The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-08-27
Outrageous conduct of President Jeffer-
Son.

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appendix to the Law Reporter for June, has
brought to light some strange facts in re-
lation to the war of 1915. It appears
from the newly discovered facts, that Pres
ident Jefferson, and his Secretary OF State
James Madison, both democrats, in collu-
sion with Democratic House of Repre-
sentatiyes. actually laid the train which
fred the nation and brought on the war,
by the defense of persons who, as has since
been discovered, bad "no rights which
white men are bound to respect" II
seems, too, that these men were defended
and protected by the strong arm of gov
ernment on the ground that they soere CIT
izens Of tie United States.
| Had the high handed proceedings OF
the democracy been properly understood.
t is not too much to infer that TIE war
could never have taken place. 1t tappears
from the facts stated below that aclite men
shed the best blood of of the nation, ex-
pended millions of its treasure and, sac
raficed its commerce and trade merely be-
cause the rights of black men were tram
pied on. Men who cannot sue in the
courts of modern Democracy because
they are not citizens and have no rights,
were shielded under the administration of
Thomas Jefferson, with all the power of
the government, because they had rights
and we're citizens. The president lays the
matter before Congress and the people,
the Secretary of State, James Madison,
afterwards President, and then minister
to London; Mr.. Monroe lays it before the
British Government; and two of the
greatest nations of the world were involv-
eL in bloody war just because these
mistaken and hot headed gentlemen fail
to apprehend the great democratic prin-
ciple" that black men cannot be citizens
and have ...no rights that aohite men are
are bound to respect"
Such outrageous conduct, will never be
defended by our neighbor of the CONNER
mercial. who stands on the impregnable
ground of Democracy, and has too much
principle to allow even Thomas Jefferson
to make fool of himself without expo
sing the conduct to the world. .'Will your
Honor allow me, 'said amember of the bar
to the Judge, "to quote a passage from
Blackstone, showinga a material difference
between the author and the Cou1t?" "Il
| is not necessary" replied the 'Jadge.-t.tf1e
Court is satisfied that the decision is cor
rect. "Your Honor misapprehends me
entire," quoth the barrister, cit was not
my purpose to prove your decision incor-
rect; only wish to show what d--d
old fool Blackstone was" But to the ex-
tracts. Here they are:
Since that part Of the foregoing review
which relates to the citizenship Of free
negroes was printed, our attention has
been directed to the case of the seaman
taken out of the American frigate Chesa-
peoke, by the British ship of war Leopard
in 1907, which was the beginning of the
difficulty between the United States and
Great Britain, that ultimately led to the
war of 1872 The Committee of the
House of Representatives, to whom the
subject was referred reported to the House
''that it is incontestably proven, as the
accompanying printed document No. 8,
will show, that three of the men taken
(naming them are citizens of the United
States" By the document referred to, ii
appears that two of these three men were
colored, one of them the child of female
slave, and who had himself formerly been
held as slave. See Report of the Com
mittee, PIP. 1876. 43, "a, 49. Pres
ident Jefferson, in his proclaim alton inter
dieting our harbors and waters to British
armed vessels, issued immediate after the
outrage, said: "That no circumstance
might be wanting to mark its character,
it had previously been ascertained that the
seamen demanded were natives of the
United States" Pc. This proclama'
ton was countersigned by Mr.. Madison,
then Secretary of State.
i Mr.. Madison, in his letter to Mr.. Mon.
roe, then the minister of the United States
at London, instructing him to demand
reparation of the British Government
dwells upon the fact that the men were cit
izens of the United States, and Mr.. Mon
roe, in his formal demand upon the Bri
tish Government, said-"I have the hon
or to transmit your documents which will
l presume, satisfy you that they Were
american Citizens" Correspondence be-
tween Mr.. Madison, Mr.. Monroe and Mr.
Canning, on the subject of the attack OF
the Chesapeake, PIP, 6, 10. e. All tht
above references are to the public docu
, mcnts printed by order of the House o