Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-02-05
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Stute Rights Laws Repealed.


their noble purpose. These resolutions
had their rise in the Cincinnati Democrat
ic Convention, and were first designed to-
protect The slavsholdihg rights Of the
South. Shortly after it was discovered
that the freemen Of the North required
just such protection from the star-chamber
Federal Courts, 50 the Republican Legis-
lature Of Wisconsin adopted the State
Rights policy Of the Cincinnati democrat
ic platform, the democracy since throwing
the same overheard IN order to save Nil
ler's Court from auuihilation.
But for the late radical change in the
government and the breaking out Of the
rebellion, these State Rights laws Of Wis
consin must have stood for all time as the
only means fos saving peoples property
and to prevent Wisconsin citizens from be-
ing slave catehers. These events have
used Up the Fugitive Slave Law; no long
Ii, thanks TO Almighty God, is the y. s.
Marshal liable t. call you and l, dear
reader, to the heaven defying work Of ar
resting fugitive slaves and giving them up
to. bondage The Fugitive Slave Law is
dead and its obedient yassals handed
over to infamy along with its concoctors,
Mason, Clay, Fillmore, Webster, and 9TH
er compromise doctors. With the Fugi-
tive Slave Law and its commissioners and
plant marshals all swept away, goes also
Judge Miller and his star chamber court,
and his family Of clerks; all these les,
their life estate by that inevitable policy
which is to confiscate the heritage Of all
who more sympathiso with slave institu-
tons than with freedom. Judge laney's
tenure hangs but upon bis own brittle
thread, and that weakened by fourscore
years Of wear and tear; all these cats
paws of slave holders may read the writing
on the wall and reflect that Almighty
Gods Justice never fails to oyertake the
wicked in their craft. 1t is extremely
probable that others than CONSCIOUSNESS
pro-slavery democrats may soon be admit
ted into Miller's court as Jurors, and that
the whole State will no longei be ransacked
for men mean enough 10 make jurors for
Miler's court-men who, as machines, re-
spect and sign Miller's "mere matter Of
form" verdicts. 1t is probable that soon
others than pro-slayery, Fugitive Slave
Law obedient lawyers may be treated with
common decency at Millcr's -prota-
bic that men possessing a conscience may
be respected before that court as clients, ju-
rors, lawyers and agents-probable that
that court may become blessing instead
Of monster curse to the country, and in
the providence Of God so progress in
knowledge and justice as to respect the
State courts as well as negro worshipping
courts afar of;-probable that Miller's court
will issue no more writs against small
farmers upon trumped up claims Of non
residents AL these blessings and more,
with the righteous retributions which await
the guilty, and the reiefs in store for the
innocent which this war must bring about
For such reasons we no more want any
State Rights laws to defend the people.
The Shareholders are sethroned and white
lahoring men will rise TO more importance
than negroes. The people Of Wisconsin
no longer need any guarantees above those
provided in the U. S. Constitution aud
Ks; we need not such laws to protect
our ienRIe from Shareholders and non-resi-
dent spectators. Even Judge Howe IS
moving to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law
which no power on earth can enforce in
Wisconsin; no State Rights Laws ale now
required to protect the people from being
summoned to catch niggers, 50 we can
spare Judge Howe from the trouble, Let
the Fugitive Slave Law stand to perpetu-
ate its own infamy, and as 4 memorial Of
its defenders, Spare these statutes Of
wrong, even as the arcients so long pre-
served their obscene statuary as memorials
Of crime. Let the Fugitive Slave Law
stand, but repeal the State Rights Laws,
in order to show that virtue. though once
prostituted, may rise and triumph against
infamous laws. We dissent in toto from
our men,lsr Of Assembly, Hon. J. +.
Mills, III this case. Oh. Mills what about
thy faith! Sacst thou not that tho Fugi-
tive SLAVE Law, Judge fancy, Millers
court. Shareholders and slave laws, are but
dad letters. and State Rights laws but
evidences Of our past weakness, which
must shcw posterity that such things had
10 be resortad to FOR the public protection
yVarn even Bonth rs now SEX the nroiec-