The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-06-20
A Hard Case.

RE Another exemplifcation of the
beauties of Slavery was given short
time since at Newport, Ky. A couple of
slave hunters went to Ohio, several
months ago, in search of fugitive slave.
Not finding him, they kidnapped a young
negro named JAMES WAGGoNER, who
was born in Ohio, and whose father had
been emancipated in Virginia. The kid
nappers took JAMES across the river and
lodged him in Newport Jail, until they
could find master for him. Here the
negro lay for over six months. but no
master made his appearance. AT the end
of that time, being unable to pay his
Jail fees, he was taken out and sold in or
der to discharge them. Guilty of no
crime against Kentucky kidnapped from
his home, and forced into Jail on mere
suspicion of being slave; his freedom
established by the fact that no one could
be found to claim him with no means
when he entered the Jail, and no oppor-
tuniiy afforded him to earn anything
while there, the State sells him into hope
less bondage for being in the very posi-
ton into which she had forced him
against every protestation on his part.
She forces him into Imprisonment, and
then sells him for being there. Can any
thing be more unjust, more inhuman ?
Even the pro slavery Cincinnati Enquir-
er is forced to admit that it is so unjust
rs to shock every sense of right" And
yet this is one of the inseparable concom
itants Of that system which that paper
and its Democratic coadjutors are engag-
ed in spreading over all the public domain
OF the country. Popular Sovereignty.
which they support, Mr.. DOUGLAS boasts
exu,ingly, has carried the internal sys-
tenn degree and half further north
than the South ever proposed that it
should go. While Mr.. STEPHENS, the
second choice Of the Popular Sovereign
tyites for President, vaun,ingly declares
that not one foot of the public domain is
free from the curse. And yet men pro-
Tossing TO be anti slavery in principle
and in affection, follow the men, support
the measures, and uphold the party,
which have thus extended the system.
They know well that Slavery has, as
Mr.. STEPHENS says, increased in power,
and that it has SO increased by the sym
pathy and support of the Democratic
party. They see distinctly what pow
er the slave oligarchy has been. and is
nov. in their organization ; how it has
turned the party aside from the teachings
OF JIG founders how it has made it re-
pudiate us professions, and change It's
policy how it has forced the party to
make odious discr minations against the
cause of free labor everywhere. Look
at Kansas. Not Democrat in Iowa will
deny that Kansas should long ago have
been admitted into the Union, and not a
man OF them but knows that she is kept
ont only because she has declared uncom-
promisingly in favor Of free labor They
cav every appliance brought to bear up
on her by two administrations To make
her a slave territory. They saw lawless
inyasions Of her soil, seizures Of her bal
lot boxes. bogus Legislation. fraudulent
appointments, illegal conventions. par
lizan governors and corrupt Judges, all
upheld by Democratic administrations
and by the Democratic party. in eadea-
vors to warp her from the support Of free
labor TO that Of slave labor. They saw