Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-03-18

Let US see what the precise points are, which
are considered 50 very novel, awful, and sub.
versive of liberty -
"First. The Court has decided that this
Of the white race, and that peopIs of African
descent are not citizens of the United States.
This very point was decided administratiyely
by Mr.. Secretary Marcy not three months
since, when he refused passports to certain
free persons of color. The refusal hardly at
tracted attention. 1t is arrant trash and non
sense, an anachronism, and o historical absur.
dity, to assert that the Declaration of indie
pendence, when it speaks of the freedom and
equality of mankind, intended to comprehend
the black race. The Declaration of IndepGn-
dence was m ade by the representatives. of ccm
munities every one Of which were then slave
holding communities If the truth could be
got at, it would no doubt appear that, with
perhaps q few exceptions, every man who
signed the Declaration of Independence, w.s
at the time STAKEHOLDER. Very sensible and
logical, Is 1t not, to assert that these slave.
holders intended to declare that their slaves
were all free and equal to themselves?
"Second. The Court has decided that prop
erty in slaves is recognised by the Gems titu-
tion, and that Congress has no power to pre-
vent the citizen of South Carolina from going
into the common territory of the United States
with property recognized as such by his State,
any more than it has to prohibit the citizen o.
Massachusetts, from going into the Territories
with property recognized as such by ms Stat q
"Third. The Court has decided that If .
slave is taken into n free State and then TAX en-
back into slave State by his or her mast er,
that by this act of removal, the owner q oes
not lose his right Of property
We do not propose to argue these poi nts,
but no man who is not blessed with an hom eric
pride of dogmatism and arrogance, will un
dertske to say that they are so transpare ntly
clear that they can be decided but one way
They have been submitted to the proper. ard
regular arbiters, and they have been deci dea
They have been decided, if you please, sg inst
the hopes, the desires, the interests, the in
stincts and the passions Of the Free States. If
you please, they have been decided er ron,e-
ously. Is that any reason for attacking tx g
Court with this insane and ferocious violence :?
"What are we tocome to! How is governmeI 4
to be carried on2 Nobody doubts the learL
ing of the Judges of the Supreme Court-Io
one questions its honesty. But it is insist ed
with howl of rage that they have been e "
erned by their prejudices Suppose they hs ve
Do We expect the gods to come down Fl ON
Olympus to govern us2 Do we expect to find
men for Judges superior to the passions Of hu.
man nature? And in the name of everything
that is comical, are We invited to look for them
in the ranks of the Republican. party?
The long and the short of it is, tha the
so-called Republican party is only another
name for Revolution and anarchy. It's ftInda-
mental notion is a derision of all law that does
not suit its whim-of all administration that
does not please the passions of the msjority.
1t is utterly incompatible with every notion
Of order, of discipline, or of law. 1t may, for
aught we know, prove itself able to owe rturn
government, but it is utterly Incompetent to
organize or conduct one. We look with curl
oslty to see whether the conservative fraction
of the Republican party intends to be swept
along by this tide of violence and disorgani-
zation.'