The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-11-28

IN the State prison Tor a PERIOD not e4cseomS
ton years; or by a fine not exceeding $1,000.
The habeas corpus act also provides for a
trial by jury Of claim to fugitiyes.
WISCONSIN,.
Following the example of her sister States
of the North, this State has in some particu-
lars exceeded all the rest. She has directed
her district attorney, in all cases Of fugitive
slaves, to appear for and defend them at the
expense of the State. She has required the
issue of the writ of habeas corpus, on the mere
statement of the district attorney that a per
son in custody is detained as a fugitive slave,
and directs all her judicial and executive Off
GERS who have reason to believe that a person
is about to be arrested or claimed on SUCH
ground, to give notice to the district attorney
of the county where the person resides. Ii a
Judge in vacation fails to discharge the arrest
ed fugitive slave on habeas corpus, an appeal
is allowed to the next circuit court. Trial by
Jury is to be granted at the election OF either
party, and all costs Of trial, which would 9TH
erwise fall on the fugitive, are assumed by the
State. A law has also been enacted, similar
to that of Connecticut, for the punishment of
one who shall falsely and maliciously declare a
person to be a fugitive slave, with intent to
aid aid in the procuring the forcible removal
of such person from tac State as a slave: "pro-
yidel that nothing in this chapter shall be
construct as uppI1luS " any Oioiih vi 80
from an apprentice for a fixed time" A seq
ttOn is added to the provisions of the Connec-
ticut law relative to this offense, for the pun
ishment, by Imprisonment in the State prison,
of any rerson who shall obstruct the execution
of a warrant issued under it, or aid in the es
cape of the person accused. Another section
forbids the enforcement of a judgment recoy'
cred for violation of the Fugitive Slave act,
by the sale of any real or personal property in
the State, and makes its provisions applicable
to judgments Heretofore rendered. &c
The law relative to kidnapping Furnishes
the forcible seizure, without Lawful authority,
of any person of color, with intent to cause
| hiM to be sent out of the State or sold as a
slave, or in any manner TO transfer his service
or labor, or the actual selling or transferring
the sersie &c Of such person, by imprisonment
in the State prison from one to two years, or
fine from five hundred to two thousand dollars.
The consent of the person seized, sold or
transferred, not to be a defense, unless it ap
pear TO the jury that it was not obtained by
fraud, nor extorted by duress or by threats.
"
The law of this State is similar to that of
4taers, except that the maximum of the pun
ishment is FIVE years in the State Prison, and
Gne of $1,000.
RI Here then are eleven Northern States guilty
of worse treason than South Carolina threatens,
with this exception against them that these
multiplying acts directly interfere with the pc
cuniary interests and the constitutional rights
of the southern people while that threatened
By the South only remotely interferes with our
pecuniary interests.
Now you ~falsifer or ignoramus who denies
nc Aid tho c6;tor IF tho Finn . in rriyata con-
vercation and as the Republican press of the
North probably will entire, that any such laws
exist, look at the record, see the proofs, and
then cease your insane twattie, and inveetive
against South Carolina Notification, for those
! earses sslike chickens have come home to
~roost." Cease your claim that the Democrat
ic press have nisrerresented you, when the
recorded acts of your chosen lawmakers stamp
the lie upon your lips and show as black a re-
cord of treason as the chivalrous sons of the
land of Marion, or the proverb:ally generous
and noble planters of any of the cotton States,
ever dreamed OF.
But this is not all of which the South has
to complain. Heretofore the duty of execu-
ting this law has dcvolved upon men who took
the oath to support the Constitution and en-
force the laws without any mental reservation
Land Rith q aarGa belief that the Constitution
and the laws were right. Now, by the votes
of the people of the Northern States a man is
elevated to the Executive chair whose whQle
history is opposed to this law and in sympathy
with those who persistently violate it. Here
tofore the officers whose duty it was to execute
the law haze also believed it right and did
their duty when called upon, promptly and
willingly. The new administration will ne
ccssarily place in these offices men who are OPP
POSED to the execution of the law and Wis it
is fair to presume, will not thus promptly exc
cute it. Even under the Democratic regime
probably not one in a thousand of the slaves
that have escaped or been stolen from their
masters, have been recovered, and nine ont of
ten that have been recovered, on accc unit of
this mob and State law opposition, have cost
their masters five times their worth. This be-
ing the case under the most favorable cireum.
stances, what may be expected under the most
unfavorable The election of Lincoln there
fore becomes almost the overt oct AND is an
assurance and a proof to the South that her
constitutional rights are no longer to be pro.
1 tected and the constitution itself and the laws
of the country are to be nullifed or evaded al
the will and pleasure of these Northern fapat.
les and disunionists. Under the Black Re
publican Administration the fugitive slave law
will lie dead upanthe statute books. Can you
therefore, .nsen, can you therefore, patriots, in
good conscience .hurl your bitter invectives al
these men ,whe are. obliged in self defence to
protect their own rights
The Result of the Election OF Lin
coin.
Property is depreciating and Banks are. burst