Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-10-27
THEANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

Graz commerce which makes n brotherhood IT inter
est even among alien States il was because of
this' that no man in tho convention or country
'hought OF making tho right OF transit n suLiert
OF constitutional guaranty. Everything in and
about the constitution implies IL, 1t Is 3Cound in
thc O,ilect, TO establish n = moro perfect union" Ia
the DENIAL to tho States of the power to Law duties
onim nrts, and IN tie reservation To Cona,fSs NJ m,
%ercfssire IigH to regulate commerce amoay The
STATES.
This last poxcr Of the general government. ne.
cording to the repeated and well considered decis.
IONS oil the supreme Court of tho U. s., from Glib
hons vs.. Ogden, y Rep, to the passenger cases Z
Howard, applies to intercourse as well nv navira-
ton, to the transportation Of men as well as goods,
OF men who pass from State To- State involuntarily.
men who pass Voluntarily: and it excludes the
right ct any State to pass laws regulating. control
ing, or, q toFfiori. prohibiting such intercourse or
transportation. / do not quote the words OF the
eminent Judges who have affirmed this exposition.
hut 1t is impossible TO read their celebrate onin.
ions, as they are founo in the reports, without
recognising this as the fixed law of the United
States.
1t needs no reference to disputable annals, 10
show thaS wheu the Constitution was formed in
ifSI, slaves were recognized 10 property through.
ought the United States. The Constitution made
them II distinct clement in the distribuiion of rem.
'resentative power and ia the assessment OF direct
taxes. They were known aud returned by the cen.
sus three years afterwards in sixteen out of the
seventeen States then cmhraced in the Union: and
as late rs the year 1880. they were found in every
State of the original thirteen. How is it possible
then, while we assert tho binding force of the
Constitution by claiming rights under it, to regard
slave property ne less effectively secured ny the
provisions of that instrument than any other prop.
erty which is recognized as such by the law Of
the owners doinicil? How can il be, that n State
may single out this one sort Of property from
among all the rest, and deny to it the ripht of mas.
sing over its embarrassing xvith ito ov,,,r ,,,.a1
OF his travelling equipment, as much as the horse
he rides ON, his great coat, or his carpet bag?
1t is unnecessary for us 10 point out the enor.
nifty OF this doctrine. which is the most ultra Fed.
eral that has escaped the lips Of a Judge for the
past sixty years, and declares slavery n national
institution. and property i'll man the common law
OF the whole Union. The confusion Of ideas by
which the Judge arrives mt his conclusions, by mix
my NJ what all regard as property, by natural
law, with what can only be made 70 by statute, is
to the legtl trio. Had we time 10 search
or room to publish we could readily present
TO oar readers a lage number Of decisions of
Southern judges. declaring free slaves who had
been voluntarily taken into Northern States, Nv
their masters but it is unnecessary. The follow.
ing article from the Now York Tribune is IL sufficient
rebukc to Judge Kane, for the present.
JUDE KANE's LAsT.-The time so ~ioyfully for.
seen by Senator Toombs, when he should call the
roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill Monument. is an.
preaching with rapid strides. Pennsylvania an.
pears likely to take a leading part in ~etfccting that
,~onsumation. 1t is hardly two months yet since
Senator Brodhead, in q speech to the Democracy
1t Easton, propoundcd the doctrine-fur the first
.lne, we think, that any person Of any political
consequence in n Free State ever ennnciated it
hat every Shareholder has an sindeleasible right TO
his slaves into any Territory of the Union,
md there hold them as slaves, Just as any citizen
If a Free State may take thither and retain his
horse. ok or hoo. 1nlua karo rae,or1,r So.
bounced a new Opinion in Passm0re Williainson's
;ase, which makes every State a slave State for
Of transit which in effect makes each
! slave State for all purposes, in defense Of it's
constitution and laws. For if any slayehold-
n have a commGn-law right to bring bis slaves
for the purpose Of shipping them thence to
Orleans or Galveston. he has u right to work
hem here while they are awaiting n passage, and
% hold on six months for the vessel of his choice
md at last take them back to Virginia, if he sees
IT,, Il Judge kans,s opinion is law, ten New
n State-and they cannot help it.