The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-21
fIIIRTY-FIF"TH CONGRESS-
FIRST SESSION.

Senate.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 1868.
PERSONNEL PROPOSITION TO RETIRE DrsA-
nlED OFFICERS.
Mr.. IvKRsoN, (adm.) Of Ca, introduced bill to in
the efficiency of the army and marine corps by
firing disabled officers Referred To the Committee on
Military Affairs.
MoDE APPOINTING WEST POINT CADETS.
Mr. IvERsoN gave notice of his intention to introduce
bill to change and regulate the mode of appointing cadets
TO the Military Academy, and 10 modify the laws relative
to that establishment
SPEECH OF SENATOR HALF ON TIE DECISION IN Tx DRIED
QUESTION
Mr.. hale, (opp.) of N. H. resumed his remarks from
the Supreme Court the celebrated bred Scott case:
Flrst-1he Court affirm that the right OF property in
slaves Of the same nature the right TO all other pro-
perty.
secondyThat the right to hold this description of pro-
perty and to traffic in slaves at the time of the American
Revolution ana adoption Of the federal Constitution was
universally recognized and ackno wedged by both Eng
land and this country, that no man ever thought Of dis
putting It,
unsound and unsupported; what purpored to be the
statement Of fact equally unsupported by both truth
and history The rspropostion was more distinctly and
fully expressed in the Lecompton cOnstution-where
It declared that 1.-THE right OF property is before
and is higher than any constitutional sanction
and that the right Of the the slave and such
slave and its increase is the and nvolable
the right Of the to any other property whatever
He had higher respect for the Lecompton Convention
than Tor the Supreme Court because the convention had
been explicit than the court in stating just
acty what they meant He did not deny that in the
States toeratng slavery there legal property in
slaves. In some OF the free States there q quail
fled property in human beings In New Hampshire, cr
minas sent to the penit ntary for the public good
and body might contract with the warden having the
custody OF these prisoners or the use OF their labor
The laws recognise his right TO the labor Of the
vce and he take them where he pleases within The
jurisdiction Ct the State but he should Connecticut
river and undertake to make them quarry marble In
the Green Mountains Of Vermont his right to their labor
INN, ciYa TIM rim
OF the slaveho lder the labor of his slaves 1t is legal
right where slavery exists by law and where else
The moment the slave beyond the jurisdiction which
imposes the servitude-that moment he Is free There
essential difference between the right to the labor
OF human beings and the right to property in naninate
things and in the brute creation. man may all
the world with q horse, aud every where, both among
civilized and nations his right TO the ownership
will be respected This right depend upon the
existence OF statute law but because by the universal
OF mankind horse is the subject OF property
When the hore created he made to be property
and made TO him. The right to do so dates
back the earliest period of recorded time When God
created the earth and gave ii to man to cultivate, and
filled the land with cattle and the sea With fish, and
the air with fowls, God also gave man dominion
the cattle and the fish and the fowls but he
gave him dominion his fellow He reserved his
last and greatest work for his peculiar worship This
distinction bad been recognized by every writer who
wrote upon the subject ard by States clearly and
slaveholdDg States II bad also been recognized by the
unanimous Of member Of the Supreme
Court OF the United States and support OF his argument
he read extracts from various authorities During his
remarks he declared that the attempt be persisted in
force the lecompon constitution the people Of Kansas
he hoped that they would fight ana unto blood
and death.
Mr.. HARLAN, (opp of Iowa, obtained the floor. The
further consideration Of the Kansas question post
poned until Monday next.
The Senate then adjourned