The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1857-03-27
Some Ofthe Consequences Of The
Recent Decision Of the y s.
Supreme Court.

The denialSto che American-born ne-
groi Of The Feasibility Of ci;izsnship---as
was done BY lSe Supreme Cour. Of the
United slaies--was Intended 70 be pre-
/ lIimihary to the refusal TO bin Of the
! rights of personality, which followed
The doctrine laid down by that tribu
nal depends for it, basis. upon she as
sumption that the. African, 10 slavery or
descended from slave ancestors. is prop
erty--the slave, properly in possession;
bhe free, property that has escaped from
possossion--property, in which the owr-
orship may be az absolute and as uncon
lditlonal as that which a gentleman en-
Joys in his horse, or the farmer In his inn
poments Of toll. The right being the
came in both casei, exists everywhere
alike. The horse Of citizen Of Ken
tucky goes eslrav and ventures over into
Ohio. His owner follows, overtakos him
regaius his possession, and employs him
here, carries him back, or sells him 10
some one who is wiling to pay him his
price Ills negro also runs away He pur.
sues and catches bin, and now--his right
70 the one being equally absolute with
his title TO The oLher-what is to hinder
him from employing his property hore,or
disposing Of Il to some resident Of Ohio
who requires an addition TO the available
force upon his farm or ia his mauufacto-
lryf IL the slaveis, in every sense pri-
vate property, goyernmeht--neither ma.
Iiotalo or looal--h4s the general power to
Wrost il from ils proprietors. The rule
that government shall diyesl no man Of
{ his property except for the public use.aud
then upon full compensation. needs no
! enactment in constitution to demonstrate
its equity, or add to its binding force
; IL is obligatory all over the world and II
. the negro is property in the. sense that
other goods and chstllos are property, no
government on earth, in the slave States
or out Of them, the owner alone excepted
+ has the right % decree his freedom.-
Would Che government Of Ohio daro to
lake--wopld anI amount Of law justify
tho taking--from every Kontuskiap who
, comes into the State, on setback, the
. animal upon which no rides? His rights
to the brute are not affected by State
lines. They spring from principles az
universal as the human race, aud as old
as society.
II has never yet. 80 Ear as we are aware
: been denied that tue governments Of
0 The several States whore slavery exists,
! have the power to provide for its abol-
e ton. Even Mr., Calhoun has admitted
that II belongs to the States, each for it.
q selflo decide. whetheri it shall be ostab
= lished or not or If established whether Il
y shall be abolished or not Yet, the right
9 Of the State Government to abolish sla-
very. II il exists at all, springs from the
fact that there is in tho slave another ee
mont beside proporty---that he ID per.
Z son, No State government can by gen
: eral law abolish tho tenure which exists
between the horse aud his owner, and
! how-the title being the same---ean il a.
= bolish the tenure that exists between the
!, negro and his owner? Nothing is more
:, obvious than that it cannot. We must.
Iherefore. either deny tho power of the
States over slavery, AuG thus strike a
a deadly blow at State rights, or admit
that although obaoured and suspended,
the negro has a personality which needs
! but TO be relieved from the constraints Of
{, legal force 10 become absolute.
Nothing but the existence Of a differ.
sace between property in slave and
! property in other chattels. could hav,
: justified the permission to include the ne.
+ gro among the representative population
= Of the Southern States, Iudeed, The
. practice in regard to those State,
!. affords us the rule by which to comput,
the relative proportions of personality
and property which exist ootemporane
: Ously in the slave. He is, by constitu
y y tioual provision, three. fhhs person ant
I only two.ith' property; and who sits II
|" Congress- from Southern Slate is aprao
= tical sanction of this estimate. IL ther,
y is no difference between the condition o
the negro and Of the horse, why ar,
n there nota score or two Of grave and elo
quent Southern statesmen in our nation
,s al councils. deputed to represent
v three.6Ihs Of the horse population
,f Of that part Of the Uniop9 The oondi
a tons being the same, an equality o
|. rights Inevitably follows: aud, under th,
h decision of tho Supreme Court. the Re.
r public Of Horses South Of Mason An5
/. Dixon's Line, becomes wholly eudtled L
It agi.a's fOr such en- amendment Of Ii,
i national compact as shall secure 10 them
4 political rights equifaleht 10 those " hiob