The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-11-23

loAhNtiJ NHuIbblOu.
SLAVERY NOT BENEFICIAL SOCIALLY, roLrr1-
CALlY on EEIIG1oUsLY.
Mr. Bates does not believe that African
slavery is the corner stone Of liberty
lie does not believe that African slave .
ry is beneficial institution, either in .
social, political or religious sense. Not in
Il social sense. because It sets at naught /
the family relation aud separates man and
parents and children, at the caprice or on
the necessities Of owners, not in politi-
cal sense, because it is productive Of dis
cords between nations that tolerate it and
nations that do not, and because it is La
bic to panics, connections, instructions
and massacres, and has ended often in
bloody revolutions not in Il religious
sense, because it shuts the mind against
knowledge, makes the Word of God
sealed book to the slave, and gives his
body to the service OF human master
whereas the body Of every crelted being
should be freely given to the service of
God.
ITS EXTENSION UNCONSTITUTIONAL EXCEPT
BY AFFIRMATIVE LEGISLATION.
Because Mr. Bates does not believe that
slavery is beneficial institution either in
a social, political or religious sense, he is
unoiicr0blY opposed In us cricnSioa in
to teyritorjcs 0llc4aY FIRE. Mr. Bates,
in his political creed, is a Henry Clay
Wing; and Mr. Clay declared that his
right arm should drop from his shoulder
before he would vote to extend slavery
over one foot Of territory already free
Mr. Bates heartily endorse, that sentiment
and holds to that creed.
Mr. Bates does mot believe that tho con-
stitution, by its proper yieor carrie, slave
ry into all the territories that may be ac-
quireI by the United states. He believes
that freedom is the rule and slavery the
exception. He docs not believe that
slavery can exist in any territory acquired
by the government Of the United States,
except by the positive law of Congress.
That positive law Mr. Bates would not be
in favor OF passing, because for reasons
already given, he 81 opposed TO the extern
sion Of slavery into territory already free.
DISTINCTION BETWEEN SLAVERY AND OTHER
PROPERTY CoEyAL WITH THE GOVERNMENT.
IF it be held that this exclusion of slave
property from territory acquired Ply the
common blood and treasure of the Union,
establishes an invidlous distinction between
two sections Of the Union--that it denies
to the South rights that ale freely given
to the North--Nir Bates denies emphati-
cally that it HIS any such effect. The
distinction complained Of is cocval with
the government. It is 10 new thing-no
modern hardshp--in fact no hardship at
all.--Thc localizing of savery-the pro-
hibition Of its emigrating and establishing
itself in free territory was embodied in the
compact OF the Union, lt the beginning.
But for this limitation the slaves states
got far more thqn an equivalent in being
allowed in die National Congress and IN
Presidential elections three votes for every
five slaves. Slaves DO not vote but their
masters vote for them. The votes Of two
men in the South count as much as the
votes Of five men in the free states
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to o,cnpy what has been bou,ht bv the
common blood and treasure of tbo Union
This distinction between free prone,ty
and Slave nroncrtv is. a. bcioro stated ~
old as the tonstitntior itself If thor.
wcro ma territories at All tbe Same di.tin,.
,;on would ovis4 4 citi2,n of Now Vorl.
can romove his domicr to tbo .t.te Of
ono and carry ou hi. nroportv with him
o,d hold II 4 citizen IF Vi,oipio ,.,o.
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