The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-15
From the New Haven Resi. e.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA LAW AND THE LOUISIANA
LAW

Much has been said against the laws Of South Carolina
aud Louisiana which shut out from their limits the free
blacks FROM other States and il is said that one OF the
senators from Louisiana admitted ihat the Laws of his
State the subject unconstitutional However this
may be- the courts of those States uphold the laws as
strictly constitutional aud The United States courts have
not decided otherwise There may be, and undoubtedly
are respectable in Connecticut who think that the
law which formerly had against blacks coming here for
education unconstitutional but still the courts of
the State, whenever they act the subject,
thought otherwise and decided otherwise The may
be said Of other statutes in force here
do not undertake decide whether South Carolina or
Louisiana have transcribed their constitutional enact
ments or not-but this say that the principle of their
laws now complained of free blacks is the same
that our own judicial tribunals have sanctioned and our
own legislatures have sanctioned to the fullest extent
The people and the courts OF those States justify their
enactments prohibiting free blacks from other States
coming within their jurisdiction on the same grounds that
we in Connecticut justify the laws that are now IN our
statute book which exclude from this State any citizens
of other States whether black white who come TO
side here whenever in the opinion Of the authorities OF
the town. would be nexpedent to lei such persons
main among Our own law says the subject as fol-
lows
awhen any inhabant of any State District or Terri
tory of the United States this State excepted shall come
to reside in any in this State, and shall not have
gained legal settlement therein the civil authority the
OF them. OF Sucn Town II lnty Judge
proper upon the application OF the seecmen by warrant
under their hands directed TO either constabeof said town.
ord said person be Conveyed 10 the STATE from hnce he
came and such constable receiving such warrant
execute the same and the expense thereof being hquda-
ted and allowed by the seecmen of the town 10 which
such constable belongs shall be paid Of the treasury Of
such town.
If we may complain Of the States al the South for
making laws which exclude the blacks from other States
what have say in defence of our enacments,
that this day operate against both blacks and whites
We had further statute the same subject which WAS
in until within comparatively short time ago with
in twenty years. which follows:
II any person not inhabitant of this State shall
eer such sending away aforesaid and abide in
said from whence sent after warning given him TO
depart aforesaid he shall be whipped the naked body
stripes and again be sent away and dealt with
aforesaid often there shall be occasion though
the act provided that ii should not be construed to
affect apprentices under age servants bought for time
Our present code having dispensed with the barbarous
punishment of whipping the naked body for crime the
whipping part Of the section last quoted has BEEN within
few years dispensed with but the principle retained is
the
Before therefore begin to ourselves by throw
ing stones neighbours windows, may rs well
anime the material Of which tenenents built
EQUAL AND EXACT JUSTICE.