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der the Constitution, and pursuant TO lie
, principles Of equality, IS primal object must
be TO protse. zach human being within lie iu-
H~'aieliOn in the free and full enjoyment Of bis
natural rights. Mere political or conventional
rights are subject to The control Ofthe msjOr
lity, bat the rights ofhuman nature belong 10
each member Of The State, and cannot DO for
feiied but BY crime.
II Eecess0rily follows that neither slave
statutes nor slave constitutions can be made
valid and operative within the territories, With
out the sanction or approval, expressed or i'm.
piled, Of Congress. The President himself
comedies this; the pas, legislation and the CO.
telnPoraneous construction and history Of the
Constitution prove it. Disguise L as Tou may
the question which shakes the Union to-day,
ia, net whether Congress may gOssrn the ter
%rtOries in the spirit of the Constitution, and
Impose such statute restrictions upon the
institution OF new States therein as will require
the people thereof TO conform their local in.
situations to the Constitution, and base them
upon the broad American, republican primer
pies Of absolute equality; or whether, by The
sanction of congressional enactment, by force
Of congressional law, the people of the Terri.
J, tories shall be perfectly free" 10 organize
their local governments upon the narrow, pro.
IS Scriptive. unequal principle of absolute despot-
ism?. The question is. whether by your laws
1t people within the territories shall be enabled to
establish slavery therein, irrespective Of race.
d sex. age, color, or condition? The question is,
ID whelher, 10 the organization and admission of
ct new States, The arm Of industry-tbat arm in
which slumbsrs the nations strength and the
is nations security-sball be fettered.
You may call the state which e~nslsves and
in sells its own children, and manacles the hand
'e which feeds and clothes and shelters it,repub-
II lican; but truth and history, and Gods otsr-
e. nal justice. will call it dcspotism, equally Grim
inal and equally odious, whether sanctioned BY
90 one or many, by a single tyrant or by The mill.
70 ion. deny the constitutional right Of any
lie class Of men. from any State Of the Union, OF
from any quarter OF the globe'to establish
&C such a government within the national Teri.
a tories, under and by force of he national con.
o. %sttution, because such a government in sub.
no v~ersiye Of the great objects for which the Con
ny %stitution was ordai ned. and ~violaIivo of il.
re spirit. Who will say that it is within tic
RS spirit Of the Constitution to establish and per
i'll petuate within our Territories the hatred rule
At Of tyrant', that might gives right; that the
OF few may govern the many; that the strong
he justly rob and cypress The weak? and who,
II as the representative Of the people, and under
81 his oath to.the Constitution. will sanction such
= tyranny by a solemn act of admission into
10 the Union.
must be apparent that the absolute e.
al quality of ali, and tho equal protection OF
each, are principles OF our constitution, which
IA ought to DO observed and enforced in the
is organization ard admission of new States.
b. The Constitution provides, as we have seen
a that no person of life, liberty, or pr perty.
be without due process of law. l. makes no
=. distinction. either on account of compl, zion
ia or birth-it secures these rights to all persons
&c within its exclusive jurisdiction, This is 9.
ic quality. 1t protects not only life and liberty,
but also property, the product of l,bor.
t. fully deprived of the fruit OF his toll any more
al than OF his lie. The Constitution also pro-
~ vides that no title Of nobility shall be granted
ID by The United States, nor By any State Of
the union. Why this restriction? Was il
net because all are equal under the e%oustitu-
m ton; and that no distinctions should be toler-
es sted except those which merit originates, and
no nobility except that whi~h springs from the
" practice of virtue, or the honest, well direc.
ic ted effort Of head, or heart, or hand? There
ID is a profound significance in this restriction oil
50 the Constitution 1t is an announcement of the
equality and brotherhood Of the human race.
IN l DO but'utter The spiritof the Constitution
when | say, that nobility cannot BIZ confer.
Is red BY the empty titles Of q monarch, however
august or however d0based, bestowed upon
MS serVlls PaEasiIos' "hV W" d. eFSIl heu
: and simper at every word. That is not no
bility, though throned in power and "clothet
J in purple which brushes and e~nslaves The
re millions who hft.up their haggard faces, anC
o. stretch forth their shrivelsd hands, asking 70
@ eAve 10 eat Of the crumbs which fall from
their masters table, But, SIR, there is noblli
on ty in that patient, humbls toll which makei
'n a blade OF grass to grow where none grew
a before, thereby giving drop of nourishiDg
Is milk to one Of Gods creatures. There ia no,
az billy in that cunning handicrsft which con.
be xsris tie wnnl. the cnlInn- the all and III