The Nevada journal., 1857-07-03

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an article on the Slavery question, from
which we make the following extracts
The portions quoted may be taken as
the orthodox catholic view of the great
question which agitates the country
There is much truth and point in this
"All human powers, however constitu-
ted, are in relation to one another indie
pendent and equal, and the law which
binds the sovereign against Intervention
binds the citizen or ubject,- "a fact which
our AngloSaxon race, through all sta
ges Of its historical existence, seems new
er to have duly considered. 1t may be
called the fillibustering race The
South as well as the North have favor
ed the fillibustering expeditions against
Cuba, Mexico, and Central America,
and in so doing have given countenance
to the very principle on which the abo-
lition societies defend their informed
ding with slavery in the Southern States
1t was filibustering coupled with pro-
slavery tendencies, that we more espec-
tally condemned in our article on tn
incoming Administration. If you accept
the tilibustering clauses of the Cincin-
natl Platform, we cannot defend your
opposition to the anti-slavery party, for
you accept the very principle which JUS
titles that party. The anti-slavery
movement and the filibuster movement
originate in the same tendency, and pro-
coed from the same principle. If we
are to defend slavery against abolition
lists on the principles ofinternationallaw
and sovereignty, you must not embarrass
us by defending the tilibustering move
ment which denies international law.
and the independence of States. There
is nothing less iustifable in the forma-
ton at the North of party to abolish
slavery at the South, than in the expe-
ditions which have sailed from our ports
against Cuba and Central America. If
you encourage the latter, how can we in
your favor oppose the former If the
South encourages the Filibusters with a
view to the acquisition of new slave
States, what can we say against move
ments at the North for the abolition of
slavery If the South expects the
North to respect international law in
her favor, she must respect information
al law herself"
Brownson eriticizes fancy his brother
Catholic, as follows :-"There can he
no reasonable doubt that Mr.. Jefferson
and many others when they declared all
men created equal intended the princi-
pie they asserted after Pope Alexander
Ill. should apply in its fullest extent.
Mr.. Chief Justice fancy is a Catholic.
and knows that from 1882 the Popes
have condemned, on pain of excommu-
nlcation, the reduction of African ne
groes to slavery, and he knows that Mr..
jefferson, In his draft of the Declaration
OF independence, enumerated among the
things which justified the Colonies in
severing the tie which bound them to
Great Britain and in casting off their al
legiance to the British Grown, the fact
that the Grown had refused its assent to
laws prohibiting the importation of ne
groes from Africa to be held as slaves.
There was too as the adoption Of the
Federal Constitution already rising thro'-
out the civilized world a strong opinion
against the justice of negro slavery. The
right to buy and sell negroes, already
slaves, asa an ordinary article ofmerchan-
disc, was very generally held, grant,
but the right to buy and sell free ne
groes, or to reduce free negroes to sla-
very, was denied by the Catholic Church
and was, l would fain believe, held by
very few. There were then free ne
groes as well as now if every BODY re.
garded it lawful to reduce negroes as
such to slavery, or looked upon them as
| having no rights which white men were
bound to respect, what was the differ
ence between free negro and negro
slave ? How can man who has NO
rights which all others are bound to re-
spect he said to be free
Mr.. Chief Justice fancy seems to us
to proceed on the assumption that ne
groes are politically and legally de-
graded race in the Union but such is
not the fact. That may be so in some
of the States, but they are not so in the
Union, nor indeed mall the States. We
regret that in giving the opinion of the
Court the learned Judge did not recol-
lect what he is taught by his religion,
namely, the unity of the race, that al
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