Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-08-09

they will tell you 1t is but II Is out just oeeuh' "
almost ever station you will have TO pay extra Tor
something, and be subject to many other petty an
noyances into the bargain. The only remedy one Of
our citizens could obtain on being thus imposed
upon not long since was to catch up club and knock
down one Of these land pirates. H
Mr. Terry, who is an Irish gentleman, has given
us the names Of Lawrence Wild, SO John Street, N.
Y, Kinds < Co., n. Y. and H. Perkins, agent, Bull
falo, as men of whom travellers should beware. The
agents in New York agreed to take his party through
to Chicago for eleven pounds, sterling, which he
he paid but before he got through he had to pay six
teen pounds, fifteen shillings and one penny.
The Boston Atlas, in discussing the merits of
portion of Mr. CALHouNs letter, triumphantly an
swers his arguments against the powers Of Congress
as follows -
@Mr Calhoun declares that Congress has no right
to pass such law, sbecause Congress has no abso-
lutte power whatever; that the powers Of Congress
are all delegated and trust powers.' He also de-
MES that slavery is local institution, created by
law, and places slave property on the same basis
with other property. And as Congress cannot pass
a law to deprive citizens of their property, SO it
cannot pass law to prevent slaves being carried
into the territories of the Union.
There is nothing very new in the argument pre-
scented by Mr. Calhoun. II has been often presented
before, and has been often refuted, though we do
not recollect having seen it presented more con-
cisely, or more forciby, than in this letter. Its
fundamental weakness is in the construction he
gives to the powers Of Congress. What, for in
stance, can be more absurd than to say that Con-
gress has absolute power whatever, or that the
National Government is mere agent Of the States?
We believe that Congress has just as absolute
power within what is written in the Constitution,
as any government ever possessed. Congress is not
the mere executor of trust powers. Its power is
complete and absolute. 1t can make war, raise ar
mics, impose taxes, regulate commerce, establish
these, by its own inherent power, and not by any
delegated authority whatever. The Constitution is
the chart by which the Federal Government is to
sail. Whatever is therein specified, that it can do,
and State, all the states can take those pow
ers from the General Government, nor add any new
duty, unless by an amendment to the Constitution.
The Constitution is not compact, but q law; and
law which means what it says-which confers GER
tain powers, and those powers are absolute.
The Constitution says that Congress shall make
all necessary laws for the territories of the Union
The power Of Congress here is unqualified and abb
solute. No other body can make laws for the terri
tories but Congress- and Congress can make all laws
in regard to them. Congress can say and win say,
we have no doubt, that slavery and involuntary
vitude except for crme shall not be tolerated in the
territories now belonging to the Union and Congress
has clear constitutional right to say so, and the
people will demand that Congress shall thus speak.
We acknowledge ourselves surprised at the cool,
unblushing efrontery with which Mr. Calhoun con.
tends that slave property is the same, all other
kinds Of property. He sinks the in the chattel,
without qualification. He holds that he has the
same right to drive his gang of negroes into New
Mexico, and hold them there slaves, that he has
to drive a drove Of mules there to labor for him.
The negro and the mule in his eyes one and the
same thing. They are both property, and that is
the most valuable which will bring him the most
money. That the negro is man, like Mr. Calhoun,
possessing the same faculties, the same passions,
the same feelings, and made by the same God, no
one would imagine from reading the address.
Slavery has hitherto been suffered to exist, and
been defended on the ground that it was an evil from
which there was NO feasible mode OF escape. Few,
very few, even of Shareholders themselves have
er pretended that it was anything more than local
institution, made by local law and we do not be-
lieve that there are many of them who like Mr. Cal.
houn desire to see the extended to new Soils
and perpetuated for eding generations. 1t is
an unnatural institution, and every right thinking
man looks forward to the day when ii will no longer
exist; but Mr. Calhoun speaks of it as if halo of
immortality encircled it, and declares that it must
keep pace with Our progress and name, and that
wherever our flag shall wave, it shall wave over
community Of slaves, to all time.
We however live full of hope. The future, to our
imagination, is bright and promising. Slavery can
not be extended, and will eventually cease to ex
list. Unless the tide changes, and events roll back
upon us-unless that spirit Of liberty to which the
universal pulse Of man keeps time, be suddenly
stopped slavery must cease. And it will cease, too
without boodshed, and without even straining the
bonds of our glorious Union. We believe that firm
ness, united with kind feeling, will do much; that
argument and reason will do much that facts put in
Christian spirit, will do much to open the eyes, to
aliay prejudice and disarm oppositon and that all
combined will assuredy produce freedom to The en-
shaved. To take the question out of the hands of
ultra politicians and demagogues, North and South.
and trust 1t to the guidance Of the collected udp
ment and sober sense of the peoples would also he
great point gained, and that point viii be gained in
time." s 60
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The Gazette contains an account of the body OF a
DR. BoswoRrH, Of Vermillion county, Indiana, being
found in Ellison creek, few miles from this place.
on the Illinois side Of the river, Saturday last.
From papers about him, it was discovered that since
he left home, he had buried his wife and four child
rem Of Cholera. It was supposed that depression
of spirits account Of this loss led him to drown
himself. His horse and buggy were found near
where he had drowned himself.
As both parties seemed to be affected with the
same disease, it was hardly decent for the Gazette
to publish that Obituary Of the Wing party. Had it
not been for ingenious application of Tallant,s
gum Arabic paste, we are inclined to think, the
wings might have sung Noble requieum over our
friend Ives. That was about all that saved him.