New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-02

The Washington Union not long since, and some
other Administration papers, made great flourish
Of tIumpets, over the praisewOrtby example set by
tie good people Of Charleston in submitting to the
laws OF the United States n the matter of the Echo
and the captured Africans carried into tina. port.
This exemplary conduct On the part Of these good
people consisted in this: that the Echo Atr cans
being in the custody Of the United States and pro-
tected by the guns Ct Castle PnckIe, and the
garrison thereof against the greedy appetite OF the
sald good people, whose mouths watered to reduce
them to slavery and being Defeated n all attempts
to ge. them within reach, By means of writs of
habeas corpus and other process Of Law, they did
not venture upon attacking Castle Prnckney with
intent to seize them by force.
The exemplary respect of the good people of
South Carolina for the laws Of the United States
would seem, however, to have been entirely eX-
baus,ed in this Herculean effort at self control.
At oil events it appears TO be confined to the VI
ciDiiy of iidc-water. At Columbia, the capital of
the Stote, where there is no Castle Pipckbey to
serve BY way Of buttre.s 10 respect for the laws,
no more respect appears to be paid TO the author
| iy of the United States than during the Rcyolu-
tion, when the Tories Of that vicaity got the
upper hand, secuted the Continental Congress and
the American Union took to banging aud plumber
ing their Wing neighbors, and put themselves
under the protection of Cornwallis and Lord
Rawdor.
The Grand Jury of the United States Circuit
Court for the District Of South Carolina has re-
fused to find indictments against the crew OF tho
Echo; and, to back up the Grand Jury in this at
tempt to uulhfy the laws against the savetrade,
resolutions have been introduced into the South
Carolipa Senate, the General Assembly OF the
State being simultaneously in session at Columbia
These resolutions, with true lawyer like tact-thus
exhibiting deeIee Of good sense which the Court
that delivered the famous Dred Scott decisiOs
would have dope well to mitate-avod occupying
apy wider ground than is demanded by the nece~
sites of the case actually in hand. Senator
Mszyck-by the way, an odd sort OF
naue, whence We are led to sppretend that
the bearer Of it may not be of pure Anglo
Saxon lineage, but descended from some in
ferior race, and therefore, according to the pre-
ysirp theory at the South, himself proper sub
ect for reduction to Slavery and, perhaps, he has
! taken the lead in this matter for the very
purpose of drawing of attention from himself
Senator Mazyck, Who has taken the lead in this
matter is evidently of opinion that the whole leeis
lation of the United States in prohibition or re-
straint of the African save.trade is null and void
But as the exgencies Of the case in hand, to wit,
the case of the Echo's crew, do not require 1t, he
has not thought it necessary to say so at least not
in the resolutions the subject which he has sub
mltted to the South Carolina Senate. OF the two
resolutions which be has submitted, the first merely
denies the right of Congress, under the Federal
Constitution, ''to interfere with the slave trade
" between foreign countries" business in which
the Echo, at the time of her capture, was engaged
The second resolution dclies the power of Congress
10 declare the slaye-trade piracy
In bis speech in support Of these resolutions, the
Senator With the Suspicious nauIe--and why should
not names be taken as presumptive evidence Of
terve origin as well as hair or complexion Sup
pose for instance, that Srn,tor Mazyck instead Of
being Senator Mazyck had gone little further
. and lad been, say, Senator Pompey or Senator
Casar--SeDator Mszy:k insists in his speech that
the Constitution merely gives to Congress the reg
ulst on of trade witt foreign countries, not that
bctpeta foreign Countries, 30 that vessel en-
ploye in transporting slaves or anything else from
The Coast Of Africa to Cuba, is wholly beyond the
range Of Congressional authority. This is nge-
NOUS but We fear the lawyers will be apt to tell
bm--ior when it happens TO be their cue they are
good at dissPstipg bubbles as they are at other
tines in giving to them all the weight Of sound
arguments--we are sfraid the lawyers would tell
him--we are quite sure Chief Justice Tancy will
(his interest in raising slaves for sale being quite
sufi ,ient to keep him straight in this matter THAT
vessel sailing from sn American port aud pro-
eeeding TO the Coast of Africa and thence with
cargo of slaves to Cubs is still ged in the trade
ph foreign nitions the olly diIercuce in that case
berg that the vessel trades with two foreign na-
tions instead of with one, and may, therefore, be
said to be- as i. were doubly within the jurisdic-
ton Of Congress.
But then Mr.. Senator Mazyck has two strings |
TO bis bows for he insists in his second resolution,
that, at all events, Congress has no power to de-
clare the slsye-trsde piracy. The main p0iat upon |
which this resolution is made by its own terms to
RI ST. is, that slave trading is not piracy in the
nature Of thinss.' But why not Piracy in
the nature of things" by which, We suppose,
Mr. Mszyck means piracy in the true sense
Of the term, is not confined, we take it he will
himself admit to robbery at sea. Sea robbers
who land 10 rob and plunder the inhabitants of the
coast. as the old buccaneers used to do, are also
guilty Of piracy. Many a man, in spite Of the