The daily union., 1854-02-28

scy plain that1fhef Constitution protects slavery there
need have no eA$Ipent on the subject We can neither
strengthen the cQi htuton nor weaken Il But slavery
existed. as $hown. before the Missouri compro-
@ mise was was pass % repeal Una, law y What DO yoa
the slave law W Me act OF 1920. and by The law OF
1854 you repeal hat repeating law, but you do not
yive ,hs old law But The senators amendment says
that the law shall be the ii the Missouri Com
promise act was meier passed That in direct terms
Mr. DIXON Ik senator surely is mistaken in my
Mr. PETIT Fwish the senator would give me a
M DIXON TX; n. (! say whs, s precisely The
senator will lind thar SO far from saying that the law
shall be the before, it only says that the people
shall nave the right TO take their slaves there
they would have had il the Missouri Compromise had
Mr. PETIT Exactly Then you would have a
right under IT to take slaves there and protect them.
am not mpugnlng the senator's motives. am only CIV
ing the language OF his amendment fair, nor a
critical examination. am stating It's legal effect II s,
however question which is very easily settled by ref
erence to the language OF the amendment have II here.
and will read il:
section OF an act approved March 6, 1920 entitled An
TO authorize the people of the Missouri Territory
of such State into the Union equal footing with the
original States, and prohibit slavery in certain Terrific
10 the United States, under the name ol Louisiana which
lies north OF 30 degrees 30 minutes north atude slavery
ment OF crimes whereof the parties shall been duly
convicted, shall be forever prohibed shall be
any ohe Territory OF the United States; but
the citizens of the several States Territories shall be
ories Of the United States Of the States to be formed
hereito, as If the said act entitled Aforesaid and APP
proved as Aforesaid, had never been passed I"
Now, sir am mistaken at all [ have shown that it
reinsiates the law though the Missouri Compromise
had been passed Let say 10 the senator from
Kentucky that the bill now before you does no such
thing Be not deceived in it, say that, in my judg-
ment, as shall show before get through while yeu
may take your slave here and hold him SO long as you
collar him and control him. yet you will have no law
there BY which you can enforce your right TO him But
by your amendment, putting the law on The same foot
ing that il prior 10 the passage Of the Missouri Com
promise, YOU would have re-established the slave law
all the Territory; Tor il existed BEFORE and by the
law Of 1920 you repealed IT, That is the view have,
and have question about IT, Ii were interrogated
as lawyer should be compelled to give that opinion
because the present bill leaves the Territory without any
law that subject. There is law there for enforc
ing The ownership 10 horse, a COW, or any other
property nor will there be any until the legislative
thoy shall dehne The manner oi protecting the rights OF
property
You may say that il is right al common aw--an in
alienable right but naked rights good for nothing
unless you have the power 10 enforce them Ii your
slave bids you Defiance and tells you am as free As
you, your neghbor takes your horse or beats your
person, or otherwise amples upon your rights of per-
son or OF property, where Is your remedy Where is
your court where is your jury You have none You
might well say that your rights did not exist for
there are no property rights unless you enforce them
through the courts. new community is going there
Let them go there with ibe right that The majority shah
determine what law they will have whether it shall be
slave OF free 1t should be So Wherever the people
OF the United States CO. they ought 10 have the right
determine their domestic Institutions With this shall
be content and ahundany satisfied could not would
not any vo;s foT ag rha, created slavery ,here
lhan would vote for one that prohibited il neither OF
which will do, bat leave ior the people determine
Tor themselves.
Now, sir, pa'ani one little reflection as to ultra,
~ ahnlf lnt.Ha hon fhAra -,
here. II rs alleged that all created equal, and
the Declaration OF Independence is referred to- 10 sustain
that position However unpopular or however dsplees-
lng u may be 10 the oil my fellow citizens, am
consralaed 10 dissent from any such position dogma
Ii 4 not true m fact; II Is not true In law il is no, true
physically, mentally, or morally, that all created
equal Will not play upon The term OF the creation of
men or babies. will not say that not created
But, sir ls tact II Mr. Jefferson had said in bis
Declaration OF Independence, that ell constituting
portions Of The body pOic ought 10 be equal ought TO
have equal political rights, there would have been some
thing like propreiy and wisdom in it, But however
egotslcal OF absurd may appear in TO venture 10
Contradict or dispute The language ol the Declaration Of
Independence, proceed 10 do il feariessly cannot, in
the first place, believe that Mr. Jefferson ever intended
to give the meaning or force which is attempted
be applied 10 this language when he said !" We hold
equal"
hold il 10 be a self.eyident lie. There ia no sueb
thing Sir, tell me that The imbecile. the deformed
The weak, the blurred intellect IN man, is my equal
physically, mentally, OF morally, and you tell me a lie.
ell NE, sir hal Tue slave IN the south, who born
slave and with bu little over one-hal the volume of
bren that attaches 10 the northern European race is bis
equal, and you tell me what is physically a fasehood
There is no truth in at II all. Bot much more Come
from The slave region, and 20 TO the free Nonh-go If
you will, TO the States OF Indiana Ohio, New York. or
any other Tree Sateand show that the negro race or
The negro man, IS upon an equality with the white man.
and you show what does exist Sir il is not true
that even all persons OF the are created equal
Bot Mr.. Jefferson puts no limit upon il. He does not
cay they have equal political rights, or ought 10 have
II be had said that there might have been truth in il bu
when he says they are all created equal be says that for
which he cannot snd an honest endorser in the world
SIR you ell me that The native African upon hs burning
sands, and IN bis native wilderness, il my equal aud
hesitate not to hoo, al The idea Tell me that the seri
OF the Auloerai OF Russia, kneeling al his feet and will
ling 10 ck bis spilte, is my equal and scorn The aeser
on. tie is mol my equal There is no truth in the dec
atauon. Men are not equal mentally, we all admit
Who are the equals Of the mighty fallen who recently
had seats this a0or Who are the EQUALS of Webater
and Clay The clarion voice OF the one and the under
tones Of the othA different tines made lhe welkin
ring, and turned the whole blue arch Of heaven into one
great bell, which toned 10 liberty though stricken hy
The hand ol God. Are you the equals OF those men
There - no color OF truth in IT, Ii falsephysically
mentally, and moray-alse IN word and false in form
Neither 40 believe that Jefferson intended that such
construction should be given 10 the language Equal IN
whai lie does not say. Does be mean iha, All men
are socially equsll Now, will demonstrate to you that
there "a no such tnlng as social equality Men NAV be
made politically equal II possible that their political
nights may be placed upon par, but social and mental
equality the God OF Heaven alone controls Men are not
alike IN their mental organization, or in their social feel
ngs.
Are you the equal OF the man who daily and nightly
waiows ln the gutter and votns upon all, and nau
scales all WHO come into his presence Are you his
equalf u you are, you are not mine Ii he s your