Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-09-03

ted 10 do so, TO take effect after 1903 Cen
gress acted, without hesitation, upon the subject
| Immediately thereafter, by declaring its further
continuance piracy. That, Mr., Chairman, did
not look much ike binding the General Govern
ment to sustain slavery.
Slavery needs no law but that of brutal force
1t presupposes the abrogation or absence of all
law. Mr.. Calhoun always secuted the idea
that slavery existed by virtue of State laws
There is wide difference between clothing
Government with power to restrain crime and
comforting power requiring its commission and
that is precisely the difference between the com
promises Of 1899 and those of 1920. know
it is con.ended that power is delegated TO the
General Government 10 deliver up fugitives ow-
ing service or labor This is denied BY Mr.
Webster, and by many other distinguished law
yers and statesmen, who say that the clause in
the Constitution touching this subject is only a
treaty stipulation between the States. The Hon.
gentleman from Massachusetts,, Mr. RANToUL I
in a very able speech on this floor a few days
since, sustained this view. But suppose VIC adj
nit for arguments sake, that Congress has the
power, under the clansc by which apprentices
and minors held TO service have been returned,
II does not fol oW that this power is to be eXer-
cised wholly regardless Of the rights c! human
ity and the cause OF justice. The war power
in Congress IS unlimited, yet who does not see
the nquty of declaring and maintaining war
for the sole purpose Of conquest, and military
glory We can readily see, too. how the pow
cr providing for the Surrender Of lugitives from
jGsicc could be abused. Saobo>c the Safe Of
Georgia for the moin,ain.nse Of her .pocuIiar
institution" sh1tll deem It necessary 20 lass Il
law making il dca.l for any PerS~l D deuounce
The Baltimore platforms, or, what Is he same
thing, the fug~,ivc slave law, ard ali offender
should escape into another state, would it BE-
RIGHT t. return such fugitive | answer, no.
Tuc Federal Government was formed b. those
who beloved in the "aupremacy Of God, the
equally of man, and freedom Of speech - that
laws were instituted to protect these rights and
that whenever they became destructive Of such
ends, II Is The right of the people to alter or al
dish them. Were the Federal Government to
consPire or cooperate with State in such tyr
amy It would prove itself recgeont 10 every rule
oil Justice and 10 the great principles that called
it into being. Mr.. I.ieb1r, OF South Carolina,
in lis Political Ethics. discusses this question
IN regard 10 the duty Of obedience to UNJUST laws
with great tuIIacss. Here is all extract
I've mus: no! :os-c. si laws msy be passed in regular
and lawful rn, and yet b. dearly .-aius he plnrs
law s.Ir.r,"r to- .a. el,d.Ia Mi ',a-.r-,'l. j. reason,
FgL aid ,a..rc-auj tGa ..,i3r i iErDn. 4 ia" of AL
humanity trs. in o .4h conflict. 81 = ~ be hey
ed An immoral law Is No aw and M Welding 20 i. or no
/, mere question ot trclclcy i.>! Ha! ..a! lot
yield - 'hr Ge.aa:.ds II lubh,T.'
The exercise of constitutional power, then,
vested in Congress is Il nattcrlot discretion-'o
b. active, or inactive, as the general good re-
CURES. This exposition is fortified b. The opin-
ion Of George Thomdson, Of the United States
court. In the celebrI;cd prigg case, where the
Jurisdiction Of Congress was involved i'll the ex-
tradition Ct persons held to service or labor, cs-
Gaping from one state into another, he says:
"Th LEGISLATION, MAX, belongs 1roso an RI ric,y 10
Congress thIn 70 the !c~, tor purpose OF having ttc
r unilarm throughout ,he -ta,> bal ihcr" i: i-util-
!iE IA the o'thc1taaer ths renders state ce"ii, uiI.
Il Is no objection {" he Rights OF tn S.acS To ,S laws on
p' them Them 10 do IT, Neither is hrc 60 ce'sDd Congress
pass ANY las ~" sll5cct the LEGISLATION must be
rJ@aAt4ry ia 1oth sad gocern'day ssass Of datg.'
Mr.. Chnirtuan, know it will Be said that hu-
man laws, even in their greatest perfection, in
many instances. work Injustice and that it is i'm
possible for the General Government, in the ad
ADMINISTRATION of law, to provide for such contin
goncics-that the laws OF Congress proceed up
on general principles, and must BE- faithfully en-
forced. But an s2oalin1 of laws upon the
statue. books Of some oft the States, which stand
ont IN as bold relief and far moro bartarous,
thau the stamp act of l77G-l0ws that deny a
certain portion Of their population the benefits of
common education, BY making it, penal offhncc
to mpart Observation-Disclosures that permit one class
to trcspass upon the rights Of another, even to
scn>uaIsm and prostitution, and then order tn
visitation Of the death penalty on the innocent
victim who in the act Of self defense, darc~ to
strike the citaudcr These arc the laws that
Congress is called to make operative on the
poor African, wien he tries, through fight, to
place himself in condition Of civilization and