The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-05-17

This humane law was revived, anu con.
tinucd from time to time, aud it remain
cd in operation until superseded By the
compromise act of 1920, and never was
rcpt alcI until the p.ss~ge OF the Kansas
Nebraska act in 1854, which provides as
follows:
That nothing herein contained shall
be construed to revive, or put IN force,
any law or regulation which! may have
existed prior to the act of 9th of March,
1920, either prohibiting, establishing,
protecting, or abo!ishirg slavery
The effect Of the legislation of 1874
has been to revive tie domestic slave
trade between the States and Territories.
1t is Il legitimate result OF this dogma
that the Constitution recognizes the
right Of the master to carry his slavcs,"s
any other property, into Territories. 1t
makes the local law of the s!aveho!dlnE
States the common law Of the land and
will lead, in time, if net checked, to the
revival of the forcig n slave trade, the Ju-
dicial repeal Of the act prohibiting the
domestic slave trade in this District, and
to the recognized right Of a slave owner
to carry his human chattles to New York
or Boston and there hold them under the
protection of the Federal Government.
conclude, then, Mr. Chairman, in rs-
gard to this Kansas Nebraska act, upon
which the Democratic party plants itself
as cmbodyn. the Fundamental article OF
it's creed, that it has fraud aud pcrver-
sion stamped upon every part OF it, and
that it has been the fruitful source of all
the political ills which have afflicted the
country since it became a law, and which
now disturb the tranquility Of the public
mind and threaten the stability Of the
Government.
Sir, this utter disrc gard by the Demo
cratic party Of all pledges and compromls.
es its sanction Ct the gross wrongs and
outrayes pcrpctrated upon the inhabit-
ants of distant Territory seeking to
throw of the usurpations Of Missouri
mobs, bogus legislatures, ana slave State
constitutions, has been the great procur-
ing cause Of the exist. & evils which the
President SO fcelingly depor,s. lie need
not have gone beyond his own party to
find the origin Of the evil The wrongs
which old John Brown suffered aud en-.
dured in Kansas, in common with those
he loved, maddened him. and he sought
retaliation 1t is charged that the North
were in completely with him in his raid
upon lIarper's Ferry. \ word will dis
prove that The old man ranged the
land, through its length and breadth, for
two long years, for succor and recruits,
and, at the end of that time, could mus
ter only seventeen white men and five
negroes to attempt his enterprise. While
Virginia and the whole South were ter
ribly agitatcd at the occurrence, the
North, Of all parties, leplorins and disap
proving the act, remained unmovcd, ex-
cept with contempt for those who attrib
u,ed to her reasonable designs agaIns
the peace and tranquility Of the South.
Unjust aspcrsions have been cast upoi
the action o; the executives Of some Of
the States, who have been applied to FOL
the arrest Of such as have escaped til,
yigileucc of Virginia.
can only say, in relation to the Stat,
which l have the honor i'll part to repre-
sent on this iloor, that. npqn ee4e4,pdii
law, her executive will always respond
with readiness to the acquisitions Of any
State Of this Union for the surrender ot
fug;'ives from justice. But as the law
requires that rcIuisition shall be accom-,
panied with the copy Of all indictment OF
an affidavit taken before a magistrate
charging that a crime has been commit
ted within the limits of the State from
+ which the rcquisition comes; this nccces
sary showing will be insisted upon Il
it is sometimes admissible to dispense
, with the ordinary forms Of law in recap
. turing fleeing nc-ro-such forms vii
not be dispensed with i'll Iowa in re.art
t. white mcu-ne!thcr the usayes o
, Virginia nor Of any other State are re
, yarded as common law in the countr,
, where live.
The gentleman from Louisiana, VIII,
: preceded me upon the floor, from the few
5 remarks which heard, seems to tllinl
t that the Republican party are pledged
= as a party, to resist the admission Of an,
t more Save States into the Union.
e Mr. Chairman, for my own part d,
t not SO regard the position Of the Repab
llcan party. | do hot know that any on
4 controyerts the ri ght Of State to form
} and regulate her domestic institutions
j. she necessarily exercises that right whel
= she francs a constitution. She unloubt
b eddy has tao same right then, which sh
= has at any subsequent period Of her lis
|, tory, to determine the character Of he
e institutions. Massachusetts may to DAY
G by a change of her constitution, le.aliz
d the holding Of slaves within her limits
l. and it would be 20 part Of the bushes
n Of the General Government to interfer
J with her
r What | Office, to, sir, is this doctrin
IL Of the Democratic party that slavery INA
it 20 into Territories, aud that there i, Il
~ earthly power to keep it out IF, und,
J. the operation Of such policy as tha
e tho sentiment Of a territory should b
1t come depravel to such an extent as
a. lead to the adoption of slave constit
i ton under the auspices Of the FEEDER
O. Government, would treat that constit
ton as Lecompton has been treated
, consign it to the merited conaemnatl,
y Of all mankind. No power under lea
~ en- could ever induce me to aid in a,
"a manner in cntailing the wrong on 60,
, ing generations. | maintain the doctril
~ which Mr. Clay maintained in 1850, tn
=. slavery does not exist by law in any Te