The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-07-03

There J. natural di.gusi IL ~. iain.ls ii
nearly oil white i+.U., to the idea ol an indis
eliminate ahlaganaiiau mI ili. white and blac
races; AID judge Douglas H. e. i.sntly haxina
lis chiei hope "a the chance If being able IL
appropriate the ien.t.s III this disgust d him
sell II he ean by much arumlaina assd re.
peailng fastcn the uiium ol thnl isaes n,,on his
I adterafies. lie think, he car struggle through
the storm. He therefore clings t. this hope
- a drowning nau to the last plank. IL
makes an occasion af tagging II In from the
opposition t. tie Ilti Scott decision lie lind.
the Republican, insisting that the Declaration
Of Independence includes All men. black a.
well a. wei as uiiite aud ieT,hN ith he bolslls
d-ni.s that IL ii4eudes nr-ae, a, all proceed,
~ argue gra,eiy that Ill Who contend II .lees
do 80 oaly because tie. nans 10 ,ole and eat
and sleep and marry viii negroes He will
4 has. " that lhes cannot else b- consistent
NoM protest against that counterfeit logic
which concludes that because do not wait a
black woman for slave ! must necessafil,
want her for wife. | need 10, have her for
either. | can Just leave her alone la some re.
/ spects she J. scrfainly nj my equal but ia her
natural right 10 eat the bread she earns with
her own hands without asking leave vi AIN,
one else. she j. my equal and the equal Of al
others.
WHAT That CLAUSE NrANs--grs onJEe r.
Chief Justice fancy, in his opinion In tbs
bred Scott case, admits tina, the language oi
the Declaration Il broad enough 70 include the
whole human family, but he nd Judge Doug
i las argue thar the authors V that instrument
did no. intend TO include negroes, By the fact
that they did not al once actually place them
on M equalit. with the whites Now this rrsve
argument comes 10 just nothing at all. by the
other fact that they did no, once, or srsy after.
ieard, actually place all white people on m
equality with one another. And this /. the
staple argument of both The Chief Justice and
the Senator for doing this obvious violence e
the plain, unmislakable language Of the De
claration. | think the authors u that notable
instrument intended TO include all men. hui
/ they did 10, intend 10 declare all men equal "a
all respects. The. did moi mean 10 say al wers
equal in color, size, intellect. moral develop
Usnis, or social capacity TLey Dc ID viii
tolerahle disiinctness, la wha, respects they die
consider all men created equai--esnal ~ Ger
tain inalienable rights, among which are life
libesry, aid the pursuit OF happintss" Til
they said. and this they meant They did no
mean 10 assert the obvious aniruth that al
Inen we're then actually enjoying that equality
nor yet that they were abou, 10 confer II i'm
| mettiately upon them. In iart they had ID
1 power 70 confer such q booa They mean
simply " declare the right 70 iha, the snfo,s<
| msmf Of II might follow ~ fast as circumstance,
| should permit. They meant 70 set up stand
| ard maxim for free society. which should bs
! familiar To oil; constantly looked TO, constant
~ labored, and even though never perfectly
attained constantly appropriated and there
by constantly spreading and dsepeiiing Its In
naenee and augpsusing the happiness and
salae VI lie TO I'll people Or .. rolors every
where The assertion llhat I'll men ale %.
aied equal Was u M practical use In edsct-
ing our separation from Great Britain; and II
was placed In the Declaration. moi for thai, bui
for future use. In authors meant Il 70 BE-