Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-09-09
Thursday Morning, Sept. 9. 1858.
The nciunatiCsmmercial on Prop.
erty in Man.

The most sound and logical view
we have seen taken, Of the "rIght
of property" in Slaves, for many
a day, appears in an editorial of the
Cincinnati Commercial. It is no
uulayorable omen to SEQ those per-
sons who have been engaged for
years battling for the Abolition party,
and who have discussed the slavery
question in all its various attitudes
been loudest In their denuHciations
of the peculiar institution" Of the
South, thus giving way to reason and
to comsron sense. After snoring
very conclusiveIy that it is no NOR
al or political wrong, for one human
being to have property in anoth T,
TIE Commercial says:
If-as We have endearored to shew
it is possible for one human being
to have property in another, il fol.
lows that the assumption that it is a
primary duty of human government
to provide that no claim Of such
property shall be recognized Or per
mitted to exist. untenable. To fuT.
Their sustain theH notions upon tie
subject, however, the gentlemen o.
the philanthropic school bring for
ward certain expressions in the De-
cIaration Of American Independence
upon which, as they claim that, a;
upon fundamental principles, all o
our governments are founded. Il
is hardly necessary to say more thar
that the abstract doctrines lsid down
in the Declaration OF l776 are on
thing, and the object proposed By
the Constitution OF lTST are another
The former msy b. very correct
in its affirmation of general truth
bat The claim that it does or va
intended to control in any rsspec
Whatever, the practical operation Q
any subsequently established govern
msnt. State or national, IS absunL |
may be that in some sense. al
men are created equal. Not know
ing, ve are not prepared to affirm
or deny it, but to say that all men
or that all races Of men ara equally
qualified to act the part of citizen
in a republican State, OF are upo1
a civil. moral, social, domestic G
economical parity. IS to say tia
which has no foundation in reaso
or IN observation. Oar government
is built upon no such idea It di
not profess to equaiizs its subjects
II took them as it found them
did not claim TO be based upon sbsC
iuta truth. bat TO embOdy the vi
Of til, people. 1t Jill nos assam
10 Be a knight Grant travelling lIk
Don Qlixcte about the world to II
dress the wrongs Of TIA opPresse(
bat simply sat dom to protect I'd
persons and interests il is jurislic
ton. as they we're
Where. then. il the evil. Ii
crime. the wrong of slavery VII
commits ii? /. msy be that the ger
Grafton which imported the native
of Africa to this continent, 81
planted slavery in the Ansrica
colonies, thereby committed q grea
sin against CID and humanity; b
that generation ms long stree Fasse
away, AM for is sdo;ngs the pIesau
en- hardly be holden accountable
The negroes are hsrsf They mus
remsin here. foT to sad them ava,
Is iupoSibls; and, being here. tbei
actual iaferiogity TO the rzcs Nd
which they are assOei4ted appear
in their inferior position. Tat %
sition i the natural effect Of The con
tact OK s slperisr With an inferio
nsoDle. the sxsent Of wkich s deter
mined BY the measure Of the diiEsr
sncs bstHesn them Being nataral
Sn9 theref0rs Necessary. under IN
circumstances. slavery can Dc 10 pub
iIc. No State nor Natlo1sl e-Tzss
Ths wrongs TIM. spsirg from Il, sE'
irSiIsidaal
EssrvzheFs. all ever the zsrs1. ia
xszk az, IN the hands o. shs s-r00g