Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-23
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CONSOLIDATION" AND"5TATE RIGHTS, =

The theory of State Rights" that claims for
J the State Governments the right of chattelizing
their inhabitants, is theory utterly inconsistent
with State Rights. The rights of the State are no.
thing distinct from the rights Of the Inhabitants of
whom the States composed. When you have
denied the inalienable rights of the inhabitants os
State, you have denied all estate Rights"-un-
less, by that tenn, you mean the right of "the Gov
ERNMENT" of q State" to enslave the PEOPLE of the
State! Is this the boasted doctrine of State
Rights ?"
Neither the people OF the States, nor the State
Governments can have any right to chattelize men,
or to sanction permit or tolerate such practice.
1t follows that this essential right and duty of the
National Government to protect the personal liber.
ties of every person in the Nation, land conse-
quenuy, OF every person in the States, of which
the Nation Is mainly composed) cannot conflict, in
tho slightest degree or at any conceivable point.
with State Rght'. And the exercise of that neces-
sAry and essential power of the Federal Govern
ment. can, in way, be unfriendy to State Rights.
but highly protective of them.
The phrase State Rights"--if it means any
thing worth conending for, means the rights of IT,
people tcr Mt best ncludes) the rights Of ALL the
people inhabitng the States. When, therefore,
the Federal Government shall have protected and
secured the personal liberties of the inhabitants of
all the States it will only have done its duty ia the
protection and defence of State Rights.
! One of the main benefits anticipated from Ma
tiOnal Government was, the additional security il
would afford to personal lbeIty-in other words
| to State Rights" But the Southern notion of
State Rights" is the right of the Shareholders of
a State to subvert the liberties of State! And
this is the notion of State Rights" so commonly
entertaned, now, at the North Until this alb
snrd theory of Estate Rights" be thoroughly ex-
rloded and abj jured by the people of the non-save
holding States, they cannot by any possibility,
maintain their "State Rights" The idea of il
involves a contradiction in terms First, it gives
up to the Shareholders Of State, the supremacy Of
the State. Next it forbids the National Govern
mcnt lin other words the people of the Naton) to
interfere with this condition Of things And then
finally, it raises the blantant hurra for Estate
Bights"l
''Consolidation" is the undue concentration Of
power in the Federal Government, to the detrment
or danger Of due power of the States. This is
/ the consolidation that is to be feared.
But the huc and cry is, that if the Federal Govern
ment should protect its own citizens from chattel-
hood it would, in doing tie citizens Of tbs
aererdI STATES from chattelhood, and this would
0e dangerous Interference with &ate Rights :"
The Shareholders in each State, whoever they may
bo, must be permitted $50 far the National Gov
ernment is concerned,) to nnnihilate all lie rights
Of as many citizens Of the State and Of the United
States, as they please! Not to permit this is to
Infringe state Rights !" Just as though the
shareholders constituted the State just as though
estate Rights" could be hazarded by securing the
, rights OF the peopte Of the States
Slavery is necessarily upon State Rights
because it is necessarily war upon the rights Of
q 11JlfG,
, this warfare, Slavery naturally seeks and always
q has sought, the alliance of lhe Federal Govern
. iment 1t has never Jailed to secure and maintain
that alliance And the reason of this is perfectly
transparent Slavery must and wdt, of necessity,
have an alliance with the Federal Government il
the Federal Government tolerates its existence
Such tolerance is de tdcfo alliance. We should
lall understand this in respect to any other crmi
G nal practices. The Government that does nothing
t to suppress crime, does by that very neglect, lend
t its sanction to that crime. Ii is the grand busi-
S ness of civil Government to suppress crime, es-
. especially that form of crime that most conspicu'
T. ously outrages human ri ,,hts. 1t follows that a
$ Federal Government tolerating slavery, is, nec-
essarily, in alliance with slavery. And there is
. no such thing as an alliance with slavery with
out coming into condition of sugectton to sia-
very. :.
Y in this counry-a consolidation that has annihil-
/. ated State Rghts-and that perpetuates itself by
4 keepinc up a clamOr against consolidation" and
Y hurra for Estate Rights
e MARYIAND PuRGIvo HERsELF.-The Norfoli
Q (Va) Argus thinks that Maryland, by position
e and interest is not to be cassed among the Slav
l. States Her politics show that her press is fas
e bringing about determination between her or,
n the Free States so called On each side OF tn
y Bay her people are sound but North and West @
IT Baltimore, there is but shade OF difference bt
$ tween the inhabitants of Maryland and Pennsy
,g 1t is through Maryland that most of tho slave
In now escape from Virginia Her laws on this sui
of ject are wholly Intellectual and public opinion wi
~ mot tolerate one that is worth straw III MARY
he land will hurry up that "fraernzation" we WI
is excuse her for going TOR Fillmore last all-pr'
nj viding she will promise not to DO SO asain'
ias :, r.
ion A local paper is to be started somewhere In ii
mar diana with the attractive title OF THE Butohs
sas Knife"