Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-10-17

II. IL. OdWcs, MeuuOeI VI NOukEcHS
from the Berkshire (Mass.) District,
in letter responding to one ad-
dressed him by committee of Col
ored Mems convention, speaks Of
the doctrine so prevalent in the new
States, that negroes who have
committed no crime, shall never
have the right Of sufirage'-'shall
never hold any real estate'-'shall
never make any CONTRACT shall
never work any m:ne'-'shall never
maintain any suit'-or come, reside
or be within tie State that such
State is called free State, passes
my comprehension. 1t is all false
preteDse and q fraud. There is no
real difference between the spirit
which would incorporate such pro-
visions into the organic laws OF a
State, and that which UNANIMOUSLY
declares that the negro has no
rights which tie white man is bound
to respect 1t is high time, there
fore, for those who believe that men
have anaiiendbie rights, to meet and
grapple this mOnstrous heresy. II
well engaged the attention of SO in
tell gent convention of cOlOred
citizens assembled in New England,
the only portion of the Union where
the rights Of man, without distinc-
ton of color or race, or class or con
di,ion, are secured to him by consti-
tutional guarantees"
This is particularly rich, coming as
it does from a New England" State,
where the rights of man." if that
man happens to have been born in a
foreign country, are but little more
respected than are the rights of ne
groes in the new States to which
Mr.. Dawes refers.
The sentiments Of Mr.. ID. are the
more entitled to notice, since he is
one Of the rising men of Massachu-
sets, and not unlikely to be a candi-
date for the Office now held by Gov.
Banks, when the latter gentleman
realizes his cherished hope of reach
ing the Senate or the Presidential
chair.--N. Y Journal Of Commerce.
GEN. BUTLER ON POPULAR SovER-
EIGNTY.-The Democratic candidate
for Governor OF Massachusetts, GEN.
Benz. +. BUTLER, in letter accepting
the nomination, gives his views as
follows
"Upon the question Of slavery,
which appears to control the politi-
cal action Of majority in Massa-
chusetts in preference to objects
cifecting their more immediate inter
ests, believe ! can be equally cx-
plcit, having no opinions to control.
In my opinion, slavery exists nowhere
by natural right, but only because
of some positive Enactment, embodied
in the Con tuition or statuta law of
the community in which it is found.
Again, believe it to be the es-
sential element of the ] emOcratic
creed, as promulgated at Cincinnati
in 1856, as we'll as plainly deducibe
from the doctrines Of the Fathers 70
the Republic" one to which every
living Democratic statesman has, at
some period, pledged himselt,-that
the people of every community, who
associate themselves upon the terri
tory of the United States, and obtain
sufficient numbers to he organized
into n Territorial Government have
the right, ly their Legislation, under
the Constitution, to manage all their
dome site institut ons in their own
way or in other words, to determine
fol- themselves the status of society
under which they will live, and that
this right continues until the forma-
ton of such Territory into State,
when it is conceded by all. Then
slaves, being decided to be property
by the Supreme Court, in the States
where slavery exists by local law, are
protected as such in the Territories,
as far as in the several States, giving
the master the right to hold them
while there is no territorial legislation
on the subject, with the further right
to remove them within reasonable
time after legislation is had, that dis
vests him of his property by law
declaring them free. This would
put the rights of the South upon
their constitutional basis, leaving the
public DOMAIN fairly open to COMPETE
ton and emigration; permitting the
question of bond or free to be set
tied by the natural laws OF interest
and profit, or by the newly formed
community, as soon as it is of ability
to settle any other question of Gov
ernmental policy retaining III the
Shareholder, who had brought his
property upon the public land, under
the protection of the Constitution,
the right to take it away, if in danger
of being Invested Of it by Territorial
legislation. More than this the South
o. ght not to ask more than this
the North ought not to grant. OF
course, from the reasoning, no one
would hold that by carrying the slave
into unoccupied and unorganized ter.
rltory, the master valves his right to
him, so that by this act he would be
emancipated. Upon this suject,
deem the public mind to be sub>tan-
italy settled in a full determination
to leave slavery to be dealt with by
the laws of the several localities
where it has its existence. With it,
We IN Massachusetts, have nothing to
do save to let it alone, or to treat it
in our political as we do in our bust
ness relations, wherein we buy and
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