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A Hard Case. - column 1
Another exemplification of the beauties of Slavery was given a short time since at Newport, Ky. A couple of slave hunters went to Ohio, several months ago, in search of a fugitive slave. Not finding him, they kidnapped a young negro named JAMES WAGGONER, who was born in Ohio, and whose father had been emancipated in Virginia.
The kidnappers took JAMES across the river and lodged him in Newport jail, until they could find a master for him. Here the negro lay for over six months, but no master made his appearance. At the end of that time, being unable to pay his jail fees, he was taken out and sold in order to discharge them. Guilty of no crime against Kentucky; kidnapped from his home, and forced into jail on mere suspicion of being a slave; his freedom established by the fact that no one could be found to claim him; with no means when he entered the jail, and no opportunity afforded him to earn anything while there, the State sells him into hopeless bondage for being in the very position into which she had forced him against every protestation on his part, and then sells him for being there.
Can anything be more unjust, more inhuman? Even the pro-slavery Cincinnati Enquirer is forced to admit that it is “so unjust as to shock every sense of right." And yet this is one of the inseparable concomitants of that system which that paper and its Democratic coadjutors are engaged in spreading over all the public domain of the country. Popular Sovereignty, which they support, Mr. DOUGLAS boasts exultingly, has carried the infernal system a degree and a half further north than the South ever proposed that it should go.
Office, House of Representatives, U. S., June 5, 1860 - column 4
Sir: -- I have caused the official copies of the annual reports of the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the expenditure of the Contingent Fund of the House of Representatives during the Thirtieth Congress to be examined, as requested, and do not find that at either session of Congress that there is any charge upon the Contingent Fund of the House of Representatives, or the Stationary Account thereof, of twenty-five dollars for three pairs of boots furnished the Honorable Abraham Lincoln during that Congress, as charged in the Chicago Times, of May 30th, 1860.
I am very respectfully yours,
John W. Forney
per P. Barry HayesChief Clerk, House Representatives
C. H. Ray, Esq., Chicago