Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-01-05

turned over TO the INDIVIDUALS claiming neHI
as slaves, because they were warriors, and
must go to the western county and they
had gone there. Our officers could not deli
yer them up, and they very properly refused
and we were not answerable for this man be-
ing taken, on the ground that he was taken
for the public use. We had not got this pro-
perry in our possession; we were not using
him. He was now in The West, enjoying all
the rights of a freeman among the Indians. 1t
was not such a taking Of private property for
the public use as was contemplated by the
Constitution of the United States, because,
they contended, by the Constitution of the
United States there could be no property In
man. No such principle was recognized in
that Constitution. The Constitution treated
slaves as persons subject to be hired into
your service, as his son or your son might
be hired and if they were lost or killed IN
the public service, as his son or your son
might be lost or killed, those who claimed
TO be their owners were no more entitled 10
be paid for them than he would be for his
son. The principle was the same. Ihey
were recognized as persons by the Constltu-
ton of The United States; they were recog-
nlzed as property by the local, municipal laws
OF the State. There was no part Of the Con-
%stitution of the United States which recog-
nized any claim to them but that which ena-
bled those to whom their labor was due, to
reclaim them when escaping from that ser
vice into a free State and there was nothing,
so far as he knew, TO hinder the owner OF the
man Lewis from going to the Indian terrific
ry and reclaim him. lie was there his own
er could get him. This Government inter
posed no opposition to his doing so. The
representatives of Pacheco had no right TO
oI,;,, ,r ,bi, oHr H. Jo1;v,ory rf this man
If they had their own judicial tribunals TO
which they might have resorted to enforce
their claims, why did not they resort to them !
Because he supposed they were aware Of the
decision of the courts of Louisiana, where
General Gaines had defended the rights Of
these persons, and had been sustained by the
court,
As he had before said, he, was not going
TO enter into the constitutions argument al
this time. 1t was elaborated in the majority
and minority reports; and he only begged OF
gentlemen on all sides of the House to ex-
anime into these reports, TO go back and refer
TO the past legislation of Congress-legisla-
lion sanctioned by some southern men for
in the case Of Larche, a gentleman from Viz
ginia, Mr.. Mccoy, a former distinguished
member of this House, acquiesced with the
Northern men in settling that principle; and
it had never been broken down since the or
gani2ation of the Government. He hoped
Congress were not now about to break it
down for the first time. The question OF
property had been fully argued by the Con-
gress OF 1928, for three weeks together; and
yet we found that the proposition of Mr.. Ii
vingstun 10 pay for the medical attendance
and the loss of time which the slave owner
suffered from the manning of his servant, was
laid on the table.
In every sentiment which he had uttered
or might utter, he wished to be understood
as having no desire 10 wound the feelings Of
gentlemen from the South, or to injuriously
affect their interests; but he would call them
TO a sense of the duty which they owed tc
this Confederacy of ours-lhat when a pTin,
ciple was so well established as this had
been for sixty years past, they would moi
now, when other questions Of magnitude and
importance were pending, urge upon them oil
the North to appropriate from the treasury Of
cur common country for II e payment Of slaves
as property, when it never had been done II
the history OF cur Government, except in the
case referred to, which claim was accident
ally passed. Why should southern gentle
men now ask them to abandon dis principle
which had been settled in part by themselves
fer when We came TO refer 10 The history o
this question, we found southern men joining
with northern men in this expression Of opin
ion, in this establishment of principle. There
had been nothing of sectional, partisan feel
ing in the establishment Of this principle
and nothing of such feeling ought now to b
entertained, for the purpose Of trying to undC
that long and well-settled principle.
If gentlemen from the South would forbea
as the men from the South seemed to thinl
they ought to, in the debate of 1928, whel
they conceded the principle that these persons
could not be paid for as property, even whs'
impressed into the public service, and lost o
killed-if they would forbear TO urge upol
the men of the North this question of paylni
for slaves as property, and if they would g
one or two steps further, (where they ongh
to go, and in doing which, their jurisdictlo
over their own slaves would not be affected
and would abolish the traffic here in this Dis
trict, there would no longer be furnlshe
causes for agitating the peace and harmon.
of this Union-whether by fanatics of III
/ South, or by fanatics of the North if the
would concur in the support of the propos
ton which had been submitted TO this House
} and which, he was proud TO say, had met tn
. sanction of a majority Of the American Hous
t of Representatives. abolish the slave ira
g fc in this District; if they would provide fC
its abolition, and would cease TO press claim
|, upon Congress for payment for slaves as PR
perry, which question had long agitated III
t Countrywide bonds Of the Union would
/ cemented, and we would continue a unite
, and prosperous people for all future time.
5 Mr.. BURT interposed, and rose 10 a que
0 ton Of order.
} Mr.. DICKEY disclaimed any intention
being out of order, and said he had conclude
e what he had to say.
Mr.. BURT said the gentleman SCENE
conscious that he had voluntarily violate
@ the rule of order. He did not rise to mai
any objections to the allowing of a latituC
o in this debate; but he did rise to know,
$ advance, whether it was the intention Of Il
committee that these subjects were to be d
bated at this latitude upon this bill. If sue