Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-07-30
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brought into existence by the Coastitutio
oil the United STATES & as such become eDi
tied to al! the rights and privileges and in
munities guaranteed by that instrument
the citizen' one of which rights is tb
privilege of sueing in Court or the Unite
States in the cases specified in the Const
iution.'
Again, in speaking of this class of per.
ons, the Chief Justice says:
They are not included, and were not in
tended to be included, under the word .citi
zens' in the %onstitu tion, and can therefor
Claim none OF the rights and privilege
which that instrument provides for and Sc
cures to citizens OF the United States
They had for more than century before
(the Declaration of independence was
tormed) been regarded as beings of an in
ierior order,snd altogether unfit to sssocIut,
| with the white race, either in social or DO
litical relations ;and so far inferior that the,
had no rights which the white man wa.
bound to respect.
He then quotes from he laws of yariou,
STATES to show that negroes have been treat
ed as an inferior race, and intermarriaqes
between them and whites prohibited. Re.
lerring to that clause of the Declarati u N OF
Independence which dec cIares that all men
are "created equal; that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that among those are lie, liberty
and the pursuit Of happiness" Judge Taney
says:
1T is too clear for dispute that these
words did not include the inslaved African
race" for ic they did, ''the conduct of the
distinguished men who framed the Dec lara.
tion Independence would have been utterly
and fagrantly inconsistent with the prin-
cIples they asserted
l shall enter into no argument with Judge
fancy, or any one else, as to the degrada-
ton OF the negro race, their alnalgams,iun
with the whites, bv allowing intermarrlages
between the races; nor as to plac ing ne.
grUes, whether bond or free, socially 20. Do.
ltically, on level with the white race. |
know Of no party in the country advocating
such repusiVe notions. Tney are certainly
No part OF the Republican creed, which
seeks to preserve the free white labor and
white men from conI animation with negro
Slavery by keeping it out Of the free ter
territories All the indignation, therefore,
which the lesser lights of the sell-styled De-
mocracy, catching up the ideas of Judre
fancy, are stirring up in the country about
striking the word lrhite out of the ConsGitu-
tion, allowing negroes to vote, making them
eligible to the legislature, to the bench, to
the goveTnship. 10 Congress, to the presi-
dency, to all other places OF honor, profit o r
trust, and allowing them to marry white wo-
men on an equality iSIth white men, may
go for nausht, So far a. am concerned. /
am not to be drawn from the real issue be-
fore the country, OF into the defense of OBJ.
nox:ous measures, because somebody thinks
proper, Tor the purpose OF misleading the
public mind, or for any other purpose, to as
sail what neither party Is for; and | can
only account for the defamation which we
hear through the country against putting
negroes on all equality with white people =,
and assOciating with them, &c,
upon the same principle on which an ancient
poet once iorgaVe the Insult of u lady. The
verse runs something Ike this:
- lady once told ME, and in her own house,
Size did no. care iJr HE three skIJs vi Il louise
fOTSdve Ins dear creature TOD wnIt she hau saIi
For aLles Will talk OF whit rails in Ineir hoad
would hot accuse the sell sty led Demo
cracy WIKI tavOrng mixture OF whi:e with
African blood, but they are as much for it as
the Republican party, and practically we
know the fact that in the section of the
Union wnere that party is supreme, the
blaek race is fast bleaching.
TO that part OF Judge Ianey's argument
which assulis the Declaration OF ndepen-
dence, and seeks to explain away its plain
aud obvious meaning, | have this to say:
w ithout going into the history OF the negro
ace at the time Of the Declaration of In
,and showing, as it can be shown
that Judge TaDry has grossly misunder-
stood or mlsrep esented the facts of history
lie declaration that "all men are created
equal" IL, to my mind, a sef-evdeu ut truth; |
nor is there anything in declaration incon- |
'lstent with the action of our Revolution
hry Fathers when properly understood
rhey dad not mean that all men were Great
I'd oI the same size, weight, color. mental
Or physical capacity; but they did mean to |
-epudiate the Idea OF II super .Or.ty OF birth,
,y WHICH the divine right Vi kings and of
lereditary aristocracy was uphsId IN the |
Did world, and which is now sought by the
'elt-styled Democracy to Le lransp lanted /
INTO the new; ard they meant 10 assert that
IN natural state ali men Were equally |
entitled u live, to Oe free, and 10 pursue
lapPiness. Living in state OF nature,
with other individuals. all men
nust necessarily be equal, Tor thee wUu d
D. no superior To make Il law other than He
who is the author Of our being. THESE
we're great natural truths which the fra mers
'f the Declaration of independence ished
o impress upon the minds OF the people
when they were bursting asunder the bands
II tyranny-the ties which bound them to
he IN Ithtr country, and resolving society
to Its original elements with a view tO the
OF 4 new system ut government.
They knew that every ,orm of government
'u9 Hu tlCIOISuuiFuI upon lHS hdluidil
Ight' of man, and that on entering society
.ery Iaan gave up part OF his absolute
ghts, in consideration of receiving and be-
ng Irote, ted in he advantages Of mutual,
and friendly intercourse, with
It which liberty, and even lie itself, are
ut dreary things.
As well might t be said that the dstin-
ushsd men whe framed the Deciarution OF
dependence were tlsgrantly Inconsistent
nth the principles they asserted when
hey established uny form of government I
'hs tever, for all interfere with the natural I
liberty oi mau TO do whatever he pleases, as
D say they were cons stent in dec arihg
lat "dll men are created equtl," because
u the government they established they I
i'll not make them so. ThiS declaration is 1
quaIly true in regard to Ute creation o. man |
5 it Is to his final exit, for he brought noIh-
ng into the world and can take Io;hing I
way-as true to-day as when uttered 81 |
ears ago, or when creation dawned and the 5