Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-08-09

concur with u.s.. If the Court does not
concur with u, agree with gentlemen
who have been 20 lost in their encomiums
upon that Court, that their decision. who
Their right or wrong. controls no action
But we have not hitherto endeavored to
ascertain what the Supreme Court would
do. wish then to ascertain in what
mode this wonderful response is to be
from that Delphic Oracle,
but from that infallible divinity. the Su-
preme Court How is il 10 be donee A
gentleman starts from Baltimore, in Mary
land, with dozen black men who have
been parter seguitMr centrum burnt into
their skins and SOILS a! over; he takes
them to California. three thousand miles
of. Now l don't know how il may be in
other parts Of the world, but ] know that
in tho State of Ohio it is ordained that
the law is carried 10 every mans door.
What then is the admirable contrivance
in this bill by which we can get At the
meaning Of the Constitution! We pray
for it, we agonize for it, we make = law
for it, and that il may be speedily known
for, If not speedily known j; may A.
we'll never be known. If Slavery goes
there and remains there for One year, ac-
cording to all experience, it is eternally.
Let il but plant its roots there. and the
next thing you will hear Of win be the
earnest appeals about the rights Of pro-
perry; it will be said: ''The Senate did
not say we. had no right to come here.
The House Of Representatives. body Of
gentlemen elected from all parts Of the
country on account Of their sagacity and
legal attainments. did not prohibit us from
coming here. thought had right to
come here: the Senator from South Caro-
ina said had right to come; the Hon.
Senator from Georgia said | had a right
to come here; his colleague said it was a
right sechred to me somewhere high up in
the clouds and not belonging to the world;
the Senator from Mississippi said it was
the ordinance Of Almighty 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 parties sequitmr centrum born
with them. they are my property" Thus
the appeal will be made to their fellow
citizens around them, and it will be asked
whether you are prepared to strike down
the property which the settler in those
Territories has thus acquired! That will
be the case unless the negro from Balti-
more when he gets there and sees the Poems
there-slaves not by parties seqmisur rem
trun,, but by a much better title-a YER
dict before Justice Of Peace-should de-
termine to avail himself Of the admira-
BILE facilities afforded him by this bill for
gaining his freedom.
Suppose my friend from New Hampshire.
whom he goes home. gets Up a meeting and col
lects a FUND for the purpose Of sending a mission.
ary after these men; aud whcn the missionary
arrives there he proposes to hold prayer meet
ing, he gets up meeting ~ they used to do in
Yankee tim~s, "for the improve n,ents Of gifts :"
He goes 70 tho negro quarter Of this gentleman
from Baitimore and says: Come; ! want brother
to instruct him that lac is free. l am very much
inclined to think that the missionary would fare
very much one did in South Caralina. at the
hands OF him Of Baltimore. So, you see, the
negro 10 TO start all ut into free Anglo
Saxon in California; tho blood Of Liberty flow
ing in every vein, and it's divine impulses throb-
bling in his heart. He is to say: 81 am free;
am Californian; I bring the right Of Aabeas COR
pss with me-" Well. no 10 brought up on writ
Of h2beas corpus-before them! Very likely
ono of those gentlemen who have been pro-
claiming that Slavery has a right to 60 there; for
such srv tho men that Mr.. Polk is likely TO APP
point He has PFeJudged the case. On the faith
Of his opinion tho elnve has been brought there
printed in your Congressional Report; what will
he say! "You are Slave. Mr.. Calhoun was
right. Judge Berrien Of Ga, profound lawyer.
whom know we'll, was right. know ties.
highest authority, and in tho face Of it, it does
not become mo 10 say that you are free. So.
boy. 60 10 your master; you belong TO the class
p"rfes se4sifsr oe,frs~: you are not quite enough
Of SaxOn"' What then 10 to be du0e by hts
biill Oh! a writ or error or appeal can come to
2No ma mi RI 0f 1ha Init I'D At How
The negro, il he 10 to he treated like white,
taking out an appeal, must give bonds in double
tho value Of tho subject matter in dispute. And
what 10 that! II you consider il tho mercantile
vaiue Of the negro. it may be perhaps 81 900 or
81. 900. But he cannot have the appeal accord
ing TO this bill. unless tho value OF tho thing in
controversy amounts 10 the value of s. 900.
But, then, there comes in this ide atty Of person
al liberty: what is il WORTH Nothing at all
says tho Senator from South Carolina--to this
fellow Who is better without it, And under all
this completely Of legal quihblinE and litigation.
it 10 expected that the negro will stand there and
contend with his master, and coming on TO w ash
ington, will prosecute his sPpeaI twU years BE-
fore the Supreme Court, enjoying the oPportuni-
y Of visiting his old friends about Baltimore!
(Laughter-l
II must 10 conceded that there 10 1 vast dif-
ference between = css~ thus submitted to the
Supreme Court Of the United States in tho alb
seuce Of a Congressional acticn. and that in
ry should not exist in the Territory; because
the Supreme Court in that case quoted often
from Peters, found that Congress had the power
to legislatc for the Territories. The Senator
from South CAroiina CONCUR in that decision.
Now, IL We can make any Law Whatever, not
contrary TO the express prohibitions of the Con-
siitution, we can enact that man with $50 900
worth Of bank notes Of Maryland shall forfeit
tho whole smoUnt il he attempts to pass one OF
them 10 tho Territory Of California. w. may
say il man carry a mensgere Of wild beasts
there worth 45OO. 900, aud unde rtakes to ex-
hibit them there. no shalt forfeit them. The
man comes bark with his monkey under his
arm, and says that tho Law forbade him to ex-
hbit HE animals there; it was thought that %
an economical arrangement. such things sho~td
not be tolerated there. That you may do: he
Of the lions and tigsrs goes back, having los,
his whole eoacern. Bet aow you take fellow
that you say 10 brother to the monkey-with
WOOL on his heed. asd Sssses seqsaxr reafrxm
engraved on him somewhere else. and someho "
ConGres 10 ispetent; all the power Of the sove.
reig"ty Of this counsry - impote Mt to stop him
That 10 q strange sUrt Of argumen MT to me. II