New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-10
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY. AUGUST H. 1870.


Ri.Lts If Man, as well as to the rights Of the
States, and IN both aspects their Slavery no.
tions are an anomaly and departure. Jefsrsoo,
their great leader was consistent IN bis day
because be openly fepudisted Slavery, az an
outrage upon haCsnty AID On ofep-e % God
"Wrh what execratinn" he ssys, after depict
ing tie evils Of it IN bis Notes on Vlrgiuia-
should the Statesman b. loaded, VINO, per-
"mittipe One-haf The citizens to trample on the
rights Of the other, tronsforms those into
I'D. -, t., and these il to eneInies destroys the
morals Of the one part and the amor pairia
"of the other" This he said in 732 out
fortv.four ears afterVard, sad ony two months
before bis oeath, writing to E ward Everett, ne
repeats. "Ou the question Of the l4Uf'loess of
"Slavery-thst is, Of the right Of on" msn to
"app- opria,e 70 himself the faculties Of another
"wlthout bis consent-I certainly retain my
early opinions" Yet the self--ty cd followers
0, Jriferson-ihe Democrats Of Virginia, par
excellence-proclaim that Slavery is all right,
and that II must be established in the Fedora
Territo-ies. They are favorable to the rights Of
mar. but they mean the rights Of white men 30
"aypIopriate the faculties" Of the black; they
ere favorable 10 the rights Of the States,
but they mean tie rights Of toe Southern
States, to carry their own peculiar municipal
laws wherever they 90. Practically, in their
creed, black men tnd free States have no rights
whatever Sound Jeffersonians e they-most
consistent DemOc at.-most irrePrOschsbe up
10 ders of tie Old Virginia spirit
Jefferson and his followers, in thair tenacious
adherence 20 the rights # man and Of the
States were willing TO proceed almost to ndlli-
fcut0n when the Cong ess Of The Union passed
the Alien ard Seoit0n laws, which they
esteen Cd unconstitutional and unjust; but now,
VIXEN q petty Judge of Federal Court proceeds
absolutely to anDibilste the legislation of Gov
ereen State, and 20 imprison its citizens for
simply informing person Of her rights uader
that legislation, he is applauded to the echo by
the soi-disGaf descendants of the Democrats OF
former times Have the principles changed, or
have the men? Are the States less sovereign
than they were half century ago, Oe are the
rights of citizens less inviolable Has The Cen
eral Government acquired new constitutional
powersl Are the Federal Courts endowed with
a larger Constitutional jurisdiction o., nave
the politicians of Virginia degenvratet, in their
blind and selfish worship Of Mammon, in their
reckless disregard of all interests but those
Of SliyeTyl
We presume that no intelligent man can be
at q loss in answering these questions. The old
principles of Virginia speak for themselves;
there they are, and they utter distinctly what
hey mean. But The politicians who swear by
lem are yet dumb in their preie uce. Taey
care not try their present schemes by the an
citnt record. They dare not appeal 10 the writ
ngs Of Jefferson and Madison, whose names
they borrow. They cllmor still about State
Rights, and about the eternal principles of De-
mccrscy, but when the standards of those rights
ala those principles arc raised, they are coz
PEELED to hang their beads in shame.