The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-11

son sin il the deealogue The existing laws Of the
country rendered the condition Of slavery illegal one and
u was eonended that the of annexation and the
utona equality which 10 lis Immediate and necessary
sequence abrogated this proyson and that STAKEHOLDER
Yves as free to hold his peculiar property there as are the
habauts themselves 10 hold any other of property
Well this IS obviously right VIII eh il exist cannot b.
taken away and which may at any me be enforced before
the Judicial tribunals. II has not been touched by
congressional action and il is perverson of terms
TO iak OF robbery where the right and the remedy what
ever theso may be- are IN Just much force ever
as regards congressional legislation Ii is robbery with
OUT fopoer an aggression without aggressor injury
with none 10 commit II, and none TO benefit by il.
lrepeat then, what prevents southern from going
TO any OF these Mexican acqusltionss The only ncipac
~ alleged is The inability 10 hold slaves there And ths
Inability # II exist results from the law of the ace and
m point OF fact is inconsistent with the assumption of
stiluona ught aud would fall before H. could il be esab
shed But leaving TO others to reconcile this contradiction
have 10 remark that this difficulty may resolve itself into
two obeetons FIRST that slavery is sary human
comfort TO comfort. BILE existence indeed that our southern
brethren cannot i've where 1t IS not established and that
exclude 1t is 10 exclude them from any the earth
however otherwise desirable. Now, admit no such
position have high opinion of the eople of the
South TO believe that they accommodate themselves
10 any social system of which slavery does form an
essential part This 10 very different question from its
established existence In community of which
bers There may uphold il from the conviction that
immediate ruin would folio extinction in an manner
yet offered to public consideration Upon this subject
should feel just as the South feels resident there
and should hold in adherence every external effort 10 inter-
iere with this momentous question. But far otherwise Is
the proposition, that live q MISUNDERSTANDING
nifty is sacrifice which an inerdction against
entering into II, and utter exclusion from its advantages
why, Sir, people from sayehodng States practically
radlet such an assumption every day, by migrating to
other States where slavery does exist they are
continually doing and presume will deny that
human comfort and the blessings Of civilized life are to
found IN many communities at home and abroad, from
which slavery has been excluded where never existed
II is than idle to advance such proposition Ii is
rebuked by the experience of the world.
The second objection which propose to consider con-
prted ALI 49,
that southern go there because he take
his property with him. and thus excluded by peculiar con-
sideratloas from his share of the common territory.
SO far as this branch OF the subject itself with
slaves, regarded merely property certainly true that
the necessity Of leaving and of dsposng of them may put
the to nconvenlence-o loss ndeed--a state of
things incident to all emigr distant regions for
there many species of that property which constitutes
the common stock of society," that taken there
some because they prohbed by the laws of Naureas
and farms Others because they prohibited by the
laws OF man AS slaves incorporated companies, monopo-
lies, and many mierdicted articles and Others again. be-
cause they prohibited by statistical laws which regulate
the transportation of property and virtually confne
of 1t within certain limits which overcome in
consequence of the expense attending distant removal and
among these latter articles cattle and much Of the prop
erty which everywhere to be found The remedy oil
these cases IS the same and 10 equally applicable all
classes of propretors, whether living Massachusetts,
New York, South Carolina, and that convert all
these various kinds OF property the universal
tive of value, money and take that these regions
where will command whatever may be necessary to
comfort to prosperous enterprise In all these instances
the practical result Is The same, and the is the condition
of equality.
the senator from North Carolina Mr. BApGERl upon this
whole subject and especially those in which he depicted
with equal force and feeling, the painful circumstances
connected with the disruption of those lies of habit and a
lection which bind every just master TO his slaves and par
cuary those domestic slaves most intimately associated
with his family. This is so sir, beyond doubt and is
among the harsh trials which make part of the shifting
of lie in which all engaged The northern
emgran has his full share Of these sacrifices for rarely,
indeed does he fail to leave behind him of
est objects of his affections too often with hide hope OF
joining them this side Of the grave. These of
sorrow belong 10 that life of change which almost makes
part of the American character. But painful they are
they cannot enter into the determination legal
tuuona rights, which appeal to rigid principles and
the kindlier emotions Of The heart.
IL follows that all the citizens of the United States have
equal claims 10 go 10 the national domain under equal
cumsances each responsible TO the laws and entitled
to take whatever the laws permit Otherwise strange
confusion would exist the legal systems Of the Terri
tories existed 10 the language Of the world when the
primitive race scattered upon the plains of Shnar and
when man could not understand anohers speech. The
by the laws Of the country where would be enjoyed but
by The laws of the country whence II came.
Such principle would strike at Independent and neces-
say legislation at many police laws, sanitary laws and
at Laws tor the protection of public and private morals Ar
dent spirits deadly poisons Implements of gaming well
various articles doubtful foreign bank bls among 9TH
ers injurious 10 prosperous condition Of society,
would placed beyond the reach Of legislative ntedcton
whatever might be the wants or the wishes Of the country
upon the subject For the constitutional right by which
claimed that these species Of property may be taken by
the the "terory the United States cannot
be controlled, If exist by the local legislatures for that
might lead, and IN many would lead to the destruction
OF It's value. apprentices made property and their
term Of service should be extended by any member the
confederation TO the age OF SKY years. the full
Of life, or peonage shall be introduced, white slavery
be established by lndenture. any other FORM these
kinds of sertude would be placed beyond the reach
OF the territorial laws, and would Introduce themselves
wherever the public domain exists. And can the peonsge
Of New Mexico be carried by right to Minnesota Or had
California retained II, would the laws regulating have e-
tended themselves Immediately all the Tetoriesi And
certainly the put by the senator from Massachusetts
and illustrates this csm for n polygamy should be
established by law, as rs by usage IN Utah. and should
make part Of s constitutions these of the word
Of Goa and II the feelings Of might transfer them
selves with their harems any Of the Territories and there
live 40 open contempt OF law and religion.
IL 10 evident, n this doctrine sound, that the iuriHpr-
dence OF country would not be regulated by It's cond
ton, by the wishes Of it's inhabitants, but
Wy hirty-one legislatures equally indifferent to it's
interests and ignorant Of its necessities Such system
would be thing under the rum the opherism Of
the wise Of Israel to the contrary notwithstanding
For Il will be observed that the assumed which
touch both the principle and the practice OF the demand
those where the right hold the properly s pro-
hbited by the local laws and, indeed this necessarily
results from the nature Of hngs for " property in the
ARTICLES recognised legal condition. the contro
yersy would be over without any investigation into the
relative position OF the States and the Territory the
Territories or consequences brings with Whalhw
then governs the incidents Of prohibited properly
claimed to be held in opposition the law Of the place
Not the laws Of the United States for they do
the subject e Nor has Congress, il had
dtsposon the slightest authority thus Idle with