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icNce.**I --4‘Let them 8ettle that dues tie* forrhftMelves.’’st.This is the plea ftgr adhering to theKansas bill untfer which so«Hich blood J O has been shed. Yet, under that bill, 1 the following law has been passed,|re-1 LANj laiing to the freedom of speech and of J Esq. the press—passed by Alissourtaos, ; yet enforced on the people of Kansas ; by the sword of the nation. And now, having made it a penitentiary offence to speak ones sentiments on the subject of slavery, the aiders and abettors j of this wronir snv ‘“Let them settle 'O •'that question for themselves.” For?a violation of this law, three printing j presses have already been destroyed, I it! and scores of men have been shot or!7 i driven away from their homes. The i ^ [ presses were destroyed by order offttJboth«a*sL-IOf ft ideacourt—a court made by President i jstlowbut•tt-leavquaPierce. But read this law for the i j government of squatters.Sec. 12 IF ANY tfREE PER-!sura SON. BY SPEAKING OR WRl-j*k TING, ASSERT OR MAINTAIN THAT PERSONS HAVE NOT THESi RIGHT TO HOLD SLAVES INiCour It i THIS TERRITORY, or shall intro-lt;, duce into this Territory, PRINT,,, i PUBLISH, WRITE, CIRCULATE, j I OR CAUSE TO BE WHITTEN, I •— ■ PRINTED, PUBLISHED Oil ClR-i M» ■f j CULATED IN THIS TERRI TORY,■}• I any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet:• or circular, CONTAINING ANY ’DENI ALOFTHE RIGHT OF SUCH” I PERSONS TO HOLD SLAVES IN ! JdI THIS TERRITORY such person shall! stj be deemed GUILTY OF FELONY, ‘ r.: AND PUNISHED BY IMPRISONMENT AT HARD LABOR FOR A TERM NOT LESS THAN TWOSirlel YEAR
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Brookville American
Brookville, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 11, 1856
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