Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-03-05
THE FIRE Z N IAN .
For The Green Mountain freeman.
PrO"SIayery Objections 10 Anli"Slayery
Action answered,
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TnE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION.


The CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION
Another objection urged against the action of the
Liberty party, that they cannot abolish slavery be-
cause the right of holding slaves is guaranteed by the
Constitution is true that in article LIST & Sd article
of section second, the spirit of caste is introduced by
acknowledging that there were persons residing in the
United States five Of whom should be reckoned as
three men. The words free persons are likewise
used which convey the idea that there were persons a.
mong us who we're not free. Likewise in article 4th,
second section aud article 23d of that section persons
held to service spoken of and it is supposed that
those terms indirectly aIlude to slaves. The most that
be urged in favor of the idea that the Constitution
guarantees the right Of holding slaves is the fact that
it indirectly acknowledges the existence of slavery
and establishes the three ffths Of a man principle
That instrument strictly construed gives no right to
hold man property or to ensIoye mon. All that the
slave power can possibly claim according to the tenure
of that compact is that cnslaying men is not strictly
forbidden and that the trainers of it consented to per-
mil it to exist for time Article 10th in the amend
mcns, which soys-"Thc powers not delegated to tic
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it
to the Saes arc reserved to the States respectively
OF to the people" is claimed strong hold of slave
Try It's believed that the article hat declares that no
person shall be deprived Of LIFE liberty or property
without due process of law" is powerful check to
that article The article that says that "the citizens
Of each State sh2 be entitled to all the privileges
and mmunitie5 of citizens of the several States" de-
saoS its power to sanction slavery if it is admitted
that sayo5in the South are citizens" and their right
to citizenship is nowhere denied in the Constitution
The whole spirit Of the declaration of l;7G, of the
preamble to the constitutions and Of the constitution
| itself is antaconistical to vcry and it fully bcev
ed that it was not the design of onr fathers to guaran-
tee the existence of slavery and to bind their children
to sustain it forever in all its extended and aggravated
FORMS
If the Constitution both in spirit and letter had not
been repeatedly violated on the part of the South in
order to strenothon and DerDetuae oppresson slavery
would have been crippled long since. New slavehold-
inc Territories have been added and system of con-
tinual orrrassion established whereby ounce after
ounce has been removed from o scales ofiustice nm
fiji o,nro4sion is branded pnon The national forehead
Free citizens from other states are seized and thrown
into nri,an without Grimm or ovop n nrotance on the
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