New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-29

and authoritstively the reseons Why the American
Colonies should become one nation; and the hfss ~
70 set forth ns s. od and mighty principles TS,
u the paper which deserves to be called the first Con
ttitution Of country; for Il ii the rst in the orr
Of time and the frs, in the degree Of authority One
Of the eminent statesmen Gen. Root of my State
pronounced it :" the fundamental law Of the land;"
and smother John q. SpeDcer) declared il TO be
above all Constitutions and all laws" The Federal
Constitution 'houd be Interpreted in the light OF ne
Declaration Of IDde evidence. Blu. alas in these de-
generate days. that Constitution, with all its Pro-
sayery interpretations, is blindly worehped and the
great and heavenly principles Of the Declaration OF
Independence are IiaieGled a. isnc!onnde OF non
tuition, instead Of beirg used to dspayage and make
void he Declaration Of Independence should rather
be viewed as supplemental to it., and as serving to
cn,ry ont il to detail the broad aud precious principles
c,.ud have had no possible right to contravene or
LIGHT those principles. Had they, when making and
adoI the Constitution, been guilty Of overlooking
mr. IN snv wise dshcnOriBg them, they would therein
have be guilty Of the most infamous treason toward
ali their &c uItrymen who had expended treasure
p filed life 10 establish them, and also toward the good
la Fayette aid the other gallant foreigners whom
those principles had attracted 10 our shores.
smoke OF the principles Of the Declaration Of In
d.pendence Prominent among them is that which
asserts that " all men are created equal" This pra-
chile i. the very soul of the Declaration of Independ
.bce snd berg therefore the very soul Of the Constr
tn,ion il instantly arLhates all possible PrO-Slavery
init rnr.tatiors " that instrument do not forget
that. according to Chief Justice Taneys recent dis
coyery black ussn did not come within the scope OF
tlis principle aud were not a part Of all men.
Nevertheless, they we've men, and they voted aud
1npht by the eide Of those who affirmed that :" all
men are created equal Why, then, does the Cher
Ju,tjce exclude tbcml The words of the Declaration
NJ IrdeptrdeIce do not intimate their exclusion
Rat rules Of Interpretation there to anhorizs
him 10 90 away from the plain meaning Of these plain
w rd- ior the purpose Of fastening the cruelest wrong
uren the black msn, and OF involving the fathers In
the eepest and baseht and most hyp?cntiea mus.
tice There In gross violation OF the rules
Of legal tstion at the expense OF blackening
the fame Of the fathers, ard at The expense OF out
raging oil the rights and nurderlng all the MANHOOD Oh
his quail b,otLers has the Chief Justice undertaken
TO show that our fathers, when speaking of"ai
men" did not mean ell men. And all this has ne
done notwithstanding the fathers spoke so evidently
that they spoke with religious soemnity, and called
Cod IN witness their sincerity. But our fathers knew
"A well as We do that al psrs OF the human brother
hood are equally dear to the great heart OF their com,
bynocrtes as 10 dare appetite His Knowledge of their
cyhscious recttude, when all the while they were
guilty. of the mental reservation which the Chief
u.tice iuputes 10 them equity OF Deliberately ex,
rights If oil men may, guilty OF denying that God
la, sent hat portion INTO he word With rights equal
10 those of other men !! ~ =,
The Chief Justice adrns that AL men" would
sftu IL
"Setmr. Madam Nay it IT," He also admits that
The words would be understood If used IN sum-
lar inc. npent al this day" important admission
Entirely fatal We shall see, to his attenP % par
vert their significance! For that the statesmen OF
ihi cav have a broader, justerl and more ffstsrna
sense ii buuan rights tGr Lad the statesmen Oh tnat
ssy is deep delision All false Is 1t that the s,aies
men Of that cay 80 bgoed as to forget and tnat
the statesmen VI hls Gay are 30 cs'h"ic - u feen
her that Africans are men.
I Who was TIE frs, President of the United Statee!
An open Abotionst. For Washington not OILY eman'
cps,e6 his own slaves but confessed his anxiety 70
vie for tie en- ap cpation Of other mems slaves VINE
il President nowl man who bids fair 70 outshlp oil
i,Imer Presidents IL attempts to serve "e oa'e
Power.
who was the most irtellectual among The great men
Of, the Revolutienl This honor would probably 20
accorded 70 Alexander Hamilton, who said: The
"ftcrtd rights Of mankind are not to be rurnhiSged
for among old parclments or musty records they
sIe Written as with sunbeam in the whole vciums
"of human nature by the hand of the Divinity ITSELF
end can never be erased or obscpred ny moiA,
power. All men are by nature entitled to equ aqua
feut Cf. ator to the hole human race" SO spoke
Hamilton. But let men, however gifted, speak 20
row enc they would be set down as madmen, knaVe
Or iools.
Who was the preeuirently practical and common
stnse man CT the Rev,lutionl Perhaps benjamin
Frst kin. Nevertheless scarcely was the Constitu
ton of which be was himself fra1er acopted ere
President Of the PENN vanis Abolition Society hs
petitIored Congress 10 abolsh Slavery His portion
said that the power of Congress should be exercised
mpar,ially in behalf Of AL descriptions of people,
without distinction Of cOlcr. But let man in Que
dav DO as did Franklin, and he will be the last man to
be q EDITED with practical and common sense char
acter. 49,,
States John joy the President of the New-York
Abolition Society the man wnO taid: . I'LL America
comes into this measure tine abolition of Slavery,
I" her prayers TO Heaven will be impous." Moreover
it wac be who said thatcne reason why the w9ra
NJ int fhe itntiD
Slavery is "repugIant" to that part OF the Declare
iou OF Independence, which says All men are ere:
a,ed equal In other words, John Jay raid that an
men in that instr ment includes Afrcats. Roger d.
fancy Gays it does not winch Is tne pettcr au'
,hoIity c,.r
Justice Wss the President Of an Abolition Society
selected FOX bis present successorl Alas, what coo-
trast between Jonn Jay, the Ab0lotionist and him
who is Dow u.ipg the Enthusiastically to degrade his
eousl brother. IrG insult their common human ma
ture ,.,
CHEF Justice Tsrey has four reasons for his concu.
,;cns that in the days Of The Revolution 'al men did
moi mean all men, ist Tie Constatoni for starery
But as we have seep fail of powers for killing and
les for saving, slavery 1t !. ashamed p mention
neption it in modern epactmenis! Nothing In tue
N.bIsska ar KaIsGs bill IL SO fhameiess Us fs P'c
vij in teIms for ights 10 s!avee ana ior perihs
zion 10 establish ".lsvery His three Other reasons
are i Iis s. al Hs1 r esas ~1a 20 . SER &
hen IN the militia. 3d. Nor eon.H 10 me ndtar az
.of,o,' of oLen IIocks But will the whites OF this
peIioo Oh, no-no more than the whites Of that.
Poor Cbit Justice' Greatly do you need to improve
your logic You ADM, that in our dsy an men enr
crea.er re,nect for the rights Sd. But this respect
Is in fact, ureably less than il was in the Rev.
oluton ith HeLce in The Revolution, far more EN-
pha;ically than it docs now. did all men inciude
Africans. ,,..I
What. however, have these prejudices which we
Rave Just enumerated, indeed any other OF the pre-
i,,c -. of he es hc au-. the blacks % DO with tne