Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-11-24
LAW AUTHORIZING MURDER AND An.
SON III NECESSARY nc CARRY OUT MS.
UNION.


Our Southern exchanges begin to com,
lin, teeming with threats more terrible than
|the Inquisitiou to those people in the Soutl
who stand in the way Of an immediate dis
Isolution Of the Union:
i The Georgia Cotgederocy, a Douglas pa
lper, says:
A few more days, and, in all probability
: THE genius Of Liberty viii have departed -
1 The scepter of 4 constitutional Union vii
] b dragged from the proud niche erected
land consecrated by the Fathers of the Re
public, and with polluted hands torn int,
fragments, and scattered to the four wind
lof Heaven, by phrenzied ii,naticism! Go,
grant that it may be otherwise. But tn
signs Of the times tell us too plainly that
great and momentous crisis is upon us. a
clisis that none can foresee its consequences
| A crisis that this government has never ex
lperenced. And crisis that this govern
Enent is not likely to survive.
i The people have been unfortunately mis-
He'd, deceived, and betrayed by ambition;
politicians, until many, yea, thousands, IN
consciously, are ready 10 plunge their eoun
TRY into ruin. Preparations are being
made Of the most intolerant and proscnp-
tive character by the Breckenridge party,
to murder and destroy the property Of those
WHO may differ from them on the election
lof Lincoln, in their mad scheme Of disun-
lion.
| We find the following remarkable doc
htment in the Mobile Register Of recent
date
The GEoReIA MURDER BILL.--ln bis
speech on Saturday night, Mr.. Forsyth read
Ia Bill, or rather the project Of a Bill, said
to be the production Of one Of the Senators
from Georgia, and to be introduced into
tine next Legislature ofthat State, "for the
better protection of slave holders ana their
property The reader viii feel disposed
Ito join IN the manifestations ofaston;shment
lof that immense audience on Saturday night
upon the provisions Of tnis remarkable bill.
1t has been published III several Georgia pa
Ipers, in some without comments, and has
been still moro extensively discussed with
dated breath in private circles. 1t coolly
land deliberately proposes to legalize MUIR
der and arson, and TO set loose all the de-
mons of hell to riot at VIII with the prop
Herty and lives of Southern-born men. "A
imam committing murder, even in the most
I liendish shape, it Is not he that would have
Ito be tried. but lis victim, for the conyic-
ton Of the deed Of having exercised the
functions Of federal officer would b com
lplete justification Of the deed. All the Pqo-
cesses of law that ensure justice ever to
the basest 81 felons are to be suspended a
whole class of offenders are to be condemn
cd BY Wholesale; the evidence i to be sap
piled byindividual malice, hatred or reYenes,
and the sentence is to bc executed before
the evidence is finished OF the trial COM
Hmenced. If you think we mistake the bear
ing Of the bill, read it for yourself.
Al DILL TOR THE PROTECTION or TIE OWN
Frs Or SLAVES n -AE STATE or GEoR-
GA.
TFhe5eas, one Abraham Lincoln, black
Republican, has been duly elected Presi-
dent Of the United States, for four years
from the fourth of March next; and, where
las, it is eyidenfto every unparalleled mind,
that the whole power Of said Lincoln and
his CONDUCTORS viii be welded through the
Government Of the United States for the
destruction Of the slave interests Of the
South; and, whereas, tue safety Of the
South requires that the question should be
met With the most vigorous measures upon
the part Of the i cole ofsthe sovereign
State of Georgia; therefore,
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representative of the State Of Georgia,
lin General Assembly met, andit is hereby
enacted by the authority Of the same: that
from and after the passing Of this act, j
shall be unlawful for any person whatever,
TO receive a commission from, or hold an
lofiice under the President Of the Unite
States, or to fulfill the duties belonging to
any Office Id the United States Government
within the State Of Georgia, which may
have been conferred upon any citizen OF
resident Of tie State Of Georgia, by any pre-
yious Administration Of the United States
Government.
| 3. BE itfug4her enacted, That if any
individual whatever shall, after tire 4tE OF
March next, perform any duty b virtue oi
any order or commission emanating from
the United States Government, or any
branch thereof, such person shall be deem
ca al outlaw and traitor to the sovereign
State Of Georgia. and shall suffer death n
any manner which it raay please any good
tane, loval citizens Of said State to inflict.
| 8 BE II further enacted. That it shall
be no crime for any one or more good and
tloyal citizensIofthe State Of Georgia TO con-
sumo by fire all the perishable property Of
said outlaw.
4. BE 1t further enacted, That IN all
eases Of ouflawry, as herein defined, the ba-
lbeas corpus, and the right OF trial by jury
Shall be suspended.
5. BE Il further enacted, That II any
judicial officer shall grant writ Of haoeas
corpus, in the cases heretofore reeIted and
lset forth. lie shall be deemed guilty Of out
llawry, and shalI suffer the penalty Of death
and confiagration, as hereinafter provided
-1iaqnta "a. ] Co1Jsaeracy.
Boorn At WAsh.xGroN.-The New
i York Herald under date of Washington