The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-19

10 declare that law provide for the carving Of III
United States mail Santa Fe would be rendered nm
constitutional BY putting clause 10 il axing penalty
to The act OF breaking open the mailbag ON lis way there
Without giving more space al this time to the expo
sure OF The dangerous alaees contained in the doctrines
thus formally put forth by these prominent southern
wing organs, We charge that their manifest effect and
apparent purpose are-in behalf OF the southern whif
party so far as these journals speak Tor ito give up
lhe fugitive law unconstitutional, and thus con.
form 10 The ayowed opinions OF Mr. Seward and The
wing abolitonisis Aud in proof of our charge, We
subion the article at length:
From the National Intelligence
the DEMOCRATIC "Pl.ATFoRMn
We have not hitherto been able to account for The yg
orous applause bestowed in certain quarters upon The
" platform" resolutions adopted at the late Democratic
National Convention considering the osensibe adhesion
oil those resolutions TO The principles OF The Compromise
Ii now turns out that free soism and denuneiaoa Of he
fugitive slave law comprised IN the resolutions adopt.
ing The Virginia and Kentucky systems OF abstraction OF
179s99l This fact, undoubtedly known 10 the prime
movers OF that platform, but certainly not known TO a
majority OF The convention by whom the platform" was
adopted, solves the puzzle. Well may the Richmond
Wing, from whose columns the following article is
copied, head il Taken in"
From the Richmond Wing OF yesterday
The democratic platform embraces Tie Kentucky yesoiu.
ft0llS, as We'll as NOSE OF DbglHd The Charlottesville
Advocate copies the second OF the Kentucky resolutions
by which appears that The fugitive. slave law is declared
to be aitogser vo,d and Of force" The resolutions
take the ground that Cong pass no law to punish
any not specially enumerated in The constitution
and negro stealing IL not defined, the fugitive slave
law is lin effect decaredl null and void We copy from
the Advocate
The second Of those celebrated resolutions is in these
worasi
Rssousd That the constitution OF the United States
having delegated to Congress punish treason
ted States, piracies and teonss Committed on The high
seas and offences agans. the laws nations, Other
The amendments the constitution having also
declared that the powers delegated the United States
by the constitution prohibited by IL the States are
reserved 10 the States respectively or TO the people there
Tore ALSO the act Of Congress passed the l4h day
of July I79S and entitled AN addition
titled act for the punishment OF certain crimes against
The United as also The &c, passed by them on the
commled the Bank OF the United States, (and all other
s aS a ho. IN are ]
ghr potd and no force aud that The power to create
right appenains solely and to the respective
States, each within its own territory"
This resolution, (says the Advocae) which is expressly
and by endorsed by the Democratic Convention
cares the ugtivcslave law to be aiiogsha pod
force because the crimes which il creates defines and
Furnishes among those which the constitution del
egates Congress power to punish and the resolution
empbacay declares that Congress has power Gre
ate, define, punish" any crimes enumerated in
the constitution. Nor can this diemmn be avoided by
saying that the constitution itself provides for the rend
ton of fugitive slaves 1t undoubtedly does but it does
make fai1e 10 comply wh provisions a crime
and hence, according TO the second of the Kentucky
resolutions Congress has power make the aiding
and abeing fugitive slave to effect his escape from
officers OF the law the resistance those officers
when in the discharge of their consti; uonal duty
crime, TO punish II as snch becanse such crime ia
enumerated ia the constitution, AID therefore authority
given Congress to punish This may be called strict
construction, and so 1t but the democrats cannot object
that account and besides, the Supreme Court Of
the United States has acted upon this view matter
and hence the urgent necessity for the present law
That relying possibly upon The authority of this very
resolution at all events, arriving precisely similar
concnson declared its opinion that Congress had nothing
do with the rendition Of fugitive slaves but that under
constitution, the power sis reserved and right appe
ains solely and exclusively the respective States each
within its Territory" IL was This decision which, more
than any other perhaps called for the passage
present fugitive slave law which the Democrats National
Convention by endorsing the Kentucky resolutions as de-
clared 10 be g poid, and Of no force"