The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-02-18

Ine Unlted STATES OincorS cnnrRed win tho
duty OF arrestng persons for such claimants
were empowered 10 call on all bystanders TO
assist, and 10 summon the posse OF tho coun-
try. The act knew neither color nor previous
condition save rs sworn to by the claimant
IL carried oil the victim even from the midst
of old nclghbors without allowing him to call
witnesses, without a jury trial, without any
examination save the declaration Of tho claim
ant.
Hunting Is the noblest pastlme Of mon. 1t
is noble in degree according 10 the elevation
OF the game in the scale of being What hunt
ing so ennobling as that Of mon and women,
which was now opened in all tho free States 70
the gentry and negro traders and thieves OF
the slave Statesy A horde of deputy marshals
was appointed to do their bidding, and Com
missioners were created at places handy TO
expedite these abductlons.
The act abolished all protection of freedom.
Many free persons were carried into slavery.
Many cruel scenes were enacted, causing
much feeling in the observers. But the com-
promise of 1853 was declared 10 be hnnllty
and q sacred compact, aud the power of the
stockholders over the politics and conscience
OF the Nation was probably not so great at any
pnevious time rs from tho compromise OF
1850 But In less than three years the slave
power violated this compromise. aud plunged
into new conflict 70 extend slavery into new
territory.
THE KANsAs-NEBRAsKA CONTEST.
The proposed Territory of Nebraska en-
braced what is now Nebraska and Kansas. As
II Is north OF the compromise line, Territorial
wouId be- regarded as free because north OF
that line. The hin was innocentIy Introduced
h,, a Nortbarn Danocrat alant "a to ala ayerv
bt pD ~. sS%s senata ~ tbs s,a
soiid onnosItjon oS the South, This opened a
confict which lasted nntil tha southern states
dissolved the Union.
Tho thought may occur to the reader that
Imerican no,itlcs Without donbt slayery IA
the Divine or9,ar Rut Tho trno accounta show
that the Divine order never ala have an easy
time twas continually beaten by the other
order. Thus Inc Divine order OF slavery was
shown as much by its conflicts and nd yorsIties
ne nv its mower
Taking I'M casually n periodloal entitled the
"Homiletic MaxaZiie. which seemed 10 be
magazine of nians subiects and IDEAS for ser.
mons, TO be allied in BY the sernonizer, thero
turned nm The framew ,rk of sermon on the
cheerful theme that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In the
common lot
III hegan far bool, and said that the Creator
was dIssppoInted in his work of crestiou-aIt
repentcd HIM that He had made man." He
drowned ali men and began anew, and that
aid moi better N. m said that Eye was disap-
pointed in tho knowledge she grained by DIS
his expectation of happiness from riches and
Thousand wives With The usual masculine
| uncons oiousness OF the feeling and rights Of
woman, IL never mentioned the thousand dis
appointments of his thousand wives And It
fore that incessant militant state Of the slave
| power, and its final disappointment only con-
| hrms the evidence that slavery Is tho divine
order. order v.,. ,,, - ,u...s,. L.
the House in lsj2.53, and was passed by the
| House but defeated In the Senate. The Sec
ond bill was introduced In the Senate in ls53,
and was similar, and this like the previous
| was fayorably reported by Stephen A. Doug
| las Chairman of the Committee on Territories.
| But the slave power resisted the organization
| OF territory which would come In on the free
side OF the compromise. II had now deyel-
| oped the logical doctrine that the Constitution
| carried slavery throughout tho Nation. IL did
| not put tho rugged end OF this principle into
enactment, but went at II BY strategy,
The bill was passed In May, 1854. II got In
| the House "A votes from tho FREQ States, all
| Democrats; but the same number Of Demo.
| Gratis from the tree States voted against II. In
| tho Senate Il had SO yeas to u nays.
/ The meanest part of the plot was the do
/ bauchng OF the Supreme Court To do a Job TO
extend slavery, which the party did not dare
| 10 do openly by legislation. To carry this out
theDred Scott suit was trumpcd up-Dred
| Scott, a slave OF an army officer thon in Mis-
| souri, being supposed TO be suing for his froe-
dom on the ground that his master had for:
| merly taken him into territory which had
beon made free by tho Missouri Compromise.
Thus II was contrved 70 enable tho court TO
Tho court decided that only n cItizou could
sue In the courts, and that tho torn citizen
meant one having tho elective franchise.
Therefore, Dred scott, negro, who in all our
| history had no rlKhts that Wnl.o man VA
bound 70 respect hnd NO sanulng IN tns
court Ihls enued tho sui but tno oouI'
did not stop with thst IL went on ana dc
clared that CONGRESS had no powor 70 iorpld %
slavery anywhere; that slayo properly $1,000
| on tho same tOOunB Us othor properly, ana
that Congress mad the power hnu tne uuty 70
| project the owners IN tnelr riBns Vi ProPerv
| thrOuRhOut tne 1urlSdlCuOn-
therefore u declared the missouri CoIhpro
mise unconstitutional because Iorpa1s
slave property n9rtn OF oo,talh Iipe. s ahu h
that Dred scout dlo not Decome ieEnii! lIeo oy
being carried BY his mother into territory
where that compromise 10 i9rOsao % hha,CoIy ih'Cay
ibis dlctnIn OF the court cou,d make s tno Syu gu
sttutlon carry slavery mo INC ~ Ssa.os .le
same aslnto the terrlt9rlesi out tnis soquon0e
was not thrust Lorwsra ny pIesent; .a go,
Tho decision thht none put Voter hh1 oVei
boona citizen was historcaiy ialsenood.
Ihe decision that only yotets nave tne rlg1t 70
the protecuon OF the law was Mrocleus Law
is mane 70 project inc weak ING strohH cAn c,
protect themselves ~ mhno tnls tne h~eAnes' ~
OF Governments. Ihe dictun on sayery
proved that the court wns tooi OF the hansas
conspiracy, and destroyed ~ ehSractor n the
pubic mind. Inc Kansas Noori.skh acI .ats hnI
| lts sequence Dechine tne NIL hpsotpulg PohIcn
sgtas,oh @ untll tno ~ eieouom VI s,ahoy, wS ~
ie,S VIZ ~ ,.a.' .o. ~ ooasa from trouhino
~ esvu NJ W -o,o s'.ias "a s,e,,se,, ~
'no ui'i"o oiuot VI eia'o'y.
| THE CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS
But whllo debasng the judiciary 10 declare
that the Constitution carried slavery over all
the slave power was plotting 10 play the game
of popular sovereignty In Kansas. Organized
| bands of armed rufhans from the border
counties of Missouri took possession of tho
polls and counted In q legislature OF them
selves, which enacted slavery and atrocious
slave laws. President Plerce's administration