Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-30

uougiasf Slave Code forthe North-sfiit New
Alien and sedition Bill
Douglas has made a bold bi for Southern
support at Charleston. Under the pFclence Of
preventing the invasion OF one State BY the
people Of another, he proposes Slave code for
the Free States, and an Alien and Selition law
for the Free People, lie has again shown him
self the same speeious betrayer of freedom be
was when he forced through the Eansas Ne
oiaska bill, and III his madness proposes to
punish the people of the free States for being
opposed to the extension Of Slavery His new
measure Of aggression provides heavy punish.
ment for those who enter into such combina-
ton SIS prevailed in sOme Of the Free States
during the Kansas struggle; and establishes an
iuquisitiOnal power over the utterancos of the
press, aud the people in public resolves, touch
ing the peculiar Institution"
Tho speech Of Mr. Douglas was made on the
23l inst and il is stated that the first remark
of John Hiekma. after listening to it was; Up
on thy belly shalt thou go, and dirt shalt thou
eat all the days of thy lle" Much of the speech
''waa but rehash of his old ideas about the ne
csssity Of diversity of domestic institutions in
the several States Of the Union, interlsrded with
a specious argument in favor of Legislation to
prevent the inhabitants Of one State from con.
spring to overthrow the institutions of another,
garnished by charges against tho Republican
pady. alike false and indecent, as the authors
of Browns raid on Virginia"
The remedy Douglas proposed, says the WASH
ington correspondent of the Chicago Press, was
to pass a slave code for the Free States--a new
alien and seditiOn law, under the provisions Of
which, any man entertaining or expressing SEN
timents in opposition to the rghtfulnesS Of
slavery would be liable to indictment, arrest
and ndimprsOnment in the penilentiary. He said
there would be no peace between the North and
South until such law was enacted Those
who held free soil notions in the North must be
dealt with as they were in the SOuth, h,-Put down
by force. lie had no hope of seeing peace or
fraternity, or good feeling restored except by
bringing to bear the power of the Federal Gov
ernment; he desired to carry out that power
vigorously.
"Sir, give US s1ch a law as the Constitution
coptemplates and authorizes, and I will show
the Senator from New York that there is a
constitutional mode of suppressing the "irre~
pressible conflict" I will open the prison doors
to allow the conspiratOrs against the peace of
the Republic and the domestic tranquility of our
States to select their cells wherein to drag out
miserable life as punishment Tor their crimes
against the peaee of society.
Mr.. President, the mode Of preserving Peacs
is plain. The system Of sectional warfare must
cease. The Constitution has given the power,
and ell we ask of Congress is to give the means,
and we, by indictments and convictions in the
Federal courts Of our several States, will make
such examples of the leaders Of these eonspira-
eies as will strike terror into the hearts OF the
others, and there will be an end Of this crusade.
The great principle that underlies the organizaN
ton Of the Republican party is violent, irreeon.
cable, eternal warfare upon the Institution Of
American slavery, with the view of its ultimate
extinction throughout the land. Sir, confess
the object of the legislation I contemplate is to
put down the outside intsrference; it is to res
press the iTepressible conflict ,"
In these extracts, comments the cOrespOn.
dent of The Press, I have given the exact Lam
gusge employed by the little Cataline. Failing
to meet the arguments of the Republicans by
argument, he advises resort to force He in
VOkes the arm of the Federal Judiciary and sol
diery to put down anti-sIavery sentiments in
the North. He wants it to be made felony to
assert that slavery is wrong, and Penitsutiary
offence foFa man to be Republican. This is
Douglas' new Panaoea to restore fraternity and
good feeling between slave breeders and the
free laborers. ImPrisOn and hang the leaders
of the Republican party, and their followers
will quietly surrender their convictions that
slavery is an evil, and believe as they may be
ordered by their Southern masters, that it is
blessing and divine institution. The prop
osition Of Douglas is to pass a Congressional
slave code for the free States putting down free
speech, free presses, free thought, and placing
the opinions Of the people of the free States
under the legal censorship of Southern slave
breeders and their Northern spies and inform
ers. He wants the machinery of the Spanish
Inquisition set in motion in the North. And
would not the Jesuits be the proper persons to
administer it It would give them such infn-
lie QellglE TO Eub TO Nl6 torture ElOSe QJQDio-
dyed heretics-Pr Protestant Free soileTs. Doug
lss seemed to have forgotten that his Border
Rufian friends of Missouri passed exactly such
law when they had possession Of the Legisla-
ture of Kansas, and under it many of the
''Black Republican leaders" were arrested, and q
large number mardered;but the measure
failed to give peace to Kansas, or to reduce the
rank and file Of Republicans to submissions; or
TO stop the ''irrepressible conflict" in or out of
Congress. But Douglas thinks, If the Black
Laws the Border Ruffians made for Kansas
could be applied to all the fiee States a peace
could be conquered, the North crushed out, the
millennium would be ushere1 in, and every knee
would bow to the Baal OF Slavery.
Senator Fesssnden replied TO the little des
peradO in a mastery argument. Douglas at
tempted a rejoinder, but it was a wretched fail
ure. Upon the conclusion of his speech not
Southern Senator went Eear him; not one
shook hands or congratulated him. His speech
advanced him not q peg towards the goal
of his ambition. Every Southern member dis.
cerned his motives and spurned his bid for their
favor and confidence But he will find that his
new Alien and SeditiOn bill will blast his little
remaining popularity in the North II was the
msanest and most unlucky speech for him that
he ever made. The more it is examined the
baSer it will appear.
The Free sOuth--suit for Damages.
Mr.. Bailey, the proprietor of the Free South