New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-03
REPLY OF GEN. SPINNER.
HOUSE, OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WAsHrSGTOy June u, 1856 (
DEAR SIR: Yours of the 18th inst has Just beeu ~
ceived, and a. requested by you, answer you my
"cart 81 convenience.
,sTio Constitution of the United States, Humbus"
No Lnye had too constant evidence of it, realty an
force TO have said that. But this do say and stAni
ready prove and defend the position that although
il was adopted Ia Establish justice insure doueste
tranquility and secure the blessings of Liberty" VI
it is now being administered TO effect the very reverse
of all these and other rights that are sscy
guaranteed by it.
Ours il not d Democratic Government; twooiN
four branches are apparently so, 1t is true and vOah
he entirely So II the President and House Of RsN
sentatyes were elected by the popular vote, each
having an equal voice. but this is not 20. Distrcein
South Carolina ard other Southern States, HAVING
some 80, 600 whites have, IA Representative, heen
M uraliZe the voice OF our lO OOc ree white ehIes
Of II,kimer and St. Lawrence. SO with the President
States like Delaware aud Florida having, combined
about the same free white inhabitants own de-
trct gives six votes for President in the Electoral CO..
lepes TO our one, ard should the election go into d,
Horse of Representatives, those two States, with
aggregate white population, as per last census OF oa
1887 would have two votes, while the State
New -York with her three millions and half Of pe
pie would have but one; and yet these are the ory
branches of our Government that makes any pretens
to democracy. -
Now ofthc other two brancbes-the Senate and the
Supreme Court of the United States. The dnst repre-
cents noncntites political corporations the peo
pic arc utterly ignorant in this branch Of the Nation.
oeslaue and the puny States of the South are each
the political equal of our own New-YOrk.
Tie Supreme Court IL still worse. Tai, body
Cpl POINTED for life, and is Of entirely irrespom
bic 70 the people, and no one can tell what the Co
stituton law Of the land ia until sdjudicatcd by
aud DC il has uniformly construed all laws in fava
Slaycry and Of the Federal Government, and agsss
the people it can be considered in no other light hn
ali nDmitgatod despotism.
You say that have sworn to support the COnsdgss
Of the United States. Well, 50 have thousands
othols, and better men, and who have had no be'r
opinion Of ii than l have, and who like me, hsye
earnestly desired that it might be improved and bexf
administered. intend to support it honestly, accord.
ing 10 the tenor OF my Oath, "as | understand H.
until the people, of whom | am one. shall reform
make better one, which, hope and trust, will be
Doe follow tlet because swears TO support the
Constitution the tight for honest effort for biie
il lost? If 70, then the patriots who have at vanog'
times formed new Constitutions for glon)ls sac
OF NewYork, and those with Mr.. jefferson al hsr
head, who altered this very Constitution Of the Uate
States, were all traitors.
You ask, "What care you for the negroes in ts
South" answer, probably about ~ much s.ye
DO; but for the white laborns man, North and s'sH
everything.
lam in faror Of oJolisLiag Tie MIRO race, as frs
il is practicable, and thus put end to slayeii
While the aim of the South, and its "dough-fset
allies at the North, has been TO encourage by law,
increase. few Southern States have the erclasw
privilege 10 grow negroes; the negro IL now the oar
crop Of which they have a surplus. The Cover
Inelt virtually protects item in profit of over %
tlOUsGI per cent against the foreign a. ticle and
ATTACHED death penalty for coniraband goods
negro can be brought from the coast OF Aricsk'
Souibern State for about $llO.
Tie negro from Virginia coats the Alabamian sbcs
twelve hundred. Now, ak you what you think q
such Political economy, and whether in your code
morality: You think il wore to bring savage neg
4 Oh Africa than TO tear humanized and Chrssc'
lied one from family, kindred and friends in yRgss,
and sell him TO the far South Aud yer, by our ava
the one il piracy and iis Punishment IS death, and %
Other is legitimate commerce and its reward weshh
have not time to all your queries but ince
is one other cannot pass. You say that you ncY
"fO see kansas admitted into the Union a. Frs
State but that il will b. in the hands of ihOse ws
settle on the sod TO decide that matter"
The whole Kansas niquity is a fraud and 80 ~
mtigated lie, aud was 30 from its very ncepnoni =.
its friends and deyOtees continue 10 propagate
iasetood, now that it, utter hypocrisy has De-,
apparent 10 every intelligent mind. | say TO you
these who settle on the soil have not been, AMI WI
lie permitted to settle this matter; the bona ede 49,
are prohibited by law, on pain OF being reatea =.
punished as common ielons from even discussing
question. "Ieft TO decided" Shame oh, shan shan
The law organizing the Territory never intended W
such thing as leaving IT TO the people to decide:
Under the specious plea Of Popular Sovereign
seLt into the Territory Governor, a Judiciary
Marshas, appointed by the Federal Government ps1s
and WHO were all selected with especial reierep~g
this very question Of Negro Slavery, against the
OF the actual settlers; and then this Pro Slavery
eminent permitted, if it did not instigate, ho".
a. med rutian b0rderers 10 inv ade the Territory "a
force upon its peaceful people laws more os'cas -,
despotic than would be tolerated for say 10 ~
other part OF the civilized world and these pie'sSA
lave are Low being executed BY be 'eJ 'oST