New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-29

rumelts on the other .de shond persist in their Pro-
kavsiy constructor Of the Constitution and 10 thereby
tisir sueh abundant comfort and efficient help to the
enemy Is it because they feel the obLgai Of honor
and courtesy But never were honor ard courtesy
lees chilled for No such comparatively petty consd.
ersiioDt-no tueh sccial convention isms-aIe 20
much az 10 be thought Of, when everlasting justice
10 wing her tterneet commands upon us and IL bidding
Or draw up poor brother out Of the pit OF Slavery,
and deal faithfully with the crime Of putting and
keeping him there.
Great folly and crest wrong are they guilty Of who
allow honor and courtesy, any other considerations,
to ten UT them TO ,rempe the canon 81 inteTpreta-
ton the cake Of shelteIing the greatest CRIME or
this folly aud wrong was The Ner- fors IndeeSdenf
guilty when few weeks ago it went into history for
proof that the words No person shall be deprived
Of life liberty property without dusproeess Of law
are Ct limitation on State as well as Fedora! DOW
ers What right had il TO serve the moet t4granfora
Of itusticc the expense Of the established rules Of
legal Interpretation We may 60 into history to help
law speak for Justice, but never to help speak for
| Jriustice. Iuiustice eau claim nothing from law,
ave from its surface and obvious letter. Justice may
wing al it can from law-IDiustice nothing. Now
The Indeyen9cnt knows well as We do, that the Ian
gusge 1.-THE Constitution in the present case is just as
applicable 70 State to the Nauon--u st rs much
fitted TO pose restrictions and negators upon the one
| bs upon the other. The Ind,andent Knows as well
as We do that the Constitution is as obviously paper
| for limiting the p0wers OF State Government, as
| those Of the Federal Government.
Lest what have said should be construed into my
admission that the voice OF history at this point on
the sde Of Slavery, expressly depy that It is me
Inderendent can hardly have read the Congressional
| discussions the Amendments of the Constitution
Let il cad them; and will then be better able to
Judge Of the history Of the Amendments. Especially
instructed will it be by MIR. Madisons wise words In
favor Of restraints upon State as well as national SOW
| eIeigry. ID,
But the fault Of those Intellectual ard accomplished
editors to whom have referred, If not alone That
| they allow themselves to be swsyed by honor and
curtesy in q ce.e where there is no room for hobo
and courfesy Their greater fault Is In still
according lights 10 Slavery Slavery has no rghts
uIiees il Be mat sDgle right Of every wof-tbe righ
to be iiled Instead Of party to be respected and
treated with. it is mere piracy Instead Of being
law. i is an Outlaw With all their Anti Slavery feel
Ing, and all their love of justice and all their sppre-
citation Of human rights they seem never yet TO have
taken the gauge and dimensions OF the black mabs
manhood With them white manhood stu appear.
to be one thing, and black manhood another Not
raj p,tudces as TO identify the rghts and interests of
a black Inan with those Of white one. Think you
that they would 20 into history or anywhere else for
tueh interpretations Of law as would help asten the
woke of Slavery on the necks of their white country
men? Lttthem ray in their columns that there might
rossbly be legal enslavemelt OF their white coun-
irymeD ard that they would recognize honor and de.
feId II law, ard they would quickly lose all their
tubsc1ib.rs unless it might be here and there Hunk
er Democrat, OF fossil Wig, or Ae@- York Otsore'
ptroI.
| fpence Of habit These editors would strenuous!y
,etitt al such interpretations would serve 70 cheat
them eut Of favoIte dog; and yet they canno break
ont of the editorial habit of going here and thefento
This forbidden place and that-to hunt up legal inter-
pIetations which ju,tfy the saveholder AMI enable
lin 10 keep on cheating his felow-nen OF: OF all their
| rights, and ON. Of themselves. Ihat able
| newspaper, The Ahti-SlGrery STANDARD, 10 among
these cf.Lders Ande wen The Liberato' ETH, Brafe y
is in the bad employment Of helping the savshoid-
err e. arguments foi their Pros avery interpretations
cftfe Constitution. admit that has u, heart to
help the ssvehcldeIs Nevertheless !: IS among ther
li,, G;c.a balr Ilv WH ID
cuuicnt thet Of late The LJe ator makes much uss
or On that however, it lays great stress 1t claims
that are estopped from giving an Ani'Sisvery M
terpeta,io 10 the Constitution, by the fact thst hi'h
eric Pro.Sdvery Interpretation he's 40 enerey been
given toit. But on th. same principle it might aTest
e, cry reform even tie ant Slavery reorm which, t.
i.s everlasting honor, IL did itself begin. Thank
Heaven Slave hos Io-t none Of his tights by
user; ard have l0s lone OF oui peas for LIN 6y
| non astr and fit the justeI knowledge of human
rights ard juster interpretations OF law which are
coming &c obtain il our day, the Consultation
| is seen to be Iot for Slavery bat for Liberty,
then will WELD il for the deEyerance Of the
slave, though it true that has hithsto
I letr always welded for his destruction. Nu!lum
| hmps occyrt ,tei." But if the king should lose no
| hight by the lapse Of tine much more should not the
slave. Ii, now, at the las the Constitution !: dug Up
i GU. ofke BIG heap Of ProSsvery faseboods in which
4 it has long lain buried and found to be full Of the
principles of Liberty and utterly destitute OF all coun-
t.Lance to Slavery tben, now at the last, by al our
bch responsibilities TO the slave and to Heaven we
will The precious instrument to procure his fee
| dom.
| Let me here say that Freedom can bear any ether
opposition better than ths which she encounters IN the
house Of her friends She can bear 20 be opposed by
the current religion Of the country, for the people are
fat losing all respect for conventional ana spurious
religion, which mixes itself up with slavery instead
Of sterpy demanding its extinction. Sac car bear 10
be opposed by the Democratic party which, Ahao'iike,
bas sold itself to work evil or by such Republican, as
freedom 20 serve party. But the one thihg 'ha'
| Freedom cannot bear il 70 have Anti.Siasery men,
Anti Slavery LEADER the most dis,iug and nfu
entail Anti Slavery newspapers, at work to rob the
roOr ard pCwerese ,aye Of the Constituted ana give
| Il to the proud and powerful avehOder On II there
apytlirg that belongs TO the slave it is this paper
| word {" slavery" and which they were determined
should 60 down &c posterity with clean ano isr race
| fer liberty.
| | ref.!I,d 10 sL article in TIE Nep York inde-
tt.dtnf. After Gil, We should not be surprised 81 IT,
lie writer Of that ericle bas evidently embraced TIE
theory If the Shareholders ard Of the sham Denocrane
pany HAT the pc Cpl. are still confederation
Slater rather than Nation and that their attempto
escape from the condition 10 The oher was Abor-
tive On the Industrious ehorts 20 piorasa'e usis
torv ia the great yelsIoe for waIdpg I'll destruction
fror Slavery and resisting ali inereIerce with IL 50
for Of bis political sction sgain'i Slavery cpheeneo
we have very little 10 hope ioI from hin wno Is 30 un.
| frtunste as 70 receive this felke and nHchievous
| ,teory. He will feel 60 national responsibility for
Slavery fcr be viii cepy that he u under any. Inc
fearful words Ct Heaven regarding nsfoIsl FMS VIII
| Inspire him with alarm SO far as American slavery
scmcerheG IL tot George sbSaia eosc, inss one
puf "a death he would wash lie hands of ell political
Responsibility for il. He would pronounce 1t the con-
cern Of d. other nscn but the nation Of Georgia az
NIT that il Of comparatively few crimes IN the S'a,es
that the Federal is to take cogniz snce But
of these few is Slavery. TIE words OF the Constitution
the necessities Of government, the Indispensable terms
If our UuOr and Of continued national existence,
| absolutely forbid Slavery.
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