The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-04

advantage of the Supreme Court in one respect !;
they a little more explicit. | have higher
respect for the Lecompton Convention than
have for the Supreme Court because the Lee
compton Convention have placed this principle
distinctly on paper, and there is no installing
what they mean, while the Supreme Court have
decided the saGie thing, but have not quite SO
explicitly expressed it to the apprehension of the
common ear. Nov, sir, | undertake to maintain
that the principle thus asserted is not true and
on this point shall ask the attention of the Sem
ate to some authorities; bnt, before aeming to
the authorities, let me state what ! believe ON
this subject.
do not stand here to decide that legally there
| is such thing as property in slaves. am not
discussing the moral question: but the legal one
and do not stand here to deny that there is, in
the States toleratipg Slavery, legal property in
slaves for, in the free States, we have quail
! fled property in the labor of human beings. ~
the State in which live, criminals, if tried and
found guilty, sent to the pepitentiary for the
public good, and any individual may contract
/ with the warden having the custody OF the pris-
oners for their labor and, if the Legislature see
| fit, he may take the prisoners anywhere within
the Jurisdiction of the State, and his right in the
labor of those convicts is recognised and will be
protected by the State and by its authorities
But, if the man taUs using the labor of convicts
in the State of New Hampshire should cross
Il
| BILE ia the Green Mountains of Vermont he would mud
that his property ceased the moment he the
and that the RICH, wheb be had acquired in New Hamp
shire would not extend beyond the territorial imts OF the
State imposing the servtude just exactly and precise
that is the right which The of slave has to HIS
property. He has right the property within the jurls
dicon which imposes the servitude; but the moment the
slave beyond that he is free. do rest this on
my ssertion.
There another right of propery-a general PROPERTY
and that is properly in inanmate things, and IN the
brute creation nsn has property in horse-a horse
IN Marya for instance; se goes with that horse IRON
Maryland to Virginia, 10 Deawars any end 10 every
State in The Union, aversing the Conederacy o1 one
end to the her and wherever and whenever he arrives
In any one the States his right properly the horse
is recogpi sed universally. More than that sir: he may
60 outside the limits Of the Union he may 90 into Inc
Brinsh the Mexican the South American possessloni
on this continents ne may go inio The possessions Of he
savage tribes; and wherever he finds q community o.
men, civilized savage there his right properly in the
horse will be recognised Nay sir, he may Jake tina
horse across the Atlantic, he all the king
doms of Europe, civilized and savage and semi-savase
and everywhere he will find his right of property recog
nsed He may if he pleases the frozen regions
the north pole and may come down from there Jill he
pants beneath The vertical rays of the tropical and
the horse is hiss and tribunals of The countries where