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SENATOR DOUGLAS AND JUDGE BLACK.
NJ

SENATOR DOUGLAS AND JUDGE BLACK.
No. B.
Mr. EDITOR: Deny the power to protect slavery,
as property, and look at the situation in which the
STAKEHOLDER is placed. He may in migrating South
sail from Southern port for Texas and as he ap-
breaches the Gulf he may, by stress of weather. be
stranded upon the shore, of either Jamaica or 81:
Domingo, and the whole cargo seized and liberated
by the authorities; or coming higher home, ne may
start out from Virginia or Kentucky for Arkansas
and in descending the Ohio, some over-ruling acc-
dent may befall them, and he may be compelled, to
save life, to take shelter for the time being either
upon the shores of Indiana or Illinois. Has ne no
redress to recover his slave property when sezed ny
the authorities referred to? Undoubtedly he has; Tor
the fugitive slave law protects him in the one case
and the flag that scars at the masthead is guaran-
tee in the other; and although the remedies may be
different yet he falls hack upon the same power TO
enforce them--upon the strong arm OF common
government ;,
This has been again and again recognized by the
government and demands made either for the resto-
ration of the slaves, Tor if that be mpossibe) for
their value.
Suppose we were involved in war, as we have
been with Great Britain, and our slaves should be
captured, las they have been is there no obligation
resting upon the government that in treaty Tor
peace there should be an express provision, either
for their restoration or for the payment OF their
value? Certainly there is. And both in the treaty
of 49, as we'll as that of 1885, f our memory be not
at fault) there may be found provisions to that
effect.
Life. liberty and property" is guaranteed the
citizen against the unconstitutional acts OF his own
government and surely less guarantee is not i'm
piled when the wrongful act is committed, either by
foreign government or by the hostile Legislation"
Of Territory.
Now, in all this, there is neither establishing Gre
ating or perpetuating the institution" as such,
but merely CARRYING out the two-fold nature of the
original compact between the copartners of the gov
ernment: First taat as being recognized as proper
ty that as property the master should be proected
and secondly guaranteeing "non-intererence," as
well from without from within, with the political
"status" of the coored man, so far as the power of
federal government itself is concerned
Now, you may call this what you please a slave
code" or not it gives all the protection the South
right to require; and less than this her own fire.
side security demands of her to sacrifice the very
government itself, sooner than submit to.
The South can have no discretion when her
very hearth-stones and affairs are imperilled-it is
caesar or nothing" her constitutional lights must
be, in good faith observed; she must have equality
within, she will seek it without and leave the re-
sponsibty to those infatuated wretches who are in
deoted for their present position to the very nati
cism, with which (for selfish ends,) they have sur
charged the Northern mind
Notwithstanding these gloomy forebodings, for
one as yet We have not despaired of the republic;
still have hope, as sheet anchor to our political
faith,-still have abiding confidence in the con-
sentative influence of the sober second thought of
the Northern mind; they, and they alone can save
the government; but we have to stand by with our
arms folded incapable Of the first advance to its
cue, unless that compromises political equality,
and with it individual security.
Thus situated, we of the South, have to await the
issue, but with no other apprehension than the pa
triots fear that political demagogues have so long
dashed into surge the political waves until the ma
tional vessel is about to he ngulphed by the very
elements which have, hitherto, $50 long, buoyed
her up.
Yes, freedom of opinion has sustained her; but
freedom runs riot when it throws off constitutional
restraints, and instead of promoting liberty, it is
anarchy in disguise.
Liberty without law is the liberty of the savage,
destructive in its influences and revolutionary in its
effects; but liberty with law, while it respects the
rights of others, secures its own and thus by its
lifegiving energy, it imparts peace prosperity and
happiness to all who properly appreciate it.
We have said that for one, as yet we have still
hopes of the republic, but those hopes mainly rest
upoE the conservative portion of the Northern and
Northwestern Democracy.
1t is for them to say whether they will live under
the Union, as it is, and as it was made BY the faith.
ers or whether they will drive the South for greater
security to the formation of more homogeneous
government where they have nothing to fear from
Stewards "irrepressble conflict"
In the mean time the Democracy of the South
should not suffer itself to be goaded on by Harper
Ferry instructions and the probable completely of
prominent Northern men. into the taking of any
extreme positions in the approaching National Demo-
cratic Convention, but let all the ends they aim
at be conservative in their character, looking to
the perpetuation of constitutional Union if posi-
BILE. When this fails we have time enough and
strength within ourselves to form a Southern con-
federacy, which shall laugh to scorn the "higher
law" and by non-" intercourse" and such other
stringent provisions as we see proper to enforce we
can make the very Yankees themselves our negro
catchers. Yes Illuminating it may be to the
fanaticism of the North, we honestly believe wha,
We say, for touch Yankees pocket and you go
great way to the restoration of his Senses
We would advise, then, that the Southern Demo
cracy in the ensuing Convention, should say nothing
about either the slave trade or a slave CODE bu
that they should be perfectly satisfied with the in
corporation of clause in the political PLATFORM tina
for all time to come the Territories be organized
OIL pasls that tney snail neither legSlate Tor OF
against slavery"
This was the recommendation of distinguish,
Wing Of Mississippi in letter of his lately publish
ed, and although We cannot admit even what h
comedies to the Territories his suggestion is goo'
one.
These sentiments were likewise Incorporated int
the political programme of the Opposition of thi
State, at the recent meeting Of their Executive Com
mittee. But let them emanate from whence the,
may, or be approved and endorsed by whom the,
may, they manifest union-loving SPIRIT and Will
they surrender no constitutional rights, they ar
conservative in their character, and as far as ar
informed, they reflect the sentiments of the Demo
cracy of North Carolina.
In these sentiments if in nothing else, as the oil
Scotch ballad has living and Tory all agree"
AN OLD FARMER.
Richmond County, Dec, 1859.
ARREsrING SUSPICIOUS STRANGERS. -Throughou
Virginia all unlicensed northern pedders and strar
gers whose conduct is at all suspicious, are bein
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