The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-01-01

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leries. The CHAIR said the gallerie
must be cleared if the applause again
was heard
Mr. WADE.-Never mind, let then
cheer the fugitive Slave Law if the,
please.
Mr.. MASON said he should insist on
order if the indignities TO the Senate die
not cease.
Mr.. WADE-This would be a poor
remedy for free man.in humble circum
stances to be taken under the provision
of this bill to be carried where? Where
he came from. Then he might be car.
ried into the market place anywhere in a
slave State, and what chance had he p
This man may be kidnapped and carried
into everlasting Slavery, and does any
man who has regard for the sovereign
rights of the States rise here and com
plain that State could not make law to
protect her own people against invasion
and seizure ? | believe of all men those
who have made the most of these com
plants are the last who would rise here
and deny the power Of sovereign State
to protect her own citizens against any
Federal Legislature whatever. Then lib
ertv bills have been made, not with a
view to degrade the south, but with an
honest view to guard the rights Of their
own citizens from unlawful searches and
seizures. was exceedingly glad to hear
Senators on the other side say that the
repeal of these bills will not relieve the
case from the difficuties--and | have
heard it everywhere that the people of
the Free States are uniaithful in execut-
ing the Fugitive Slave Law 1t has been
under such circumstances here, that, al
though | was sure as TO my own State,
yet | could not rise to say | lid not be-
lieve word Of what they were saying
| never did and never could, until our
enemies here rise in their places, and
with magnimity | commend, have said
that this was not SO. Ny colleague, Mr..
Pugh J with magnanimity for which l
give him my thanks, has stood forth to
testify that, in the State l in part repre-
sent, Republican Judges, Courts and Ju
ries have fulfilled this repulsive duty with
perfect faithlulness, and SO said the Sem
aIor from Illinois, { Mr.. Douglas) and so
| understood the Senator from Indiana,
{ Mr.. Fitch) TO have SAID. Therefore
this calumny is removed from us, so far
as the statements OF our political enemies
can do II. | know our Courts feel them.
selves bound 10 administer the laws Just
as they find them. Let me say, to gen.
tlemen Of the Senate on the other side,
where you have lost one slave by the un-
taithfulness of Legislative tribunals, we
have had ten men murdered by your
mobs against law | cannot take up n
Southern paper but | read Of men who
travel for business. but YOU wait upon
them by some Committee and tell them
to return. Aud what is the cause p
Why, Sir, YOU come from Ohio, and they
don't inquire what party you belong to.
Many of these acts have been done under
circumstances that would disgrace saw
age. We have no security in travelling
nearly one half of this Confederacy-es-
pecially the Gulf States. | don't care
what mans character may be, and i.
he never violated any law under heaven;
but il he comes from the North, and es-
pecially if he has exercised his political
rights and voted for Lincoln instead Of
somebody else, it is an offence punisha-
bic by indignity, by stripes and by death.
And you, whose constituents are guilty
OF all these things, can stand up and ac-
cuse us of being unlaithiul 10 the Con
~ Of tha land I | ,,>nl.a 4 ba
ton here, that do not believe in the his.
tory of the world there ever was a nation
or people where law SO repugnant 10
the general feeling was ever executed
with The same iaithfuness rs has been
this most repugnant Fugitive Slave Law.
You have law in South Carolina by
which you take the free citizens of Mass.
achusetts or any other maritime State and
lock them up in Jail under penalty. II
The poor man cannot pay the jail fees,
eternal slavery stares him in the face. 1t
IS monstrous law, revolving 10 TIE best
feelings Of humanity, and in conflict with
the Constitution of the United States. |
don't say this by way of recrimlnation
l know the excitement pervading the
country, and do not wish to add a single
coal TO the flame Nevertheless | wish
the truth TO appear. Then, what is il?
You have the whole Legislation of the
country you own the Cabinet and the
Senate. and | may add You own the Pres
ident OF the Unted States, as much as
you own the servants on your own plan.
ations Bul | can't see why southern
men rise up and complain OF the action
OF this government have already
shown it is impossible to point ont any
acts OF which the Republican party have
been guilty of which YOU can complain.
Therefore | understand that Senators who
Justify the overthrow OF this Government,
who would break il up and resolve il into
lis original elements. do il on mere sus-
picion that the Republican party may
somehow affect their rights Now, what
doctrines do we hold detrimental 10 youo
Are we the settlers forth of any new doc.
trine under the Constitution tell you.
nay There is no principle held to day
by the great Republican party that has
not had the sanction OF your Government
for more than seventy years. You have
changed your opinions. We stand where
we used 10 stand We stand on the Sla-