Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-09-02

their cncomiuuss upon that Court, that their
Idecision, whetaer right or wrong, controls
Jour action. But we have not hitherto en-
ldeavored to ascertain what the Supreme
Court would do. | wish then to ascertain
in what mode this wonderful response is to
be obtaine,i--lot from that Delphic Oracle,
but from that iniallible divinity the Supreme
Court. How il it to he dones A gentle
man starts from Baltimore, in Maryland,
with dozen black men who have seen par
tbs segia!ur centrem burned into their skins
and souls all over; he takes them TO Cali
fornla, three thousand miles OF. Now
don't know how it may bein other parts of
the world, but know thar in the State Of
Ohio II Is ordaieed that the law is-carred
to every mans door. What then is the adj
mirablc cOntrivance in this bill hv which
we can get at the meaning of the Consttu-
zion! We pray for it, we agonze for il,
we make law for it, aud that il may be
speedily known--for,, if not speedily known
1T may as well never be known-ihat if
Slavery goes there and remains there for
one year according to all experience it is
eternally. Let il but plant its roots there,
and the next thing you will hear of will be
earnest appeals about the rights of proper
~; it will be said: 4" 'Fhe Senate did not say
we had no right 20 come here. The House
of Representatives, body of gentlemen
elected from all parts of the country on ac-
count OF their sagacity and legal attain
ments. did not prohibit Us from coming here
thought had right To come here: the
Senator from South Carolina said had a
right TO come; the Hon. Senator from Geor-
gia said had a right To come here; his col
league said it was right secured to me
somewhere high up in the clouds and not
belonging to the world; the Senator from
Mississippi said it was the ordinance of Al
mighty God; am | not then to enjoy the
privileges thus so fully secured to me? |
have property here; several of my women
have borne children, who have pGrtus se9us-
tur ventrem born with them; they are my
property. Thus the appeal will he made to
their tellOw-citiZens around them, and it
will he asked whether you are prepared to
strike down The property which the settler
in those Territories has thus acquired p
That will be the case unless the negro from
Baltimore, when he gets there and sees the
Poems tbere---slaves not only by partus Sc
quitur eentrem, but by much better title
verdict before IA Justice of the Peace
should determine-to avail himself of the adj
mrabe facilities afforded him by this bill
for gaming his freedom. Suppose my friend
from New Hampshire, when he goes home,
gets up a meeting and collects a fund for
the purpose of sending a missionary after
these men;and when the missionary arrives
there he proposes TO hold a prayer meeting;
he gets mp meeting as they use to do III
Yankee times, '1fOr the Improvement of
gifts" lie goes To the negro quarter OF
this gentleman from Baltimore and SAYS:
Z" Come, want brother Cufice; it is true
he is son of Ham, but / want to instruct
him that he Is Free am very much in
clined to think that the missionary would
fare very much as one did in South Carroll
ma, at the hands of him OF Baltimore So,
you see, the negro is To start all nj once into
a free Anglo Saxon in California; the blood
of Liberty flowing in every vein, and it's
divine impulses throbbing in his heart. He
is to say: 81 am free; am Californian; |
bring the right Of ha6eas corpus with me. 1"
Well he is brought up on writ of babeas
corpus--hefore whom? Very likely one of
those gentlemen who have been proclaiming
that Slavery has a right to go there: for
such are the men that Mr. Polk is likely to
appoint. He has pre-iudged the case. On
the faith of his opinion the slave has been
brought there: what can he do? There is
his recorded judgment printed in your Con-
gressional Report. What will he saw
a
Judge Berrien Of Ga. profound lawyer,
whom | know well, was right. ! know
these gentlemen well; their opinion is enti-
tied To the highest authority, aud in the face
of it it does not become me TO say that you
are free. So, boy, go to your master; you
belong to the class partuS Seqttttur Uentrem !;
you are not quite enough of Saxonl"-
What then is TO be done by this bill? Oil
a writ Of error or appeal can come TO the
Supreme Court of the United States. How?
The negro, if he is To be treated like white,
taking out an appeal, must give bonds in
double the value of the subject matter in
dispute. Aud what j. THAR If you consid-
er it the mercantile value Of the negro, it
may be perhaps 81 900 or $4,000. But he
cannot have the appeal according to this
bill unless the value Of the thing in roBtro-
versy amounts to the value Of $4,000. But,
then, there comes ia this Ideally Of person.
al liberty: what is it worth? Nothing at
all-says the Senator from South Carolina
TO this f.-low, who is better without it,
Aud under all this completely of legal quib-
bling and litigation, II Is expected that the
negro viii stand there and contend with his
master, and coming on to Washington, will
prosecute his appeal two years before the
Supreme Court, enjoying the opportunity
of visiting his old irIeUds about baltimore
/ (Laughler.)
! 1t must be conceded that there is vast
difference between the case thus submit
ted TO the Supreme Court Of the United
States, IN the absence of al Congressional
action, aud that IN which Congress would
have decided that Slavery should not exist
/ in the Territory; because the Supreme
+ Court in that case quoted so often from
Peters, found that Congress bad the power
to legislaie for the Territories. The Sena-
tor from 5. G. concurs in that decision.
I Now, If we can make any law whatever,
not contrary TO the express prohibitions Of