The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-11-23
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Don't Be startled, gentlemen, While We in
form ysu, 90 the '.bess authority" ihai I'll
Black Eepsb.ieanisn does not take . con-
eerya,svs ,arn before the i;h Of March next,
the Union viii be dissolved p No MISTAKE
this tine. gentlemen, for weil-known, pop
uIar, aud Influential politician has eonde-
ecende4 10 venture the above oraealar Pre-
d,c,ioo, jus, think Of il! The Union is
erasuaily dissoisins Ike snow under .
seoschinz san "a fes days only are allow
cd for . conservative iurn" OF Black Re-
pab.icanisn! II ,his .turn" does not stand
eat in bold relief ere the Alb Of March next,
there is a. oncs an end to all that is po!iti-
eally beautiful Ia other words, il Mr..
NrcKoLLs, or soma other citizen OF Sebras-
Ia. 10 not allowed to peaeeably seize free
persons, 10 the streets Of large City, 10
free State, aad convey said free persons to
. slave State, and there hold or sell them as
property, the "Union shall, aud ought OF
RICH. to be-. .knocked into cooked hat.'
Great Comnoner. Poor Union! Forcib!e
logc! Potent reasoning
The tsNorshern Notification" which is
declared a sufficient Justification for Southern
Secession, hath this extent, no more Mr..
8. r. NICHOLS, Of Nebraska City, Ne
braska Territory. undertook to capture a
colored person in Chicago, for the purpose
Of reducing said colored person TO slavery
ia other words, Mr.. NucxoLLs claimed the
negro girl arrested in Chicago, as his prop
sr.y, and ,hs: she should be peacsably de-
liyered TO him, 10 accordance With this pro-
vision Of the Constitution OF the United
Ssates-to-nit
"sa person tsla service labor In State under
thereof escaping into an5tber shall in eonse-
ausnse Of any Of regulation tasea be discharged
fm sasa soviss l4b,r bat shall be delivered ap on
claim Of the party to whom such service labor be
DUE"
Now, the "psrsoa" claimed By Mr.. Neck.
Oils, n. Chicago, was not "heldto service
or labor" in any State. Mr.. N. lives in Ne
braska Territory, and the negro escaped
from said Territory, and not from any State
The Constitution says nothing about "per.
sons held to service or labor in'' Terrific
ny! Not word Mr. NrcxoLLs had nc
warrant Of law, authorizing him to capture
10 any State. person "he!d to service OF
labor in" Territory The people Of Chi
cago refused obedience to no law Of Con-
gres., when they refused to let Mr.. Mex
OILS have the benefit Of the provisions o!
the Fugitive Slave Law and the Constitution
to red ics persons to slavery who had escaped
from no slave State, bu, from free Ter
ritory!
Before the election. Democratic papers
and orators we're profuse in their DECLARE
tons, that the Supreme Court of the
United States, in the bred Scott case, di0
not decide that the Constitution of the
United States carried slavery into the Ter
ritoriesi Now, how do they talk, when a
citizen Of the Territory of Nebraska is
foiled 10 an attempt to recover slaves who
have escaped from said Territory Why.
the organ in this City, conducted by the late
candidate for Supervisor, says, in effect
that il the citizens Of the Territories Of the
United States, are not allowed the full ben.
eft, Of the Fugitive Slave Law, and tina,
section Of the Constitution which provides
for the delivering Of fugitives SHIELD to SER
vics or labor in one STATE, and escaping into
another" Why, that in his "opinon" the
Union will be dissolved on or about the 4th
OF March next. How Is this ? Are slave.
legally held in Nebraska, in tho absence Of
local laws recognizing and protecting slavery
there ? Have the Democracy, since the
election, received some ne,c hight in regard
to what was decided in the Dred Scott case:
Give Us some information on these points
M.ssrs. Dem,cr
For our part, in the language Of cotem-
porary, We say that, while the constitutional
obligation to return slave who has fed
from ga stass"is accepted by the great
body Of Northern people, there is discover
ed neither constitutional or legal require
ments for returning slave who has fed
from Territory-and especially Terrific.
~ where Slavery has Only an exceptional
existence, without any claim to satisfying a
popular want, or preva ling as popular in
ssisa,ieu. Aui il there be enc point upon
which Northern sentiment i, we'll settled, it
10 10 regarding Slavery as the creature Of
local law, ia The absence Of which it eau
have no lsga, being; aud Slavery, it is need.
less 10 ssy, has never been established BY
law in Nebraska. The distinction 10 DO,
necessary for in the dearth Of any ration
al aprrshsnsion of the order o. things to BE-
established next year, this occurrence, fol.
lowlag 81 soon after Republican victory
nay be ahsardy and mischief ously mis;n-
terrressd by the indiaereutly provided
sasaists Of secession. The simple fact is, I
negro held to service without warrant ol
la~ in Territory escaping. there can be ~
warrant Of Law to recover him, where STA.
very 10 positively Illegal.
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