Daily national Democrat., 1859-02-18
..Douglos is with the Administrator, -

tratiOn is and then what the douglas Demo-
cratic doctrine is and see whether Douglas is
with the Administration or not.
We beg leave to call the careful attention
of our readers to the following extracts from
an article in the Washington Union, bearing
on the Lecompton controversy. The Wash
inrton Union, be it remembered is the Pre-
sid, nt's organ, and has been ahead of all 9th
er organs in denunciation of the Illinois SEN
ator. The extracts are as follows:
"The Constitution declares that the citizens OF
each State shall be entitled to all the privileges
and immunities of citizens in the several States. -
Every citizen of one State coming into another
State has, therefore, right to the protection OF
his person, and that property which is recognized
as such by the Constitution of the United States,
any law of a State to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. SO far from any State having right to de-
prlye him of this property, 1t is its bounden duty
to protect him in its possession.
eft these views are cOrrect-and we believe il
would be difficult to invalidate them-it follows
that all State laws, whether organic or otherwise,
which prohibit citizen of one State from settling
in another, and bringing his slave property with
him, and most especially declaring it forfeited.
are direct violations of the original intention of a
Government which, as before stated, is the pro-
lection ofperson and property, and of the Consti-
tuition of the United States, which recognizes pro-
perty in slaves, and declares that the citizens of
each State shall be entitled to all the privileges
and immunites of citizens in the several States.
among the most essential of which is the protec-
tion of person and property.
"What is recognized as property by the Consti-
tuition Of the United States, by a provision which
applies equally to all the States has an inaliena-
bic right to be protected in all the States" =
"The protection ofproperty being, next to that
of person. the most important object of all good
government, and property in slaves being recog-
nized by the Constitution Of the United States as
well as originally by all the Old Thirteen States,
we have never doubted that the emancipation of
slaves in those States where it previously existed,
by an arbitrary act ofthe Legislature, was gross
violation of the rights of property"
"The emancipation Of the slaves Of the North
ern States was them as previously stated, gross
outrage on the rights Of property inasmuch as it
was not voluntary relinquishment on the part o f
the owners twas an act Of coercive legislation"
"Where is all this to end? and what security
have the free citizens of the United States that
their dearest rights may not one after another, be
offered up at the shrine of the demon of fanati-
clsm, the most dangerous of all the enemies of
freedom? lfthe Constitution is no longer to be
'uA SulhC uiu plutcNloI, WutTt Suutl we ma par
riers to defend us against system of legislation
restrained by no laws and no constitutions, which
creates crime at pleasure, Furnishes them at will,
and sacrifices the rights OF person and property to
a dogma, or scruple of conscience? All this is
but the old laws of Puritanism now fomenting and
souring in the exhausted beerbarre of Massachu-
settS The descendants of this race of ecclesiast-
cal tyrants, or rather ecclesiastical slaves, have
spread over the western part of the State of New
\ Ork and tlrpnphOnf all the now States v-ba
they have, to some extent disseminated their
manners, habits, and prncipl S, most especially
their blind subseryiency to old idols and their
abject subsection to their priests. There is no
doubt that they aspire to give tone and character
to the whole Contederacy, and believe that their
dream will be realized. We are pretty well con-
vlnced however, that the people of the United
States will never become a nation of Muatical
Puritans,'
In commenting upon the above article, we
lay no claim to originality, for it has already
been answered by Stephen A. Douglas in the
Senate of the United States, as well as bv the
ablest Douglas Democratic editors in the
country. But it is our privilege to have our
say uponit as well. We find, in the above
extracts from the Administration organ, the
nonstrous doctrine announced that slave pro- |
'erty has right to go anywhere throughout |
he length and breadth of the United States I;
hat it is recognized in such manner bv the |
Federal Constitution that citizen of South
Carolina has right to take his slaves into
the State of Massachusetts, and there hold
them, the laws and institutions of that State
to the contrary Notwithstanding. We find
further, as a natural sequence to the doe
trines announced, the declaration that all the
acts of all the Free States abolishing slavery
were violations of the rights of property un.
der the Constitution and gross outrages upon
the owners of slaves who did not consent to
the acts Establishment Every man who de.
MED this doctrine was denounced by the
Washington Union as Free Soiler, Aboli-
ZIONIST and Fanatic. Well, monstrous as this
doctrine is, overthrowing as it would not on.
y the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty but
he whole doctrine of State Rights,-rights
BY which Sovereign State of this Union is
enabled to regulate its own domestic institu-
ions and to have slavery or not have it. as it
'hooses-we find this same odious doctrine
Incorporated into the Lecompton Constitu-
ion, and Of course endorsed by the Admins
ration, inasmuch as it declared that Consti
ution to be republican in form and not
onficting with the Constitution of the Uni
Ell Statoa onJ raoop,,,orJ J.l H. al.
Kansas under it; and denounced every
IAN who dared to oppose it as Black Rcpub-
can. This beautiful doctrine is contained
d article I, section l of the Lecompton Con-
titution, and reads thus:
"ARTIcLE T. Section 1.-The right Of propertv
5 before and higher than any constitutional sane
ion aud the right of the owner ofa slave to such
md It's increase is the same and as invioable as
he right OF the owner of any property whatever"
That is to say, it is not within the power
If Legislation to emancipate slave at all.
hus declaring, at one breath, that all the
lets of emancipation in all the free States are |
'eally, whatever they may be in effect null |
md void But this is not all that the Le
compton Constitution said about it. 1t pro- |
Tided that the instrument should not be a.
nended before 1864, and not then unless bv
/ t,co thirds vote, and added:
"Bu no alteration shall be made to affect the
'ght ofproperty in the ownership of slaves"
Thus making slavery perpetual under that
Constitution No wonder that the Admin.
stration organ was in favor of the Lecomp-
on Constitution. 1t was but carrying into
practical operation its own notions.
We shall not spend time controvertine
hese monstrous and dangerous assumptions,
or that is not the object of this article. We