The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-28

was greater uistaks than 70 suppose that slave iaber
excluded all ether For all classes Of laborsfs except
two there Ia no place where labor Is elevated In
the South A southern man will not become either
body Il house servant Sir, there is not sboring
white about me- who will not insist upon sitting
at my table, and am proudit is So Does such state
exist in the North am proud it does exist In the
South; and hope never to see the day when any
Southern man will permit white man brush his hat
clean his boots The this question is settled
the better fer all. The it reaches certain
po mt the bette ! and solemnly believe that ar,
that point Mr. President, if this
Union is to share the fate of SO many govern
ments that have gone before us II it is doomed
to fall, the historian who records tho event.
will devote his first chapter to the ordinance Of 1887
That will DO set down the origin of the deed Of
paraton His next chapter will be devoted to the Mis-
souri, compromise and the next to the provso Of the
present time. Whether there will be chapter beyond
this cannot tell. If the historian be Of philoso
phc turn Of mind looking into remote and reconcile
causes, he will the disaster to proposition which
is understood most dangerous nd fatal error
but which originally trusm This fatal error is
the universal idea that all born free and equal
Now, sir, purpose to examine this and am not
afraid to meet the strong prejudices in its favor
There is net word of truth in the proposition, as
commonly understood, all men born. No. sir, men
are not born; infants BORN and they grow to be
men, Uaughter) They are born free and equal not
so-they are born subject to their parents and guar
dans; and SO they continue till they grow up to the
free gentleman May ask If this is not the language
of the declaration Of Independence? No such thing;
that declaration in simple terms, says all men
are created equal; but this Is equally erroneous Ac-
cording to the scriptures only the human race
were created-one man and one woman. General
laughter all round, the idea universally suggest
ing itself that the rest propagated) Mr.
c., unmoved, went on. We may trace this
Of equality to Locke and Sydney. They claim that all
men In state Of nature equal. This is trueism
but 1t is Of great value 1t is only alphabetically
true; what Is III There states aud conditions Of
man In the first, man loves as an individual. and
partly indepe of his fellow This is called
state Of nature In that state he is Free and every
Is sovereign but it is misnomer to say they all
equal The next Is the social state The philosopher
this will trace out all the rights belonging both
ditons but equality is still further removed than in
the first The POLITICAL blending the two is the only
state adapted to the wants the progress and the de.
veopment of the powers Of His social state
not exist without soveregnty hence the necessity Of
government In his state of nature cannot exist
at all; yet it is strange that the state in which
the natural state while the only state in which he
exist should be called the artificial This is the
great misnomer This only natural state is that in
which he best exists with this false doctrine-that all
men are born equal. Then comes up the idea in the
mind that these natural rights the highest rights
that the rights Of individual higher than those
society and then society rests upon false basis until
those imaginary individual rights are restored This
is all false. Political rights the highest of all
rights Of the indvidual-but supplemental to
the rights Of the community No is ent-
tied to any natural rights at the expense of the
munity. We may make some important deduction
rom this The rights of the individual coded to,
taken by the government, according to necessity
but government has no right to substract more from
the individual than is necessary for the organ
cation hence the great distinction in governments
of which the people ignorant and in wild state
1t is necessary that government should have an
immense power to prevent the evils of anarchy
As ascend in the scale Of intelligence, we come,
at length, to that point where every possesses
the knowledge, and the readiness to act under
mutual concessions; and as approach 1t, we
find that COVER MT relaxes more and more in the
liberties Of the individual less and less exercises
the supreme power Of its original condition Instead
therefore, Of all mea being created equal or all mel
being equally Free there is Of necessity the
disparity. What then becomes Of the error that all
created equal that they are born free and
equal 1t vanishes. Yet to this error we may trace
every struggle against government for individual
rights however just, however aacious This error
is the very organ of aboitonism and its dangerous
offspring. 1t is this which threatens to
give to the revolutions, which it has excited In
Europe, a tendency to anarchy aud all its
confusion. This Of equality Is all powerful
to pull down, but impotent to build up It can destroy
fast enough but it cannot reproduce 1t is an error
under which, unless det cted and discarded all Europe
and all Chrstendom may hopeless anarchy Of
the first result to be terminated in military despotsm
aMr. c. sat down, and the spectators with number
of APPROPRIATIONS, retired
POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL
Mr.ArHERToN, chairman Of the committee on finance
moved that The Senate take the Post Office appropr
alton bill, which agreed to, when sundry amend.
ments wrre proposed and adopted.
After which, on motion. the Senate adjourned over
till tomorrow, wednesday,
House Of Representatives.
The House assembled at IL AN, when the Speaker
resumed hs seat and called order The journal was
then read and approved.
THE MILITIA.
Mr.. NEWELL of New Jersey, offered a resolution
strucng the ommittce Military Affairs TO enquire
into the expedency Of reporting bill for armi nv the
militia Of the United States in a suitable msnner;
which adopted
ORGANIZATION OF INDIAN TERRITORIES
Mr. NICKNAME Of Pennsylvania, reported n bill from
nizng Indian Territories west of the Mississippi
which was read twice and referred to the Committee
of the Whole.
GRANT OF PUBLIC LANDS IN AID OF RAILROAD
Mr.. EMBREE. OF Indiana introduced a bill in favor
ofgranting lands In Indiana for the construction and
completion of the Wabash and New Albany (Indana)
Railroad which was read twice and referred to the
Committee of the Whole
AUTHORIZING STATE OF TEXAS TO EXTEND urn
BOUNDARY.
The bill previously reported authorizing the State OF
Texas to extend her boundary to the sd degree of
North latitude, was taken Sup read third time and
passed
The Senate bill for the relief of bona de settlers on
the public land Florida taken up read the third
time and passed
The SPEAKER announced the first thing in order on
his table to be the notion last pending to print 10 600
copies OF MIR Strohm and Bcdanzers reports respect
ing alleged in the report OF the Secretary the
Treasury. which agreed to.
Mr.. ROCKWELL, of Connecticut. obtained the floor,
and oke in strong terms of opposition the mi nori-
ty report