labor IN ae STATE Unscr
the lava tAessos. Escaping aassher. shall in
qgsaee II aEy Law Fs1ggatEga Fereg DISCHARGED
fra sazh ab9r ba, shall be delivered up o.
eism II tAe party H3a ss<a ssgsics a5eF Gsy be
due"
Now, the "rsrson" claimed by Mr.. Sucx-
Oils, atChicago, was not "hell to service
or labor" IN any s.aic. Mr.. y. lives in Ne
braska Territory, and the negro escaped
from said Territory, and not from auy State.
The Constitution says nothing about ''per-
sons held to service or labor in' Terrific
ryi Not word Mr.. NrcxaLLs had no
warrant of law, authorizing him to capture
In any State. person "hc!a to serycs or
labor in Territory! The people of Chi
cage refused obedience TO no law of Con.
gress, when they refused to let Mr. Nick
Oils have the benefit Of the provisions Of
the Fugitive Slave Law AMI the Consultation,
to reduce persons TO slavery who had escaped
from no slave STATE, but from tree Ter.
yiiorgi
Before tbs election, Dem ocraiic papers
and orators were profuse in their daclara-
tons, that the Supreme Court Of the
United States, in the Dred Scott case, did
aos decide that the Constitution Of the
United States carried slavery into the Ter
risoriss ! Now, how do they talk, when a
citizen Of the Territory Of Nebraska is
foi!ed IN an attempt to recover slaves who
have escaped from said Territory9 Why,
che organ in this City, conducted by the late
candidate for Supervisor, says, in effect,
that if the citizen, Of the Territories Of the
Un.ted States, are not allowed the fun ben
ehts Of the Fugitive Slave Law, and that
section Of the Constitution which provides
for tia delivering Of fusjtiges '.heli to SER
vice or labor IN onn State, and escaping into
another" Why, that in his "opinon" the
Cuinn will be dissolved on or about the 4th
OF March next. How Is this Arc Slaves
legally held in Nebraska, in the absence Of
local laws recognizing and protecting slavery
there? Have the Democracy, since the
election, received some netc ligh. in regard
TO what VII. decided in the Dred Scott case?
Give US some Information on these points
Messrs. Democrats!
For our part, in the language Of a eotcm-
porarv, we say that, while the constitutions!
obligation to return a slave who has aed
from "a State" is accepted by the gren,
body Of Northern people, there is discover
Ell neither constitutional or legal require
men's for returning slave who has fed
from Terri,ory-aud especially Terrific
- S'"'''f "f' WAY ah taGtIbiuuHi
existence, without any claim to satisfying a
popular want, or preva ling as a popular IN
sti,atien. And il there be one point upnn
which Northern sentiment Is well settled, il
is in regarding Slavery rs the creature of
local law, in the absence Of which i, can
have no legal being; and Slavery, il Is need.
less to ear, has nerer been established by
Law in Nebraska. The distinction is not
necessary; for 10 the dearsb Of any ration
al aprrehcnstan of the order OF things to be
established next year. this occurrence. fol-
lowing 50 soon after Republican victory,
may be ab.urdly and mischisvously misin- |
tsrpressd by shs iudiGsrently provided /
sasai.ss Of secession. The simple fact is.
negro held 10 service without warrant of /
Law in Territory escaping, there can be no |
warrant ef Lag to recover him, where Sla- |
very is positively Illegal.
ILLINOIS. OFFICIAL.
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