Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 April 1856 — Page 1

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THE WIDOWS REPLY. Oh. let me wear the sable dresd. The widow's coif vail, No oi\\Dge wreath mv heart can bless.

No lover's tender tale.

Then ask me not again to wed, Another's name to bear, Tito one I borrowed from the dea l, 1 ever more would wear.

do not doubt your worth, your truth, 1 do not doubt you love, But I gave my Iwart to liim in youtfi,

And ho bore that heart above.

'Tis true that sorrow hath passed by, Nor lilt to view a trace She hath not dimmed my hazle eye,

Nur channelled o'er my tie if.

Dirk o'er my pith she loved to ror.ra, AVithher pale sister care, thin tnv heart she made her home,

A^d lci't her foot-prints there.-

*Tii true my home is lonely now, Hushed is the voice of mirth No st ark'.iim eye, nor cheerfui brow, iicet round tncylowin^ health.

Ptit from the wall looks down a f.tce, 1 hut loi.uiy see ilia to ain/ie, IIij i'euturcs Uie:e daily tiaec,

A lid deem li:ui here tlu win.e.

Il.m I ^p u.e in rny lonehnes.?, Iior a my fate to &hare, The past all"ne my hours can bless, 0ve to linger ilieru.

Go sock a bride whose heart is free, No ioneer woe in vain: F-jr ^he who onee hath ioved like tnc, t\ ,11 never love again.

1 Leu ask me not again to wed, Another's name tu bear For that bouowed irouj the dead, jl %\tr j'lOie vvyulki wear.

UoLLiE.

MIDNIGHT.

ET G. r.

"What mean those deep and ?o'errm tone-?, So i.ke the last vx wring moans Of some

departed Iriend

::Thoiv

echo linger* on the

ear,

Acidth! h.ese ]n iL'S'i wiid Utra^ v:r. Jinv never—never end.

^Wlnt though in penitential tear •?»Yc sorrow o'er ueparted joais, And niouni tbriidlies j^ast iv •Hemorae it tinil's in ever_\ suond,

And sta'.tles feu's, immei^e, profound ... .For ever more to laat.

•-•What, thouuh in gloomy dungeons Ion?, "1 scourge the flesh and fast and moan, 'Till liesh and strength depart

Shall this retuo\e the serpent's sting'.' And pcaee, and joy, and pardon bring To this poor, trembling heail'.'

No! not a world of golden ore, 'ihjU^h giv'n to ieed the starv ng poor, Could e'er the curse remove Nor linnif despircd— nor honors spumedNor bttii'js .uiven to bo burned—

Ohi (Jod may ciaun thy love.-

But v.hcn tiie heart is rent with grief, TLou, oh! mv Oodcan'st luing re'.iei— 'i jiou only enn'st lbigive Then to this bieeOing heart reveal Tliv power to save—thy power to heal

And say "Believe and live

"Vesuvius, Rome, and Geology. Professor Sillman lecently delivered lecture at Louisville, in the course of which he gave quite an interesting sketch of a vis-!

.uhiihltol l.y SjlO.OOO peoplo, who look

not to the |,ast l.nt sleep seennly

,ip„, lava Lei Is «•„!, «..«Wa «ll*gn.l«

rjeatii tfieir leet. esuviu.s has been raised

from the se

,o„s tonurl B«« 1 ortnant U.

canoes encircled tne liiterual City. 1 he

Kansas Contested Election.

OF INDIANA,

In the House of Representative*. March 't, I

compose.! ol K.J.nim- ashes 1 he

this deposit of ashes, was a formation eontaiuing marine fossil shells, and still deeper one containing fresh water fossils. '1 he subject the lecturer said, was too vast for one discourse—that the mind was lost in endeavoring to comprehend it. These results could only have been brought about through endless ages of time that the Genesis account of the creation, (aken literally was entirely no wi contrary, every successive discovery in I ha science proved the correctness of the Mo. fiiac account. First, chaos, and then creation of that which was capable of existence in the midst of noxious vapors these passing awav, made new formations for a still more elevated in the scale of being, until at last came the crowning glory of God's plan*—-Man whom he created in his pvn iai&gQ.—Key Stone.

s0 conflicted with scripture on tlie ,.

E07"Virtue needs more admirers, wisdom moie supplicants, truth more real friends, and honesty more practitioners.

J£5?~ The Reive through which the man strained every nerve, is for sad? at less than #r&fc

i.S50. In reply to Mr. Otiver, oj Missouri,, j|j

uho had spoken on the resolution reported

from the Committee Elections in Kansas Contested Election Case Mr. Will Cumback said:

Mr.

pkaklh

a member of this House, to commit

the fashionable folly of making speeches, js

nor do

lise now for any such purpose

but, sir, I cannot be silent, if that silence

is any way construed into acquiescence to the doctrines promulgated by the genllemail from Missouri, [Mr. Oliver,] who has just taken his seat. That gentleman has recently bpcome a convert to the DernoI eristic partv, and everbody knows that new converts in polities or religion are always zealous in the bf'giwring, and hasten to proclaim the opinions of the cause they hove espoused.

Mr. Oliver, of Missouri. Has not the gentleman become recently a convert to the keTjubiican narlv Irom the Democratic

ne i.ju-.-iiicuu paily Ipaity? Mr. Cumback. Mr. Speaker. I will answer the gentleman's interrogatory with I srreat pleasure. Sir, when I was connected with the Democratic party, it then he! to the same doctrines as to the extension

siaverv, to witica 1 now hold, anu which

I will ever stand by and maintain. '1 he teaching of the Democracy in Indiana, an-

thuir

,'.w„0

laUon 1,el 0re lhi

Nebra-Aa bid was_ -conceived

brought .umtinn lu-iuu},

,e 11

ir to tiie i'ice Tenit(!ies of the country.— ^ir,

speak advisedly, and front the record, In nv own Siate, but a short time since, lb',- banners of the Democracy were

tiutteiing over all their foes, and ou it was inscribed the doctrine: "Resolved, That the institution of sla-

SI.AVi-.IiV WITHIN TIU-:iIl LIMITS.

1 refer to this doctrine to show if there is any great amount of "conversion," it is that the .so-called Democracy have left this Jefiersotiian doctrine, and are now bowing down in shameful obedience to the behest

ol the slave power^ Lot if this one vut-!

Stall

.ij for tlie r!rg»ni «i,

5,4 a 4 1

tlie Tiex? session of the l^gislatme ol .i

ecu iiiiopu*'!. and a spieiidi-• v.i-

(-ov achieveil bv the election of the

favor of the victors, and almost the entire

didegafion to this body of the same party, the Democratic Legifdature became a little suspi 'ious that their icpiesentalives in Conht fail from grace, and abandon

jgiers might lail Irom gra the time-honored doctrin

trines of the party.

They somehow feared they would lack the 'sa'

nerve to do their whole duly, and that the

en and support them? passed the following

resolutiou as, a kind of "tonic"—in modcm phrase to give them hack bone in the defense of Democratic principles: "Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the Stale of Indiana, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives in Congress be requested, so to cast their vofes and extend their influence to have engrafted upon any law that may bo pass-

K.xa.„,r:o

fkom

sixir

,v isvot.CNTAr.v «»m».

vjs(i jan Jn

it paid by him to Mount A esuvin«. :_.J.)es- thereof the party has been duly convictpite the fate of Herculaneum and Pompeii, i( ,, ,h, Si,l,.s of the mramlalll arc at tliia tin,,

Mr.

SpoaW. I tako (hi principle con-

hl at ii

„„_

KOm

„,

ani|

Ancient .-atacomh Ii..l been ,„t throngh Legislature ,, „l they reaehe.1 to II,a «"ou» "I 1-|

lrtiielv too short but that geology in

,„|

rp', put this matter entirety to rest,

of c(

Wl Sc a

C.]10SG

lows:

their operation, prevent the tcrritorinl Leg-

a ia

jj nea

1 did not intend while I ,f0C)

ai vote or

aw 0

j- |, j. ,,,}

{o SU a aw

(f) rcv[

nt 0 eti

is concerned. 1 might read a few iters from Ohio, from New II

fr(ini a] di(1

., \\h

am not desirous of going into that now, and would not have said one word on the

j-uhieet, but for (he question propounded bv

the'honorablc gentleman, [Mr. Oliver.] to

^. j.

this word of advice now, that he will

nroud' 1 "I^n-V "P

on jt iug^ but t!ie "just men made perfect"

csuent

atnieals

„ra„T liinmnf! "kt' Kansas and [Nebraska free States, I

liltr

L'gis-

,„, but -that slavery could not exist now solan

p'atiorm ot the Democ- I ...

of the line of 30 deg. 30 min.. and the re-

-. I suit won be, that not oniy these leirito-

I. -. nes would be made into free otates, but that afinc

the Slate, l.y a huge maiority in ... a cordon of free Slah-.s would beestab.isoed in the future to the Pacific ocean. That was the doctrine there and I have no doubt

aige majority in

a co uU

att

no,w

same Democratic Legislature, to stiength- to go to Kansas until I saw

coml,non ol

of ten ilm n, o,u- "7 I"™'""

IT from Jlrxi™. a rnovi.s,™ i-o». "f'K"

jR1 pn.^hment for crimes

tll co

K»"

l,e|

„, il„tion.

a| nvoi furthor llu

wwe

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 a ho sa, as hail a so all t„e ,o- I ,,

,,f slaverv-for my instn.e-

•. .-

1 mend it to mv collea^ues-

]u 0

„.„ Stll[ ,.

bit to

I will offer

„,.„

bol

,„

her. 111 endless labarvnths. ihat helow ,, ... the other end of the Capitol, and of course there were several patriotic gentlemen who were willing to make the sacrifice on that occasion. But before the Democracy would commit such an important trust to any member of their party, they appointed a committee to investigate their soundness on the question of slavery extension. Mr.

..fet to represent ns in

Whitcomb's answer to the interrogatories of the committee was most satisfactory,

jjjm, Ui.s answer is as fol-

ndiaxapous

Dec. 9, 1848.

Your letter of this date, in

relation to the bject of the extension of slave.-y into

our

newly-acquired Territories

of New Mexico and California, has been received. I have time to give but a brief reply—one, however, which 1 trust will be suliiciently intelligible for your purpose.

As stated in my recent message to the Legislative, these Territories have couio to ns tree, by their own laws, from the institutions of slavery. It is incontrovertible that slavery there or elsewhere cannot exist without the sanction of positive law. I am opposed to the passage of any such law. 1 believe that Congress can constitutionally pass such organic laws for the government df tfre Territory as will in

ll lan

THE UNION, THE

SPFECH OF HON WILL CUMB'VCK 'follows that Congress can, in my judgment ?*Ir. Phelps. I appeal to the gentleman, slave State, into the Union, and when it prevent the introduction of^Shivery into as he asked me a question, to let me make gave that territory south, also free from tho.se Territories. a reply. restriction, was a great triumph. But, .sir.

relation to your second question, 1

still regarding slavery as 1

jy twenty years ago." in a report 11 then, if you do not intend to give me an l/

made: in the Legislature of this State, as a opportunity to reply. drawback upon the prosperity of any coon-1 Mr. Cumback \ou may have the try, I would, if a member, use my inliu- whole session to reply when I am done.—

t}Je introduction of Slavery

JAMES

Me-srs

uiikin

We propose' in Indiana' to see to it that

sen by the Democracy, before we made Senators of them and if they, like he, prove to be right on this question, we propose, like the Democracy did then, to give them commissions and if their knees become

feeble, and their spines weak, we will point and guarantying free institutions in lvanthem to the instructions upon the

.Journal

of our Lcgi,latnre, to which I have relered. children's rhil.lren forever, then ue sh il. tp give them, "aid and comfort." be hailed as "public benefactors. Put, sir, 1 presume this v,"ill be sufficient, Mr. Bichardson. iiere in dames Iv. so far as the Democracy of my o^i Slate Polk's wi (tings does the gentleman find

cliap-

impshire.

froni

IVw.sylvnnia, and,

Xorth-ra*StAte« but 1

ia I ro-c to it-ply. He. sir, is a new gon question:

^ry conver't to Democracy—or rather to the ..j December, 1810. application was

ir, to p.e.ent tin. io .oi uc ion p^al\aniarticle now attempting to pas* made to Congress by tho people of Mis-

itself oif as such and let me say to him

on il |ar

ill hi remarkable for their scarcity. Mr. Speaker, it has been the practice of every Democrati

VOL. VIE-NO. 33.? CRAWFOEDSYILLE, INDIANA, APRIL 3, 1856. WHOLE- NO. 397

Konri cunijMomifC would n«.t only tend to ly claimed in any State or Territory of the

,,, ,• V, .i,

111011 van

t0 mak,! 11 51 lroe 1

nuY.0i

Mr. Miller, of Indiana. Will the gentleman allow me a word? Mr. Cumback. I cannot now. I will, when I get thiongh, allow my colleague to

1 lhat

»"».

S 0 1 ,mw

r. «i,n,. I often, and how many at a time of the peo- (}1{lt attempted, as ong and as loud as

-1 j,l„ f,0,n ,l,e SU,«. a,o 10 ,-o to

Kansas to becomo citi/.ens? IIas it come

Kansas, fo find a home for themselves and (heir children, that because they are northern men, and love freedom belter than slavery, anil will so vote, that//w is to be considered as warring against the rights of Missouii, and justify a descent, upon the rights of these men? If that doctrine is to be established as the correct one, if I were to go to Kansas holding the opinions which 1 do in regard to the extension of slavery—and I ccriaiuly would not leave them behind me—I would be waning against Missouri! Sir, if this is the doc11ine, ami 1 were in that Territory a citizen, and my right to vote was questioned by outsiders, there would be war between me and the invadeis of my rights at once. I pray gentlemen to tell us what rights the Missourians have in Kansas until they become actual settlers in the Territory? \N wore told that the people were to be left perfectly fiee to form their own institutions in their own way, and that it was an outrage upon their rights to prohibit slavery there by law yet it seems that outsiders, in the face of this Administration, have been left perfectly free to override all the rights of the citizens there, and no protection is aifoided them. But 1 wholly deny that men of the North have gone to Kansas for the purpose of simply controlling the institutions of that Territory, intending, as soon as it was made a free State, to return. Some of them have returned but in going there, they all had an intention of becoming citizens of the Territory and actual residents. They wished, it is true, to make tha Territory a free Stato.— By the legislation of our fathers, that Territory was gufcranttsed tfo freedom forever,

islature from passing any such law. It! free." mise, at the time when it gave Missouri, a

the passage by Congress 1 The doctrine of the Democratic party, as

that this 1 said a while ago, was once resistance to

when a few men go togethe: to settle in the disunionistsIt will be remembered

President of Ihc United State*, and sup ported by this party. Its authors were hailed as great "benefactors and when we succeed in restoring that compromise,

sas and Nebraska to our children and our

the expression which he uses? Mr. Ciiml ack. I detline to be interacted now.

Mr. Richardson. I think you cannot you do not know. Mr. Cumback. We will see who knows,

so lv

fiicl on 1S a

,, •. sas a free State. Ah I .sir, 1 recollect well I in tho limits of tiie Mate contemplated by

a a

i.ot MUnUUi. m.ii^. Ol, hill.(op to vale—the elo- otherwi.se than in the punishment of crime, conversion against tlie Uemocraey, oliei cjuent

appeals

made to the peopie ot my and

made to the people of my and

iited States, such fugitive may be lawfitilv ru' laimeil and conveyed to the jierson claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.' re.

good

(hat there are northern Democrats her now, who owe their seats to that position threate assumed ut home yef, it is a great sin, phic

l"""

0 lm

n"^:.

and we intend that it shall be "forevcrl The enactment of the Missouri coinpro-

]iich will operate effectu-! slavery agitation. James K. l'olk, in north of 30 deg 30 min., there is to be by

Territories. promise, does not stigmatize it, as does see by tho votes, I voted against it. But Jam, very respectfully, your obedient my friend from Missouri, [Mr. Oliver,] and it is at the present of no moment. It is a servant,

speaking of this very same Missouri com- the present law restriction, which you will

WH1TCOMB. other Democrats, as an "odious measure." vast track, uninhabited, only by wild beasts

and others. Ho said that it was a great act of concilia-| and savages, in which not afoot of the

men are still sound as the Senator then el.o-1 benefactors. That was the Democracy I in which, according to the ideas prevalent,

slaverv, and was prosecuted with violence as to produce excitements alarm-^

iker who re'ers to the lit good genius of conciliation, wliicu pre-!

of Missouri to fonn a constitution State government,' Arc., provides:

and of this imbecile Administration, not protecting the people of that Territory in their rights. What was this society or-j ganixed for? The great sin, in tiie opinion to of the tleman from Missouri, was that Louisiana, which lies north of oOdeg o0 it intended to use its efforts to make Kan- minutes north latitude, not included with 1 recollect well in the limits of the State contemplated

the United States, under the

I ,his act, slavery and involuntary servitude,

a a a a a a Democra i- a ty. ilia th .1 o'th Mis- to the same form labor or s-rvice is lawftil-

Ulk the dwolnWrn ol tho tmon. .1

thcJr msc

.' 1

reiul

sfl 0

to this, that Missouri must be consulted on I gentlemen who professed to be Democrats, this point? Has it come to this, that j|

tion that its authors were hailed as public Indiana claim to the soil is extinguished,

•This compromise had the eff. C" of f10

calming the troubled waves, an 1 restoring "}1C jn

-will throughout the States of the

... .1 1-

ened to divi.le the country into geo-

ical parties alienating the feelings of!

aUachment whi each ponion oi the Ln-

hl io!1 ear

things there, and the ef-

forts to force slavery upon its people by ,lc.IU-o ami fraternal feelings."

means of fraud and violence, ami 110 assistance Hindered by this Administration, calling itself Democratic. 1 then felt like going there to help mako it a free State.

prom

ize

to cach othei lhc on

al.ayed the excitement, tranq.nl-

a the public mind, and restored conh-

"Its authors were hailed as public bene-, factors!" Mr. Speaker, we propose to tranquilize the public mind—to put a quietus on the outrages in Kansas by restoring the prohibition of slavery in that Territory and. sir, I have 110 fears but that posterity will pronounce upon our act the same benedic-

lion Wre yronmmml np,»„ ,t «,gm»l

,• *i\

1 lk

from U.1.

ien all( n0

Polk, on that point, and let

w, to ask themselves who are

that when Texas was admitted into the Union, the compromise was applied to all the territory of Texas north of that line.— Mr. Polk, in speaking of the compromise and the admission of Texas, says: "Ought we now (o disturb the Texas and Missouri compromises Ought went this late day, in attempting to annul what has been so long established and acquisced in, to excite sectional jealousies and divisions, to alienate the people of different portions of the Union from each other, and to endander the existence of the Union itself?"

Let gentlemen answer, who are the enemies of the Union. We are told by the gentleman from Missouri thet the Missouri compromise was an odious measure, forced upon the South against, their will by votes from the North. I ask the gentleman to look a little more cautiously to the history of the legislation of 1820, before he makes such wild assertions. I ask him to look at the votes of northern and southern men at its enactment. I hold in my hand a letter from a distinguished gentlemen from the South, which was written at the time the Missouri compromise was passed.

ongress

all

March

2, 1820

Three o'clock at night.

"Df.ah S

I hasten to inform you

that this moment we have carried the ques-

immimM

ney goes on in this same letter, and says: "The votes were close—ninety to eighty six, (the vote was so first declared) produced by the seceding of a few absent and moderate men from (ho north. To the

through unes Iv. Polk, while no land office will be open f»r a great

length of time '"With respect, your obedient servant, "CHARLES PICKNEY."

But, by-and-by, in the course of events,

fabled dog old, which never sleeps, puts its eye upon it, and now it becomes a great sin for a freeman to go into Kansas for the purpose of making it free State. 'Ihc gentleman from Missouri tells us that the ruling principle which prompted men to go to Kansas, was freedom for the African.

Well, .sir, I confess, in my own heart, I African, sold in

,, have some svmyathv wan the

Here it is Mr. Po special message, *, bound and enslaveu as lie is, and the 14th of August, 184S, on the Ore-

the market, often from his own wife anil I

nllin

State. The discussion upon the

thousand jNt-|,jnot in Congress involved the ques

us as to ie K]ftVc.

not

,ion

such

ing to every patriot 'n the I. won. But

10(e oie

niUnc

hereby, forever prohibited: Provi-

But the gentlemen from Missouri clo.se liis argument by asking this question.— "Who wiil vote for (his investigation

against

nan stan

I10t

vcs

j, ca

Omthmm may

Bnt if that Legislature which made the law under which General hitfield was elected by the residents of the State of Missouri was the spawn of fraud and violence let us remove the veil and show the country the origin from whicheininated this law.— Let the country know how it was that a bodv of men was chosen who have enacted a codo more bloody than the laws of Draco —more at war with the rights of men— than ever eminated from the throne of the most absolute despotism more disgraceful to our republican Government than anything that has occurred since its formation. Who will vote to refuse inquiry into these things? Wo will see.

The following are specimens of tho legislation of the Territory of Kansas. Kansas Slave Code. AN ACT to punish ofiences against slave property.

Be it enacted by the Governor and legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, Thay every person, bond or free who shall be convicted of actually raising a rebellion or insurrection of slaves, free negroes. or mulattoes, in this Territory shall suffer death.

tion to admit Missouri and all Louisiana introduce into, or publish, or circulate,^ or to the southward free, from the restriction of slavery, and give to the South an addi-

tion of six and perhaps eight members to l.y aid or assist in bringing into, printing, the Senate of the United States. It is con- publishing, or circulating within this T*sidered here, by the plaveholding States as a great triumph.

Mr. Cumback. I cannot yield now. when the other side of the contract is I from the service of their masters, ar to re- said investigation, or shall refuse to attend^ Mr. Phelps. Do not ask* me questions, about to be carried out, it suddenly becomes a very "odious measure." BtitMrPinck-

Sec

w.v. .......

Slavery is a curse to the white man from their masters.

Toi ritory for admission into the Ln-1 have nothing to do. 1 do I lative Assembly oj Kansas Territory, If any ]jq

are responsible for it there. But, in Kan-1

interfere. Tlie men

tjKM.e

,j(,si10,} to make Indianas an

ne rj_\»,Titorv

in the north-west, by the ordinance of!

Xew'York

and Virginia

That was when Jefferson, and such men. legislated for the country. If it has become sectional, who made it so It has not been made so by our leaving doctrines ot our fathers. ou have seceded from it and claim to be wiser than they.

But with slavery 1 Be enacted Inj the Governor and Ltpis-1

wi„h to interfere wit.h°it there. Yon person shall entice, decoy, or carry away

,Hlt

o("

t!lis

ul"

Kansas and Nebraska

bject was to guarranty to their chilchildren the blessings of free labor free institutions. They wanted to smitto their children the same rights

Let me rather ask him, who will not vote ty of grand larceny, in the same manner as

se developed, that

(n J1|ay see 10

1 1 If any person print, write,

causetoho brought into, printed written, published, or circulated, or shall knowing-

it Rather let me ask where is been entail .lecoyed, or|

vote for a full and free in-

.jp

up in this Hail and I carried away out ol tln.s ci :iitoiy in .men

cas tlie lai con

the coun-

Union. TheMissonii question had excited Kansas matter Foamy own part, ritory into or through which sr.cfi slave That the Mood of many a victim of his intense agitation of tho public mind, and

ritory, any book, paper, pamphlet, maga ... sin*, hwrdbill ar'ciroalir, containing any' sergeant-at-arms, for neglect of duty or

1,,a-v

aili^

wrong and wl

statements, opinion, sentiment, doctrine, disregard of instructions in the premises, and advice, or inuendo, calculated to pro- and employ ethers under like regulations, duce a disorderly, dangerous, or rebellious Resolved, further, That if any porRon disaffection among the slaves of this Terri-: shall in any manner obstruct or hinder tory, or to induce such slaves to escape said committe, or attempt so to do, in their

sist their authority, shall be guilty of a fel- on said committee, and to give evidence ony, and be punished by imprisoned at when summoned for thht purpose, or shall hard labor for a term not less than five refuse to produce any paper, book, public years. record, or proceeding in their possession or

12. If any free person, by speaking control, to said committee when so reor writing, assert or maintain that persons quired, or shall make any disturbance have not the right to hold slaves in this where said committee is holding their sitTerritory, or shall introduce into this Ter- tings, said committee, if they see fit, causa ritory print, publish writo circulate, or! any and euery such person to be arrested cause to be introduced into this Territory, by said arsistant sergeant-at-arms, and. written, printed, published, or circulated in 'brought before this House to be dealt with this Territory any book, paper, magazine, as contempt. pamphlet, or circular, containing any deni-1 Resolved, further, That fov the purpose al of the right of persons to hold slaves in cf defraying the expenses of said commiathis Territory, such persons shall be deem-Jsion, there be, and hereby is, appropriated ed guilty of felony and punished by inipris- the sum of 810,000, to be paid out of the ment at hard labor for a term not less than contingent fund of this House! five years. Resolved, further, That the President of

13. 'Iso person who is conscienti-

that territory has become open for settle-i 'j'on itopj^ shall sit as a juror on the bodies of lawless men, in tho discharge of liient, and States arc to be made out of trial of any prosecution for any violation their duties aforesaid, such aid from any and then the institution of slavery, like the j-

any ic sec

A. D. 1855. J. II. STRING FELLOW.

Attest: J. M.

vle,

children, but I have more for the white AN AC 1 to punish persons decoying slaves

ously opposed to holding alaves, or who quested to furnish to said committee should does not admit the right to hold slaves in they be met with any serious opposition by,

Speaker of the House.

Clerk.

THOMAS JOHNSON, President of the Council.

Attest: J. A.

Hai.deman,

Clerk.

I 'Siave something to do, and I will janother, with intent to deprive the own- receive an unqualified denunciation The ho went

thereof of tho services of such slave, or

and Ohios with intent to effect or procure (he freedom ess

Sec.

our patriotic fathers transmitted to suading. or carry away, or sending out of

lhis

.7^7. A v. this doctrine is sectional now. other, ith intent to procure, or cfiect the

"That in all that territory ceded by France Why? South Carolina, Massachusetts, freedom of such slave, or with intentto de-j

will

not

„r or.,1... «.}». platform that they did then.

now stand

vc ie

owner thereof of the services ol||

sut ho

^dl

That was in the better day of the Rebublic. grand larceny, and on conviction thereof

SKC. 3.

er Icrritory ol the United States, any slave

belonging to another, with intent to pro-

cure

or effect

be char

ho is right.

Truth never shrinks from investigation. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend, at this time, to say as much as I have said. I rowe merely to correct some statements made by my friend from Missouri, [Mr. Oliver,] who has just spoken in reference to the original enactment of the Missouri compromise, and to ask gentleman what right—if the proceedings in Kansas were even irregular— had Missouri to interfere? Who made Missouri the protector of Kansas, and the power to be consulted as how often and how many men shall emigrate to Kansas to secure free institutions to Kansas If those persons went to Kansas, and voted irregularly and without rights, which I wholly deny, it was the duty of the government of Kansas to punish any irregularities committed by these men. That, was not the duty of Missouri, any more than it was the duty of Indiana. The Legislation of the Territory of Kansas is not in any way connected with the legislation of Missouri.

feuding shall suffer death.

The Kansas Outrages.

that an

tempted or practiced in reference to any of

the elections which have taken place in said

Territory,

which

therein since. That they shall fully inves-

tigate and take proof of all violent ami f,

tumultuous proceedings in said Territory

ultuous proceedings

at any time since the passage of the Kan sas Nebraska Act, whether engaged in by residents of said Territory, or by any persons from elsewhere going into said Territory, and doing, or encouraging others to ,i

do, any act of violence or public disturb

ance against the laws of the United State: or the rights, peace and safety to the residents of said Territory, and for that puipose said Committee shall have full power to send for and examine, and take copies of all such papers, records and proceedings as in their judgement will be useful in the premises and also, to send for persons, and to examine them on oath, affirmation, as to matters of said investigation and such Committee, by their Chairman, shall have power to administer oaths or affirmations connected with their aforesaid duties.

Resolved, further, That said committee may hold their investigations at such places and times as to them may seem advisable, and that they have leave of abocence from the duties of this House until they shall have completed

[PUBLISHER.

the United States be, and he is hereby, re-

tions of this act. military force as may at the time be conve-

This act to take effect and he in force I nient to them, as may be necessary to refroni and after the 5th day of September, move such opposition, and enable said cora-

mitlce, without molestation, to procecd with their labors. Resolved, further, That when said committee shall have completed said investigation, they report all the evidence so col-' lecled, to this House.

.v..,

selves,

From the Elliart County Times.

It is rot my intention to mention all the

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to deprive the owner thereof of the services (hem gently at first, but finally, of such slave, and shall bring such slave in- f0j-t.ib1y into dissipation. "Wo! unto him to this 'lerrilory, he shall be adjudged guil-. gjvelh his neighbor drink, that putteth

S®"

ti"-atio of all tho facts connected with '•een committed in any count} oi this ^er- responsibility rests on the rumseller.

f„ it. 1 want all the Is*111'1 havebeen broug.it by such person,

all the

land mi eonvictiou thereof, the person of-

The following are the resolutions of Mr. Dunn, of this State, which were adopted on Wednesday last by Congress, deciding and beer make more drunkaids than all the

investigation of the Kansas

rages

shonU

m0l

out-j

be made "and determining the jt0°

larly in regard to any fraud or force at-

Resolved, That a committe of three of tiling stronger. They are the "decoy the members of this House, to bo appoint- cks" of the demon of the grog shop, ed by the Speaker shall proceed to inquire

into and collect evidence in regard to the ,serVe bis ptTrposos. There is an instinct troubles in Kansas generally, and pp.rticn-1

either under the law organizing

Mite,

said Territory, or under any pretended law generation against the use of candies and

may be alleged to have taken effect

Mvce

which men subject them

but rather such as lead astray by

ortn 0

Uor

ia CS an(

Territory, any slave belonging different forms of allurement that it must

mve

'territory, any fdavo belonging to an-. hen—where—and as much as they please.

hr}l(or

shall suffer death. form is impossible and Death claims the

If any person shall entice, de

coy, or carry away out of any State oroth-

temptation. Of those

trade, assumes so many different

deduces the young by Romany

unnecessary, «nd, if hnrm-

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of such slaves, lie shall be adjudged guilty jthout being injurious. The baneful naofgran.l larceny, and on convection thereof

turo of

shall sufier death. p(llt those who are under its influence are

Ifar.y person shall aid or as-

sist in enticing, decoying, decoying, or pur- j]j

1 xpry

],»SS hut nothing can be useless

traffic is disputed by none.—

.onfident of their great strength of

], ]t| themselves from injury, and

immense love of liberty to drink

oor lu

prn

rom a

tho freedom of such siave, or

,i mortals, instead of self gov-

mcnt they have appetites, instead of

1( rty

be adjudged guilty of,

they have the most abject species of

8VC1Tt

whose chains draw tighter and

each succeeding glass, until re*'

victim as its own. No one becomes at once, or begins with the intention of be-

drunkard. But the bar-T00m

an£ sa oons

once

throwing the seductive infln-

excitement and example around

drnnk aho

I, lips and maketh him

rcqulres no

the sanction of Holy

Writ to teach every reasonable man that an

hellish trade will cry out against him and bring down on his guilty head the vengeance of an.ever just God. It is not the lower grade of rum holes that do the most harm: no, it is the more respectable class of saloons where the young first learn to sip the lighter kinds of liquors in a fashionable manner that must bear that honor. Wino

distilled liquors put together, for they ara

miU

aronse the fours or tmuli

COrnieCtio„

anr an

th.

conscience, bnt strong enough to depravo

the appetite and crcate a craving for some-

,| well he knows how faithfully they

between the body and mind,

thing that affects the bodily health

ff ts the mind, and with it the will". And

w]-jj]e

speaking in this connection of appe-

I wish to put in a plea for the rising

meats. What! ho! you say "there

can no ann

eiu Conld

Vftst an0

such

Investiga

tion. That they be authorized to employ one or more clerks, and one or more assistant sergeant-at-arrns, to aid them in their investigation and may administer to them an oath or affimation faithfully to perform the duties assigned to them, respectfully, and to keep secret all matters which may come to their knowledge touching such investigation as said committee shall direct, uatil the repoit of the same shall be submitted to this House and said committee may discharge any suqh clerk, or assistant

in candy." Ah, my

you see pass before you in one

rama

panorama all the sickness, pain and death, all the destruction of teeth and good looks, the vitiated appetites, swept and garnished for the embrace of King Alcohol,-, neasioned by its use, you would not won-

condemn it

Tiie

erm

"Republican ."—The Madi

son Courier of March the 26th, makes tha following sensible remarks on the term "Itepublican." "It is both the oldeRt and latest name for a political party of the Republic, when there were only two parties kaown, the Federal and tbe Republican. It was lost on the disruption of the old parties, and' the formation of new ones, in thecampaignB which followed Mr. Monroe's last election*It has lately been revived to represent the idea of opposition to the extension-.-Gf slavery into the territories of the nation. It represents that idea at present, and that alone, and as that idea is ta be the great issue of the Presidential canvass,-it would' seem to be the appropriate terra of designation for the anti-Nebraska union party There can certainly be no objection to1 it, except that it has been the name of a party' that ha» been in existence long enough to ^possess an independent position, and has come into political competition with the other existing parties and voters who have opposed the organization, but not the principle, may be unwilling to be called bo tha name. If this feeling exists to any extent, and is any bar to nnion, no Republican will insist upon upon it, although the fitness of the name, as representing the idea at issue, aud nothing else must be apparent to flil.".