The weekly Mississippian., 1859-10-12
The Old Line Democrat.

An able paper, with this name comes to us
from Little Rock, Arkansas, under the control
of Messrs Peck, Butler and Doolittle. The
following editorial from its columns shows
that it is with the Advance Guard of the
South in the great movement for placing slave
p.oper,y upou an equality with other property
removing the restrictions from the slave trade;
increasing the Southern supply Of labor dif-
fdsing the blessings OF slavery, and restoring
the equilibrium Of the sections. "rhe good
cause, " thoul the aid Of party agenciess up
ward and onward:
The Siav" Trade.
The right to buy AMI sell slaves, rests ex-
actly uton the same high grounds that the
ri. hi to own and use them rests. The two
cannot be separated Congress has no more
right to interfere with the sale ami tr nst,r of
slave property between the ptcple Of the States
and Territories, than it has 10 interfere with
he sale and transfer Of any other kind OF prOp-
erty.
The Constitution, by declaring that the i'm
portation Of slaves should not he prohibited by
| Congress prior to the year leo6 not only re-
cognized the legality of the foreign slave tradr,
but eDooar tged and protected it by solemn
guaranty for the period Of twenty years AMI
| what now seems little sin gu.ar in connection
with that prohibition, is in the fact that the
forefathers of our abolition brethren of the
North, were the very ones who mnst strenu
ously insisted upon its insertion in the Con-
| sttution
Slaves, then, being recognized as property,
and the right to buy and sell them being Incl
dental to the right to own and use then, it be-
comes very questionable, indeed, whether OF
not Congress has, in truth, the constitutional
right TO prohibit their importation at all At
all events whether it has q discretionary pow
er under the Constitution to prohibit or not, it
certainly has not the Const. ,ntiOnal right to
declare as piracy trade which for twenty
wears was sanctioned and protected by posi-
tive provision of the Constitution, and all laws
declaring it such, should be wiped off the stat
ute books as unjust to the framers Of the Q, n
stitution, and highly derogatOry to the people
of the slaveholding States
We shall advocate then, as measure Of
right and Justice to the South, that all those
laws that aflix the stigma Of piracy upon the
traffic in that kind Of property which consti-
tutes the great bulk Of her personal wealth,
should be repealed We want to see the odi-
um and scandal which these unjustly discrim-
mating laws reflect upon the institutions OI
the South removed; we want to see our prop
crty placed upon as equally honorable and re-
spectacle footing (at least so far As the action
of Congress is concemed) as the property oi
the North or any other section Of the Union
We want to see the trade in negroes regulated
J like the trade in other species Of merchan.
. dize-not by the s'ckly sentimentalities o
yharisaical abolitionism, but by wise and pru
! dent considerations Of sound policy aud expe
: diency. This is asking no more than Jus
and reasonable right, and the South will new
i er rest contented until it is granted. We asl
nothing but what is right, and will not sub
NIT to anything wrong.
> SENATOR hAMMoND.-The Caarlc tan New
), makes this note Of a speech lately delivere
1 b. Senator Hammond of South Carolina
His denuncntiOns Of the Kansas Nebrask
&C and squatter sovereignty as a fraud an
ick rom the begining, defines Ssnator HaH
mon IS position he would have Tie DINO
IA get rid OF both Douglas and his issue
4 that in tbs I.ext Presidential canvass &
Is r,v and thc Sou b Slould teht tie hat le Q
. single aud great ,SsSe mlas w.tA lhsn ?
e.ward In his Rochester speech.