The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-18

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Had right % make such conditions Of union
q 70 them Sssmed expedient One OF these
conditions, Insisted upon BY the South and
ssfenoonsly opposed by the North, was, that
every hve slaves should count a. three
whites, and constitute the basis Of Represen-
tation according II was hard and an an.
just condition But our fathers acceded
to It; and because they did, their descend
ants have always, cheerfully and most
serupulously adhered to their bargain, hard
and unjust ~ it waa Nay, we have done
more. We have extended this condition Of
Slave representation to the new States KEN
tuckey, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and FLORIDA
when there was no Constitutional obligation
% to do. The Constitution provides that
Congress may admit new Statssb but il was no
way obligatory upon that body in admitting
new Slave States into the Union, to concede
to such new States right to Slave-repre-
sentation stipulated for BY the slave States Of
the original thirteen. 1t was their right to
have withheld altogether, such gratuitous
concession; but in the spirit of fraternal
feelings they waived its exercise /; and
in this we think they acted wisely But
surely no man Of ordinary intelligence, can
for q moment suppose, that ifCuba should
become ours, we care mott in what manner,
the people of this coniederacy, wall consent to
its coming into the Union as Sovereign
State,-or if it should, that they will concede
to its hundreds Of thousands OF negroes fresh
from the soil of Africa, and their Slave ira
ding and Piratical masters, the right Of Slave
representation upon the floor Of Congress,
and the poper which such right confers? If
these Congo negros are brutes, and as brutes,
to be treated and held as chattles; then, as
brutes and chattles, they have no right to
representation on the floor of Congress. Or
if every one thousand Of such brutes and
chattles, are to be equal to six hundred FREQ
White men, we claim an act otsimple justice,
that every thousand brute cattle belonging
to Northern freemen, should be entitled to
similar representation in Congress. lfsuch
Slave representation be claimed ON the
score OF their money-value as chattles We
do not object, and the Northern States would
lose nothing by agreeing that property and
not men, should forever constitute the basis
OF representation in Congress; but if such
claim should be set up fer Cuba, based
upon the condition of Union between the
original thirteen, we reject it as an absur-
dity to which the Northern States will not
for moment listen
If then, when this bill introduced by Mr..
Branch, comes up for consideration, any
Northern member should offer as an amend
ment, a proviso, that Cuba if purchased,
shall be held az Colony or Territory for
period Of twenty-five years. and a second
amendment, providing that whenever admit
ted as State, she shall not be entitled to a
low -,
little doubt but both amendments would be
carried. Certain we are, that even If the
first should be lost, not Northern man
could be found in either House of Congress,
who would presume to vote against the
second and for the simple reason, that
there would be no more of justice or equity
to give to Cuba or to st. Domingo if they
belonged to us, Slave-reprssentation in
Congress ut the same time that we proclaim
such Slaves brutes and chattles, then there
would be, to give the horned cattle of the
North similar representation. What our
fathers did, was right, because by such wise
concession, they purchased the inestimable
blessing Of Union; but no such concession
would be right, or just, or equitable, in con-
senting to admit Cuba or st. Domingo into
our Confederacy. would be paying pre-
MUM for an element of disunion. Then
again, if we were in Congress, we should
not hesitate to stipulate, that any treaty
which may hereafter be made for the pur-
chase of Cuba, shall contain clause repu.
dating the decision of the Supreme Court
in the Dread Scott case, and eovenanting
that every free negro of the purchased ter
ritory, and every one hereafter becoming
Tree, should be entitled to Citizenship OF
the United States under such restrictions 40
the Legislature might devise--[N. Y. Cour-
Ter and Enquirer