New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-11


fact that SI0reryis National; and that, until that
remote period when diff, rent Judges fitting in this
same Court SHALL reverse this wicked and false
Judgment, the Constitution Of the United States is
nothing better than the bulwark of inhumanity and
oppression.
II lie most true that this decision is bad law; that
il is based On false historical premises and wrong In
terpre atons Of the Constitution; that it does not
a. all represent the legal judicial opinion Of the
Nation; that it IL merely Southern soph;sm
clothed with the gnity Of our highest Court
Nevertheless there it IT, the final action Of the Ma
tioDal judiciary, established by the founders of the
Republic to interpret the Constitution, and to em.
b. dy the ultimate legal conclusions Of the whole
people-an action proclamiDg that in the view OF
the Constitution sdr,s are property. The inference
is plan If slaves are recognized as property BY the
Const utioD no cal or State law can either
prevent property being carried through anindvitna
S ate or Territory, FORBID its being held such
wherever its bwner may choose to hold it. Tbs
is all involved in the present decision; but let a
sir gle Gaze draw from the Court an official jadg-
ID. ut that slaves can be held and protected under
National law, and we shall see men buying slaves
for the New-York market There will be no lega
power to prevent it. At this moment, indeed, any
wealthy New-YoIk jobber connected with the
Southern trade can put in his next orders: "Send
me q negro cook, at the lowest market value :
Buy me waiter Balance my account with two
ctan.be rmaids and truckman!" Excepting the
il terte1ence of the UndergouI Railroad and the
ebance Of loss, there will be nothing to stop this.
But then these underhanded efforts for stealing
property nust of course, be checked BY our
Police. Mr. Masel will have no more right
TO allow gebtlemen's servants to be spir-
tied away by burslarious Abolitionis;s than
gtntlemtn's spoons. They are property under
even stronger pledges of security than mere feless
cbattels The whole power of the Stste-the mill
tay the C, urts and Governor Of the State of New
YoJk-wIn necessarily be sworn to protect each
New.York .lave-o~ner from tie robbery or bur-
glaly Of bis negro. If they ale not sufficient, why
then the United States Army and Navy can be
cal ed on 10 guard that singular species of property
which alc1e of all property the Constitution of the
United States HIS especially recognized. Slaves
can be kept in Boston; Dir. Toombs can cali the
Toll of bis cbattels on tie slope of Bunker HUI;
auctions of black men may be held in front Of Fan
euil Hail. and the slaveship, projected by the guns
of United Ststes frgates, may land its dusky
cargo at Plymouth Rock. The free hills Of
Vermont, the lakes Of Name, the valleys Of Con-
nechcut, the city where the ancient Oak Of
Liberty hiss wisely fallen, may be traversed by
the gargs Of the negro.drlver, and enriched by
the legitimate commerce Of the slave pen.
Are We tod that pubic opoicn will prevent this
What can public opinion do against the Supreme
Court and all the power Of the United sates
Shall not citizen of This Union have the right to
take and hold lis property, bis horses, bis oxen,
his does, bis slaves, wherever it seems to bin
coed According to the law now established, the
Free. State men of Kansas are robbers, for they
attack the Cor stitutonal and naleDable rights OF
property. TIE bogus laws Of which they presume
to complain, but which the mild and psternsl pun.
are just and necessary laws for the safety of shoss
sacred rights The number OF Free Sod men in
that Territory can make no difference hereafter as
it has made ncLe hitherto. Slavery is there, as the
ownerthip Of horses or land 10 there, BY supreme
national law. OF what use, then ~ contend for
such shadow as the difference between Free and
q Slave Constitution Or what sense in that old
fiction of State Rights The States have no rights
as respects Freedom; their rights consist only in
establishing and strengthening Slayery-nothB g
m,Te.
Another NEST pregnant chsnge is wrought BY this
Ja o,sio in not of tha tharr Va
have been accustomed to regard Slavery IS local
matter for WHICH We were in no wise responsible.
As We have been used to say, it belonged to the
Southern States alone, and they must answer for it
Def, re tie weird. We can say this no more. Now,
wherever the stars and stripes wave, they protect
Slavery aid represent Slavery. The black aud
CURSED stain is thick on our hands also. From
DAN 10 the Pacific, over al future coDq1~ts and
al eXatiOrs, wherever in the islands of western
sss', or in tie South American Continent or in
the MeIicsn Cuff, the flag Of the Union, oy Just
tails OF urju,t, shan be platte5, there it plants
the cure ard tears and blood, aud unpaid toll If
this institution The Star of Freed,m aud the
stripes of bondage are hencefor;h one. American
R.publcapi.m aid American Slavery arefor the
future ~ IoDy nous. This, then, is the final fruit
IL this oil tie labors of statesmen the G,od If
our heroes, the lifelong cares and tols of our
prsyeIs e good men, have finally ended America
The slayebr,eder and STAKEHOLDER
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Ii would perhaps have been the part Of wisdom
ID the Eve slave. olters who, By piece ofusnro,.