Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-07-22

it 10 20 through free territory. Th'
Homestead bill docs not chime in with
the current Of history it is a supposed
bencfaction to free labor, and must wal
"for the wagon" Cuba, even, is un
happy; in that it divides the interest o
the peculiar institution. Nothing i!
current in politics which does not rur
with the hnmor Of Southern statesmen.
All ques tions, domestic and foreign, are
made to revolve around this all engross
ing question Of slavery extension and
perpetuation. Whether YOU have fan.
cy for the prospect before you or not
whether you look it consciously in the
face or blink it, the act nevertheless il
that Slavery, in these various aspects is,
and for the last FIVE years has been. and
must still continue TO be, the all ccn:roll
ing element in southern politics and life
and the government Of the country has,
does, and intends to continue to accom-
modate itself to it. The "institution
now demands to be considered as more
national and less local; it demands to be
taken from under the ban of national
legislation, by which it has been Grip
pied so long and placed upon an equal
footing with other national interests
1t demands Of the legislative, judicial,
executive, moral and religious sense of
the nation to be regarded legitimate
to be permitted to escape from the curse
of the moral, social and political re.
proach of the nation, and to be elevated
by generous recognition to honorable
rank, prestige, influence and power. 1t
demands that the nation shall no longer
yield to the influence Of that sickly sem
timentality so fatal to is hopes, in the
early days of the Republic, the days OF
Washington, jefferson and Franklin,
when it was timidly consented to see it
branded as "inidel,' as "a blot upon
American liberty as incompatible with
our national interests and which die
tated the early "unfriendly' policy by
which it has ever since been crippled
and has continued the standing national
1t demands now, significant
ly enough. and will blow itself up and
die in national dissolution if it be de-
nicd "equality e.. that negro in
the State, so be it that he is slaue,
shall be equal to you or your property,
and equa! to both you and your proper
ty. 1t demands thus recognition of
sublime dualism in its African Cod
That it shall be satlimely admitted to
possess the rare and mysterious qualities
of person and thins-at once personal
aad cha,tel chattel it shall repre-
mails and tools-as person, a HUMAN BE- e.
ing. man or woman-with character,
moral attributes and affections and the
electire FRANCHISE. Although it repre-
scnts person, it is not person, in the
sense in which man is person. Its per-
sonality is only a fiction Of and for the
..peculiar institution Il is not to be
to be man with the incidents
of man-the right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of "happiness s'-but rather
to have conferred upon it certain recu-
liar privileges of representing both man
and chattels, without being really either.
In its representative character Of man,it
may vote for President, Members of
Congress and according to recent legal
expositlons may steal and be felon and
so attain to the highest and lowest re-
suits of manhood as chattel 1t is
cotton gin or cane press and so reaches
the highest NJ chanical results. In
certain "abstract' sense the constitution
is suppcs sed to reco- niz, it as person. land
provide for it the right Of representa-
ton, and anon contempatcs it as
cha:tel liable "to escape as lowing
service" ard 10 be "sent back" AS Il
personality it is SO charged with subtitle
forces that if the Tract Society but speak
to it, it will burst like Ian Internal ma
chine" AMI rend in twain the church
militant, and anon it i. the snJsct and
object of Christian missions. 1t is a
thiny to be usel BY the master and a
person to vote for lin and against Hs"lt,
and to ne evange.ized by the Church.
The absurdities are endless and painful
Now we occupy, as a party. the high
moral. social and political vantage
ground of unqualified dissent, to all
modern pro, slavery dogmas. Judicial. eX-
ecutive or legislative, whether by inter-
vention or non-intervention, as contrary
to the theory Of oar government, the
general sentiment Of the people. the
uniform current Of judicial decisions of
legislative and executive exposition and
as essentially pernicous AMI dangerous;
and we maintain, atfirmatively and spe-
ciicalIy, that the Constitution does not
recognize property in MN. black or
white, or the possibility of it; that 1t
does not carry slavery into the federal
territories; and that slavery does not and
cannot exist in this ration, except by
force of the loc Il law and that outside OF
that local law the master has no rights.
On this side OF these questions there
can be no doubt is the moral sentiments
of the nation and the great body of the
people Of the flee States. Where do
those stand who do not declare with us!
The "Democrats" in the North !: In
the free States?
The sound National Democrats" ac'
cording to recent classification hold sffir'
matively to all and singular that South
ern statesmen inculcate and the Admins
tration asseats to. This must be expect
ed and need not be complained Of esre'
cially of those who maintain confden-
tiM relations to the Administration,