The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-03


q yoar posiLon Snteoedents and character II vel
" The symPaihzer ana patron or lie ant-renters
bsrate the Mssourians for their alleged violence u Kansas
and for the headsman Of Robert f. Morris because be
somewhat arbitrarily exposed and defeated TIE Client
worth conspiracy against tie purity Of elections take
he Preedsnt 70 task for remaining passive in similar
emergency, where the Constitution did not empower him
g interfere Bat your erowning glory thai you should
have taken uP he aristocracy issue IN IL noband con
dit0n Feureaaed il in your eaudron ard sent il
forth pristine rigor under the auspcs Of Your dignity
md talents. How remarkable that Clay and Webster
should have been gathered their fathers leaving -
great Work unattrmpfedi
Your whole theory that the shareholders are a priv-
eged body depends the llacy that the constitutional
Provisions Touching The slave trade agtves from LABOR
nd the ratio u representation were first concessions
sreoad concessions 70 privileged class There we're
concessions for there superior power The con-
venton 10 conoeie anything. There were attachments
7ut these only IL particulars for the sake Of larger benefits
- The aggregate. But what % yoa By privileged
CLASSY II you that bold slaves Is privilege Mr.
Harrison VII tell you il is sReh privilege having the
smallpox or u going perdidon II a man chooses But
wen 81 shareholders bad other greater privileges in
heir respective States than Observation-Disclosures The Laws
equal 70 AL aud did prevent The nouslayehoder
u to-day from becoming Shareholder But granting the
pnyllsg the provisions n question ia favor Of
any Lass Tor there no class representation The dee
resented distinct primary collective military sovereign
ties. However while styling these provisions con-
ressons you admit them 10 have been limited and almost
harmless and seek to toFuy your original position By
putting il faDlt the shareholders that they il com
mon with the whole people have derived advantages from
he constitutional guarantee Of State nights agd eazaza-
ion Of Inc smaller and larger States In the Senate 20
sitter all your main quarrel with the constitution This
wonder for the wisdom CT TIE trainers OF that ven
cradle instrument has been ly illustrated a. by
be fact that il Stands impossible barrier to yoar
ambition.
But If doubtful Of your main position, you complain
ngly alege the logica. inequality Of the obnoxious pro-
visions The whole theory Of constitution being that
ordAaed and established by the people for States
logically eqeai Ia respect Of their several abstract soyer
eighties it is impossible bow unorn provision
applicable to all should be logically unequal il regard 10
either. The inequality Of which son complain Is an iou
cal one fouDded your primary acy, that The eoast-
tuition piece Of patchwork quilted By hostile classes
temporarily harrnunized, and each entitled 10 distinct
benefits according to the quantity Of calico respectively
contributed On theconrary the constitution as set forth
in its preamble ordained and established by tie
people 81 he Tinted szss in order 10 form more perfect
niOa establish justice insure domestic tranquility pro
eide for the defence promote tho general vel
IRE ard the blessings Of hbertyt whom Not
the Ethiopian the Asiatie European peoples but to
the peoplc 81 ne Gasd sgies and their nosterity Hog
anaihilation Of branch Of eaaLed commerce in which
than half or the States through their citizens we're
Engaged OF interested jasiee established by The
mission Of legal Injustice to operate harshy in
tAin quarters than II others domestic tranquility IN
sured without guarding against border reprisals aud cir
warfare by the provision touching the delivery fagtye
rom legal service defence provided for in common
welfare promoted general without giving each a,
footing in the Senate all BY way Of practical
recognition Of its equal importance connected with the
common defence and geaei4 welfare and how could
the people Of the United States have preserved the les
ngs Of liberty to themselves and ihsir p5sirriy without
the eohineG and incrtwnirg efficacy Of all these pro-
visions These questions which stteE-dAy po
,iaal saints have never ret undertaken answer.
But you con6escend the popular faiiacy that II vas
Unequal threeths Of the Slaves part OF the
numbers Of State in fixing the ratios Of taxation and
presentation. If there any inequality, il wAs
ainst The South for by the constitutions legislation
nd Judicial decisions Of the southern States vel
j the laws Of and mind saye positively
person you myself He cannot be the subject Of
common-law Larceny; and the offence Of decoyng or
encng him away, with particular intent the foot
ing Of statutory felony. There not ard cannot be-
any magisteria property in his personality; anu
courts Of the southern STATES have uniformly hed
where the question has arisen The iudiesl doctrine il
bat be is person whose labor and services only
there is certain legal, magislerial right it Is this
light which il property and the same right or same
property in Kind, though in degree obtains in the
relations Of parent and chG, master and apprentice;
only in the FIRST the right permanent assigaabe and
ransInssibe by Inheritance; the second assgnable
but not permanent ,ransnissble in the third simply
dxed as duration BY contract In The Of each
that attaching them which Is the property Of another
incidental and totally distinct from their individual
personalities. The aboiinonists would have pretext
OF insisting upon emancipation If slaves per-
soas They only persons, but constitute vital
lerent in ibe social body Of which they form a part
Their labor supplies the greater part Of the clothing Of
The civilized world The population Of The northern
States its unparalleled increase and these States the
wealth and betiernents that growing population hrngs,
for one great reason, among ohersthe existence Of
very the South Tic very pre1dices against them thus
contribute the arentage OF section Since thea
they persons and persons whose very subsid-
larry 10 our political prosperity, what political govern
mental inequality there would have been ia allowing them
to be numbered popular units not apparent when
The constitution formed and i ret The auneri-
cal reckoning or only threefhE Of them was 70 more
logically sqaal than woud have been application or the
ike rule to the women and children and non-roers gem
orally Of the more populous States, the ground that
they outuumbered The like persons in the less popaous
ones Ia trufb without styling the The three
6fs rule concession bg The people souih II was rather
an abatement On their part Of what might hare been
reasonably insisted on than eratnitoas inequality IN
their favor
It reains to inquire how The account stands on The
subject o sectional aggression which forms The staple Of