Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-09-11

which seeks it's aggrandzement by appro
: priating the new Territories to capital in
the form of Slavery, but would ineyilgbly
result in the triumph OF Free Labor--tht
) natural capital which constitutes the real
wealth of this great country, aad creates
that intelligent power, ia fhe masses, alone
to be relied on as'the bulwsrk of free insti-
, 4 tu:ions. ~ -
Il Trusting that bavs hesrt capable of
comprehendins our vhole country, with its
varied Interest,". m 5a6 INT that patriot.
ism exists in ii S 6 8 IS Unlon, i accep.
the nomination OF your gonvention, in the
hope that may be enabledto serve ussfully
its cause, which / consider the cause of
Constitutional Freedom.
, Very respectfully, your obedsnt servant,
f-s . ]. c.. FRBMosT.
To Messrs. H. 8. LANE, and others,
Committee, &c. ,val,s i, 5.....- l.
3 OUR CANDIDATES ARE SECTIONAL BECAUSE
THEY BOTH LIVE IN THE FREE STATES.
This is new doctrine that a mans pa
t-iotism and love of country-his attachment
to the Constitution and the Union--is. de-
py tuC iOSdHty VI hio pHtu III RCO-
graphical lines. If we are not to vote for
candidates from the Free States, should we
not for the same reason refuse to vote for
men from the Slave States! We can make
no such distinction, but will vote for those
who truly represent oar principles, whether
.iey live North or South. -7 q -sS
Several times in the history of our Gov
eminent have candidates for the Presidency
| and Vice-Presdency been selected from the
Free States; yet the charge of sectionaIism
was never made while Gen. Jackson and ].
G.. Calhoun, both Shareholders from the
South, were elected upon the same ticket.
James Buchanan lives in the North, butwhy
do his friends confidently expect to carry
every Slave State for him! Plainly because
under his administration they will extend
Slavery. A Northern man with ultra South
ern principles. a-. ~.
| PHILADELPHIA coNvENrtoN. 2i
There were twenty States represented,
having fifteen millions Of population, with
six hundred delegates, having two hundred
and fourteen electoral votes-sixty five more
| than is necessary to elect their candidate.
There will be electoral tic ckets in at least
| twenty -ope States, with & certain prospect
of carrying sixteen. There are thousands
of men living in all the Slave States who
are rejoicing in cur movement, and pray to
the God of Nations for our triumphant sue
cess. But we are sectional because we seek
to deprive the South of their Constitutional
rights in emigrating with their Slaves to
the Territories. We can best answer this
objection in the triumphant argument of
DAME, Webster, from the speech before
quoted He said
"But our friends of the South say: You
deprive US of all our rights. We have
fought for this territory, and you deny us
participation in it. Let us consider this
question as it really is; and since the honor
able gentleman from Georgia proposes to
leave the case to the enlightened and i'm
partial judgment of mankind, and as agree
with him that it is case proper to be con-
sidered by the enlightened part of mankind,
let us see how the e>natter in truth stands
Gentlemen who advocate the case, which
my honorable friend from Georgia, with SO
much ability, sustains, declare that we invade |
their rights, that We deprive them of par
ticipation in the enjoyment of territories
acquired by the common service and COM
mon exertions of all. Is this true! How
deprive! Of what do we deprive them!-
Why, they say we deprive them of the pri-
vilege Of carrying their slaves, as slaves,
into the new territories. Well, sir, what
is the amount of that! They say that in
this wav we deprive them of the opportuni-
ty of going into this acquired territory with
their property-their property" What
do they mean by property" We certain
ly do not depri.e them of the privilege of
going into these newly acquired territories
with all that, in the general estimate of hu-
man society, in the general, and common,
and universal understanding of mankind, is
esteemed property. Not at all. The truth
is just this, they have, in their own State,
peculiar laws, which create property in per-
sons. They have system of local leeisla-
tion upon ,ohich Slavery erists, while every
body agrees that it is against ,.natural law,
or at least against the common understand
ing which prevails among men as 10 what
is natural law.
L dtu nOS SOihS ihto sbCtoph lOI
therein should encounter the honorable I
member from South Carolina, Mr.. Calhoun,) I
and we should find ss:no end in wandering 4
mazes lost" until after the time for the ad-
tournament OF Congress. The Southern
states have peculiar laws, and by those laws
there is property in slaves. tbs is local.
The real meaning, then, Of Southern gentle
men, IN making this complaint, is. that they
cannot go ih:o the Territories Of the United
States. carrying 'oith them their oDn peculiar
local la,s-a laao auhich creates property tn
persons. This, according to their opn state
m,.nt, is all The ground Of complaint theyhaue
Now here, think, gentlemen are unjust
toward US. How unjust they are, Others
will Judge; generations that will come after
us will Judge. 1t will not be contended that
this sort of personal slavery exists by gener-
not mean 70 deny the validity of that local
law where it is established, but, say it is
after ALL a locatlaw. 1t is nothing MORE
And wherever that local lao does not er-
tend property in person does mott srist. Well,
sir, what is now the demand of our south
ern friends! They say, "We will carry our
local laws with US, wherever we go-we
insist that Congress does us injustice unless
+. establishes in the Territory in which we
.wisl, to go, our own local law" This de-
mand, Cor one, resist, and shall resist. 1t
goes upon the idea that there is no equality,
unless persons under this local law, and
holding property by authority of that law,
can 90 into new territory and there estab-
lsh that local law to the exclu,ion of the
general law. 5s
Mr.. President, it was maxim of the
civil law, that between slavery and freedom,
freedom should always be presumed, and
slavery must always be proved. Slavery is
an exception to the general rule. Such, I
- N . y IS.. .f.