The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-04-23

authorizing the formation Of constitutions and State gov
ernenI except IN tbs OF Louisiana In her case
Congress aeased WHISTLER the large proportion Of her in
habttants born aud bred up under arbitrary govern
menL would either understand or prefer our form Of civil
poity therefore, in the act thorzng inhabitants
that Territory 70 form Constitution and Stale govern
ment they Added, and il the should be disap-
proved by Congress nj their session the said State
should be admitted into The Union upon the footing
with the original States" Even IN this case Congress
held that when the inhabitants Of Territory were au
thorzsd 70 form constitution and State government" il
became one q the United States by the formation Of the
State government unless this construction expressly
excluded Nov Congress In 1920 when they adopted me
act authorizing the inhabitants Of the Territory OF Mis-
soar TO form constitution and Stale government
bad before them the Of Ohio and Louisiana
They adopted the form Of words whereby Ohio be-
came one Of the States of the United States upon the
formation q her State constitution and therefore they
meant that Missouri should be one Ct the States of the
United States upon the formation Of her State consttu
ton" Did the North keep her faith TO Missouri No
federal officers had been superseded by State appoints
menu; territorial machinery had given way 10 State
equipment and panoply and Missouri with your act in
her hands, and her robes OF sovereignty around her
knocked ct yaT oor for admission into the sserhood Of
States and rudey rejected. Where, then was the
pghted faith of the Northp-where her for
| sacred compact?
But Missouri rejected you say because her consti-
tuition was antrepnhhcan Wherefore it anti-repub
lcanp Because ker constitution authorized her legislature
prevent the admission Of free negroes within her lim
If it be that this clause au-repnblcan
simply null and void Was State then to be deposed
from her sovereignty the rights of her citizens be abd
her own Dc Decause OF pro-
vision in her constitution which null and void, db
inoP Was Congress, too the proper tribunal to djud
the conformity OF this clause in the State constitution
OF Missouri 10 the federal constitution Had your
federal organism possessed the Supreme Court with this
power? And If it decided the clause be inconsistent
with the federal constitution, not the clause and only
that clause simply null and void Kings have been de-
posed privileged orders have been abdicaed but Amer
lean Congress for the first time the example that the
sovereign rights of whole people may be forfeited by what
they called ian Of their representatives. And
it error? Was the clause in the constitution
of States both North and South Did the legislation
Of northern States dsranchise and degrade the African
within their own limits
The constitution os Ohio declared that ain all elections
all she male inhabitants shall enjoy the right of cleo
tor" In Indiana there law that "no negro, mulato
Indian shall be witness except in pleas of the State
against negroes mnlaftoes Indians in civil cases
where negroes mulattoes Indians shall be parties
New Hampshire had law that leach and every able
bodied we citizen shall be enrolled !" and Vermont had
sirilar law The right have is the badge and
the right OF citizen in free country; and yet these States
disfranchsed the negro from their Massachusetts
18th June 1885, passed law for the orderly soemnizaon
Of marriages IL declared that person by this
thorzed TO marry shall join in marriage any white person
with any Indian negro muatto penalty of the
of fifty pounds and the said marriage shall be null and
void" Massachusetts az that day ambitious Of
testing the philosophical experiment Of amagamation
That left these later days and other Of her
Whether the Ethiopian has assembled, they have de-
scended | viii let others and history decide Rhode
Island which did not have State constitution, dis
ranchised and degraded the negro within her mits
but tender Of their rights in Missouri that she elect
ed Mr. DWolf the United States Senate TO resist the ad
mission of Missouri with this clause in her constitution
although he had made his whole fortune In the African
slave trade
But the very Congress which rejected Missouri had pub
shed its doctrine Of negro rights and equality. In
incorporating the city Of Washington which passed
18th May 1920 there Is this clause That person shall
be eligible seat in the board of aldermen, board of
common council unless he shall be than twenty-five
years Of age free us male citizen of the United States
&e IL aso contains clause giving the corporation the
power and authority Hto prescribe the terms and cond-
utxbr "A.
in the ey" The corporation could thus in effect exclude
them from the city Missouri rejected for giving to
Der legislature in substance the power II negroes
c1ens they ooald claim right enter State
and their exclusion from il violation OF the federal
constitution. The northern States did regard them
czens Congress did not regard hem BY act Of Con
gress passed on the I4h pr 1904 TO establish uniform
rule OF naturalization they declared @thai any alien being
free ws person may be admitted 10 become citizen of
the United States any Of them, the following
ditons" &c The government Of H.yu then nde-
pendent empire Why its black inhabitants exclu-
ded In TRUTH the negro not regarded either North
or South citizen and in 1920, when the North i'm
posed odious restriction upon the South and then
broke her word she only used negrophsm TO hide the
lust Of jealousy and domination II the constitution OF
Missouri Gntrepubhcan then the constitutions Of all
the States In the Union antrepnblicAn also. have
shown what the Missouri compact and who violated
its Flghted engagements have shown that the North
stabbed to the heart in the very hour Of its BIRTH and
that now wriggng through its corrupt It's nsi
ic representatives come bere reeng with it's putreac-
ton, and cry against the South, broken Faith r
Having relieved this Of embarrassment may dis
miss the remaining role OF the republicans with few
words Let the North refuse admission State because
Of slavery in Der constitution, and the history Of this
Union closed We have reared this government through
toll and travail through blood and sacrifice have IN
vested il with authority, have enriched with tressure
and aeet and armies and have endowed Il with Senaie.
and courts and jndg but IL becomes the puppet Of alb
a oitiousm il becomes in very midst fore0n
goreRmeni the South viii IL down FROM tnrret 10
isundatonstOne Abolish the Interstate slave trade and
we will trample your usurpson under foot Repeal the
fugvelave law and the South viii meet you with gnunt
lets on.
In the next presidential election the North win decide
the probable fate Of the Union the banner Of black
pnbeanism Is lifted 10 victory the South viii raise alof
Der symbol Of sovereignty and nerpose her shield
for the safety Of her cEens Let the conservatives Of The
| North be~arel
the North been always thus ambitious Of negro equality
and thus csmorousy phlanthropca Wss Massachusetts,
always negrophsfI In the early history Of the
the colonies Of New England entered into articles Of
confederation, clause Of which stipulated shat any
away from his into any Of the coufed-
crate Jurisdictions, in such upon certificate from
magistrate in the jurisdiction out Of which the ssd
fed upon other d1e proof the said servant
shah be either delivered 20 his master any other that
pursues and brings such certificate and proof No trial
by juryno bo1s corpus here The very merit clause 70
this declares SHAT upon the escape Of any prisoner ug
tive for any criminal &C. upon the certificate of Vo
magistrates Of the Jurisdiction Of which the escape is
made he shall be delivered into the hands Of the officer
other person who purzueth him. runaray
then delivered up the certificate Of magsrste u
gtfipe for murder could be delivered mp only upon the
certificate Of tiro ragistrates New England then bad
robust morality and high Of her duty 10 her neigh
hors. Massachusetts, Al later dNy above
fuckers queries respecting slavery Gays Of her in 1868
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