The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1860-11-02
The Slave Code Supported by Douglas.

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in his speech at Norfolk, Septembe
27th, fully dissected the course c
Senator Douglas on the SLAYER
! Question in the territories. Ii
Z showed up the Inconsistencies of hi
policy in the strongest light, and de
clared that
He [Douglasl even assails popu
, lar sovereignty itself aud takes tn
precise Lecompton position, wbicl
u he 30 vchemently Processes to es
chew Squatter sovereignty whei
, analyzed, is nothing in effect but tn,
which Infamous I.ecompton tyrann,
same attempted to compel Il peop!,
to be all ol one way"
Alter reviewing the course 0
Senator Douglas on the snhjeot %
tn-ritoriai legislation, Gov. Wis,
thus summed up his Slave Code re
cord:
say it without hesitation, and
defying the possibility of contra,
dictlon, that Mr.. Douglas himself,
has drawn mp, proposed, reported,
voted for, and passed more Slave
Codes, not only for the protection ol
slave property, but discriminating
in favor OF slave property in the
territories over other property, than
any other statesman, living or dead.
| cay this deliberately; and | call
your attention to the proof. And
for the first and best evidence, refer
you to the Kansas Nebraska act it.
self.
BY one provision OF this act,
drawn by Mr.. Douglas own hand, ,"
it is provided that appeals 90" bo
taken in o":.. mvoIVlng property
other than slaves, only when the
property in controversy shall equal
in value the sum OF 81, 900.
But where the property in con-
troversy is slave property, however
small may be its value, even if it be
an old negro altogether valueless,
an appeal is always legal right,
under the provisions OF Mr.. Douglas
Slave Code.
Again, MIR. Douglas scriminates
in favor OF slave property in the
territory, by providing that writs OF
error shall he allowed in all cases
involving personal freedom.
And yet again, Mr.. Douglas in
tervenes TO discriminate in favor OF
slave property, and against other
property, in providing that cases in
volving slave property shall take
precedence vi ell other cases of error
or appeal.
Thus Mr. Douglas has himself
drawn up. reported, votcd Tor and
case ot the Kansas Act, which gives
slave property not n peculiar pro-
lection. but degree Of protection
which he refuses to any other
species OF property. Under this
code, the non. STAKEHOLDER having
prope rty in controversy can obtain
no appeal, unless his property Shal
attain the value ul 81 900. The
slaveholdrr may have All appeal il
his prop, rty bo valued one lar
iny, or less than nothirg. The
non STAKEHOLDER eau obtain "a writ ni
error only in specified cases; the
STAKEHOLDER can obtain it IN every
case involving personal freedom. y
And even where the Shareholder
obtains an appeal in case involving
81 900, or 100000, and however
detrimental may be the delay, still
the non STAKEHOLDER must wait, and
the shareholders appeal will take
precedence ol trial, even though il
may involve no actual value what
ever.
So far has Mr.. Douglas occupied
himself in securing the passage Of &
Slave Code-dscriminating in favol
of slave property, and even agains
other property. And this not in ont
instance, or in two, but time again
repeatedly reiteratedly, he has pro
'vided soms or similar "Slave Code
iegislation for territory after terrific
.ry, in a multiplicity OF organizing
, laws which ar still operating in tn
territories, and ex,ant on the roll o
Congressional statutes.
), Understand me. | do not accus
J. nor disprove this Slave Code
Legislation of Mr.. Douglas. en-
}. tirely approve it. 1t furnishes, t
some extent, the kind of protectio
which demand for slave property
, And even the apparent discrimina
ting which it embodies in favor {
slave property, may we'll be needle
> and provided for q species OF pre-
perty exposed to aggression, as
certainly is, than any other kind
9. property.
d ID But surely, il Slave Code is
ali odious-if a Slave Code ought
., damn a man in the North, M
" Douglas doom ought to be sealed
as, nS every state opposed to such enac
re- ments.