New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-15

that has no right 10 his wife, HE children, nay
does not own t<fnsef but can be seld on execution
and made 70 follow Ike dog and obey Lis mates
constitution Ike that has 10 my view very htte eaim
TO O Republican character. Perhaps ! may be called
On 10 vote for the sdrniseion Of State with such
constitution When / vote for ii, Sir, give due no
tce It viii be after this. II there still remains doo1'
how the Constitution should be underOod % this SUP
jeet eek it, AK it, Sir and II will tell YOU ~ give
no uncertain round. Lister, SIR, aud bear is own e1
plantation:
1--WE. ii. people Of tn. United STATE. IN gd.r " ior.
ere terfect Union establish justos, 70 insure ooesue
tranquility provide for he common ssisn's po.s' 70,
'r.l welfare and ,eesre the e.'.ns. o. noery .: Ts
s.. 90, 81 F- xE.as. % ''''- 49, c...
ton itsef that il has Liberty and not Slavery for 1t.
object Sir, this is language that cannot be TITLED
with Aod let there might be some who hesitate,
ard perhaps claim that the Constitution vas made not
ouenty added explaining qualifying, overriding nay,
Sir, sbnuiing everything inconsistent with II In tae
original instrument will read il, Sir, from the fifth
article Of amendments TO the Constitutions
Nc shall be deprived Of NE hoefy or properly
out du. procsss Of ls-."
Tb,, Sir, goes back and covers the whole ground
No per,on-t wing labor nOt-no person shall be de-
pryed If Liberty without fair trial for bis ofenses
There IT, Sir in letters Of iron. II stands out 10
bold relief the all pervsdiDg ,entneft OF the Cons
tuition. Sir, this alone If there wac nothing else ID
the Constitution 10 suain H. settles the question and
sesls the death. warrant Of Slavery. No Sate la,
power to save it, even within lie own borders. No
State nights State sovereignty has power TO pro
tect it. And 80 declares the Constitution: -,
"No peon shs be deprived Of life liberty property Win
out doe process Of law"
Sir. va, ever language more emphstic' Wa ever
law more decsiye1 Article sixth sums up as Dlo"s:
rursst 10 .bs be the .uIrs. law Of the isSa con.ta
ons Of the Safes and laws Of The states TO tae contrary not
As against all these positive provisions Of the Con
titution in favor of Liberty and against Slavery the
advocates Of Slavery present Us With the second sec
fhe
sons owing service labor, and woo have sbsc0aded
and left the State Aud il provides for nothing ese'
Ii reads Gs folOws:
No person held labor in State, under the
LEWIS thereof escaping another sus coLseqnence OF suJ
regulation therein b. dschasel from such service or
labor but shall be delivered up claim Of tbs party 70 whom
person owing labor in one State and fleeing to
another shall not be discharged from such labor by
any law Of the State to which he goes, bnt shal DO
given uI-tO wbOml To the perton to whom fuch
labor may be due. And if that is not TO be asccr-
tanned by fair trial. by due process Of law, then you
may ne well take one man az another II you are not
10 ascertain by due process Of law who the person is
that owes labor, and to whom he owes It, then cay
you may as well take one person as another. Marx,
Sir color has nothing to do with II. So far as the
question Of Slavery is concerned, TIL. section ia Of
very little consequence, way the other. That
il slaves, deny. 1t does not describe their
cOndtioG. II cannot slaves, for the ramers OF
the Constitution objected to the word slave; and
President Madison, the father Of the Constitution,
said 1t wrong admit into the Constitution the
ideo that there be property in man. and even
the word "servude" was, on motion Of Dir. Ran.
dopb, Of Virginia, unanimously rejected, and the
word "eeryce 7" inserted. Sir let Virginia and the
whole country hear and heed the given for this
unanimous vote; the reason given, Sir was because
"the former thought to express the condition Of
"slOves, and the latter the obligation of freemen."
The idea that il meant slave repudiated by the very
terms of the section, for says persons owing ser
vice or labor Sir. if you to transform person
owing service or labor into slave, you must look
elsewhere for license TO DO it. Now, slave, chat
tel 10 will contend is indebted any body
labor or anything else. That is impossible. slave
is incapable of making any contract whatever. The
slave you catch under that clause /, just slave at
all. 1t is some person owing labor aud gone out Of
the State to get nd Of the debt. In defiance of at
least three positive provisions of the Constitution the
Fugitive Slave Law grabs somebody, black or white
for il makes No distinction of cOlOI-demands of him
lifes labor, su'pends "the privilege of the writ of
habeas CORPUS" denies him trial by Jury" end ode.
prives him Of liberty without due process of law"
and works him, or whips him, sels him, it likes.
There is other cause in the Censtitu tion referred
to by the advocates Of Slavery favorng their views
.rr oiortd several State: which may Be included
which she'll be determined BY adding TO the whole Lumber
free persons including those bound 10 serce fof term OF
years excluding indians not taxed theehh' OF al other
persons"
1t is claimed that the three ths Of all other persons
means slaves. Then, why not say 50. But suppose
il dOts it was merely compromise with Slavery, in
II,
dom gets cheated. With understanding that the
public burdens would be borne, or taxes paid by the
Slave States in proportion TO their representation IN
Congress, the Slave States obtained, and now possess
the unfair advantage Of some twenty one members
Of Congress, and an equal number of presidential
electors than fair share, while they have long
since ceased to furnish dollar in consideration of the
arrangement Mt. Thus the Slave States have a cOntIo
ing property representation in Congress, with which
they continually invade the soil of Freedom while the
Free States have such property representation TO
resist the invasion Besides, Sir, by property repre-
sentatiOn which the Free States do not enjoy, the
Slave States meet at every Presidential election
with some tweniy-one extra electoral votes and for
all which they pay not farthDg of the stipulated
consideration Sir by this fraud the Free States are
TO great extent DISTINGUISHED. The property repre-
sentaton Of the Slave States not enjoyed by the NORTH
is equal to some been hundred thousand votes or in
DISTINGUISHING some eighteen hundred thousand North
freemenmore than five times the number OF all he
Shareholders put together Sir, five Shareholders, with
each thousand slaves have power in Congress
and at every Presidential election than three thousand
Northern freemen. And now are coolly asked 10
remain quiet and submit TO hsve this unfair advantage
not only perpetuated, but to have It multi
Piled and increased and extended TO indefinite
tent Sir ask, with all due respect, il not this a
little too muchi Now, Sir for sseuon nine of the
Constitution. Here again Slavery seeks a shelter:
SIC ART The migration or importation OF sach
Of States eXs shall think proper sd
nit, shall not be prohibited prior to 1905"
Ills is claimed by some 10 be recognition of the
vengeance. 1t to put end to it. And here Sir
allow me TO quote authority rule of Interpretation
Of the United States Supreme Court
when ri,hts nfrinsed, whcn fundamental principles
oveTtho~n when the general stem OF laws departed
nom tie legislative intention mus, BE expressed with ro.is-
nbe ctsnes TO induce court Of justice to suppose design
10 effect such object"
"When rights are infringed," the legislative inten-
ton must be expressed with irresistible ceaness Sir
will any pretend that the Constitution expresses
with irresistible cleamess that one man is allowed