Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-04-05

, itan 3D. SO r.fs,si is.rsfua ,s B, .siaHnc roNef
| y 70 .a,8 ins,cs. ty the seallcnsu from N'rin'
! a (N, Wi.eJ ihs, ''e S'ates ~hich Lave sbpiish-
% s'srsry 'Ahtc aoi ,iaiai,d The Gfeut riuc'f.e
! 4 astls& firhi, " isaiar sieve pfc,cuy hgainti
70 cen.~r,; q tie ow r~rs an without coa'pcntt
IN. s8' tat they hsee merely 'taaFted be past
ssn p'inS iTir. sd csce-ei that nights Nhieh 90
not rtis. II i.c irs shopl1 nrrcf esiss; that IL,
that ihe t.sa, II ,aves hn-u -sr c-fisin failure
'i,ue. shosii be nce. Wnhou, stopping 10 en-
qu,fc into tho correctness 81 ihis ~ pam, q lac
b., i,r the pafpa.e. # the sfcumen'. sdtni'iing
II. lei ne ssl What IS she difference 10 principle
brirsen scpr,ing an individual Il hjs slave by at
81 ceiss,ion SOD # the ugh. iu tho issuc of tha'
,iarc by The same ae,i Upon common rruripie,
absolui ngh, ia the rne NJ property necessarily
oartics with b. right ia TIC other; and farmer
oud reset % equal iuf,ingepen's of his righ's'
sn aitemp, 60 tsLe away his cattle nad 4 claim
10 deprive him Of their fniare progeny.
Il would be appropriate here TO 60 into an e.
e,sns,ion Of the night which is clumed to hold
inca as property, and Of The righ,fIi extent Of ie-
gisia'inn on thus tubjeci. Bu u opens too broad
Geld fof the prcseui oiscassion aud wli not ca
ter u.
Tbls it spgrsr. ,la, the rgb, 10 lerisla,e or
,ho subjects oi these petitions which Is wauI'cS'ly
inrlldcd within tie terms Of thc grant "i power
To Congress. 10 not cscodcd b. opofai,ns Of the
principles vi ch from the tn-is Of the ordinary eX
exceptions 10 the power of legislation. What Is
there then 10 exclude from the sweeping gran, oi
power 80 lcstra'c IN si cases Whatsoever the
power ~ ques'Inni
An honorable gentleman from Virginia (Nr
Wsej finds many grounds Of implied exclusion IN
the Constitution. Tie says there are certain ad-
united exceptions TO the legislative power uf Con
grers n relation to tins District, from the fact of
these exceptions lha, the power in question is also
excepted.
Thus, he says tina, Congress is prohibited by
the Constitution f,on sUspendng the writ of hdbcaS
coTu,lton passing a law respecting the establish.
nent Of religion; and fom ahrideing the freedom
ofspeeeh and OF the press or The right of the peo-
pie 10 be in their persons houses papers aud
effects, &c and asks if these prohibit IONS do not
extend to the power Of Congress to legisla,e for
this district. Most certainly they dog bat it Is for
the obwous reason that they unlimited IN Their
terms and Of course necessarily extend to the
whole legislation Of Congress l. there any such
Limitation Of The power in question: Why when
The Convention VAS IN the act Of providing lma
ton Ia The power 10 Congress ia the eighth section
81 the first article of the Constitution, did the,
ONT I" hmit specifically thr power of legislation
an oil cases whatsoever, which had been
granted to Congress in reference to this Dis.
'rict
Again:-the gentleman from Virginia SAYS il
iigiiv understand his Argument that the provis
l"n Of the Constitution, that "the citizens of each
So" ~i"il b" entitled all the privileges aud immu
mites 81 clizcns IN the seN--nl stHt-r,- .,..,-~e.,,
cXtendr To The District of Columbia aud that Con-
cre,s mus, be understood To be prohibited irom dis
@. g al.
that Is. tina, it cannoi deprive them Of he privileges
Of the ciilzeps of The District whenever they
into it. l. Is true ii cannot, because there would
b" gross and glarlng ubsurdny IN securing, as
tie Constitution does. the rights Of citizenship III
esch State To The citizens of every other and
at tie same time denying the rights of czenshlp
IN this dlstrct-lhe common properly Of all the
States Ia the citizens Of those States. And DC.
sides, the very act constituting this ten miles
square a disiucI of the United States nece sSaiily
gives To tie citizens of each and all the States
common rights IN It not the rights which they each
oulny IN their respective states-Os tie terms in
which the gentleman states his argument would
seem TO imply; because that would constitute TWEEN
,y-fonr different rules of action, but the right Of
each resident and sojoufner here OF being protect
e. by the laws made for the District and the whole
District.
The exception then, Of night to disfranchse
citizen Of Virgins who may come here; rests upon
principle hs.ing no possible relation to the case
~ question.
But further. The gentleman from Virginia SAYS
ths no person held TO service or labor in state un
der the laws thereof escaping into this district can
be dIschargcd from such service or labor. but must
," delivered up to the party To HON such service
or ls5'r may be due. and that this constitutes an
exception 10 tie general power to leeislate "in all
eases Whatsoever for ihs District | admit i,
does, and wby , Plainly because the constitution
having expressly secured HE right to the slave
owner To reclaim his slave N any and every stale
OF tbs Unnn, It would be clear evasion Of i,.as
Wei as = tnauies, absurdliy To deny him that right
~ district which IS the common nroperty OF the
very states within which HE right Of reclamation
n secured BY The constitution. The exception in
lh's cnse rests, therefore, substantially upan an
expires provision OF The constitution, which BY no
possibility ofcuns,ruo,ion can sustain the exception
IN question:.
Agai"-'he constitution provides that "no tax
or duiy 'hal be laid on articles exported from any
s'a," No preference shai be gwen by anv re-
gnla'ion Of commerce or revenue to the oofts of
one Stale over those ug another. n,r shall ,osoi I