New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-20

S,me Of our conservative journals, as they call
themel7t.. have had good deal TO say IN times
pas. in depr,caticn and eIecra,ion Of sectional,
geographical parties. They could not pat up with
the ides Of Fremcn,s nomination for the Presi-
dsncy. and stil less with the idea Of his ttct,cn
because as they said, be was sectional seosrsPn'
zeal candidate. Yet these same journals, which had
.uch a terrible Mtpaby to q sectional candidate
and geographical nom patton FOX the Presidency
seem to &c, on remarkably well with an ultra
Southern Supreme Court, q Federal bench con-
sructed within the moral and political limits OF
South Carolina, and law or pretended law oil the
mos, purely local and geographical character.
The construction put BY Chief Jass &c fancy aid
his slsv, hoIdlrg brethren upon the Consultation Of
tie Upiad States, is Of purely sec local and geo
srsthcal character. A residence south Ut Mason
ard DIons Lire is absolutely necessary to place .
person in the poston to enter st all into the spirit
Of it, or TO see the application Of the arguments
upon VII ch ,ha, learned Chief Justice mainly relies.
There is, indeed in the syle of his argumen adon,
q Ger ain incoherepcy and Inconsistency, striknsy
Characteristic Of tia. locality. The pride, the
self coucelt and The childish terrors pecul TO our
sl,yeholdug States, are au fully embodied 10 il.
A, ole mon ent, free colored persons are repre-
senred a. quite too few /" TO attrsc, public atteotion
CAS- q separate class, aud that 10 given as reason
for regarding them las 81 part OF the slave PoPula-
top, and tia in the very same sentence In which
they are spoken Of as emancipsted snd free. On
tie other hard, oEe might reasonably suppose
wha, undoubtedly vas the real fact, that this few
ne.s Of their numbers operated 10 several Ct the
Save States 10 leave them in possession OF the
usual gbts Of freemen their number being too IN
col siderable to attract public attention to them IS
separate cl,ss and make It an object for any Leg
lsla,ure to deprive them Of the usual incidents OF
freedom. This argument, however, of the fewne.
of the plumbers Of the free cOlored people having
served il. turo, or nmble Chief who, when ne
erols T. be headed shows a remarkable achyly Tor
one of his years, hops short about and gives us
s,lsmn lecture on the ab.urdity OF supposng tha!
",he men of the Save States, who took s1ch
"lsrge sh,re in the formation Of the Constitution
we suppose he may allude particularly to Madl-
son. Mason and Randolph Of Virginia who GER
in it" would be so regardless of themselves and
Of the safety Of those who trusted and coDhded
in then" Is 10 th,Dk of sying the negroes claim
ing like bred Scott To be free the right to sue for
their freedom in the United States Courts As if
the very neution Of the word freedom in connec-
ten with . negro, had been enough 70 send
thrill of terror and alarm through every slsyehOld-
IN 4. tla 70 10 fha
uen who framed the Constitution of the United
S,stes-as if Madison, Mason and Randolph, those
arc eDt frieLds of eDanc pation-bad been the same
trembling end pitlful towards as the South Caro-
liDaps who in terror Of their lives enacted the law
for putting all negro sal)ra into PRISON
allow negroes claiming 10 be free TO sue for their
liberty in the State Courts, We should like to have
Mr. Chef Justice fancy inform us wherein, after
all. would have been the special danger aud absurd
fooltardi1ess Of allowing similar iuit' ~ be
brought in the Federal Courts With our North
rrn understandings, we find It dfficuls 70 perceive
any papable ab.urdity in supposing that whatever
persons had rights enough to be allowed to appear
az sui,ors in the State Courts those same persons
might have been regarded by the trainers OF the
Constitution, Southern nen as well as Northern
men, as having rights enough to be admitted as
stitors in the Federal Courts. Here is q nice DIS
tinc,op, which only Southern heads can compre-
hend and which, except in geographical Court,
would hardly be expected to answer as the bass OF
a great constitutional doctrine.