Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-02-11

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Ct to be made and such a. no people or !
State can Of right make; because i is
Constitution which euud only origiUaie in
bass conspiracy against the libe1ies Of
the country aud the sacred rights Of hu-
mAn nature Consider tLisl Wha. do
We sanction by Sfiming this LecopPton
COnstilgtioni First, the wild aud guilty
fantasy Otproperty in man; the coarse and
brutal strOcity Of merchandise in human
souls. The frst section Of the seventh
article contains these words: ""The right
OF property to q slave and
It's increase is before aud
higher than any constitutional sanction"
'fhe American Congress to sanction
thisl The American Congress to declare
that the right to hold men. wOmsn, and
children, as property, aud to sell them as
chAttels. Is inyiolable,and before and high |
er than any constitutional sanciionl
submit ifby any fiction you can con-
vert child into property, It is fact be-
fore anj higher than any human law or
Constitution, ti.at the property Of the
child is in its parents, 10 the exclusion Of
the stranger. BY enscting this Lecomp-
ton Constitution, you would reverse this
great fact Of nature, or rather violate this
right Of nature, aud declare it lawful to
steal from the paFeut his child. If you
/ will by lay degrade one portion Of the
human family into chsttels, for Gods sake
do not by law reduce another portion TO
the still lower level Of thieves. After you
shall have enacted your statute, will not
the law Of The stone table still stand,"Thou
shalt not steal" After you shall have
enacted your statute, declaring it lawful
TO send little children to the auction block
for sale, will they not still be rs sacred,
whether an African or an Indian, Euro.
pean or an American sun first burned up
on them, as they were in that day when
the Nazarene, whose intense holiness shed
majesty over the manger aud the straw,
said: "Sufsr little children, and forbid
. them not to come unto me, for Of such is
d the kingdom Of heaven?"
3 In keeping. sir. with the atrocious pro-
4 vision OF this Lecomption Constitution, de.
a claring property in man, is the further
n provision, which declares "that all FREE.
n MEN, uhen they form social compact
!. are equal in rights" By adopting this
i we are asked to say, that the self.eyident
n truth Of the Declaration, that "ALL MEE
!. ARE CREATED EQUAL" is n selfevident lie
# gIitteriDg generality; rhetorical flour
= ish, unconstitutional and undemocratic;
4 that the self evident truth now in these
n latter days is, that men are not created
!. but, like Topsy, they grow; and THEY are
n equal in rights only "when they are free
and form n sonial compact" Allow me
to ask the advocates and supporters Of thi'
! Lecompton bill Of rights this new decla
:, ration Of self evident truths-what rights
= rnen have before they are free, and before
they form social compact? Are they
= then, by endowment Of their Crestor, pos
" "' sessed Of tho rights Of life and liberty T.
y. Or, outside Of your social compact is Their
- - an inferior class Of human beings, "who,
~ ~ as the majority of the Supreme Court saiC
y !; in tho Dred Scott decision, shave NJ
:, RIGHTS or privileges but such rs those VIII
~ bold the power aud Government ma
=" " choose TO grant them?" This is tie pre-
~ -, elsa principle. the bald and athaistc aver
T" ment, Of this Lecompton Constitution ;sn
!" " we, by affirming il, are only to become th
=" svowed uphoIders Of the stupeudous lie
u" that one class of men have no rights whic
." w another are bound TO respect; and henc'
''o m the partial and exclusive provision Of th
~ instrument.
:" "Chat no freeman shall be taken, or i'm
ne prisonel, or disseized Of bis freehold. lii
!" critics, or privileges, or outIswed, or exiled
or in any manner destroyed or deprived {
he his life, liberty. or property, but by tn
IN Judgment Of his peers or the law OF th
IN land"
ng "No FREEMAN" The words Of necess
IN ty import that any person not freeman
eS' any slave, any human chattle, may be t.
he ken and imprisoned, disse;zed of his fret
lte hold, liberties, and privileges outlawe,
ed exlled, and murdered, without the judg
pie ment of his peers, and without the protec
to tion OF law. That this instrument ma
be want in no feature Of horrible cruelty.
'ut is further therein provided, that "trse n
M groes shall not be permitted TO !ive an 4
'P> STATE under any circumstances. Sir, the
les are mere Missionary theorists" who suppos
ay that this world was not made for Ce q
'n. but for man-that it belonges only to Il
OF common Father of all, and is for the vi
'ur and sustenance Of all his children. B
tu' our affirmance of this instrument, we al
'ry to say to certain human beings in the Te
no ritory Of Kansas, though you were born
so this Territory, and born of free parent
an though you are human beings AND 1
pie chOttles, yet you are not free to live be
the upon your native heath; you must be di
lily seized Of your freehold, liberties, aud pri
stiC iIeges, without the Judgment of your pee
on and without the protection Of law. Th
es. born here. you shall not, under Ouy ci
ons cumstances, be permitted to live here
on You must suffer exile or death-you ca
ted not and shall not live here. That 81
lch WHICH you first saw, and to which wea
the men look up for hope aud consolation
'eo' that be 'utiful sky which bends above 20
can humble home like the arms Of bene6cen'
lCes clasping in its embrace the evil and I
su' good, the just and the upjust-tha! s.
,ey was not made for you; you shall not Ii
q under it. This land, this goodly Ian
ION With it's fertile fields, and quiet waters, a
ad- rustic homes, where you first learned
No lisp the ballowed name of father, sist